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Jess Learmonth and Georgia Taylor-Brown passed over the line in a photo finish, holding each other’s hands and celebrating as they completed the World Triathlon Olympic Qualification Event in the host city of next year’s Olympic Games. Learmonth was then declared the winner. But despite being comfortably clear of their …

Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian, fresh off a European Super Cup victory over Chelsea, may miss the club’s second English Premier League match of the season because of a bizarre injury suffered following his penalty shootout heroics. Adrian was among the players celebrating Wednesday after he made the key save in the shootout …

Daniel Norris, Drew VerHagen and Joe Jimenez combined on a five-hitter to outpitch Charlie Morton, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-0 on Friday night. Norris went the first three innings, VerHagen pitched five and Jimenez earned his third save by striking out Eric Sogard with two …

Eric Wankerl is probably nobody’s idea of a swaggering jock, but when Paige Marquardt caught his eye on a Minnesota basketball court in 2013, he didn’t hesitate to let her know he was curious. “He asked me 20 questions,” Ms. Marquardt said. “He wanted to know a lot about me, …

The 24.1 overs that took place in the morning session represented the only action on Friday, with persistent rain leading the umpires to eventually abandon play for the day at 5:22 pm local time (1622 GMT) in a match where Wednesday’s scheduled first day had already been washed out without …

A labor board is investigating Barstool Sports and its founder over alleged threats about unionizing. (Demetrius Freeman for The Washington Post) David Rosenfeld, a labor lawyer and self-styled “paid troublemaker,” saw the tweets as good old-fashioned union busting. He went to work. His mission: extract an apology from the man …

CLOSE The preseason Amway Coaches Poll is out. USA TODAY’s Paul Myerberg breaks down the biggest college football story lines from the top 25. USA TODAY Let’s give University of Louisiana-Lafayette football coach Billy Napier some benefit of the doubt and say that his intentions were probably good. It’s only his …

For the first time in six years, Richard Gasquet is headed to the semifinals of an ATP Masters 1000 event. FILE PHOTO: Aug 12, 2019; Mason, OH, USA; Andy Murray (GBR) returns a shot against Richard Gasquet (FRA) during the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament at Lindner Family Tennis …

He was only five-years-old when he saddled up for the first time and he hasn’t looked back since, winning mixed-team gold for Switzerland at the Youth Olympics in 2010 and taking part in show-jumping’s elite competition. The 27-year-old has now earned over $1 million competing in the Longines Global Champions …

Louisiana-Lafayette head football coach Billy Napier announced this week that scholarship players will be encouraged to pay to play. All Ragin’ Cajun scholarship athletes on the football team will be urged to pay at least $50 to the school’s alumni association, The Advocate reported Wednesday. Walk-on athletes will not be …