IDEAS Gregory is a TIME senior writer. Jerry Harkness raised his arms on the left baseline of Louisville’s Freedom Hall, to take the shot to win a national championship. But the Loyola University Chicago forward, the leading scorer for the Ramblers, felt a Cincinnati defender tip the ball as he prepared to fire. Knowing he […]
(LONDON) — Tottenham Hotspur is standing by its fans who frequently chant a term for Jews that can be considered offensive. The statement of support on Wednesday followed the chairman of Premier League rival Chelsea calling on Tottenham to end any ambiguity over the term by stopping its use altogether. Fans of Tottenham, a north […]
The soccer World Cup kicks off Thursday in the 81,000 seater Luzhniki stadium in central Moscow. Host country Russia, ranked 70th in the world, take on 67th-ranked Saudi Arabia at 6 p.m. local time (11 a.m. ET). While unlikely to be a match for the history books, it does mark the start of the first […]
The Internet is in full force with its latest 2018 Winter Olympics meme, and it’s guaranteed to make viewers feel better about not taking home their own gold medal. Twitter users this week have taken to sharing relatable jokes and images of they did not make the PyeongChang Games in South Korea. Most Olympians train […]
When lobbyists for Major League Baseball made a donation in connection with a political event on Friday, they probably didn’t expect to ask for it back two days later. Amid outcry over racially insensitive remarks made by Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith earlier this month, the MLB has asked her campaign to return its $5,000 donation. […]
Allegations of sexual harassment against American snowboarder Shaun White resurfaced this week just as he prepared to compete in the men’s halfpipe event at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on Wednesday, where he made history by winning his third Olympic gold medal. Lena Zawaideh, who was formerly a drummer in White’s rock band Bad Things, accused […]
The soccer World Cup isn’t the only international sport tournament out there: there’s also the 2019 basketball World Cup coming up. And while there’s plenty of drama going down in Russia’s stadiums right now, there’s also lots of drama heating up the basketball courts elsewhere. The teams from Australia and the Philippines were duking it […]
Nicole Schott is not the first German figure skater to perform to the music from Schindler’s List, but she might be the last. When Schott took to the ice in the figure skating on Thursday to vie for the gold medal, Pyeongchang’s Gangneung Ice Arena filled with John Williams’ score for Steven Spielberg’s heart-wrenching film. […]
Ester Ledecka took gold in Ladies’ Super-G, edging out American Lindsey Vonn who ended up tying for sixth place at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ledecka, a snowboarder from the Czech Republic, took many by surprise with her Alpine Skiing win at the Olympic games. “I really don’t know what happened. You tell me … I […]
You couldn’t mistake the concern on Chloe Kim’s face. During a meeting with the media on Thursday in PyeongChang, South Korea, the 17-year-old American snowboarding phenom—who, if all goes according to plan, will win a Olympic halfpipe gold medal on the morning of Feb. 13, local time—was alarmed by the sheer number of cameras vying […]