ATLANTA — Surely, the thinking around town went, the Atlanta Braves would find a way, as usual, to blow it. Not this time (or at least not yet). Atlanta, which did not muster a record above .500 until Aug. 6, improbably captured the National League pennant on Saturday, when it beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, […]
One of the most contentious issues, the subject of numerous court filings in recent days, is whether the county can conduct what are called independent medical examinations, which involve psychiatric evaluations, of each of the plaintiffs. Bryant’s lawyers argue that the examinations are “cruel” and that the county is sending a message by requesting them. […]
HOUSTON — Twin traumas have haunted Dusty Baker for nearly two decades. Late Friday night they fused as he tried to clinch a pennant as manager of the Houston Astros. If Baker had chosen to hide until the storm blew over, you’d have understood: He was leading 5-0 in Game 6 of a championship series. […]
But Mr. Morey did not get rich from the Boogie Board. He sold his company sometime in 1977 or 1978 to Kransco, a toy manufacturer, for an undetermined moderate sum and received no royalties. Mr. Morey was philosophical about his lost windfall. “Say I had sold this for a billion dollars,” he told The Los […]
LOS ANGELES — Eddie Rosario introduced himself to October baseball in 2017 by crushing a home run off the Yankees’ Luis Severino in the first postseason plate appearance of his career in that year’s American League wild-card game. Though the Minnesota Twins would nontender him after the 2020 season, there was more postseason magic left […]
HOUSTON — Growing up in Cuba, Yordan Alvarez was taught that the United States was a bad country. The thought was so ingrained in him that when he was 12 or 13, he said, he skipped English classes at school. “Why would I go to an English class if I’m never going to the United […]
LOS ANGELES — Just when the fading Los Angeles Dodgers were barely visible above the horizon in this National League Championship Series, Cody Bellinger pulled them back into view in the eighth inning of Game 3. Three-run homers have a way of papering over past failures, and the Dodgers’ list of those was growing by […]
Fewer than 700 of the more than 2,000 dementia-related claims have been approved in the settlement. The settlement also pays former players found to have Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, A.L.S. and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., which can only be diagnosed posthumously. At least half of all former N.F.L. players are Black and roughly 70 […]
BOSTON — It was brisk and windy during batting practice Monday, and the skies were black over old Fenway Park. Reggie Jackson smiled. “October weather,” he said, as nobody else on the planet quite could. It was 44 years to the night since No. 44’s masterpiece: A three-homer outing for the Yankees in the clinching […]
Alabama and Ohio State have lost. Clemson has lost twice. Georgia is in pole position for a first national title in more than 40 years. But in a college football year of the unexpected, perhaps the most startling news is this: Cincinnati is the No. 2 team in the country. With a record of 6-0, […]
