HOUSTON — Atlanta’s most indispensable reliever this postseason was so dispensable three years ago that he could not even find a job in baseball. So he bought a Facebook advertisement and landed with an independent league team in Texas. He lived in an R.V. that summer, in 2018, and cashed a paycheck of around $400 […]

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves are making their first World Series appearance since 1999 because of star players at several positions, an underrated pitching staff and shrewd midsummer moves by the front office. Inside the clubhouse, though, players also point to a secret weapon. It doesn’t field, throw or hit, but it has delivered over […]

HOUSTON — It had been nearly four years since the Houston Astros enjoyed the taste of victory in a World Series game at Minute Maid Park, an almost inexplicable stretch of five straight losses at home in the Fall Classic. Home is supposed to be where sports teams flourish, where visiting teams often crumble beneath […]

Oct. 27, 2021, 8:00 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2021, 8:00 p.m. ET ImageTucker Davidson flew into Houston on Wednesday morning. He arrived in time to be with the team for Game 2.Credit…Chris Szagola/Associated Press HOUSTON — Tucker Davidson was watching Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday with two team staff members in a […]

[Follow our live Astros vs Braves game coverage.] The 117th World Series pits the Houston Astros of the American League against the Atlanta Braves of the National League. Game 1 is Tuesday at Minute Maid Park in Houston. How to Watch Game 1 The first pitch of Game 1 is scheduled for 8:09 p.m. Eastern. […]

When the N.F.L.’s 32 team owners met in a Midtown Manhattan hotel Tuesday for their quarterly discussion of league business, two women formerly employed by the Washington Football Team interjected with their own agenda item. Melanie Coburn, a former cheerleader and marketing director, and Ana Nunez, who worked in sales, delivered a two-page letter that […]

HOUSTON — As Ralph Garr remembers it, the kid from Sacramento could have made it big in any sport. The Atlanta Braves chose Johnnie B. Baker Jr., known as Dusty, out of high school in the 26th round of the 1967 draft. They knew he had options, but they also had a secret weapon. “Dusty […]

ATLANTA — An October tradition that arrives without fail with every World Series is discussion of resilience and perseverance and how the teams that made it had overcome all manner of season-threatening menaces along the way. Fair enough. But even the “no one believed in us” teams of the past would tip their caps to […]

BARCELONA, Spain — Even by the most charitable estimate, Camp Nou is barely more than a third full by the time the teams stroll on to the field. The Champions League anthem blares, drowning out the thin applause that had greeted the players. Fans pockmark row upon row of sun-bleached seats, stretching into the sky, […]

Tennessee Titans Coach Mike Vrabel could not ignore the obvious one week ago. After yet another virtuoso performance by the 247-pound freight train that is Derrick Henry bulldozing the Buffalo Bills on “Monday Night Football,” he admitted the team’s overreliance on its running back. “We continue to jump on Derrick’s back,” Vrabel said, “and he’s […]