As a teenager, Charlie McAvoy used 100 flex on his right-shot sticks for one reason: Charlie McAvoy Sr. had a limit to how much he cared to spend. “When I got to senior sticks,” the younger McAvoy recalled with a smile, “he would get me 100 flex sticks so I wouldn’t break them. So that…

CNN  —  Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Belarusian opponent Aryna Sabalenka following their opening round match at the French Open, leading to boos from some of the crowd. After Sabalenka secured the 6-3 6-2 win, Kostyuk walked straight over to the umpire to shake her hand and then back to…

Texas A&M signed the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class three years ago believing it had built a potential national title contender. Plenty of players from that heralded 2022 class could indeed be participating in the first 12-team College Football Playoff this month. They just won’t be doing it for the Aggies, who no longer have nearly…

LaMelo Ball’s career year will be put on pause. The Hornets star will be out for at least two weeks with a left calf strain, the team announced on Saturday. LaMelo Ball is out for at least the next two weeks. Getty Images The injury occurred during the team’s loss to the Heat on Wednesday…

STORRS, Conn. — A few years ago, UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma returned to his hometown of Montella, Italy, for the first time in years. He was on vacation elsewhere in the country, but a cousin reached out and invited him to a relative’s wedding. The ceremony, he discovered, would be in the same…

Jimmy Vesey was scratched for the third straight game and fourth of the last six in the Rangers’ 5-1 defeat against the Kings at the Garden on Saturday and to hear head coach Peter Laviolette talk about it, it’s not about what the veteran has failed to do on the ice.  “Jimmy’s been a very…