The Major League Baseball Players’ Association recently filed a grievance over the shortened 2020 season, as they had threatened to do since negotiations with the league soured last summer. In turn, M.L.B. filed a countergrievance, and it has asked a three-person arbitration panel to expedite the process, according to a person familiar with the situation […]

The N.H.L. playoffs begin on Saturday the same way the 56-game regular season played out: the schedule featured entirely intradivisional play and the postseason will be no different through the first two rounds. The four semifinalists will be seeded for the conference finals based on their records, and the two winners will play for the […]

Liberty Coach Walt Hopkins and his staff reviewed last season’s film looking for answers beyond the box scores and advanced analytics. Why was their defensive rating so low? Who was getting burned on screens? It was a trying year for a first-year head coach and his team, which ended with the second-worst winning percentage in […]

Eliminating men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s fencing, women’s lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, field hockey, squash, synchronized swimming, wrestling and coed and women’s sailing will save the athletic department $8 million, the college has said. Those sports have won a combined 20 national championships and produced 27 Olympic medalists. The decision, announced last July, has galvanized […]

The W.N.B.A. begins its 25th season on Friday with the returns of some big-name veterans and the debuts of promising rookies. “Rosters are stacked with incredibly talented veterans, and the last few rookie classes are bringing a whole new element to the fierce competition within the league,” W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told The New York […]

But I don’t remember anyone saying that they expected any of those teams to slip all the way to No. 7 in its conference. I reread your letter, and the same holds for you. There’s a difference between denouncing the disparity in teams’ off-seasons and predicting that the defending champion Lakers would finish seventh in […]

Even as the number of coronavirus vaccinations among Major League Baseball personnel slowly ticked upward, two teams announced on Tuesday that they were dealing with new virus cases. Three were rare breakthrough cases, in which a people tested positive despite being fully vaccinated. Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego’s superstar shortstop, tested positive and was asymptomatic, […]

NEW DELHI — Chandro Tomar first picked up a gun when she was around 68. Until then, she had led a quiet life in Johri, a village in the state of Uttar Pradesh, one of the most conservative regions in India. She spent her days on household chores — milking cows, cutting the grass, grinding […]

The Rangers’ regular season may have been shorter than usual, but it was filled with turmoil. Just last week, there was the stunning firing of John Davidson, the team president, and Jeff Gorton, the general manager, with three games remaining and a brawl-filled home finale against the Washington Capitals. The 56-game season also included a […]

Organizers of the Boston Marathon had no idea what to expect when they opened registration for the 2021 race. The organizers, who canceled the 2020 marathon because of the coronavirus pandemic, moved this year’s race to October from April, and now the fall calendar is full of big marathons. After more than a year of […]