Every World Cup team is guaranteed at least three group stage games. Avoid defeat in all three, and you’d expect to move on, but that’s not always the case. World Baseball Classic: Ronald Acuña Jr.

Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo has withdrawn from the upcoming German athletics championships in the wake of a coronavirus infection, just one month before the start of the Paris Games.

Germany has set itself a target of finishing among the top five on the athletics medals table at Los Angeles 2028, despite its worst performance at the World Championships in Budapest ©Getty Images ...

OAKLAND — The Athletics were doing their best Thursday to turn the page on a lamentable chapter in their history. As if going 21-60 at the season’s halfway point wasn’t enough to digest, the A’s began ...