#finish-line

#finish-line

Ukraine's counteroffensive against formidable Russian defenses has been grueling and bloody, Ukrainian and American officials acknowledged on Thursday, but they insisted that it was making gains and that any verdict on its success was extremely premature.Last week, Kyiv began a multipronged assault into territory in southeastern Ukraine that Moscow's forces had seized, hunting for weaknesses to exploit in hopes of punching through the deep network of minefields, trenches, bunkers, tank obstacles and artillery that the Russians built.

John Coghlan understands how Canadian track fans might fall into the trap of thinking something is amiss with Andre De Grasse when he isn't in championship form early in the outdoor season.But any concern, the coach says, should be eased by looking at the sprinter's history and accomplishments."He's surprised people a few times when they thought he wasn't setting the world [on fire] and then shows up at the right time," said Coghlan, who has worked with De Grasse since last November.

I'm back!A special thanks to Becky Hughes for covering last week as I put the final touches on our big, colorful guide, Where to Eat in New York City This Summer.Have you checked out the beautiful interactive map yet?Over the past three months, New York Times food writers have assembled dozens of recommendations that will keep you busy (and full) all summer long.

Britton Wilson of Arkansas, one of this year's most accomplished college runners, will race in the 400 meters at the N.C.A.A. Division I outdoor track and field championships in Austin, Texas, on Saturday evening.Just 25 minutes later, she will take another lap of the track only this time, she will have 10 hurdles in her way.

INDIANAPOLIS The Indianapolis 500 is the one race Josef Newgarden desperately wanted to win.It's basically the only race that matters to his boss.Coming up empty for 11 consecutive years had become personal for Newgarden, a two-time IndyCar series champion.He finally broke through Sunday, though, winning the Indy 500 to extend the team owner Roger Penske's record to 19 victories and give him his first win at the race since Penske agreed to buy Indianapolis Motor Speedway in late 2019.

INDIANAPOLIS The Indianapolis 500 is the one race Josef Newgarden desperately wanted to win.It's basically the only race that matters to his boss.Coming up empty for 11 consecutive years had become personal for Newgarden, a two-time IndyCar series champion.He finally broke through Sunday, though, winning the Indy 500 to extend the team owner Roger Penske's record to 19 victories and give him his first win at the race since Penske agreed to buy Indianapolis Motor Speedway in late 2019.

Trayvon Bromell had a problem.There was a stadium of fans awaiting him and he wasn't ready to race.He needed a few safety pins.All I wanted to be thinking about is the race, he recalled of the 2021 U.S. Olympic track and field trials.Instead, he found himself frantically searching for four safety pins to pin his bib onto his jersey before a race that would send him to the Toyko Olympics.

BRANDON, Miss.Before she became a three-time Olympic medalist and before she earned the title of world's fastest woman, Frentorish Bowie welcomed a camera crew to her hometown, Sandhill, Miss.This is where I found my strength, Bowie, who was nicknamed Tori, said of the small town 30 minutes northeast of Jackson.

Andrew Dannehy | June 8th, 2023
The Chicago Bears shouldn't be favored to win the NFC North, but they certainly have a shot to take what is now a weak division.The Lions are the favorites, and rightfully so, but Detroit missed a major opportunity to improve at key positions and further separate themselves from the rest of the division.

Jason Momoa in "Fast X." (Peter Mountain/Universal Pictures)StarOutline StarOutline (2 stars) Now more than two decades old, the Fast & Furious franchise is racing for the finish line with all the outlandish action and rank sentimentality it can muster."Fast X," the first installment of what will reportedly be a three-part swan song, is literally the beginning of the end, which promises to be an "Avengers: Endgame"-style reunion of the series's core characters, now including its most memorable villain, played with equal parts glower and gleeful camp by Jason Momoa.

