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There may come a time when Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu are on the draw of a major tournament and one of their names doesn't immediately follow the other into the tennis consciousness.Maybe, but not yet. One of them has made her way up and down and up the ever-evolving ladder that is women's professional tennis. The others struggled for a year and a half to string together wins, then ended the season and underwent three surgeries — on each wrist and one ankle — on a sad day last spring. It wasn't long before the other realized that she…

TAMPA, Fla. — From the first day Todd Bowles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took the field for training camp, few outside the organization have given them much of a chance this season.Quarterback Baker Mayfield was on his fourth team in 19 months, trying to fill the enormous shoes of the recently retired Tom Brady. The roster lacked familiar names from the Bucs' 2020 Super Bowl season and instead featured unproven youth at some of those key spots. Oddsmakers had predicted that Bowles could be among the first NFL coaches fired this season. The Bucs have never had that championship…

Jim Harbaugh did everything Michigan fans could have hoped the former Wolverines quarterback would do when he returned to Ann Arbor to take over his alma mater's football program. He came to hate arch-rival Ohio State's dominance in their series and turned the tables; he turned Michigan into the bully of the Big Ten; and then led Michigan to its first national title in nearly 30 years.And now, not surprisingly, after three years of flirting with returning to the NFL, Harbaugh is back meeting with NFL teams. He'll start with the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday, opening up the real…

It's impossible to tell the story of the last four decades of college basketball without Tara VanDerveer. The Stanford icon, USA Basketball coach and all-around standard-bearer for West Coast basketball, is an integral figure in the growth of the women's game since Title IX. And with two more wins, VanDerveer will become the winningest college coach, men's or women's, surpassing former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.GO DEEPERThe summer of solitude that sustained a coaching iconIn anticipation of his potential record-breaking win this weekend, we'll be running stories this week focusing on his esteemed career. Here's a look at some of VanDerveer's…

In the backyard of Draymond Green’s $10 million home in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, where white columns and a marble patio overlook the greenest of grass, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr chatted with the heartbeat of his team.Hours earlier, the Warriors had landed in Los Angeles to a whirlwind of drama. The night before, Dec. 12 in Phoenix, Green had protested an uncalled foul by spinning and flailing his arms. He struck Suns center Jusuf Nurkić in the face, incurring a Flagrant 2 foul and automatic ejection. This was just shy of a month after his previous…

But the rangers had already made a difference. They had established government presence in a region where anything goes. Thanks to their presence in San Martín, in November they had been invited to march in the annual parade celebrating the cuadrillas. Mr. Zorro thought the invitation was a turning point for the park, a moment of acceptance. And during their motorcycle patrols through Manacacías, the rangers had recorded some notable wildlife sightings.Gustavo Castro, one of the rangers who had remained at the ranch that week, had been on lookout a few months earlier when he noticed something brown and furry…

Christian Pulisic is perched on a bar stool in the old clubhouse overlooking the first-team training pitch at Milanello, AC Milan’s training ground.He makes a hand gesture, one he didn’t need the past six months living in Italy to learn. Pulisic is talking about himself as one of the “older guys” on the USMNT and, as he does so, he is sure to put air quotes around it.Nearby is a portrait of Milan legend Paolo Maldini lifting a trophy, a player who retired in his forties. Pulisic isn’t that age yet. He turned 25 shortly after joining Milan from Chelsea…

Lunedì Nikita Nesterenko si era svegliato da un pisolino pomeridiano quando aveva ricevuto una notifica sul cellulare. Nesterenko, un ex attaccante del Boston College che ora gioca per i San Diego Gulls dell'American Hockey League, ha visto il nome dell'ex compagno di squadra del college Cutter Gauthier apparire in un post inviato dagli Anaheim Ducks."All'inizio, mi sentivo come se si stessero semplicemente congratulando con lui per il mondiale juniores o qualcosa del genere", ha detto Nesterenko. "Qualcosa di strano. Forse una sorta di connessione. E poi ho visto che lo avevano acquisito. Ho pensato: 'Wow, è pazzesco.'”I Ducks avevano scambiato…