N.B.A

Steven Cohen Agrees to Buy the Mets, Again

Frustrated Mets fans have for years pined for a new owner to swoop in and buy their team, someone to save it from what they felt was decades of mismanagement and mediocrity. Those fans can finally rejoice. Steven Cohen is buying the team, and this time it appears to be for

Empty Seats, Slowly Filled With Energy

It was depressing. My first United States Open match this year was the men’s doubles final, with Mate Pavic and Bruno Soares playing Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic at Arthur Ashe Stadium. It was supposed to rain, so the roof of the stadium was covered. It was humid, dark, and

Golf Is Embracing the ‘Dark Sky’ Movement

Golf has long had a reputation as an environmental hazard: Courses have long required large quantities of water, fertilizer and herbicides needed to maintain verdant greens, making it the sports industry’s wolf in sheep’s clothing. But much of that is changing. Over 30 percent of golf courses in the United States

Barcelona Members Race Clock in Effort to Oust Bartomeu

A group of F.C. Barcelona members that has spent months mobilizing, planning and plotting to force out the club’s unpopular president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, is using the soccer team’s latest crisis to begin an official campaign to force a change in leadership. The effort’s biggest opponent is not Bartomeu, though, but