GENEVA — Soccer leaders questioned the World Cup’s integrity on a chaotic and unprecedented day in the event’s modern history Monday. The furor centered on a phone call that President Donald Trump made last week to FIFA head Gianni Infantino to make the case that U.S. striker Folarin ...
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada — Former Penn State standout Gavin McKenna put pen to paper on his three-year, entry-level contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs over the holiday weekend. McKenna, the first overall selection in the 2026 NHL Draft, becomes the fifth different Nittany Lion from the ...
BOSTON — Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and team owner Bill Chisholm want to make one thing clear: The decision to trade perennial All-Star Jaylen Brown wasn’t arrived at lightly. But from their perspective, it was necessary to give the franchise the ...
JOLIET, Ill. — The first Rolling Stones album was released in 1964. NASCAR driver Connor Zilisch was born in 2006. Of course, when it comes to Mick Jagger and company, time seems almost irrelevant. “No matter who you are or where you’re from or how old you are, you know who the Rolling ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Mikel Merino was still on the bench in the final minutes of regulation, with Spain coach Luis de la Fuente worried about hanging on to his substitutes as long as possible because of looming extra time. The Arsenal forward made all that fretting moot. Merino scored in the ...
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. –– Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.2 million from two victims. A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted him last month. The case was unsealed Monday after his arrest in Kentucky on Friday. Kriisa is a 6-foot-3 guard from Estonia. He began his college career in 2020 at Arizona and later transferred to West Virginia. He is expected to appear in federal court in West Virginia this week on five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges he posed as other people, including his mother, to ...
