The first day I went down to Atlanta in 2005, to TNT’s Techwood Drive studios to do “Inside the NBA,” the show’s producer, the legendary Tim Kiely, made things simple for me. “If you look at the (bleeping) camera, I’ll wring your neck,” he said. I smiled. This was going to work out. Kiely and […]
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For many, tennis and the Olympics are an odd combination, and never more so than for the Paris Games in 2024. A little more than a month after the best tennis players in the world left the red clay of Roland Garros, they are headed right back onto it at a time of year when […]
Major-league front offices have completed the amateur draft and All-Star week and now can turn their full attention to the July 30 trade deadline. Contending teams are trying to find ways to improve their rosters for the pennant race and the postseason through trades with “sellers” as well as other contenders. They’re also trying to […]
It is the kind of story you would expect on a Netflix crime documentary: a blackmail plot, a leaked sex video, a family deception and an international footballer who has gone from being the victim to the accused. That player is on the books of Nottingham Forest and currently in Spain with the rest of […]
The gusts are practically blowing you over. Your socks are getting soggy. A treacherous pot bunker lingers in the corner of your eye. These are the physical sensations of the Open Championship, but the real challenge of this major test is psychological. This week at Royal Troon, you’ll hear the broadcast analysts talk about the […]
Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic event, died at age 76 without knowing of her pioneering feat. The 1900 Games in Paris were the first that allowed women to compete, but also so nascent and unorganized that Abbott spent the rest of her life under the impression she’d merely won a […]
The NFL’s new kickoff rules are expected to revive one of the most exciting plays in the game while decreasing the risk of injury with fewer high-speed collisions. The plan is for the XFL-style setup to open up possibilities for return men. Unless it doesn’t. One factor that could limit what return teams do is […]
Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. The shimmer of Caeleb Dressel’s seven gold medals may suggest otherwise, but he knows swimming can be a brutal and suffocating sport. He is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best in the world at what he does, sprinting from one end […]
The telling bit in the video of Enzo Fernandez and other Argentinian players singing a racist song about France following their victory in the Copa America final is the voice you can hear just at the end. “Corta (el) vivo,” someone says — “stop the live stream.” They know. They know what they’re saying. They […]
Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — LeBron James was genuinely thrilled to see Stephen Curry in that Bellagio hotel ballroom in Las Vegas on the eve of Team USA training camp. Born in the same Akron, Ohio, hospital nearly four years apart, co-authors of […]