After a decade in the wilderness, the Los Angeles Galaxy — Major League Soccer’s original super club — are finally back in the MLS Cup final. The Galaxy advanced to their first MLS Cup since 2014 with a hard-fought 1-0 win over the Seattle Sounders, who were one of the dominant teams in the league during the Galaxy’s title game ...

When you beat your hated rivals, especially for the fourth straight season, you get to say and do what you want, within reason and without breaking the law. Michigan running back Kalel Mullings took that to heart on Saturday. The Wolverines, who entered the game against Ohio State as nearly three-touchdown underdogs, stunned the second-ranked Buckeyes 13-10 in Columbus. Mullings ...

President-elect Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and the billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk were among just some of the well-known political figures who were ordered to court in 2024.  The year saw a flurry of election-related lawsuits play out in swing states across the country, the winding down special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into the president-elect, and ...

A group of former United Nations officials fed up with its inefficiency launched ‘DOGE-UN,’ an investigative effort that will highlight waste by the world body. The effort, similar to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will culminate in a report online ahead of the 2026 secretary-general selection, in hopes that the next leader will prioritize making ...

A prominent Chinese journalist was sentenced in a Beijing court to seven years in prison for espionage, according to his family. Dong Yuyu, a commentator and editor, was detained by police in February 2022 while he was meeting a Japanese diplomat at a restaurant, according to The Associated Press, and has been in police custody since. The verdict on Friday ...

The New York Red Bulls started the MLS Cup Playoffs by eliminating the defending league champions. Now, they have a chance to become MLS champions. The Red Bulls will play for the MLS Cup title after defeating Orlando City SC, 1-0, in the Eastern Conference final on Saturday night at Inter&Co Stadium in Orlando, Florida.   The Los Angeles Galaxy and Seattle ...

The end of Week 14 is not only the end of the college football regular season, but the end of some Heisman Trophy campaigns.  Quarterbacks Cam Ward (Miami), Dillon Gabriel (Oregon), running back Ashton Jeanty (Boise State) and two-way star Travis Hunter (Colorado) were slated as the top four favorites for the award coming into the week with many others ...

The Colorado State volleyball team is back to the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament. The Rams secured the automatic Mountain West bid Saturday by defeating San Jose State, 3-1 (27-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-16), to win the conference tournament championship game in Las Vegas. CSU dominated the Mountain West tournament, becoming the first No. 1 seed to win since the conference tournament ...

No. 100 will have to wait for Mikaela Shiffrin. Shiffrin will miss Sunday’s slalom in Killington, Vermont, after a hard crash during the second run of the giant slalom on Saturday. She was taken off the hill on a sled, though said a few hours later that there was ‘not really too much cause for concern.’ ‘I just can’t move. ...

Now, the Cardinal are turning to a familiar face to try to it back to the national relevance they enjoyed for much of the 2010s. Former Stanford star quarterback Andrew Luck is returning to his alma mater to become the general manager of the school’s football program, he told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. There, Luck will take over a newly created ...