UFA, Russia — The United States won the junior ice hockey championships on Saturday after Rocco Grimaldi scored twice and Vince Trocheck added an empty-net goal for a 3-1 win over Sweden in the final. Filip Sandberg put defending champion Sweden ahead on power play early in the second period, but Grimaldi then scored twice [...]
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — An American flag draped around his shoulders, Braydon Salzman couldn’t contain his glee when he found California teammate Nick Pratto to give him a postgame hug. The boys from Huntington Beach are headed home with a Little League World Series championship. Pratto singled in the winning run with two outs and [...]
PHILADELPHIA — Expectation left to metastasize unchecked inevitably breeds disappointment. But while the actual game in Jurgen Klinsmann’s maiden run-out in charge of the U.S. national team may have been tepidly disappointing, the outcome against archrival Mexico and the initial touches the shiny new German head coach has put on the squad should leave the [...]
