Major League Baseball and its players association continue to go back and forth in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement, but the lockout — now in its 96th day — doesn’t seem likely to end anytime soon. Because the owners failed to reach a deal with the players last week, commissioner Rob Manfred has […]
This week, we’re doing something a little different. Since it’s been almost exactly a year since the coronavirus pandemic changed life in the United States in earnest, we wanted to talk about what we’ve learned from this deeply weird year of sports, whether there are any changes we made during the pandemic we’d like to […]
In the days leading up to the resumption of the NBA season, there was one school of thought about the quality of basketball we would see. “It’s gonna take time for your offense to come,” said TNT analyst Reggie Miller during the first quarter of the ragged Lakers-Clippers bubble opener on July 30. “And that’s […]
Facing the uncertainty of playing sports in a pandemic, which can mean risking one’s health or being sealed off in a bubble away from home and family, every pro athlete has had to make a difficult choice: return to the game or opt to sit out part or all of a season? Among the pro […]
When Mohamed Salah set up for a penalty kick in just the second minute of the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League final, he had a chance to score the potential deciding goal in one of global sports’ biggest contests. With a reported 63,272 fans in the stands, an estimated 380 million to 400 million people watching […]