Jim Boeheim, the longtime men’s basketball coach at Syracuse, struck and killed a pedestrian on Wednesday night, the police said. A man had been involved in an earlier accident and left his car on I-690 near Syracuse. Boeheim drove by later, striking the man, Syracuse.com reported. The victim was Jorge Jimenez, 51, of Syracuse. A police statement said Boeheim tried […]

The Italian's absence complicates the situation of Maurizio Sarri, whose job at Stamford Bridge hangs by a thread following recent form slump. Zola underwent an operation to cure a gallstone problem last week, but he needed to be re-admitted following complications from the surgery. The Mail report that Chelsea have not set a return date for the 52-year-old Italian and […]

SINGAPORE – National bowler Muhammad Jaris Goh, who fired the Singapore men’s team to a first medal at the World Men’s Championships and a long-overdue medal at the Asian Games in 2018, was named The Straits Times’ Athlete of the Year 2018 on Thursday (Feb 21). The 24-year-old received his award from Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu […]

The NHL trade deadline makes the spotlight on the Calgary Flames feel hotter. This season’s Flames are having arguably the franchise’s best season since Calgary won the Stanley Cup in 1989. Duking it out with the San Jose Sharks atop the Western Conference, the Flames are on pace to open the playoffs with home-ice advantage for the first time since 2006. Related Mark […]

The final score of one of the most anticipated college basketball games of the season quickly turned into an afterthought on Wednesday night when the star Duke freshman Zion Williamson left the game with a bizarre injury within a minute of the opening tip-off. Williamson, who is widely expected to be the top pick in the N.B.A. draft later this […]

Manitoba won three more speed skating medals at the Canada Winter Games on Wednesday in Red Deer. Clandeboye’s Alexa Scott claimed two more gold medals. The 17-year-old set another Canada Games record by winning the Long Track 1000 metre race in a time of 1:22.26. She finished more than a second faster than the second place finisher. Scott won her […]

The midfielder, 37, is in his FIFTH spell at BATE Borisov, tomorrow night's opponents, and took to the pitch for a light training session. Hleb played 58 minutes in the first leg of their Round of 32 tie last week as his side produced a shock 1-0 victory thanks to Stanislav Dragun's header. And the Belarusian legend will be desperate to […]

Three years after Hurricane Sandy lashed the Rockaways, the boardwalk marched down the beach in broken segments as the public housing built under Robert Moses was hemmed in by condos. Out in the surf, not much changed as the bathymetry returned to normal, but the predominantly white, male crowd of surfers had. Part of that shift happened when Louis Harris, […]

For the second time in recent years, the American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Unified School District of creating a hostile environment for female students. This comes after parents complained that Tremper High School cheerleading coaches bestowed "Big Boobie" and "Big Booty" awards at their annual banquet, and teachers at Bradford High suggested in a health lesson that sexual assault […]

Trans sportswomen hit back at Martina Navratilova, after the tennis champion said “it’s insane and it’s cheating” for transgender women to be allowed to compete in women’s sport. “A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organization is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision […]