MINNEAPOLIS — As Lindsay Whalen’s face appeared on the JumboTron in Target Center on Tuesday night to a raucous reception, the Minnesota Lynx PA announcer took some liberties with her introduction. “She’s an avid golfer,” he quipped about arguably the most famous homegrown basketball player in Minnesota … before stating the obvious. “And her No.…

As Liverpool’s manager, Jurgen Klopp did not like long meetings. Rather than sitting around, poring over the latest big decision, he would regularly have important conversations in the canteen of the training ground while eating his lunch.  Klopp was anything but formal, yet Mike Gordon — the president of Liverpool’s owner, Fenway Sports Group, a…

You can hear the disgust in Bill Belichick’s voice when he has to say the name of the NFL team he took such pleasure in beating. In the 2018 ESPN “30 for 30” documentary “The Two Bills,” producers tried to get Belichick and his mentor Bill Parcells to head into the New York Jets locker…

DETROIT– It started as a joke. Tigers superfan Josh Tebeau, who went to around 50 games this year, always heads to Comerica Park armed with two things: a lot of layers and an armful of signs intended to help to pump up the crowd. Tebeau, a 41-year-old lifelong fan who started going to more games…

There are 18 teams that didn’t make the MLB postseason, so while we all enjoy October baseball, I thought I’d power-rank the non-playoff teams based on who is best-positioned to contend in 2025. I did the same thing a year ago, listing the Padres, Mets and Yankees as three of the top five non-playoff teams…

The New York Jets stunned NFL followers by firing head coach Robert Saleh on Tuesday, two days after his team fell to 2-3 in a 23-17 loss in London to the Minnesota Vikings. Saleh, a well-respected defensive mind, was in his fourth season with the Jets. He had a 20-36 record, going 4-13 in 2021…

Chris Kirkland was 13 when his father, Eddie, walked into a betting shop and asked what odds he could get on his son playing for England. It has become one of those enquiries bookmakers get from time to time, but back in 1994 it was unusual. It elicited a few questions, like whether the boy…

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Craig Leipold smiles as he surveys the scene from his center-ice suite at a bustling Xcel Energy Center for a preseason game against the lowly Chicago Blackhawks. The Minnesota Wild owner has just taken his private plane back from the NHL’s Board of Governors meeting in New York, where commissioner Gary…

Manchester City have won the Premier League four times in a row and are unbeaten after seven matches this season. But they are more likely to be relegated than Brighton & Hove Albion, Fulham and West Ham United, according to bookmakers. City are 12/1 to be relegated this season, with Arsenal and Liverpool, their two…

This article is part of our Origin Stories series, an inside look at the backstories of the clubs, drivers, and people fueling the sport. En route to Brazil, near the end of the 2022 season, Red Bull Formula One boss Christian Horner stopped off in the United States for a meeting that could be decisive…