Jessica Pegula began her professional tennis journey with a head start on most of her peers. In a sport as prohibitively expensive as elite tennis, her family wealth – her billionaire parents own several sports franchises, including the NFL’s Buffalo Bills – afforded her unfettered access to equipment and knowledge. Her career, however, has come … Read more
Trinity Rodman will return to the US women’s national team for the first time since the 2024 Olympics, as head coach Emma Hayes named her in the 24-player squad that will gather in California next week for a pair of friendlies against Brazil. Aside from Rodman, the squad is very similar to the one Hayes … Read more
A former New York Yankees player and his wife say they have “many questions” and “few answers” after their youngest son fell ill and died during a family vacation. Miller Gardner – the son of Brett and Jessica Gardner – was 14. Miler Gardner died in his sleep on Friday morning, according to a statement … Read more
On this week’s Guardian Women’s Football Weekly: the panel revisit the double header between Manchester City and Chelsea as the two teams went toe-to-toe twice in four days. Vivianne Miedema starred in a Champions League win for City before Chelsea struck back in the WSL. With the two sides preparing to meet again in midweek, … Read more
The Los Angeles Lakers have their full lineup back on the floor. Unfortunately, their defense appears to have gone missing. The Lakers’ defense made a token appearance in the first half against Orlando on Monday night. But Los Angeles failed to guard the Magic’s Franz Wagner or Paolo Banchero and lost their third straight game, … Read more
Few people in Queensland disagreed with the former state premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, when she described plans for the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane as a “hot mess”. Tuesday’s announcement by the new LNP government was framed as an end to the sort of disarray that has plagued Olympic planning during the past four years. But … Read more
Tim Henman says he has no intention of following Andy Murray’s lead into full-time coaching despite being appointed the new vice-captain of Team Europe at the Laver Cup. From this year, Henman will act as a mentor to some of the best players in the world alongside the team captain, Yannick Noah, the 1983 French … Read more
Jackson Irvine further established himself as the face of the Socceroos, Nishan Velupillay netted his third goal in just his fourth senior international, and Australia weathered a second-half storm to take another step towards securing automatic qualification for the 2026 World Cup with a 2-0 win over China. Given that the worst part of it … Read more
The double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen described a childhood marked by fear and manipulation when he took the witness stand on Tuesday in a Norwegian court to testify against his father and former coach. Gjert Ingebrigtsen has pleaded not guilty to charges of physically abusing two of his seven children, namely the track athlete and … Read more
After 82 years of a life devoted to saltwater crocodiles, John Lever still fondly recalls the first “saltie” he ever caught on Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River, about 500km north of Brisbane. The year was 1982, the crocodile was a three-metre long female and she’d just eaten “a lovely labrador dog” from a market garden in the … Read more