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Freshman Charlie McKay stumbled a few times the first game he was asked to play goalie for the Menlo-Atherton varsity boys soccer team but it didn’t take long for him to earn the trust of his older teammates. McKay rewarded his teammates for that trust by coming up big during …

The Buena boys’ tennis players don’t wait around for the spring season to get on the court. Returning varsity players like Brent Haws, Michael Holden, Cody Haws, Esteban Ruffo and Jake Lane have been well at it, long before the 2017 season opens Feb. “These boys have been playing tennis …

Ian Poulter used to start every Monday by opening the link to the Official World Golf Ranking. “I’ve stopped looking, just because it’s not a very nice number to look at,” said Poulter, who has plunged all the way to No. Poulter, so emotionally charged during a Ryder Cup, managed …

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang appeared in a South Korean court on Wednesday as judges began hearing arguments in a trial over charges that the baseball star fled the scene after slamming a car into a guardrail while driving under the influence of alcohol. A friend of Kang also …

Entering the 2017 season, there is a group of teams who are backed into a corner of sorts, seeing a championship window close and being forced to go for the gusto. If Palmer gets back to 2015 form, or even just plays most of the season the way he played …

Over All-Star Weekend, commissioner Adam Silver discussed the NBA age restriction, which currently states that a player must be 19 years old or at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class to be eligible for the NBA Draft. One popular idea that could serve as …

Senior night for the Wilcox girls soccer team didn’t end with a victory, but their progress this season from start to finish has been evident. A resurgent squad, the Chargers’ three wins thus far on the season have come in rematches against two teams who previously beat them and a …

Struggling to find her rhythm in the opening seven weeks of the season, Angelique Kerber is confident she is only a match or two away from rediscovering it and hopes it will happen here this week in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. With 900 points on offer for the …

French umpire Arnaud Gabas has had surgery to repair a fractured eye socket after being hit by a ball from Canada’s Denis Shapovalov during a Davis Cup tie with Britain, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Sunday. “The fracture was detected when doctors performed X-rays upon Mr Gabas’s return …

Els was invited by President Donald Trump to accompany him and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a round at Trump National Golf Club after Els withdrew from the ATT Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a neck injury. “I played with the queen of Malaysia, I’ve played with other presidents, but …