Andrew Karpen, chief executive and founder of independent film distribution company Bleecker Street Media, died Monday of glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer. He was 59. Karpen founded the New York City-based Bleecker Street in 2014 with backing from 5-hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava. In its first few years, Bleecker Street released … Read more
Mike Sullivan’s nearly decade-long tenure running the Pittsburgh Penguins is over. The team announced Monday it was parting ways with the two-time Stanley Cup-winning coach just over a week after the Penguins missed out on the playoffs for a third straight season. Sullivan, whose 409 wins with Pittsburgh are a franchise record, led the Penguins … Read more
Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday as the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War. Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile a year after losing a sprint down Boylston … Read more
World champion Alysa Liu produced a flawless routine in the women’s free skate as the U.S. won its sixth gold medal at the figure skating World Team Trophy on Saturday in Tokyo. Team Canada finished fifth overall. On the final day of competition, Canada’s Madeline Schizas and Sara-Maude Dupuis finished seventh and tenth, respectively in the women’s free skate. Deanna … Read more
Olympic champion Lukas Martens of Germany has broken the men’s 400-metre freestyle record at the Swim Open Stockholm. German clocks 3:39.96 to break compatriot Paul Biedermann’s mark from 2009 The Associated Press · Posted: Apr 13, 2025 9:41 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago Germany’s Lukas Martens, pictured at Paris 2024, became the first … Read more
Overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, five days after breaking multiple bones in her left leg in a giant slalom crash and undergoing surgery. “I still don’t know how long it will take [to return],” Brignone told reporters as she sat in a wheelchair before leaving the … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Monday to congratulate them for winning the World Series last season. Trump complimented “the very talented people” who beat the New York Yankees in five games, while also refusing to introduce some Democratic senators … Read more
American snowboarder Chloe Kim and Australia’s Scotty James won the halfpipe gold medals at the world championships on Saturday in Corvatsch, Switzerland. Kim scored 93.50 in her first run during the women’s final for her third world title after wins in 2019 and 2021. She did not compete at the last edition. The 15-year-old Sara Shimizu … Read more
Reigning world champion Ilia Malinin delivered a season-best short program on Thursday night, giving the young American star a slim lead over Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama in what has quickly become a two-man race to this year’s title. The 20-year-old Malinin delivered a pair of quads and a brilliant triple axel to score 110.41 points, just … Read more
Rachel Homan’s Canadian curling team has won the women’s world championship with a 7-3 victory over Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni in Uijeongbu, South Korea. Homan, Tracy Fleury, Emma Miskew and Sarah Wilkes from the Ottawa Curling Club became the first Canadian team to repeat as women’s world champions since Sandra Schmirler’s team did it in 1993 and … Read more
