Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka is apparently not Japanese enough to light the Olympic cauldron, as far as one Australian journalist is concerned. Fanning the flame: In his article for The Australian, titled “Burning question: How Japanese is Naomi Osaka?”, writer Will…
Max Scherzer treated image with grey background With the Mets "all over" the pitching market as the trade deadline nears, the most intriguing name out there is Max Scherzer. And per SNY's Andy Martino, the Mets will inquire about what it might…
Pink accepted the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards in May US pop star Pink has offered to pay the fines handed out to the Norwegian women's beach handball team, after they wore shorts like their male counterparts instead of…
Swimmer Jay Litherland is the first Asian American athlete to win a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Score: Litherland, who is Japanese American, won silver in the men’s 400-meter individual medley on Sunday. He came in at 4:10.28, behind teammate Chase Kalisz…
After four trips to the Olympic Games and 20 years of training, Tom Daley finally won his first Olympic gold medal on Monday. The 27-year-old British athlete and his diving partner, Matty Lee, clinched the top award in men's synchronized 10-meter platform…
(fixes spelling of introduced in fifth para) By Karen Braun (Reuters) -Sixteen-year-old Viktoria Listunova won the women’s artistic gymnastics all-around title at both the European and Russian Championships earlier this year. However, despite placing sixth overall in the qualifying round on Sunday,…
The likelihood of Aaron Rodgers playing for the Packers in 2021 does not seem to be decreasing. But the chances of Rodgers playing for a different team in 2022 and beyond seem to be increasing. According to the NFL Network, Rodgers has…
Bold MLB trade deadline predictions: Will Giants make splash? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea After the top of the eighth inning of the Giants-Pirates game Sunday at Oracle Park, Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier collected three bats in his right arm,…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — So much for the Sabres’ so-called and celebrated “tank year” in 2014-15, when many fans openly cheered a late-season loss to the Arizona Coyotes to essentially seal Buffalo’s last-place finish. With a patchwork roster of journeymen, minor-leaguers and…
Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers had a plan to help Ben Simmons improve. But Simmons doesn’t sound receptive to anything coming from the 76ers. Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report on “The Gastroenteritis Blues” podcast: They haven’t been able to really even get…