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Italian rider Elia Viviani claimed his first career stage win on the Tour de France after storming a bunch sprint on Tuesday. Viviani was ideally set up by the Deceuninck-Quick Step leadout train in the finale and made the most of the slight uphill finish in the eastern city of Nancy. He used his considerable […]

The U.S. Women’s national soccer team had a perfect response to a young fan who asked about being an athlete in “a male-dominated sport.”  “What’s it like being a female playing in a male-dominated sport?” the young girl asked during a Tuesday segment of “Good Morning America.”  Before answering fully, a team member shouted out a

Matthew Wolff is so good that as a freshman at Oklahoma State, he received a vote for the Haskins Award as the best college player without even winning a tournament. There’s a little more to the story. And it starts long before Wolff went from NCAA champion to PGA Tour winner in a span of

It was inevitable that the 2019 Women’s World Cup would become Megan Rapinoe’s moment. Months before the tournament began in June, a reporter from Eight by Eight magazine pointed the camera at the U.S. soccer star and asked the brash, outspoken forward ― who’d called President Donald Trump a “misogynist” and a “racist” and spent

The Big Three sure do not appear to be slowing down. If anything, they are as dominant as ever. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic head into Wednesday’s quarterfinals at Wimbledon owning 14 of the last 16 championships at the All England Club. They have won the past 10 Grand Slam titles overall and

In a pre-World Cup press conference, a reporter asked U.S. star Megan Rapinoe how to grow women’s soccer. “Doing the same exact thing [as the men’s side] and trying to replicate that within a system that has kept women down for a long time is probably not the best way to go about it,” the attacking

The Latest at Wimbledon (all times local): 10:40 a.m. Garbiñe Muguruza, the 2017 Wimbledon champion, has split with her coach of about four years, Sam Sumyk. The champion at the All England Club in 2017 and French Open in 2016 wrote on Twitter that it was “the end of an Extraordinary ride. … Beyond grateful

Not even a championship was enough to keep Kawhi Leonard in Canada. Free-agent forward Kawhi Leonard has agreed to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Leonard’s decision was followed by another huge wave of news: The Clippers also reportedly agreed to a deal for Oklahoma City’s Paul George, giving Leonard a

For a day, Will Smith was in for quite a treat — teammates with Clayton Kershaw, Freddie Freeman and Christian Yelich. Soon, the San Francisco reliever could be playing with one of them for real. Smith went into the All-Star Game on Tuesday night well aware his days with the last-place Giants might be dwindling.

The United States has secured its fourth Women’s World Cup title, beating the Netherlands 2-0. Sunday’s win at Stade de Lyon in France marked the team’s second consecutive World Cup victory and its 12th consecutive win in World Cup matches. This sets a new record for consecutive wins after the U.S. broke the previous record that