CHARLOTTETOWN – Brett Budgell scored in double overtime as the Charlottetown Islanders edged the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 3-2 on Friday to open up their Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff series. Kevin Gursoy and Daniel Hardie had goals in regulation time for the Islanders, while Matthew Welsh made 41 saves in net. Derek Gentile and Mitchell Balmas replied for […]

TAMPA — When Greg Bird’s name was included in the second group of Friday’s batting practice on Field 2, it was an indication that his right elbow was healthy enough to swing a bat. Then, standing at his locker before the Yankees hosted the Phillies at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday evening, Bird said he wasn’t taking batting practice. […]

For nearly a month, the Rutgers women’s basketball team played without its Hall of Fame head coach, C. Vivian Stringer, because she has an undisclosed medical condition. But her presence was clearly felt. Before their first-round N.C.A.A. tournament game on Friday, the Scarlet Knights wore bracelets that read: “What would Coach say?” After Rutgers, the No. 7 seed, lost to […]

The N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament began on Friday with no early upsets, but a few close calls. The foremost of those was Mercer’s bid to do what no other No. 15 seed had done: win a game in the tournament. The Bears were in range in the final minute, but second-seeded Iowa held on for a 66-61 victory in Iowa […]

Sir Gary Verity, the man who brought the Grand Depart of the Tour de France to Britain in 2014, has resigned as chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire after an investigation into his expenses. In a statement, the organisation said the 54-year-old had stepped down due to ill health, but added that “concerns have been raised in relation to his […]

PHILADELPHIA — Having to hear these difficult statements is the plight of the superstar. This is what Mat Barzal is going to deal with for as long as he retains that description, especially in this town. The Islanders’ 21-year-old wunderkind hasn’t been good enough. As the games for the Islanders start to really matter for the first time in a […]

ENGLAND fans were left fuming after the ITV Hub crashed at the start of the game against the Czech Republic. The Three Lions began their Euro 2020 campaign with a game at their spiritual home of Wembley. But for those fans not able to make it to the capital, there was the safety net of watching on ITV or the […]

JOHN STONES will be hoping to guide England to Euro 2020 as the qualifying competition for next year's competition kicks off. While he is happy with Manchester City as they chase the Quadruple, the ex-Everton defender has changed his mind at home. Who is Olivia Naylor? John Stones' new girlfriend is a 30-year-old former beautician. She is well respected in […]

Joshua Kushner, the venture capitalist whose older brother is President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, became a minority shareholder of the N.B.A.’s Memphis Grizzlies earlier this season, according to four people familiar with the matter. Jesse Derris, a spokesman for Joshua Kushner, confirmed the purchase. The N.B.A. declined to comment, and a spokesman for the Memphis Grizzlies did not immediately […]

As business challenges go, Everyone Wants To Buy Our Shit For Some Reason is a pretty good one to face. And yet, when presented with that challenge/“challenge” in the early 1990s, every trading card company absolutely duffed it in more or less the same way. Adults—not annoying booger-y fan-kids but actual adults with paychecks and dorky sedans of their own—were […]