COPENHAGEN — Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen was rushed to hospital after collapsing during his side's Euro 2020 opening match with Finland and being given CPR on the pitch on Saturday, with soccer officials later saying the player was stable and awake.
Perhaps it would’ve been a fitting and necessary reminder of just how tenuous the balance between surprising success and abject failure remains for the current version of the Mariners.
As the outrage builds from pitchers around Major League Baseball concerning the rule change announced a week ago that banned the usage of foreign substances by pitchers, leave it to James Paxton and his impossibly dry sense of humor to provide a response that would make his fellow Canadians proud.
The Sounders FC are flirting with defensive greatness.
They can’t all be walk-off grand slams.
The statement from Pacers president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard read as follows: "On behalf of the Simon family and the Pacers organization, I'd like to thank Nate for his years with the team. This was a very hard decision for us to make; but we feel it's in the best interest of…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt the NCAA a unanimous defeat Monday and ruled the multibillion-dollar college sports industry can be sued under the antitrust laws for conspiring to make money by insisting star athletes be unpaid amateurs.
In the absence of space, Raul Ruidiaz can still find a way to score.
The Storm will be well represented at the Summer Olympics.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The unlikely pair of Richard Bland and Russell Henley shared the halfway lead at the U.S. Open on Friday as Phil Mickelson trailed by seven shots in the one major he needs to win to complete his career grand slam.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The intriguing prospect of feuding Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau playing together in the third round at the U.S. Open has been narrowly avoided, even though they were locked on the same score after the second round on Friday.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Bryson DeChambeau spent more than an hour alone on the range on Thursday, pounding balls in the dark long after every other player at the U.S. Open had departed Torrey Pines.
LONDON — England's ambitions to be crowned kings of Europe got a cold dose of reality as they were held to a 0-0 draw by a gutsy Scotland side in a Euro 2020 'Battle of Britain' on Friday.
There’s a gleam in Raul Ruidiaz’s eyes the Sounders have seen before.
Rebuilds are the supreme test of a baseball fan’s soul.
RENTON — The Seahawks wrapped up their three-day minicamp Thursday afternoon under sunny skies and the customary splash of optimism for a successful 2021 season.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Russell Henley matched his U.S. Open career low to grab the clubhouse lead at Torrey Pines while Phil Mickelson's bid to complete the career Grand Slam in his home city was in peril after a fog-delayed start to the first round on Thursday.
If they open it up, will people come?
Following the final out of what felt like an interminable fifth inning, Justus Sheffield trudged off the mound, eyes affixed on his feet and shoulders sagging in obvious frustration. He looked up to the handful of fans and the mostly empty seats of T-Mobile Park, shaking his head in disgust.…
RENTON — Concern yourself with the potential vulnerability of the Seahawks’ cornerbacks. Fret about whether new offensive coordinator Shane Waldron can reconcile quarterback Russell Wilson’s desire to “cook” with coach Pete Carroll’s deep-seated love of establishing the run. Worry about whet…
When the Sounders entered this past three-week FIFA international break, coach Brian Schmetzer expected a different roster upon return to MLS play. But the unexpected availability of striker Raul Ruidiaz brings a different challenge — can the club retain momentum as the top team in the league?
For the past two games at T-Mobile Park, a person with no background knowledge of this season would be hard pressed to pick the team that was projected to win more than 90 games and its division this season vs. the rebuilding team projected to win around 70 games and finish fourth in its division.
BUDAPEST — Cristiano Ronaldo struck a late double to help holders Portugal get off to a winning start with a 3-0 victory over Hungary in front of a 67,000 crowd on Tuesday as the forward became the all-time leading scorer at European Championship finals.
RENTON — The Seahawks opened their mandatory three-day minicamp Tuesday at the VMAC with one of the team’s biggest names not in attendance — safety Jamal Adams.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Bryson DeChambeau has dismantled courses with his prodigious length off the tee and on Tuesday said to expect more of the same from him this week at Torrey Pines, where he will try to successfully defend his U.S. Open title.
Jon Rahm, forced to withdraw from his last start with a sizeable lead because of a positive COVID-19 test, is a favourite at this week's U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego where hometown boy Phil Mickelson seeks the one major that has eluded him.
SAN DIEGO, Calif — Phil Mickelson, fresh off a historic win at the PGA Championship, said on Monday he had a head start on getting reacquainted with Torrey Pines in a bid to bury his U.S. Open demons this week.
Upon her arrival in Seattle in February, Candice Dupree made it clear her main motivations for joining the Storm were money and winning.
This time, Jake Bauers had just enough distance and hit it to a slightly more friendly spot in T-Mobile Park.
It looks like the Mariners’ best hitter will join the long list of names on the team’s 10-day injured list.
The prospect vs. the proven.
COPENHAGEN — Danish players expressed dissatisfaction on Monday at the position they were put in after team mate Christian Eriksen's collapse during their Euro 2020 opener on Saturday, having to decide whether to finish the match that evening or the next morning.
Can anyone stop the Storm?
COPENHAGEN — Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen was rushed to hospital after collapsing during his side's Euro 2020 opening match with Finland and being given CPR on the pitch on Saturday, with soccer officials later saying the player was stable and awake.
COPENHAGEN — In any other circumstances, Finland’s 1-0 victory over Denmark in their first major tournament appearance would have been an underdog story to treasure and celebrate.
We’ve got our final four Stanley Cup playoff teams, with the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning taking on the New York Islanders in Sunday’s semifinal opener and the Vegas Golden Knights hosting the Montreal Canadiens starting Monday.
A day after lamenting that his team played a “bad” game, Seattle manager Scott Servais had to find the words to describe another defeat that somehow seemed worse after a 7-0 drubbing by the Cleveland Indians in a game that didn’t even seem that close.
ROME — Italy will face stronger opposition than Turkey at Euro 2020 but a commanding 3-0 win in the tournament's opening match in front of their own fans on Friday suggests the Azzurri have all the ingredients to go far.
Russell Wilson is back.
For years, the choice was waiting for Russell Wilson to talk or going back to the press box and grabbing some of Lumen Field’s postgame chicken strips. And for a good portion of the media, chicken strips always won.
Each has taken his own winding path into the Mariners’ outfield.
Jewell Loyd continued her red-hot scoring streak, and Stephanie Talbot buried host Atlanta beneath an offensive flurry in the fourth quarter as the Storm pulled away for a 95-71 victory on Wednesday night at Gateway Center Arena.
The road back to T-Mobile Park and the Mariners doesn’t start in the parking lot of Cheney Stadium and doesn’t include the soul-sucking traffic on Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Sodo.
ROOT Sports Northwest has continued its recent expansion of on-air content by acquiring rights to broadcast Portland Trail Blazers NBA games starting next season in a long-expected move announced Wednesday morning.
We’ve got plenty of Kraken-related items worth discussing after another week of Stanley Cup playoffs, with good news off the ice and developments on it that the expansion team is undoubtedly considering.
Jewell Loyd is ascending.
The Detroit Tigers have now won 25 games this season, which surprisingly isn’t even among the lowest in baseball or in the American League Central.
Add another title to DK Metcalf’s increasingly long resume — documentarian.
PARIS — Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat world number two Daniil Medvedev in straight sets on Tuesday to advance to the French Open semi-finals for the second straight year and end the Russian's surprise run on the Parisian clay.
We know DK Metcalf can catch and we know he can run.
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