It had been less than 24 hours since Spencer Turnbull of the Detroit Tigers completed baseball’s fifth no-hitter of the 2021 season when Corey Kluber of the Yankees threw the sixth. The pitchers have remarkably different pedigrees — Turnbull led the majors in losses two seasons ago and Kluber has won two A.L. Cy Young […]

Sabrina Ionescu was hailed as a savior for the moribund Liberty when New York’s W.N.B.A. team drafted her No. 1 overall last year. And why not? At the time, Ionescu was the college player of the year, the record-setting star of one of the best teams in the country. That made her a strong candidate […]

The ball found Ja Morant behind the 3-point line in the third quarter of Sunday afternoon’s game against Golden State. Recognizing that his closest defender was stationed in the paint and did not seem to be in any hurry to throw a hand in his face, Morant, the Memphis Grizzlies’ second-year point guard, launched a […]

Kevin Pillar of the Mets was taken to the hospital on Monday night after he was hit in the face by a fastball during a game against the Atlanta Braves. Hours later, Pillar posted on Twitter that he was “doing fine” after what even he acknowledged was a scary incident. Despite Pillar’s positive words, the […]

ARLINGTON, Texas — Adolis Garcia and Willie Calhoun homered as the Texas Rangers ended a six-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over the Yankees on Monday night, denying Gerrit Cole’s bid to become the American League’s first six-game winner. Cole (5-2) allowed season highs of five runs and seven hits, getting pulled after Garcia […]

The New York City Marathon, one of the biggest events staged in the city each year, will return in November with a reduced but still sizable field of runners, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Monday. The race will take place on its usual date, the first Sunday in November, with about 33,000 runners instead […]

When you speak with Maya Moore and her husband, Jonathan Irons, a single word comes up with drumbeat constancy. Freedom. “It’s everything to us,” Moore said during an interview last week. She wasn’t talking just about the fact that Irons is out of prison after serving 23 years for a crime he always insisted he […]

He sure did look at home when he lined up in Lane 7 on Sunday. The athletes looked down the line, shook their legs and bounced their feet back into starting blocks. All signs pointed to an average elite track meet, until the cameras shifted just enough so viewers could see volunteers wearing face masks […]

Stories about the infield party at the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore are legendary: the coolers of beer, the portable toilet races, the bikini contests, the couches brought in from the streets. Through the years there have been more and more restrictions put in place to curb extra rowdy — by infield standards — behavior, and […]

BALTIMORE — Last year, Swiss Skydiver became the sixth filly to win the Preakness Stakes, which was held in October because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the 146th running of the race on Saturday will be blanketed with even more intrigue. Medina Spirit, who won the Kentucky Derby on May 1 to give the trainer […]