Trae Young, Your Hair Is a Magnificent Unsolved Mystery
What now? He’s gone. I mean, it’s gone. The single most fascinating thing about the N.B.A. playoffs hasn’t been, “Were the Nets ever really a team?” Or: “Whose death wish...
N.F.L Draft 2022: How to Watch, Start Time and Streaming
The time for speculation and mock drafts is over: The 2022 N.F.L. draft gets underway in Las Vegas on Thursday at 8 p.m., Eastern time.Over the course of three days...
Nestor Cortes Thrives for Yankees by Being Himself
There was a time when Nestor Cortes was scared to be himself.That reality is a bit hard to believe when it comes to a Yankees pitcher best known for the...
Angel City F.C. and the N.W.S.L.’s Ongoing Search for Itself
If the league’s first momentum shift was one of collective action by its players, the second was the introduction of a club like Angel City, a team conceived, founded and...
How Did Women’s Sports Teams Get Their Start?
In 1992, the International Shooting Union had decided that year’s Olympics would be the last with women competing against men in shotgun skeet shooting. Then, Zhang Shang of China won...
When Draft Pundits Are Right, and N.F.L. Teams Wrong
It’s every N.F.L. fan’s nightmare. After months of anticipation, your team’s first-round pick in the N.F.L. draft (the 2022 edition starts tonight) is deemed a “reach” — a player picked...
How the N.F.L Learned to Like Las Vegas, Host of the Draft
LAS VEGAS — Barely half a decade ago, this gambling mecca was still largely off limits to the N.F.L.In 2015, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo called the league greedy and...
Who’s No. 1 in the N.F.L. Draft? Depends on Who You Ask.
Mystery at the top of the N.F.L. draft makes predicting the rest of the first round anyone’s guess.
Wimbledon’s Vaccination Rule Change Means Djokovic Can Play
Wimbledon’s decision to allow players unvaccinated against Covid-19 to participate in this year’s tournament opens the way for Novak Djokovic, the No. 1-ranked men’s singles player who missed the Australian...
Thiago Alcantara’s Passing Stats Don’t Tell Us Everything About His Game
The temptation is, of course, to connect that tendency to the sport’s growing interest in and reliance on analytics — this is soccer, as the nerds wanted it — or...