The N.B.A. fined Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards $40,000 on Tuesday for anti-gay remarks that he made in an Instagram video that circulated online this month. In the video, which has since been deleted from his account, Edwards used homophobic language to describe a group of people he was filming as they stood on a […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden met on Friday with family members of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, two Americans imprisoned in Russia whose release the United States is trying to negotiate with Moscow amid poisoned relations over the war in Ukraine. Mr. Biden spoke with Mr. Whelan’s sister, Elizabeth, and then with Ms. Griner’s wife, Cherelle […]
After a serious ankle injury in her rookie season and a somewhat tentative second year, Sabrina Ionescu has in her third year hit the kind of heights everyone expected of her, and her Liberty are back in the W.N.B.A. playoffs. The No. 7 Liberty will face the No. 2 Chicago Sky — the defending champions […]
Pete Carril, who coached basketball at Princeton for 29 years and scared big-name opponents with his undersized, often underskilled scholars playing an old-fashioned textbook game, died on Monday. He was 92. His family announced the death in a statement posted on the Princeton Tigers’ website. It did not say where he died or give the […]
MASON, Ohio — The Serena Williams farewell tour is set to continue Tuesday at the Western and Southern Open. But for how long? The matchup — Williams vs. Emma Raducanu of Britain in the opening round — seems particularly well suited to the grand occasion that is Williams’s extended goodbye from professional tennis. With 23 […]
Scherzer. DeGrom. DeGrom. Scherzer. You can order them however you would like now that Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom are finally ensconced at the top of the Mets’ pitching rotation. Each would be nearly every other team’s No. 1 starter, and, either way, you’re not really choosing the order of the team’s rotation or the […]
That a new Mike Tyson project hits stores this summer should not surprise us. The latest, simply titled “Mike Tyson,” arrives Sept. 6 and is a collection of photographs from Lori Grinker, who followed the fighter for more than a decade, beginning in 1980. Next week, Hulu is set to begin its biographical series titled […]
LOS ANGELES — When Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suárez misses a ground ball, he shoves his face into his glove and has a few choice words for his leather companion. “I’ll say, ‘Come on, come on,’” he recalled recently in Spanish. “‘If I don’t eat, you don’t eat.’” Yes, Suárez talks to his glove. […]
Last weekend, I made a classic summer running mistake. I hit the snooze button. I really wanted just one more hour of sleep, and the heat surely couldn’t be that much worse a bit later, right? When I did roll out of that comfortable bed and that sweet, sweet air conditioning, I was hit with […]
Statues can be made from many different materials: stone, bronze, concrete, wood, and so on. The idea is to use something durable and lasting, something befitting a permanent monument that often serves as a point of pride. In other words, clay would be a bad choice. That is where the expression feet of clay comes […]
