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M.L.B.’s New Rules Have Baseball in Overdrive

Nearly two months into baseball’s pitch-clock era, you sometimes wonder how the sport ever got so slow. Why did we endure standstill traffic on a ride that could have been much smoother? “It was Red Sox/Yankees — a lot of people in these parts, they certainly know about that,” Scott Servais, the manager of the Seattle Mariners, said with a […]

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Brittney Griner Returns to the W.N.B.A. With a Weekend of Celebration

PHOENIX — The public address announcer paused before introducing the final player in the Mercury’s starting lineup on Sunday. The song “Coming Home” by Skylar Grey began to play, and then Brittney Griner appeared on a red carpet with tall video screens behind her, an entrance befitting a rock star. It was Griner’s first regular-season home game since 2021. She […]

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Superteam in progress? Liberty routed in opener

Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Tabbed as a “superteam” heading into the 2023 WNBA season, the New York Liberty showed they are still a work in progress after […]

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Jim Brown, Football Great and Civil Rights Champion, Dies at 87

Jim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and who remained in the public eye as a Hollywood action hero and a civil rights activist, though his name was later tarnished by accusations of violent conduct against women, died on Thursday night at his home in Los Angeles. He […]

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139 Minutes of Hockey, but No Record

When two teams play hockey for 60 minutes, then go for 79 minutes and 47 seconds more of overtime, you immediately turn to the record books. But such is the nature of N.H.L. playoff hockey that the Florida Panthers’ 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh that ended early Friday morning was not the longest game ever. It was […]

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