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The weather is supposed to heat up this week in France, appropriate since the Women’s World Cup gets hot Friday with the home team meeting the U.S. in a quarterfinal matchup that will be watched eagerly on both sides of the pond. The stadium will be packed, and the TV ratings should be big. The […]

The Hall of Fame quarterback revealed this week that he had sex with an unfamiliar woman who knocked on his hotel room door the night before his New York Jets were to play the favored Baltimore Colts. (See the clip below.) “First time I’ve admitted that,” he said Monday on Howard Stern’s radio show. Namath

UConn coach Randy Edsall says he doesn’t know where his team will end up once the school leaves the American Athletic Conference. Edsall issued a statement Wednesday as the school’s Board of Trustees discussed an invitation to move most of the school’s athletic teams from the American Athletic Conference to the Big East. The Big

How well do you know Wimbledon, where play begins Monday? Give this quiz a try: ——— 1st Round: How many women won at least one of the first 18 WTA tournaments this season? a.) 8 b.) 12 c.) 16 d.) 18 ——— 2nd Round: Tiebreakers will be played at the All England Club in the

Karolina Pliskova and Angelique Kerber reached the quarterfinals at Eastbourne on Wednesday. The second-seeded Pliskova had 24 winners in a 6-1, 6-2 win over Elise Mertens, setting up a quarterfinal match against either Jelena Ostapenko or Ekaterina Alexandrova. Kerber beat Rebecca Peterson 7-6 (4), 6-0, while Johanna Konta lost to Ons Jabeur 6-3, 6-2. In

Williamson, fresh off being chosen first in the NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans, arrived at his Crescent City hotel room to find a gift from Saints quarterback Drew Brees: a signed football jersey with a note. (See the video below.) Brees also wrote on the jersey: “Passing the torch to you!” In a

Eight-time champion Roger Federer was seeded No. 2 for Wimbledon, one spot ahead of Rafael Nadal, reversing their positions in the ATP rankings and creating a debate about whether the All England Club’s seeding system should be changed. Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, was seeded No. 1 on Wednesday at the grass-court Grand Slam

Abner Doubleday’s boyhood hometown is celebrating his birth 200 years ago. The story that Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 at Cooperstown, New York, has been discredited. But the Civil War officer is still celebrated in Ballston Spa. The Brookside Museum is hosting a party for Doubleday on Wednesday evening to coincide with his birth date.

The IOC is changing how and when it picks Olympic hosts, and will approach candidates who can be from multiple cities or countries. Stung by losing recent public votes in Europe and Canada, the International Olympic Committee says possible bidders could need to win a referendum before entering a race. Veteran IOC member John Coates

Before the game, Texas manager Chris Woodward said that if Jesse Chavez could pitch efficiently enough, he could last five or six innings. The right-hander surpassed that. Chavez pitched into the seventh in his longest outing in over two years, and the Rangers became the latest visiting team to win in Detroit, beating the Tigers