Usain Bolt is no more in athletics, but a new generation is here and 17-year-old American Erriyon Knighton is primed to take the throne in a wide open men’s 200m final. Knighton produced a nonchalant semi-final victory and joins world champion Noah…

Brad Keselowski has won the pole position for Sunday’s Go Bowling at The Glen (3 p.m. ET, NBCSN/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), the NASCAR Cup Series’ first race back after a two-week break. He leads a 1-2-3 sweep of Team…

TOKYO (AP) — Greece is one win away from its first men's water polo medal at the Olympics. Konstantinos Genidounias scored five goals to lead Greece to a 10-4 victory over Montenegro in the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Games, and Spain also…

Romelu Lukaku will agree to Chelsea move if they meet Inter Milan's valuation - AFP Romelu Lukaku will agree to make a big-money return to Chelsea if the European champions decide to pay a big-money fee to Inter Milan. Lukaku had not…

'Our future was on the line': how the Lions were saved from oblivion - EPA 'Sometimes when it rains it pours. And by God did it pour in New Zealand' Staplewood, Southampton FC’s training ground since the mid-1980s, does not feature in…

By Amy Tennery and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber TOKYO (Reuters) - Another athletics world record was obliterated at the Olympics on Wednesday, as athletes coped with the heat of political and diplomatic controversy as well as Tokyo’s broiling summer weather https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/soccer-swedes-canada-ask-womens-gold-medal-match-be-moved-2021-08-04. American Sydney McLaughlin…

For all the International Olympic Committee talks of staying neutral, its games have long proven to be essentially and sometimes overtly political — for the Games overall, and often for the athletes who are intended to entertain the world in a two-week…

Jessup finally makes Warriors debut after a year of waiting originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea SACRAMENTO -- Justinian Jessup hadn't played a basketball game in a Warriors jersey before Tuesday night.  Some might ask why that is significant. After all, most…

KAWAGOE, Japan (AP) — Lexi Thompson had to bring in a team manager the last three holes when her caddie succumbed to the heat. Players walked down sunbaked fairways using umbrellas, some of them occasionally holding a bag of ice on their…

Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak had a message for her high school teacher on Tuesday. But it didn’t include praise for inspiring her to sporting glory. Instead, the seven-time Olympic medalist ― who won one silver and two bronze medals in Tokyo ―…