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Photo of Trainer on Dead Horse Causes Outcry in Britain

New York TimesMarch 2, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 2, 202101

Victor Mather A prominent Irish horse trainer was suspended from racing in Britain on Tuesday after a photograph emerged of him sitting on a dead horse, smiling and talking on his cellphone. The British Horseracing Authority, which issued the ban, said it was “appalled” at the image of the trainer,......

Baseball’s Best Reliever? This Spring, It’s the Pitch Count

New York TimesMarch 2, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 2, 202101

Victor Mather It was the fourth inning of a spring training game between the Reds and the Athletics on Monday, and Sal Romano was in trouble. Romano had given up four hits to the A’s in the inning, and three runs had scored. After a walk, there were Oakland base......

Gonzaga May Miss March’s Madness

New York TimesMarch 2, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 2, 202101

Kurt Streeter In normal times, even fans who don’t follow college basketball would be feeling nervous anticipation while the No. 1-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs chase history. Few teams in recent memory have been as dominant or as fun to watch, and if this mid-major program can keep winning and finish March......

Female Athletes Are Under Covered. These Olympians Want to Change That.

New York TimesMarch 2, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 2, 202101

Kevin Draper and Talya Minsberg “Growing up I didn’t have posters of female athletes, which wasn’t because I didn’t watch sports,” Morgan said. “I just didn’t know enough about female athletes to put them on my wall and idolize them.” Female athletes can also be more interesting subjects than male......

A Superfan Is Ready for the Game, if They’ll Only Let Her In

New York TimesMarch 2, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 2, 202101

Jeré Longman Rosie Miller, 74, a devoted Dayton fan since the early 1950s, has red sweatshirts and navy slacks ready for the Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball tournament, which begins Wednesday. She has worn her basketball earrings all season. Her tree, still up from Christmas, is decorated with lights and......

Irv Cross, First Black Network TV Sports Analyst, Dies at 81

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Richard Sandomir Irv Cross, a Pro Bowl defensive back with two N.F.L. teams who later made history as the first Black full-time television analyst for a network television sports show, died on Sunday in a hospice in North Oaks, Minn. He was 81. The cause was ischemic cardiomyopathy, a heart......

Iran’s Judo Ban, Sparked by Order to Avoid Israeli, Is Overturned

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Victor Mather Iran’s blanket suspension from world judo events for ordering one of its athletes to pull out of an event to avoid competing against an Israeli was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday. The court did not disagree that Iran had committed “severe violations” of......

As Rivals Boom and Bust, the Royals Just Want to Get Better

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Tyler Kepner Yet the Royals acted swiftly to improve. In the first week or so of December — very early for baseball’s famously slow-moving free-agent market — they signed starting pitcher Mike Minor (two years, $18 million) and first baseman Carlos Santana (two years, $17.5 million). Last month they engineered......

Police Raid F.C. Barcelona, a European Soccer Powerhouse

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Tariq Panja The authorities are investigating the club’s relationship with a company that produced disparaging content about Lionel Messi, Gerard Piqué and other star players. Source link: Click here for more...

Surf’s Up. The Temperature Isn’t.

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Ryan Carter Growing numbers of surfers are taking to the Great Lakes — even when the weather is well below freezing. Source link: Click here for more...

C. Vivian Stringer Is the Thread Between the W.N.B.A.’s Emerging Stars

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Howard Megdal Erica Wheeler still remembers vividly what Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer, standing in the Wheelers’ home, told Wheeler’s mother would happen if her daughter came to play for her. “She told my mom, ‘She won’t just be a basketball player,’” Wheeler recalled of the conversation between Stringer and......

How One Sports Season Fell Apart, Even in a Bubble

New York TimesMarch 1, 2021

by New York TimesMarch 1, 202101

Marisa Ingemi Players in the National Women’s Hockey League left Lake Placid, N.Y., wishing there had been better communication as positive tests increased. Source link: Click here for more...

Collin Morikawa Wins Workday Title on a Day of Tributes to Woods

New York TimesFebruary 28, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 28, 202101

Bill Pennington BRADENTON, Fla. — Although he was atop the leaderboard, Collin Morikawa stumbled repeatedly on Saturday and Sunday at the PGA Tour’s Workday Championship, even calling one of his setbacks “stupidity at its finest.” But surmounting the unsettling vicissitudes of golf with a winning, steely resolve is becoming the......

Yankees Feel Butterflies Before Playing in Front of a Crowd

New York TimesFebruary 28, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 28, 202101

James Wagner TAMPA, Fla. — The gates at Steinbrenner Field opened at 11 a.m. Sunday, two hours before the Yankees hosted the Toronto Blue Jays for their first spring training game of 2021. Among the first fans to enter: Robert and Jean Koontz, who have been making this yearly trip......

Leon Rose’s Quiet Effect: Knicks’ Good Vibes Come Ahead of Schedule

New York TimesFebruary 28, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 28, 202101

Marc Stein The Knicks had just sullied their better than expected start with a loss at home to the Miami Heat, but the more pressing topic on Feb. 7 was a looming trade. A deal with the Detroit Pistons was about to position the Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau to coach Derrick......

Two Sluggers Aren’t Quite Done, but the End Is Near

New York TimesFebruary 28, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 28, 202101

Benjamin Hoffman He added: “My mind is not even there. My mind is on staying focused, healthy and hopefully trying to help this ball club win this year, and that’s it. If I feel at the end of the year that that’s it, I’ll announce it.” Whenever Pujols and Cabrera......

Olympians Enter a Risky New Event: Line Jumping

New York TimesFebruary 28, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 28, 202101

Andrew Keh A survey of German Olympic athletes this year illuminated the prickly dynamics of that stance: 73 percent of respondents said they agreed with the current vaccine protocols that did not give them special treatment. But when asked if they should receive priority if vaccination was required to compete......

Jewell Loyd Is in the Gym, Building Her Game and a Community

New York TimesFebruary 27, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 27, 202101

Jonathan Abrams The Warehouse gym is a little off the beaten track, plopped south of an interstate highway, behind a hidden road. “You have to be kind of a real O.G. baller to know where it is,” Jewell Loyd said. Loyd, fresh off a second W.N.B.A. championship with the Seattle......

N.B.A. Investigating After Jeremy Lin Said He Was Called ‘Coronavirus’

New York TimesFebruary 27, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 27, 202101

Michael Levenson The N.B.A. G League said on Friday that it was investigating a report by Jeremy Lin, one of the best-known Asian-American players in basketball, that he had been called “coronavirus” on the court. Lin disclosed the slur in a Facebook post on Thursday in which he denounced the......

A Baseball Coach Sends a Drone to Help Ease Fans’ Fear

New York TimesFebruary 26, 2021

by New York TimesFebruary 26, 202101

James Wagner On Wednesday morning, four days before spring training games were to begin and fans would return across Major League Baseball, a six-foot-wide drone flew throughout a 10,500-seat stadium in Surprise, Ariz., the preseason home of the Kansas City Royals and the Texas Rangers. The drone sprayed a cleaning......

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