In the NBA, most turnarounds are credited to a star acquisition, a newly minted Big Three or a long-awaited return from injury. For the New York Knicks, who entered the All-Star break ranked fifth in the East with a 19-18 record, much of their improvement can be attributed to someone who was out of the […]
Late last year, Major League Baseball announced that it will be officially recognizing the statistics of around 3,400 players who played in seven Negro Leagues between 1920 to 1948. In this video, senior sportswriter Neil Paine talks about some of the Negro League stars who might not be household names — but who should be. […]
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine’s name was a constant in trade rumors around the NBA. After the Bulls ended last season with a 22-43 record, the expectation was that they would look to be sellers in the trade market, with LaVine as the centerpiece. To make […]
We’re still more than two months away from the Premier League’s final weekend, and for the second season in a row, the title race is less a “race” than a steady march toward the inevitable. Manchester City is the runaway champion-to-be, 11 points clear of its Mancunian rival and flaunting a greater than 99 percent […]
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 […]