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Dylan Groenewegen won the longest stage of the Tour de France in a sprint as Giulio Ciccone kept the yellow jersey on Friday. The Dutch sprinter edged Australian rival Caleb Ewan and former world champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia to claim his fourth career stage win of the Tour. Squeezed between the crossing of the […]

1. Who was the first Irish golfer to win the British Open? a.) Padraig Harrington b.) Des Smyth c.) Fred Daly 2. Tom Watson won the British Open on four links courses in Scotland. On which course did he not win? a.) Muirfield b.) St. Andrews c.) Royal Troon 3. Where was the first British

The celebration was cut short for a member of the World Cup champion U.S. women’s soccer team after she discovered someone had burglarized her hotel room in Los Angeles. Allie Long tweeted on Thursday it happened after the team was honored at The ESPYS on Wednesday night. Long wrote “someone stole my wedding ring, cash

The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Defending champion Novak Djokovic has won the first set 6-2 in his Wimbledon semifinal against Roberto Bautista Agut. Djokovic took a 3-0 lead after breaking the Spaniard in his first service game, and the top-ranked Serb broke again in the final game when Bautista Agut sent

There are, of course, many reasons why Serena Williams has been as successful as she’s been, for as long as she’s been. The serve. The returns. The groundstrokes. The court coverage. And more. A little insight into one aspect of the way she approaches matches arrived via her answer to a question looking ahead to

Red Bull driver Pierre Gasly was fastest in first practice for the British Grand Prix as Romain Grosjean crashed his Haas in the pit lane. Grosjean span out of control on the pit lane exit at Silverstone on Friday morning and lost his front wing. In front of his home fans, Formula One championship leader

For Viv Kean, and thousands of tennis fans like her, the Wimbledon experience always starts in a tent. In a small park across from the tournament grounds, they gather to camp out for days. The reward is being woken up at 5 a.m. by stewards, then spending hours standing patiently in line to get herded

The latest installment in the Roger vs. Rafa rivalry at Wimbledon is coming to Centre Court. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will face each other in the semifinals Friday, their first meeting at the All England Club since their classic 2008 final. Nadal won that match 9-7 in the fifth set. Federer beat Nadal in

Artemi Panarin did not have to imagine what he might look like in a New York Rangers uniform. His likeness in Rangers blue adorned the giant video screens at Madison Square Garden with the message “Welcome Artemi” a full four days before he signed with the team. “There was a moment where I just sat

Kayla Harrison made an Army veteran tap out and moved closer to cashing in on the richest fight of her pro career: her search for gold over, Harrison can stake her claim to $1 million in the PFL Championship. Harrison, a two-time judo Olympic gold medalist, has been pushed as the face of the MMA