With just days to go before advance voting begins, Toronto voters got their latest chance to look at the some of the top candidates in CBC Toronto's mayoral byelection debate.Five of the leading candidates to be mayor squared off Tuesday, sparring over their plans to build new homes, improve public safety and address the city's deep financial challenges.

In a tradition believed to span hundreds of years, dairy enthusiasts in possession of likely below-average regard for their own personal safety gathered in Gloucestershire to throw themselves down a steep hill in pursuit of a large wheel of cheese.This year, more seasoned competitors in the women's race at the near-vertical Cooper's Hill saw their vivid dreams of victory curdle, as a 19-year-old from Canada seized first place despite knocking herself unconscious during the 180-metre dash for the finish line.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 by Kali Bramble
As American manufacturers struggle to keep pace with demand, wait times for power transformers have put housing and infrastructure projects across the country on hold.Austin Energy executives joined City Council's Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee last week to discuss the nationwide shortage , reporting that new units are now taking nearly 70 weeks to arrive.

File photo by Erica Price
Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
A stampede of over 26,000 runners will pound the pavement for over 13 miles on Saturday during the Brooklyn Half Marathon, winding their way through the streets of Kings County.

The founder of the Toronto Marathon is apologizing to the event's participants and supporters for challenges they faced during the race that took place earlier this month.Jay Glassman says event organizers received complaints about inadequate road closures and water stations and about "pandemonium" at the finish line that made it difficult for some participants to collect their medals or food and beverages.

White House and House GOP negotiators are racing to finalize a deal to raise the nation's debt limit with time running perilously short and the risk of a first-ever US default growing.There have been some signs that talks have progressed in recent days, and negotiators are hoping to announce an agreement as soon as Saturday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Juventus head to Sevilla for the return leg of their Europa League semi-final, with a spot in Budapest up for grabs.The Bianconeri had been on the ropes for long periods of the first leg in Turin with the Spanish side's counter attacks tearing Massimiliano Allegri's team to shreds.That Juve are able to go Southern Spain with the aggregate at 1-1 is a factor of profligate finishing from José Luis Mendilibar's charges and the Bianconeri's cat-like tenacity with a late equalizer from Federico Gatti.

A sports commentator is to run and cycle from John O'Groats to Land's End to commemorate the lives of four friends who all died within the last two years.Olympic broadcaster and snooker announcer Rob Walker, 48, is set to travel over 1,000 miles in 19 days from June 5 to 23 in what he is calling The Absent Friends Tour to raise money for two charities The Brain Tumour Charity and Jessie May Children's Hospice at Home.

A 61-year-old athlete competing at the Swansea Triathlon has died after losing consciousness during the swimming section.Wales Ambulance Service, St John's Ambulance, South Wales Police, the swim safety team, and members of the public all attempted to save the man, who died during the opening 750m swim.

A man who has raised 1 million over seven years by trekking across the country wearing only his bright blue swimming trunks says he now believes he has made amends after finishing his final challenge, a four-month walk from John O'Groats to Land's End, on Saturday.Michael Cullen, 58, from Liverpool, better known as Speedo Mick because of his eye-catching attire, set up the SpeedoMick Foundation to provide grants to grassroots charities that support mental health, disadvantaged young people and the homelessness.

The Braves came into June with the league's worst infield defense.On Friday night, despite an excellent pitching performance from Charlie Morton and not one, but two homers from the struggling Eddie Rosario, they couldn't overcome some early defensive lapses en route to a 3-2 loss.With the various mistakes the Braves made in this game, it's perhaps surprising that they ended up losing by just a run, but that's a testament to how well Charlie Morton pitched.

I was 19 when I decided, with a fervour and fixedness, that I would walk the Australian Alps Walking Track: the 650km trail that follows the Great Dividing Range from Canberra in the ACT to Walhalla in Victoria.I decided that I would do it alone, that I wouldn't deviate from my timeline or route and that I wouldn't need help and that I would never admit to these decisions being beyond my control.

