Even more than the endorsement deals, collectives have altered the landscape of college sports. Until the N.C.A.A. abolished the prohibition on paying players, most boosters gave their money to their favorite school’s athletic department. Those contributions helped pay coaches’ salaries, fund recruiting trips, charter team planes, upgrade facilities — whatever the department needed. Now some […]
Three weeks after going into cardiac arrest during a prime-time N.F.L. game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin made his first public appearance Sunday at his team’s divisional round playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The CBS broadcast showed Hamlin riding into the stadium in a security vehicle and walking into the team’s locker room less […]
Gerrie Coetzee, a South African heavyweight boxing champion who rejected the epithet “great white hope” and criticized apartheid, earning the respect of Nelson Mandela, died on Jan. 12 at his home in Bloubergstrand, a suburb of Cape Town. He was 67. The cause was lung cancer, his longtime manager, Thinus Strydom, said. After losing bids […]
MELBOURNE, Australia — The end came all at once for Rafael Nadal, and then it happened slowly. Down one set and on the ropes against Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the Australian Open on Wednesday, Nadal injured his hip while chasing down a shot in the eighth game of the second set. His […]
By the first scrimmage at Bushwick, there were seven swimmers, and then 12 by the first meet. Though the season was a losing one, Ms. Taylor finally fielded two dozen mostly competitive swimmers. “We’re fast learners around here,” said Kyara Rosello, 17, a junior who was a standout in the 100-yard freestyle. Standing on the […]
EAGAN, Minn. — The N.F.L. is a passing league, so quarterbacks’ names — rightfully — receive top billing. But marquee throwers also need teammates to catch their passes, and in many instances receivers aren’t getting due credit for their role in making big plays successful. Tua Tagovailoa, Kirk Cousins and Jalen Hurts led their teams […]
The N.F.L. announced Thursday that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta would serve as the neutral site for a potential A.F.C. championship game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City, should those teams advance. That game would be played Jan. 29, a Sunday, at 6:30 p.m., Eastern time. The N.F.L. last week approved a resolution to “mitigate […]
“I made some bad decisions tonight, and it cost our team,” Allen said. “A lot to learn from, a lot to grow from. That’s not the standard we hold ourselves to. That’s not the ball we play.” The Jets’ defense pressured Allen throughout Sunday, but in the first half he used his legs to put […]
The look-ahead line for this game was 10, so the market clearly thinks the Jaguars are doing something right. Jacksonville has attracted a whopping 93 percent of the money in a matchup where the total number of bets is split fairly evenly. Perhaps that has something to do with the rib cartilage fracture Justin Herbert […]
Aaron Judge, who hit his 60th home run of the season in the ninth inning of Tuesday’s monster comeback against the Pittsburgh Pirates, is one home run away from tying Roger Maris’s American League single-season record of 61, which was set in 1961. On Wednesday night, in the second game of a six-game homestand at […]
