Golf

From Ortega to Messi: Diego Maradona's Long Shadow

It was nothing more, really, than a ruffle of the hair and a kiss on the cheek. There was no pomp or circumstance that day in 1994, no words of wisdom whispered in the ear or sweeping gesture made for the crowd. Diego Maradona left the field, and Ariel Ortega

Golf

2020 Nov, 29

NFL Crisis Grows

After bobbing and weaving around the coronavirus pandemic for much of the fall, the N.F.L. is facing crises on teams from coast to coast in its final stretch of the regular season. On Saturday, health officials in Santa Clara County threw the San Francisco 49ers’ season into turmoil when they temporarily

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2020 Nov, 29

The Heir to the Manning Quarterback Legacy Isn’t on TikTok

Last summer, while reading a list of Louisiana’s top college football recruiting prospects, Archie Manning noticed that only one of the high school players did not have a Twitter account. It happened to be his grandson and namesake Arch, a nephew of Peyton and Eli. “I was kind of proud of

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2020 Nov, 26

A ‘Perfect’ Pitcher, a Home Run Stealer and Two-Thirds of a Big 3

The Baseball Hall of Fame announced its new ballot on Monday, with 11 first-time candidates to go along with 14 holdovers, including four who got more than half of the votes from writers last winter: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling and Omar Vizquel. At 70 percent, Schilling was the

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2020 Nov, 16

While Training Continues, China’s Prized Women’s Hockey Players Are in Russia

The players most crucial to Chinese women’s ice hockey reside in a hotel about 70 miles south of Moscow. The quasi resort’s expansive grounds contain horses, stray cats and a speleochamber — a salt cave designed to improve breathing. That these players are in Russia and not Beijing, 3,600 miles away,

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2020 Nov, 16

What We Learned From Week 10 of the N.F.L. Season

A Hail Mary into triple-coverage. A 98-yard touchdown run. A roughing the passer call that handed a team a win. It was a week of big plays and last-minute changes in fortune, and it shook up the N.F.L.’s best division, as the N.F.C. West now has a three-way tie for

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2020 Nov, 16