PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — If you didn’t know better, you might have thought Billy Eppler changed sides. Last September — just two months before joining the Mets for his second chance as a general manager — Eppler went to work for the William Morris Endeavor agency, his first outside job after two decades in […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. — After 15th-seeded St. Peter’s stunned No. 2 Kentucky in Thursday’s slate of games, it briefly looked as if the run of March upsets might extend into a Friday afternoon matchup between No. 2-seeded Auburn and No. 15-seeded Jacksonville State. But the Tigers held off the Gamecocks, 80-61, in the first round to […]
Toto Wolff, the Mercedes team principal, did not doubt Lewis Hamilton would return to Formula 1 this season. After the controversial ending to the final Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi last year, Wolff said Hamilton was disillusioned. A seven-time champion, Hamilton spurned the awards ceremony organized by the F.I.A., the sport’s governing body, in Paris […]
Monday’s soft punishment of Zverev likely did little to change her view, but its relevant to remember that Williams also avoided suspension in 2009 after a profanity-filled tirade against a lineswoman during her U.S. Open semifinal loss to Kim Clijsters. Williams, despite threatening to shove the ball down the official’s throat, was fined $82,500 and […]
More than two years ago, the I.P.C. informed Hernandez, a gold medalist at the 2018 Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, that she and Huckaby, a 2018 gold medal winner from Baton Rouge, La., could not compete at the Beijing Games. No one accused them of doing anything wrong. Their misfortune was to be entered in […]
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Valerii Sushkevych, the president of Ukraine’s Paralympic committee, can detect in the pink, swollen eyes of his athletes that they have not been sleeping. He knows they are overwhelmed by worry and fear over the fate of their families and their country, which is under attack by the Russian Army. He sees […]
The federal judge overseeing the N.F.L. concussion settlement formally removed the use of a race-based method to evaluate dementia tests of Black former players, paving the way for thousands of players to file claims worth potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars. The order issued on Friday by United States District Judge Anita B. Brody, who […]
ORLANDO, Fla. — Throughout the final round Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, it was as if someone were playing a prank on the world’s best golfers. Simple tasks, like needing fewer than three attempts to sink a putt from one yard away, were suddenly impossible. Greenside chips were no less wayward, usually long or […]
As tensions rose between Russia and the United States, Russian authorities detained Brittney Griner, a W.N.B.A. star, on drug charges. The Russian Federal Customs Service announced Ms. Griner’s detention on Saturday but said she was stopped at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow last month. The detention of Ms. Griner, 31, a seven-time W.N.B.A. All-Star center […]
Brittney Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury, has been detained in Russia in connection with a drug investigation. She had been there playing for the professional basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg during the W.N.B.A. off-season. The news of her detention on Saturday prompted questions about safety and politics but also about logistics — namely: Why […]
