Alexa Philippou, ESPNJul 11, 2024, 09:41 PM ETCloseCovers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati EnquirerNEW YORK — Guard Sabrina Ionescu and the New York Liberty overcame a slow start and 14-point deficit to handily beat the visiting Chicago Sky 91-76 on Thursday night at Barclays Center.The Liberty — who are 2-1 against the Sky this season — join 13 other teams across WNBA history in winning 19 of their first 23…
Matt Crocker knows he has to get it right this time.The U.S. Soccer Federation’s sporting director was barely a month into the job last summer when he chose to rehire Gregg Berhalter as men’s national soccer team coach. It was a surprising decision, given the baggage Berhalter brought with him after a messy end to his first term and the danger of things growing stale after four years in charge.But Crocker, a Welshman who came to the USSF with extensive experience in English soccer, ran the candidates through a battery of managerial, statistical and psychological tests before deciding no change…
A day on from his second crash in as many stages at the Tour de France, Primož Roglič has pulled out of the race ahead of Friday’s stage 13.His Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team confirmed that Roglič abandoned the Tour de France before the expected sprint stage to Pau, with the Pyrenees looming at the weekend.”He had two crashes and the impact on his body was just too much to continue,” Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team director Rolf Aldag said.”We can rule out concussion and fractures but then he had a massive impact from two crashes in a row, and that does not make…
Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams was very much in favor of benching quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo last season and may have had some involvement in the decision to do it.The Netflix documentary show Receiver includes a clip in which Adams is asked what his opinion was about the decision to bench Garoppolo.“Well, my opinion on that was that I signed off on that, and that’s just the reality of it,” Adams said.Adams didn’t explain exactly what he meant by “I signed off,” but it would seem to suggest that Raiders coach Antonio Pierce asked Adams’ opinion, and Adams told Pierce to…
The Cubs didn’t just win a series, they swept a series, outscoring their opponents 21-2 in the process. And those opponents weren’t just any old team; the Cubs swept the first place Orioles. In Baltimore … for their second consecutive series win, fourth win in a row, and sixth win in their last seven games. That is just incredible for a team that looked like it had nothing left to offer just a week-and-a-half ago. Indeed, before this four-game winning streak began, the Cubs had a -29 run differential. But after a 5-0 shutout against the Angels and then the…