SAN FRANCISCO -- The Golden State Valkyries heard for the first two seasons of their existence that they didn't have any stars, that as an expansion club mostly made up of teams' dispensable players and no top-tier free agents, they lacked anyone who could step up and hit big shots when it mattered most.
In Game 7 of the WNBA Finals, Gabby Williams quieted anyone who believed that.
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Forever Young has never walked the famous sale ring at Keeneland, never even been to Lexington, but if all plans are fulfilled, he’ll be in the heart of the Bluegrass State this fall, stabled at the racetrack close to the auction arena where generations of his family before him have been sold, for money large and small.
ST. PETERSBURG -- The team from MLB’s smallest market. The team so often good enough to get beat by someone bigger. The team that has cycled through swaps of stars, always refining and refurbishing and refilling their roster with keenly acquired talent. The team that gave a shot to a 60-something skipper with only interim Major League managerial experience and watched him craft a culture of love and laughs.
That’s the team that won the 2026 World Series. And the Brewers team that just delivered the franchise’s first title and Milwaukee its first baseball champion since the 1957 Braves was a true team in every sense.
LONDON -- It is nine years since Harry Kane lingered at the back of the London Palladium at the end of a soccer awards show.
OTTAWA — Those of us on the Ottawa football beat in the late 1980s will never forget ‘Super Season ‘88.’
The Sydney Roosters have held off a fast-finishing Newcastle to win 19-18 in a pulsating NRL grand final at Stadium Australia.