The FC Bayern Frauen are closing in on a championship season in the Bundesliga after a 2-1 at win over SGS Essen.Bayern Munich scored a quick-fire first half double in a lead that proved insurmountable, despite a second-half red card for center-back Saki Kumagai.With just three games left in the season, things are looking good - but the race to the finish line is tight.

Lonnie Coleman, left, and James Marsden play alternate jurors in the series Jury Duty.Amazon Freevee The new show Jury Duty has its genetic roots in the old TV show Candid Camera, where surprising things happened to unwitting bystanders and hidden cameras captured their reactions.In the Amazon Freevee series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror.

A state budget deal would sharply dial back an expansion of charter schools in New York City floated by Gov. Hochul in her executive plan.Instead of 100-plus new charter schools that Hochul proposed in February, an agreement hammered out with state lawmakers would cut that number to 14 schools, sources said Thursday.

There's been progress on an agreement to allow the Stellantis-LG Energy Solution electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor, Ont., to go ahead, sources tell CBC News.On Wednesday, multiple senior government sources with knowledge of the negotiations said that while there is no agreement yet, there's been a lot of progress in the last 24 hours.

Reps.Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas), both hard-line conservatives from the House Freedom Caucus, have already pledged to vote against the bill, while Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a libertarian and far from a leadership ally on the Rules Committee, has yet to say how he'll vote.If those three are in agreement, they can functionally block legislation from getting to the floor on a party-line vote - potentially forcing McCarthy to rely on Democrats on the committee to move the bill along.

Survive and advance.This is what the Southern Section Masters Meet is for, the conglomerate of divisional qualifiers that comes in the week between section finals and state, the main goal from star athletes such as Ventura's Sadie Engelhardt simply to break the state-necessary mark and not push excessively.

(Luca Evans / Los Angeles Times)

With a few steps, the thumping of the runners trying to keep her glistening gold headband in sight faded away, and Sadie Engelhardt turned the 1,600-meter race at the Arcadia Invitational into nothing more than a workout.The masses expected this, because most Engelhardt races become dances not with her fellow numbers but with the numbers of history.

Several years ago, I made a plea to save scoped CSS.One of the top features on my CSS wishlist was on the chopping block, and despite a pretty big push from the community, it died.Well, great news - it's back.And it's so much better than the previous version.Even better, the W3C spec is mostly stable, and there's a working prototype in Chrome now.

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
For the 50,000 students earning CUNY degrees this year, commencement ceremonies at our 25 colleges and schools are recognition of academic achievement and the perseverance that brought them to the finish line.

NASCAR continues to ring up major sponsors for the inaugural Chicago Street Race, with Xfinity added to the lineup in advance of the July Fourth weekend event.Announced as a founding partner Thursday, Xfinity will have official presenting, marketing and promotional rights for the first street course in NASCAR's 75-year history.

It was a good morning for the HokieBird.Virginia Tech's mascot was all over the new Potomac Yard-VT Metro station on Friday morning, a fuzzy reminder of the two letters at the end of the station's formal name.It posed for selfies, waddled into shots with politicians, and reinforced that Tech was a big part of the deal that finally got this station over the finish line after a 25-year wait-the school's partnership with Arlington and Alexandria's bid for Amazon's second headquarters is a physical representation of the talent pipeline that helped land HQ2.

In case, in this distracted era, you only have time to read the first paragraph on your phone, here is the essential from Rafael Nadal: No French Open this year for the first time since 2004; no retirement just yet.But there is, of course, much more to Nadal's story, particularly at Roland Garros, the Grand Slam tournament he has dominated like no player has dominated any tennis major.

Latoya Shauntay Snell has run more than 200 races, and she knows where she will finish: near the back.So she expects to always be seeded in the last wave in multiwave races.But at the Brooklyn Half Marathon last month, she found herself in Wave 1. NYCRUNS, which organized the race, had done something unusual: All runners expecting to run 12 minutes per mile or slower were part of the first wave, to give them more time to finish before the road portions of the course reopened to cars.

