Growing up in Miami, Ashleigh Johnson and her four siblings took swimming lessons as kids, primarily to ease the mind of their mother, who feared they could drown in the family pool while she was at work. Those lessons led to falling in love with swimming, which led to joining the local Riptides swim team…
Diego Maradona’s Golden Ball trophy from the 1986 World Cup has resurfaced. The award, which had been missing for decades, will be auctioned in Paris next month, the Aguttes house said Tuesday. Maradona, who died in 2020 at age 60, was awarded the trophy for his scintillating play at the tournament, where he captained Argentina in its…
PARIS — Meandering down the Seine River, the light breeze, gentle current and the sun’s glistening rays weren’t the only things the three kayakers were hoping to catch on a warm spring day — they were also on the hunt for garbage. By attaching nylon stockings to the side of their kayaks, they scooped up…
Tiger Woods understands why golf isn’t his daughter Sam’s cup of tee. “She has … a negative connotation to the game, because when she was growing up, golf took Daddy away from her,” Woods told TODAY’s Carson Daly on May 1. “I had to leave, and I’d be gone for weeks.” “So we developed our own…
The 30th anniversary of the death of three-time Brazilian Formula 1 champion Ayrton Senna was commemorated on Wednesday with a memorial at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari track in Imola, Italy, where he was involved in an accident during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. A minute of silence was held at the same…
BARCELONA, Spain — Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months in prison on Thursday. Besides disgracing the former Brazil and Barcelona right back, the conviction was applauded in Spain as a…
GENEVA — A decadelong dispute between the Mexican soccer federation and FIFA over multiple fines for fans chanting anti-gay slurs at games went to sport’s highest court on Thursday. The latest appeal by Mexico at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenged financial penalties totaling 100,000 Swiss francs ($114,000) imposed by FIFA for incidents at two games…
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack believes that competition levels in Formula One will not witness “major changes” in the 2024 season due to the stability of the rules. This will be the third season within the current era of ground effects regulations. It seems that the design direction of the team cars, especially in…
