MEXICO CITY — It may not have been a Ferrari 1-2 like in Austin, but Carlos Sainz won the Mexico City Grand Prix with a 4.7-second gap over Lando Norris. Charles Leclerc rounded out the podium, and Ferrari moved to second in the constructors’ standings. Within the first 20 laps, the title momentum swung as…

It’s almost one year since Nottingham Panthers ice hockey player Adam Johnson died after he was cut in the neck by a skate worn by an opponent. His death, which occurred on October 28 last year in a cup match against the Sheffield Steelers at the city’s Utilita Arena in front of 8,000 spectators, left…

The date was November 24, 2018. As referee Juan Martinez Munuera blew the whistle for full time, a disappointed Real Madrid team headed for the tunnel following a 3-0 La Liga defeat at Eibar, a game where Karim Benzema was flagged offside seven times, equalling a league record set by Elche’s Jonathas de Jesus in…

LOS ANGELES — The ballpark fell silent as Shohei Ohtani clutched his left arm and writhed in the dirt. He has come to represent so much for the Los Angeles Dodgers: Their finest player, their financial lodestar, the star who forged the team’s path back to the World Series. He catalyzes the present and allows…

And just like that, the NFL has just about reached the midpoint of the 2024 season. By now, the pecking orders among both conferences have largely been established. You have the elites like the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens in the AFC and the Detroit Lions in the NFC, and another cluster of intriguing…

And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football Week 9, which was light on suspense but full of storylines — most involving backup QBs. 1. For two weeks in September, six of the top seven teams in the AP poll were from the SEC. None made it to November with a perfect record in conference…

LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto found himself in a 2-0 count against Aaron Judge when he delivered a fastball at the bottom of the strike zone — a pitch Judge typically punishes. During the regular season, Judge boasted an otherworldly .975 slugging percentage in that area. Yet, in the sixth inning of Game 2, he…

LeBron James posted his first triple-double of the season, including 16 points in the fourth quarter, as the Los Angeles Lakers improved to 3-0 for the first time since 2010-11 with a 131-127 defeat of the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night at Crypto.com Arena. James finished with 32 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. All…

“Every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare,” the renowned author Andrzej Sapkowski once said. “And we awake from such dreams screaming.” What’s the worst day you’ve ever had at work? Maybe you called your boss ‘babe’ by mistake, maybe you stumbled over by the water cooler and a couple of people laughed…

Deion Sanders’ Colorado will be playing in the postseason. In Sanders’ second season as head coach after taking over the worst power-conference team in college football, the Buffaloes (6-2, 4-1 Big 12) are bowl eligible after beating Cincinnati 34-23. Colorado hasn’t played in a bowl game since it went 4-2 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.…