International sports

Dayton James Webber, a quadruple amputee who played in the American Cornhole League, faces first- and second-degree murder charges after being arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in La Plata, Md., approximately 40 miles south of Washington, D.C.

HOUSTON – The United States needed help to move on to the quarterfinals of the World Baseball Classic. When they got there on Friday, the Americans reasserted themselves behind Logan Webb with a 5-3 victory over Canada before 38,054 at Daikin Park.

Almost eight months have passed since Caitlin Clark played in a basketball game. But after shutting down her WNBA sophomore season in mid-July due to nagging injuries, she will return to the floor on Wednesday to make her Team USA senior national team debut in the World Cup qualifiers.

Forty-six years after the United States won its last men’s hockey gold medal at the Olympics, the U.S. has reached the top of the mountain again, ending Canada’s dominance in best-on-best hockey Sunday afternoon.

MILAN – Jack Hughes took the Zach Werenski feed between the penalty boxes, pivoted toward the net and went to work.

Rich Ruohonen’s current teammates weren’t alive when he first tried out for the U.S. Olympic curling team in 1987 – nor when he tried again in 1991. In fact, he fell short of making the team eight times.

Throughout the Olympic women's hockey tournament, the American women looked unbeatable. On Thursday, the Canadians did their best to prove it was possible to defeat their rivals.

MILAN — The United States overcome a late tying goal, beat Sweden in an overtime thriller and is heading to the 2026 Winter Olympics men’s hockey semifinals.

After a one-hour on-ice training session and on the way to yet another interview, Isabeau Levito has one big problem on her mind.

The Olympics are always about perseverance, about triumph, about the work these athletes put in in absolute obscurity and the performances they’re able to summon when the lights go on. How admirable. How inspiring. What fun. Far more athletes, though, experience something different. 

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy – Lindsey Vonn said she would make it to the Olympic downhill starting gate despite rupturing the most important ligament in her knee nine days ago, and she did.

MILAN – Alysa Liu skated backward across the center of the ice, gliding into the consecutive triple jumps that climax her Olympic short program. As she did so, her figure skating teammate Amber Glenn, seated in a rinkside cheering section, leaned back in her seat and grabbed onto the arm of Ilia Malinin, sitting to her left. Liu took off.

On Friday night, a record 232 U.S. athletes are expected to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Behind that impressive number, though, a quiet crisis is looming over the medal podium – one that might prevent the country from rolling this deep into subsequent competitions again.

Luge looks crazy. It’s the fastest event at the Winter Olympics, with competitors hitting 90 mph on their backs atop tiny sleds with no brakes going down ice tracks. A Georgian luger died after crashing on a training run at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

MELBOURNE, Australia — History belonged to Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open while Novak Djokovic’s quest for a 25th Grand Slam title goes on. At 22-years-old, Alcaraz is the youngest man in history to complete the Grand Slam of all four major titles, breaking a record set by American Don Budge in 1938. The remarkable young Spaniard simply had too much for Djokovic in the end, with the ...

Want to sit in the lower bowl of Lumen Field — or Seattle Stadium as it will be known — for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup matches this summer? Get ready to shell out at least $500 per ticket unless you’re part of the supporters’ group for a specific country.

SEATTLE – FIFA unveiled the match schedule for next summer’s 2026 Men’s World Cup on Saturday and it’s clear the organization is taking advantage of the generally temperate weather in the Pacific Northwest that time of year and the chance for games to be in prime-time hours for most of Europe.

SEATTLE – Once the attempt at providing entertainment ended, the FIFA Men’s World Cup draw on Friday yielded mixed results for those eagerly awaiting the matches to be played in the Pacific Northwest.

More than seven years after the FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026 was awarded to a joint bid of the United States, Mexico and Canada, and three years after learning Seattle would be a host city, the two most important days for the tournament to date are finally here. We’re finally going to learn the groups for the first 48-team World Cup. And, more important locally, what the matchups will be for the ...