A decade and half of unprecedented success at the Etihad Stadium has culminated in a chance for the manager and players to make history and achieve immortality as all roads lead to Wembley on June 3 and to the the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey a week later.Securing the Premier League title turned out easier than previously expected.

Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE Many San Francisco streets will be closed this weekend during Bay to Breakers, the annual large-scale footrace and citywide costume party that starts in the Embarcadero and ends at Ocean Beach.The 12-kilometer run has been celebrated almost every year since 1912, and will happen this year on Sunday, May 21.

Featuring the sport's best athletes racing in identical F50 catamarans, SailGP sees national teams battling it out in short, intense races - flying at impressive speeds in excess of 60 mph.Following 12 months of dramatic racing - in some of the most iconic venues across the globe - the nine teams come together at the Mubadala SailGP Grand Final to decide the overall season champion, right here on San Francisco Bay.

Verdict: Manchester United win & Under 4.5 goals Best Odds: 21/20 Bookmaker: Dachbet Desperate to secure back-to-back Premier League victories on Saturday afternoon, Manchester United will travel to the Vitality when they meet Bournemouth.Bournemouth
Starting with the hosts, while Bournemouth might have eventually cruised their way to Premier League safety this season, the Cherries are limping their way over the finish line.

With all eyes from across the Premier League falling on St. James' Park, Arsenal claimed what was a crucial 2-0 victory away at Newcastle on Sunday afternoon.Traveling to the north east knowing that a single point was not enough, it was the red-hot Martin Odegaard who opened the scoring with a sublime effort after just 14 minutes.

Gabriele Marcotti, Senior Writer, ESPN FCMay 16, 2023, 07:16 PM ET


MILAN -- And suddenly, they looked all grown up; freed from the insecurities, brain farts and inferiority complexes that so often derailed them.Inter Milan's 1-0 win over AC Milan amounts to a 3-0 aggregate win over their crosstown rivals and opens the door to the UEFA Champions League final in Istanbul on June 10.

Pfizer's vaccine to protect newborns from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, by vaccinating their moms late in pregnancy cuts the risk that infants will need to see a doctor or be admitted to the hospital with a moderate to severe infection before 6 months of age, according to a new analysis by government regulators.

There are moments in sports which forever embed themselves in the minds of those who watched it, either live or through an endless video loop.There was Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant bringing their teams back with furious fourth-quarter rallies.Muhammad Ali standing over a fallen Sonny Liston.Brandi Chastain's celebration after winning the 1999 Women's World Cup.

The two giants at the top of the Bundesliga table have woken from their respective slumbers.Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are both now charging to the finish line - notching huge victories on Matchday 32 and keeping the race for the title at razor-thin margins with two games left to go."We have to win both games," said Bayern sporting director Hasan "Brazzo" Salihamidžić after his team's 6-0 win over Schalke ( via @iMiaSanMia).

The six finalists on Race Across The World have just reached the finish line.For those who haven't seen the show, people competed in pairs to travel across Canada - all without any phones, planes or credit cards.And viewers fell in love with the relationship between father and daughter Monique and Ladi.

There is a well-known photograph by Peter Spurrier, who has died aged 77, that shows a rowing eight passing a half-timbered boathouse on its way to win the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston, Massachusetts.The picture, taken in 2009, perfectly captures the rhythm and grace of a crew at work during a snowstorm, and shows why Pete was regarded as the master of rowing photography.

Former Eagles star Zach Ertz spilled the beans on where he almost landed in a 2021 trade.It came down to the Cardinals and a top AFC team.Former Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz is currently playing for the Arizona Cardinals, but there was a scenario in which Ertz could have landed on a different - and better - team back in 2021.

