The question came 20 minutes into Mauricio Pochettino’s introductory press conference as U.S. men’s national team coach; the first query of the event in his native Spanish. “It’ll give me a break,” Pochettino joked at the chance to rest his English. “What was the challenge that made you want to take the U.S. job?” the…

It was the scene none of us wanted to see: Tua Tagovailoa incapacitated on the football field after another collision and blow to the head. But there we found ourselves late Thursday night, watching in fear of the Miami Dolphins quarterback’s well-being as medical personnel tended to him after his third-quarter scramble and collision with…

The thing about baseball, and it’s always been this way, is that the game itself is so enchanting, riveting and charmingly ridiculous that the people who run it know you’ll keep coming back, no matter what they do to it. This latest indignity isn’t a scandal. It’s not the Black Sox or the color barrier…

After a victorious debut as the Los Angeles Chargers’ head coach, Jim Harbaugh, who knows a thing or two about team building, told his squad: “You won’t make as much progress in the entire season as you will from Week 1 to Week 2, I’m telling you this.” Of course, this applies more to the…

DETROIT — The adopted son of this city changed out of his work uniform, turned the corner, walked up three steps, hung a left down the hall and stepped into a room that was all too new to him. “I ain’t never did this before,” said Jameson Williams Sunday evening, grinning from ear to ear…

The Mountain West has established itself as college basketball’s preeminent mid-major conference in the last few years. San Diego State made the national title game in 2023. The league put six teams in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. While conference realignment wreaked havoc around it, the Mountain West’s stability put it on a tier by itself,…

Minutes after Tua Tagovailoa suffered his latest concussion Thursday, former NFL players took to social media — and later to national broadcasts — to call for the Miami Dolphins quarterback to step away from football. Thursday’s concussion comes less than two years after Tagovailoa suffered numerous head injuries in the 2022 season, which forced him…

Let’s be honest: It isn’t the most tantalizing, blockbuster slate of games this weekend, with only two ranked matchups. But there are some rivalries and pairings that should help to define (or expose?) a number of teams that have been tough to pin down through the first couple of games. And as we see just…

Greg Olsen finds himself in a strange position. He is a legit No. 1 NFL television analyst, a proven commodity after a fantastic 2023 season that saw him consistently deliver second-level analysis, including in the most important game an NFL broadcaster can call — the Super Bowl. But because Fox Corp. hired Tom Brady, and…

In the hours after the Columbus Blue Jackets announced that star forward Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew had been killed, team president and general manager Don Waddell said he received 500 or so text messages. One hit him even harder than the rest. It was from Graham and LuAnn Snyder. On Sept. 29, 2003,…