It was another perfect February morning off the coral atoll of Tikehau, French Polynesia, when Denis Grosmaire, 44, anchored around 8 in the morning. Grosmaire, French Polynesia’s deepest free diver, peered over the edge into the crystal-clear South Pacific Ocean. On one side of his speedboat was a flourishing coral reef that plunged toward the […]
Some of my friends that are still back home down there, they have their watch parties. Everybody gets together and watches some of the games during work. They send you pictures of newspapers, so they’re definitely tuned in, for sure, because I represent the Bahamas everywhere I go. How does this playoff run mentally compare […]
LAS VEGAS — In the closing moments of the final round of the light-heavyweight title fight between Saúl Álvarez and Dmitry Bivol, a ringside official banged a wooden clapper to signal that only 10 seconds remained in the bout. Álvarez, known as Canelo, retreated, exhausted after 12 bruising rounds against a bigger opponent. Bivol, the […]
When word circulated online two weeks ago that former President Donald J. Trump would be attending a $75,000-per-person fund-raiser hosted by his super PAC at the Kentucky Derby — in Senator Mitch McConnell’s home state — it was news to executives at Churchill Downs. Even so, for a sporting event that regularly hosts more than […]
The longest W.N.B.A. season in league history will begin on Friday. For the first time, teams will each play 36 regular-season games as the next step in the league’s plan for incremental growth — a plan stifled for the past two seasons by the coronavirus pandemic. As the league enters its 26th season, new sponsors […]
The horses in the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby are listed in order of post position, with comments by Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert of The New York Times. The morning-line odds were set by Mike Battaglia of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. How to watch: Coverage begins Saturday at noon, Eastern time, on […]
MANCHESTER, England — After a while, feeling bored, cold and wet, Éderson decided to go for a walk. The Manchester City goalkeeper had spent 20 minutes dutifully guarding his penalty area. He had checked all four corners for danger. He found nothing. He had stared, squinting, into the distance, scanning for some threat on the […]
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The October air sizzled with excitement and suffocated with 103-degree game-time heat when Clayton Kershaw wound up and fired a heater of his own, a first-pitch fastball to Houston’s George Springer, to start Game 1 of the now intensely controversial 2017 World Series. High atop Dodger Stadium’s playing field, in an upper […]
April 3, 2022, 7:00 p.m. ET April 3, 2022, 7:00 p.m. ET Several teams throughout the N.C.A.A. men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, including Kansas in the Final Four, have worn T-shirts that display language from the Title IX law. Credit…Chris Graythen/Getty Images For Adidas Connecticut and South Carolina marched all the way into the women’s title […]
Love and success seemed to lead to pain. That feeling intensified in the N.B.A. After some injuries and surgeries, he ended up addicted to opioids, exacerbating his long-running gambling addiction. Retirement from basketball led to deeper addiction. Chapman burned through money. By his 40s, he was crashing on couches and shoplifting goods to pawn for […]
