The Russian Federal Customs Service said that its officials had detained an American basketball player after finding vape cartridges that contained hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow. The Customs Service said in a statement that the player had won two Olympic gold medals with the United States, but it did […]
Lionel James, a fast, elusive running back nicknamed Little Train, who shared the backfield with Bo Jackson at Auburn University and set a single-season N.F.L. record for all-purpose yards that stood for 15 years, died on Feb. 25 in Birmingham, Ala. He was 59. His wife, Kesha Mallory James, confirmed his death but did not […]
BEIJING — The president of the International Paralympic Committee broke protocol on Friday when he denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in his speech at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games. With President Xi Jinping of China in attendance, the committee president, Andrew Parsons, said he was “horrified” by the invasion. “Tonight, I want to […]
The N.F.L. and the N.F.L. Players Association agreed to suspend all Covid-19 protocols, effective immediately, returning teams and players to pre-pandemic operations for the first time since March 2020. The N.F.L., which is not in season, is the first of the United States’ major professional sports leagues to halt its coronavirus-related policies. Players and team […]
BEIJING — On Wednesday night, the organizers of the Paralympic Winter Games were resolute that they had no option except to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete. On Thursday afternoon, they were equally resolute when they came to the opposite conclusion. In a stunning reversal, the International Paralympic Committee bowed to heavy internal pressure […]
JUPITER, Fla. — On Tuesday, Major League Baseball and the players’ union failed to strike a new labor contract by the league’s self-imposed deadline. After nine straight days of face-to-face negotiations, M.L.B. presented what it considered its best and final offer of the talks. The union rejected it and just minutes after the deadline passed, […]
But many of those events are weeks or months away. The Paralympics will open on Friday and hold its first competitions on Saturday. Most of the 71 Russian athletes competing in 61 medal events are already in Beijing. Friday’s opening ceremony now could be a stage for athlete protests, and the presence of the Russians […]
Rob Manfred hailed himself last month as a master negotiator, boasting of his flawless record in collective bargaining: four labor deals and no missed games since his hiring by Major League Baseball in 1998. If anyone had a problem with him now, Manfred strongly suggested, it was on them. He still believes it. On Tuesday […]
JUPITER, Fla. — After a marathon day of negotiations that ended at 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Major League Baseball extended its deadline to reach a new labor deal with the players’ union to start the 2022 regular-season on time. Instead of canceling games, as it had threatened, baseball instead set a new deadline: 5 p.m. […]
On Saturday, the union made its largest set of moves to date in these negotiations, with its offer coming on the day spring training games had been originally scheduled to begin. The union significantly lowered its asks on expanding salary arbitration eligibility and changes to the revenue sharing system, and made tweaks in the league’s […]
