Soccer

Canada’s Game Struggles to Return. And to Still Look Like Hockey.

In British Columbia, on Canada’s west coast, hockey referees are wearing masks and waving their hands to flag infractions instead of whistling. In Ontario, to the east, officials are still deciding when teams in the province’s top junior league will return to the ice, but they will be playing a whole

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2020 Oct, 28

He Could Go All the Way! (Oops, We Forgot It Was the Giants)

This has been a forgettable season for the Giants. But a victory over Washington’s Football Team last week at least gave the team its first win, and Thursday’s game against the Eagles in Philadelphia produced the kind of electrifying moment that brings hope for reinvigorating a season. Almost, anyway. Trailing the

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2020 Oct, 23

Rays Rely on a Bullpen With a Simple Aim: Throw It Over the Plate

ARLINGTON, Texas — The baseball gods might have sent the Tampa Bay Rays to the World Series just to prove a point. The Rays are tied with the Los Angeles Dodgers after two games, pursuing the first championship in their 23 seasons while squashing last year’s story line. Remember when the

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2020 Oct, 22

Flattened Basketballs as Art

For many of us, the outdoors serve as a refuge — a place to gather (at a social distance, of course) and live some sort of normalcy as the pandemic continues to disrupt society. Then there is the artist Tyrrell Winston, who has spent years scouring the outside world to gather

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2020 Oct, 21

Hockey Broadcaster Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick Retires

When the N.H.L. begins its next season, absent for the first time in four decades will be the man perhaps more associated with the league than any player, coach or official: the broadcaster Mike Emrick — known universally by his nickname, Doc. Emrick, 74, who this year called the Stanley Cup

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2020 Oct, 19

Football’s Boo Birds Are All Cooped Up

Drew Kanevsky, a Jets season-ticket holder since 2002, misses the familiar game day rhythms when the team is at home: putting on his trusty No. 74 Nick Mangold jersey, tailgating at Lot K1 at MetLife Stadium, explaining nuances to his 10-year-old son, Anthony, that the television feed doesn’t show. But in

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2020 Oct, 18