Baseball

College Football Changes Thanksgiving Traditions Amid Pandemic

At Colorado, the Thanksgiving meal for football players, a ritual since at least the mid-1990s, will not happen. Ohio State’s seniors will miss out on a tradition of Thanksgiving practice. At Virginia, any players who attend a large Thanksgiving gathering could have to quarantine. College football players across the country are

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2020 Nov, 25

Tom Brady Passed Twice on One Play. And It (Sort of) Worked.

It’s one of the first rules you learn when you get taken into the backyard and taught how to play football: You can only throw one forward pass each play. On Monday night, Tom Brady tried to get away with breaking that rule. And in a way, it worked. Early in the fourth

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2020 Nov, 24

With Soccer’s Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Clutching his phone in one hand and his passport in the other, Ruben Gabrielsen sprinted through his apartment. Duty had called, and he would answer. He had even tied a makeshift cape around his neck for the occasion. He would be the one to save his country in its hour

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2020 Nov, 20

Kim Ng Has Been Ready for Years

When the moment arrived — when a major league team finally hired a woman to run its baseball operations — Kim Ng found a fitting way to tell her mother and four younger sisters. She gathered them all outdoors, at a gazebo in Wanaque, N.J., where her mother lives, and

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2020 Nov, 18

1,000 Interviews to Pick No. 1: Inside the Timberwolves’ N.B.A. Draft Prep

Gersson Rosas and his staff had spent five months working remotely by the time the N.B.A. draft lottery was staged on Aug. 20 to determine the order of the top picks. As the president of basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rosas saw it as an opportunity to do something

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2020 Nov, 18

The N.B.A. Draft Steal ‘People Sort of Forgot’

There is a story about Isaiah Stewart that sounds apocryphal now that he is on the cusp of entering the N.B.A., but his father, Dela, vouched for its authenticity. It goes something like this: When Isaiah was a fifth grader in Rochester, N.Y., he received late notice that one of his

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2020 Nov, 17