SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

Two soccerplayers protecting the football. 

Two soccer players collide.

The lithe women ran back and forth in high-stepping sprints, their pink and yellow sneakers a blur. Then they stopped to bounce, and to shake their arms, as if to banish the cold.

soccerplayer doing ?.

The world’s best Women surfers hit to the water for the first time on day three of the Claro ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games. The surf was perfect during the day, which allowed the women to showcase their technical skills that demonstrated how far the development of the sport has come in women’s surfing.

Soccerplayer in pain.

Hope Solo, widely viewed as one of the world’s top goalkeepers and a complicated teammate, is scheduled to face trial next month on two misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree domestic assault. She has pleaded not guilty in a highly publicized case and has challenged a police account of the episode in June.

2 soccerplayers trying to kick against a football.

SOELDEN, Austria (AP) — Overall World Cup champion Anna Fenninger has been voted skier of the year by journalists. The international association of ski journalists said Thursday it chose the 25-year-old Austrian for the Skieur d'Or-Serge Lang Trophy, its annual award named after the founder of Alpine skiing's World Cup in the 1960s.

Running man.

Lydia Ko may be half a world away from coach David Leadbetter while she plays the LPGA Asian swing, but distance and a few time zones are no hindrance to the 17-year-old receiving guidance from her swing guru.

World number one Serena Williams was beaten 6-0 6-2 by Simona Halep at the WTA Finals in Singapore to suffer her heaviest defeat since 1998.

Tennis.

It has been eight months since 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin stood atop the medal podium at the Sochi Winter Games as the youngest Olympic slalom champion in history.

European champions Laura Trott and Katie Archibald will lead a strong British squad at the track cycling World Cup in Mexico from 8-9 November.