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The Most Pressing Need for All 32 N.F.L. Teams We’re only two weeks into the league new year and every NFL team has been deemed offseason champion, offseason chump or somewhere in between. But no o […]
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Soccer’s Most Prolific World Cup Team Is Caught in a Cycle of Apathy Brazil have endured so many low ebbs over the past 15 years that it can be hard to remember them all.The historically embarrassing 7-1 defeat to Germany at […]
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How Jimmy Butler Went From the Unapologetic ‘Bad Guy’ to the Warriors’ Hero SAN FRANCISCO — In the minutes after the Golden State Warriors wrapped up a five-game trip in Brooklyn earlier this month, Jimmy Butler pulled Steve Kerr a […]
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Ranking the Men’s Sweet 16 Teams From First to Worst Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s & women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis […]
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Predicting the First Round of the N.F.L. Draft, With Teams Maximizing Trades Post-NFL free agency mock drafts. That’s the good stuff.Two weeks’ worth of signings, releases and the occasional trade have helped shape individual tea […]
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Expert Predictions for the M.L.B. Season Look, we didn’t want to ruin the baseball season for you, but we’re professionals, so when our bosses asked us collectively to predict the best players and […]
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How an N.H.L. Goalie Inspired One of Arena Rock’s Megahits The lyrics to both verses were finished, and the first line of the chorus — Fill my eyes — was in place. Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, the driving forces beh […]
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M.L.B. Tested Robot Umpires. Is This Really What Baseball Wants? CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet?We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tap […]
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Is This One of the Weirdest Goals in Soccer History? On average, about one in every 30 corners leads to a goal. The success rate tends to go up dramatically, however, when the goalkeeper and their entire […]
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Rick Pitino and St. John’s Were Magical All Season. Then It Came Crashing Down. The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 Men’s March MadnessPROVIDENCE, R.I. — For as satisfying as St. John’s resurrection has felt, the ending verse […]
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The Month of March Shows the N.B.A.’s Worst. But Will the League Ever Change? TORONTO — Everybody was doing their part to make the situation feel normal.Toronto Raptors rookie Jamal Shead was running around the perimeter of the S […]
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Oscar Piastri of McLaren Wins Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix Oscar Piastri delivered a commanding performance at the Chinese Grand Prix, leading teammate Lando Norris to a McLaren 1-2 finish and giving the team a […]
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M.L.B. and Japanese Baseball Are Completely Different. Can the U.S. Have Both? TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields sti […]
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An Injury Put an N.H.L. Player’s Career in Jeopardy. Roller Hockey Saved Him. Chris Driedger was 16 minutes away from winning the 2022 men’s World Championships for Team Canada when disaster struck.A post-to-post push led to the c […]
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After an Audit, the Red Sox Front Office Performed Painful Job Cuts In the 17 months since the Boston Red Sox hired Craig Breslow as chief baseball officer — their fourth leadership change within the past 10 seasons — the […]
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How a Penn State Wrestler Became a 5-Time National Champion PHILADELPHIA — The Penn State fans inside Wells Fargo Center rose to their feet and held five fingers in the air.In the waning seconds of Carter S […]
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How a Northern Irish Soccer Team Set a Remarkable World Record “My phone kept buzzing with messages, but I was so tired, I went straight to sleep — I hadn’t realised I’d set the record!”For Linfield captain Jamie Mul […]
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John Calipari and Rick Pitino Have Stood the Test of Time as Basketball Foes PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Because time measures history even as it moves on from it, and because college basketball remains perpetually dictated by l […]
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For the Giants, Jameis Winston Is Just a Placeholder at Quarterback The New York Giants are signing Jameis Winston after a winding pursuit of quarterbacks that mostly featured names that would have been much more exciting […]
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The 26 M.L.B. Players on the Cusp of Stardom One of the most exciting aspects of every MLB season is when young up-and-coming players have breakouts that make pretenders into contenders, or contenders […]