SAN DIEGO — The Mets were leading the majors in an assortment of categories through Wednesday, including runs scored (299), hits (525), on-base percentage (.334) and batting average (.263). Much to their dismay, they were also leading the majors in a far more painful category: hit batsmen. And as Manager Buck Showalter grimly assessed, before […]
Warner Bros. Discovery, the media giant created by the fusion of the owners of HBO and “90 Day Fiancé,” has picked an executive to manage its billions of dollars of sports rights, one of the cornerstones of the company, according to people with knowledge of the decision. The company now has the rights to games […]
Other than “commanding three-games-to-none lead,” there is perhaps no more overwrought phrase in playoff hockey than “pivotal Game 5.” After all, every postseason game, especially when teams get as far as the Eastern Conference finals like the Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning have, is pivotal. That was certainly true on Tuesday when the Rangers and […]
That restriction is unlikely to limit Rob Walton, Greg Penner and their families. Walton, 77, is the oldest child of Helen and Sam Walton, the co-founder of Walmart. Rob Walton was chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015. His cousin is Ann Walton, the niece of Sam Walton and the wife of E. Stanley Kroenke, […]
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Joe Maddon became the latest Angels manager to fail to execute the team owner Arte Moreno’s vision of achieving glory with Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. He was fired Tuesday afternoon. The move comes amid a 12-game losing streak. The Angels have slid from a 24-14 record on May 16, when they […]
Figure skating’s global governing body voted Tuesday to gradually increase the minimum age limit for elite competitors to 17 over the next three years. It characterized the move as an effort to safeguard “the physical and mental health, and emotional well-being” of skaters, but made its decision only after facing worldwide criticism for a doping […]
Phil Mickelson, who has not played competitively since incendiary remarks he made in support of a Saudi-backed golf league that hopes to rival the established PGA Tour were reported in February, will end his self-imposed layoff later this week by playing in the first event of the upstart LIV Golf circuit. Mickelson, the winner of […]
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has added to the upheaval brought on by social media as more new surfers paddle out into local lineups without learning the local etiquette. The exploration and rites of passage it took to find these places, their secrecy or access held down across generations of surfers in some cases, can vanish […]
Also before the start of the game, the team announced it would be sending a letter to Congress calling for stronger gun laws in the wake of a spate of high-profile mass shootings in the country this spring. The players on Sunday also wore orange arm bands in support of Wear Orange, a movement to […]
“Banning team sports, particularly ones that represent Russia, is certainly justified,” he said. “But it would be hard to exclude the hockey players. The hardest one to justify would be banning Vasilevskiy or Shesterkin.” Frye has traveled to Russia regularly since 1985 and has been to about a half-dozen hockey games there, both before and […]
