The Root of the Knicks’ Success? Caring When They Didn’t Have To.
In a season of uncertainty, the Knicks gave fans, and opponents, one thing to count on: “They were coming to play,” one observer said. By B...
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Showing posts with label 2021 at 10:01AM. Show all posts
A Boxer May Miss the Olympics Because of Her Prepandemic Pregnancy
Olympic organizers changed how boxers from the Americas would qualify for Tokyo because of the pandemic. Now one of the best Canadians is o...
Johnny Bench Misses His Hall of Fame Friends
Bench knew, played with or played against all of the 10 Hall of Famers who died in the past year. “You sit there and you are numb, and you ...
An Olympic Dream Dashed by a Nasal Swab
Qualifying for the Games can be the achievement of a lifetime. In the coronavirus era, though, that opportunity can vanish without warning....
What to Know About the 147th Kentucky Derby
The post time for the race is 6:57 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday. By BY MELISSA HOPPERT AND JOE DRAPE from NYT
Tom Brady Charted a New Path. Aaron Rodgers Struggles to Do the Same.
When Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks like Brady, Rodgers and Russell Wilson grow frustrated with their teams, the nature of N.F.L. contract...
Kyle Pitts Is Set to Be the N.F.L.’s Next Revelation at Tight End
After he is drafted Thursday, Pitts is expected to join the N.F.L.’s top-shelf tight ends: Rob Gronkowski, George Kittle and Travis Kelce, ...
Anthony Edwards Will Dunk on You. And Beat You in Ping-Pong?
The Minnesota Timberwolves are not good this season. But Edwards, their rookie No. 1 draft pick? He is giving fans many reasons to watch (a...
NASA Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: When to Watch
The experimental Ingenuity vehicle is expected to complete a short but historic up-and-down flight on Monday morning. By BY KENNETH CHANG f...
Why the Worst N.B.A. Player Is (Probably) Still Better Than You
There’s confidence, and then there’s thinking you can beat one of the 500 (N.B.A.) or 150 (W.N.B.A.) best basketball players in the world. ...
Vanessa Bryant Uses Her Platform to Battle the Powerful
Through social media and a lawsuit, she is trying to hold law enforcement to account in ways that are uncommon for women, and especially fo...
College Players Graduating to the N.H.L. Have a Chance for Longer Test Run
The modified schedule gives college players who make N.H.L. rosters an opportunity to play more than just the handful of games they’d get i...
N.F.L. Draft Process Adapts With the Pandemic
Players and scouts adjusted their methods to account for the absence of a traditional combine in Indianapolis. By BY EMMANUEL MORGAN from N...
John Grisham Leaves the Courtroom for Basketball, and Sudan
Grisham has spent the past 30 years churning out legal thrillers, but the pandemic’s impact on college sports prompted him to shift his foc...
It’s Time to Rethink the Olympics
Displacements, human rights violations, health concerns and overspending have dogged the Games in recent years. The Olympic mission is a me...
It Doesn’t Take Genius to Understand Basketball. But It Helps.
For his book, “How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius,” Nick Greene spoke to the best in ballet, magic and astrophysics for a fresh perspect...
M.L.B. Pushes Incentives to Encourage Players to Get Vaccine
Teams can have numerous restrictions lifted when they are 85 percent vaccinated. A few teams have reached that total so far. By BY JAMES WA...
He Sought Refuge in Online Poker: ‘This Is Never About the Cards’
The author is not good at the game. But games played online while meeting on a video call with strangers provided connection at the right t...
The Nets Could Have Had It All With Dr. J
As great as today’s Nets look with their starry threesome, they could have dominated the N.B.A. much, much sooner — in the 1970s, behind Ju...
Georgia Is Facing a Political Onslaught. At the Masters, It’s Business as Usual.
Major League Baseball pulled its All-Star Game from the Atlanta area, but Georgia’s most cherished sporting event remains firmly rooted in ...
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