“You’re rooting for people to do bad? Yikes,” said the star American forward, whose stunning “Olimpico” goal Trump apparently missed.

Jimmy Garoppolo is still the #49ers starting quarterback because of practices like the one Trey Lance had Saturday.

A COVID-impacted 2020 gave all players an extra season of eligibility, which means so-called middle class teams will have a better shot of surprising the powerhouses.

In some of their most emotional moments, Olympic athletes display their national pride. Medal winners are often handed the flags of their countries as they celebrate their wins. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands wrapped her country’s flag around her and laid down on the track as she celebrated her gold medal in the women’s 5000 meters.

Hollywood will come to Iowa next Thursday, as the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox will meet at a special temporary field near the property used in the Field of Dreams film. The game was postponed from its planned 2020 debut by the pandemic, and marks the first major league baseball game in Iowa. […]

The cauldron will be snuffed Sunday on the exhausting, enlightening, sometimes enraging 2020 Tokyo Olympics — held, actually, in 2021. Imperfect but not impossible, these Olympics — willed into existence despite a pandemic that sparked worldwide skepticism and hard-wired opposition from Japan’s own citizens — just might go down as the Games that changed sports for good. The Olympics where mental health became as important as physical.