Baltimore’s Corbin Burnes to start against Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes in All-Star Game
A 29-year-old right-hander, Corbin Burnes is 9-4 with a 2.93 ERA in his first season with the Orioles, who acquired him from Milwaukee just before spring training.
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NFL training camps get underway as rookies start reporting this week
The short summer vacation is over for NFL players. It’s time to begin the journey to Super Bowl 59.
Carlos Alcaraz wants a seat at the adult table after his second Wimbledon and fourth Slam trophy
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic did not manage to collect four Grand Slam titles before turning 22, the way Carlos Alcaraz has.
Spain wins record fourth European Championship title by inflicting another painful loss on England
Spain is the king of European soccer for a record fourth time. For England, it’s another agonizing near-miss in the team’s decades-long tale of underachievement.
Argentina fans revel in their Copa America triumph, a brief respite from their country’s crises
Argentines taking to the streets to revel in their Copa América triumph late Sunday inhabit a very different place now than they did 19 months ago, when their World Cup win sent millions surging into the same Buenos Aires square in a howl of collective celebration.
Sports fans rejoice: Wimbledon, Euro 2024 and Copa America finals make for a Super Sunday
Start with the men’s singles final at Wimbledon, then take in the soccer European Championship title match between Spain and England, before finishing the day with the Copa America soccer showpiece: Argentina against Colombia.
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will meet in the Wimbledon men’s final again
Carlos Alcaraz is only a couple of months past his 21th birthday, and yet this whole Grand Slam success thing is already a bit been-there, done-that for him.
Velocity training has pushed pitchers to their limits. Baseball is grappling with the injury risks
Justin Verlander was a gangly teenager. His parents jokingly called him a “brontosaurus.” Long before he became a three-time Cy Young Award winner, he was a high schooler who couldn’t consistently muster the arm strength needed to get drafted.
Derrick White replaces Kawhi Leonard on US Olympic men’s basketball team
USA Basketball intended to bring Kawhi Leonard to the Paris Olympics. After watching him play in a four-day training camp, they and the Los Angeles Clippers realized that the plan needed to change.
With a late goal fit for a king, England reaches another Euro final by beating Netherlands 2-1
England is into another European Championship final after its latest dramatic, come-from-behind win that even took King Charles III on a roller coaster ride.