By 1980, Fred Wilpon would purchase the team, adding another layer of connective tissue: Wilpon attended Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School with Dodgers Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax and was a rabid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was under his watch that Citi Field opened in 2009 with so many Dodgers-related touches — most notably, […]
June 4, 2022, 7:32 a.m. ET June 4, 2022, 7:32 a.m. ET Coco Gauff practicing before the French Open final match. She and Iga Swiatek have not met in a Grand Slam singles match before Saturday.Credit…Pete Kiehart for The New York Times PARIS — Coco Gauff, 18, and Iga Swiatek, 21, have never played singles […]
Ruud, 23, became the first Norwegian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final with a victory, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, over No. 20 Marin Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion who has been resurgent in Paris at age 33. The match was interrupted for about 15 minutes when a young protester attached herself to […]
Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy, two longtime staples of ESPN’s broadcast team for the N.B.A. finals, will miss the opening game of the championship series between Golden State and the Boston Celtics. An ESPN spokesman said that both broadcasters had tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days, but Van Gundy said in an […]
June 2, 2022, 7:47 p.m. ET June 2, 2022, 7:47 p.m. ET The ESPN commentators Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Breen at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in 2020.Credit…Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy, two longtime staples of ESPN’s broadcast team for N.B.A. finals games, will miss […]
“He could jump out of a stadium,” said Rick Monday, Burke’s former Dodgers’ teammate and now the club’s radio analyst. “With his vertical leap, he could have been one of Santa’s reindeer.” The 2022 M.L.B. Season “Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground […]
PARIS — Perhaps 10 years ago, over a late dinner at la Porte d’Auteuil after a long day of covering matches at Roland Garros, I remember agreeing with Philippe Bouin, the great French tennis writer for L’Équipe, that if the French Open ever chose to join other Grand Slam tournaments and stage night sessions, it […]
LA HABANA — Fernando Galván se movió hacia adelante y lanzó un uppercut de derecha en bucle. Arlen López, el boxeador cubano que ganó la medalla de oro en el peso semipesado en los Juegos Olímpicos el verano pasado, dio medio paso atrás y contratacó con un rápido y clínico gancho de izquierda. El golpe […]
PARIS — For a man who did not want to play Novak Djokovic at night, Rafael Nadal certainly made the best of the situation. Whatever the hour and whatever the surface, Nadal remains one of the supreme fighters and problem solvers in sports. Though Nadal did not have the clout as a 13-time French Open […]
The question entering Monday night wasn’t whether the Rangers could win an elimination game or a high-stakes Game 7; it was whether they could beat the Carolina Hurricanes away from Madison Square Garden. The answer is yes they can. The Rangers’ rather magical N.H.L. playoff run has, for the first time since 2015, carried them […]