It's the business end of the football season, and the pressure is on Manchester United.An FA Cup Final against Chelsea in front of a sold-out Wembley is just a week away, and there's no room for error in the FA Women's Super League either.And yet, with that pressure, United continued to show their quality in the race to the finish line, battering Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 at Leigh Sports Village on Sunday afternoon.

Manchester United missed a golden opportunity to put some distance between themselves and top four rival Tottenham Hotspur.Spurs have been in disarray for months now, clinging onto hopes of Champions League qualification thanks to results from early in the season.It was the return of Ryan Mason as interim-boss on Thursday, the third manager of the season for the London outfit, and he oversaw an inspired second half performance to take the game out of United's grasp.

There was plenty of drama in the 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile - it just happened over days of running through the Arizona desert.The 2023 edition began on Monday, May 1, and concludes on Saturday, May 6.Now in its third year, the ultramarathon once again delivered the goods.The route begins in Black Canyon City and finishes in Flagstaff.

Last night he partied, this morning he's rallying.Just a handful of hours ago, Diplo was out celebrating the release of Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2 - Swamp Savant, the 44-year-old's latest foray into country music, at the Los Angeles rooftop venue Desert 5 Spot, a space that embraces the line between western and modern club influences.

NESN's Gio Rivera sees the possible injury absence of Marcus Smart due to a chest contusion as "daunting news" for the Boston Celtics - making the case that his fourth-quarter performance from Game 1 against the Philadelphia 76ers makes him one of the team's primary clutch time players."This comes as especially daunting news, not just because the Celtics are trailing the 76ers 0-1, but because Smart came up big in crunch time, after being anchored by Jaylen Brown's lack of offensive production - three field goal attempts in the second half with two turnovers - and Jayson Tatum's inability to shine on the big stage," Rivera wrote.

What do the internet, smartphones, social media, the metaverse, and generative AI have in common?Answer: they're all part of the same, ongoing innovation movie.We've seen this movie before, and if the Fast & Furious series can create double-digit sequels ( movie number 10 coming soon), we should expect the same from technology.

SAN FRANCISCO Turns out, trying to contain LeBron James might not be the biggest challenge the Golden State Warriors face in their second-round playoff series with the Los Angeles Lakers.Anthony Davis had a playoff game for the ages Tuesday, etching his name alongside some of the storied franchise's all-time greats, as he had 30 points, 23 rebounds and five assists to lead the Lakers to a 117-112 win over the Warriors in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal at Chase Center.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NFL.Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Washington Commanders fans and fans across the country.Sign up here to participate in regular email surveys.The roster building continues
Virtually the first public words out of GM Martin Mayhew's mouth after the draft was over were these:

The draft is not a finish line.

Mississippi State cornerback Emmanuel Forbes Jr. was the top pick for Commanders General Manager Martin Mayhew, left, and Coach Ron Rivera.(Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) Comment Gift Article The roster with which Ron Rivera will coach for his job appears to be set.Even if the Washington Commanders don't make any more major moves, they'll still have arguably the best squad of the Rivera era, one with proven strengths, patched holes and improved depth.

Artem Moroz's four-mile race in Central Park in Manhattan this month didn't go as planned.The former Ukrainian soldier had hoped to run on new prosthetics made for him in the United States, but they weren't ready in time for the race.So he walked across the start using prosthetics he had brought from home and was pushed in a wheelchair the rest of the way.

The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix 2023 (F1) will kick off next week at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium for its second edition with racing events scheduled from Friday, May 5, to Sunday, May 7.
Racing fans from around the world will gather at the venue all weekend long to witness high-performance automobiles in competition.

Coming off of a taxing overtime win in Game 4, the Lakers came out of the gates in Game 5 with a pep in their step, looking fully ready to go toe-to-toe with the Grizzlies in Memphis.But with Anthony Davis out of the game in the middle of the third, the Lakers ceded a 7-0 Memphis run, which ultimately ballooned to 19-2 by quarter's end.