VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Team USA coach Cheryl Reeve is no stranger to dynasties. From 2011 to 2017, her Minnesota Lynx won four WNBA championships. And during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, where Reeve was an assistant, four of her players played key roles for the gold medal squad. So, it’s probably a pretty comforting…
Linda Reynolds will rely on key photos of Brittany Higgins campaigning with her in Perth during the 2019 federal election. Ms Higgins has long maintained Senator Reynolds and her former chief-of-staff Fiona Brown did very little to support her after her rape in March 2019. She claimed as much in her $2.4million settlement deed with…
With the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024 set to be enshrined on Saturday, let’s look ahead at who might be in Canton next. For some teams, it’s easy to predict who the next inductee will be. With the Arizona Cardinals, it almost certainly will be wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Tight end Antonio…
By Jack Bezants Published: 20:12 EDT, 3 August 2024 | Updated: 23:51 EDT, 3 August 2024 A man has been charged with making a ‘terroristic threat’ after allegedly threatening to shoot Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes at the Morgan Wallen concert at Arrowhead Stadium on Friday night. Chiefs stars Kelce and Mahomes walked Wallen on…
As tennis says farewell to Andy Murray after a thrilling final event at the Olympics, The Athletic has spoken to almost 30 players, coaches and other luminaries to understand what the three-time Grand Slam champion, double Olympic champion and legend of British tennis means to the sport. From those closest to him, such as his…
Even seasoned observers of geopolitics were taken by surprise. But behind the scenes, months of nail-bitingly tense negotiations, near misses and fraught moral compromises had been playing out in the run-up to the largest East-West prisoner swap for decades. Not since the Cold War, when secret agents and political prisoners would be routinely exchanged on…
It’s certainly a striking look. Looking like something between an expert diamond dealer and a crack sniper for some renegade sci-fi army, the internet’s new favourite Olympian, South Korean pistol shooter Kim Yeji, is one of the Paris Games’ most notable stars so far. This is the great thing about the Olympics. Before the games…