The News In a move that surprised many sports fans and underscored the challenges for media companies, ESPN announced Friday that it had laid off
Month: June 2023
The Capitol Hill meeting room has been booked, the senators’ calendars cleared. But less than two weeks before a Senate subcommittee wants to hold a
It sounded like popcorn warming in a microwave: sporadic bursts that quickened, gradually, to an arrhythmic clatter. “There it is,” Mary McKee said, staring out
Tyler Boston has several strikes against him. For one, he’s a 5-foot-10 high school senior without the size to be easily noticed by college recruiters.
The N.F.L. announced penalties on Thursday for four players who had violated the league’s gambling rules. Isaiah Rodgers, a cornerback who started nine games last
In his first start of the 1956 World Series, Don Larsen could not complete two innings. He faced only 10 batters, and six reached base.
During bids for no-hitters and perfect games, conventional baseball superstition demands that the pitcher throwing the gem not be disturbed. Teammates and coaches shy away.
Steven A. Cohen did not expect to be in this position when the season began. Cohen, the billionaire owner of the Mets, had committed nearly
The star gymnast Simone Biles, whose expected dominance at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics was disrupted by mental health issues and who has not competed since,
For the first time in an ordinary Major League Baseball season, a team with a losing record could make the playoffs. Halfway through their season,