BROOKLINE, Mass. — M.J. Daffue of South Africa, ranked 296th in the world, was not invited to the hospitality tent alongside the par-5 14th hole during the second round of the U.S. Open on Friday. But when his tee shot came to rest on the tent’s carpeted balcony next toContinue Reading
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The Country Club, the site of this year’s U.S. Open, had come close to not staging the major tournament at all, until the club realized there was something to the adage of being the smallest house in the nicest neighborhood. The Country Club is on the shortContinue Reading
For the Saudi-backed upstart LIV Golf tour, the strategy for luring top golfers like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson away from the prestige and stability of the PGA Tour was simple: Offer cash, and lots of it. The arrival of the new tour and the defection of PGA Tour starsContinue Reading
In the seventh inning of a game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 27, 1928, Lefty Grove of the Athletics struck out Moe Berg, Tommy Thomas and Johnny Mostil using only the minimum nine pitches. It would be 9,112 days — just short of 25Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO — When Ronnie Lott watches Golden State play basketball, he might as well be analyzing old All-22 film of himself from his days as an All-Pro safety and cornerback with the San Francisco 49ers. He watches how Andrew Wiggins positions himself for rebounds. He watches how defenders dealContinue Reading
In those initial moments of agony in March after Nigeria was eliminated from qualification for this year’s World Cup, the most immediate thoughts of Amaju Pinnick, the president of Nigeria’s soccer federation, were of the disappointment being felt by his 200 million countrymen in Africa’s most populous nation. He neededContinue Reading
OKLAHOMA CITY — Even now, 15 years later, the play and the agony rip instantly through Lauren Parker Sanders’s memory: the slap bunt, the throw that wobbled, the crash with the base runner that tore a labrum, warped a collarbone and injured a web of nerves. “I can still feelContinue Reading
It would be Stephen Curry’s fourth N.B.A. championship, or Jayson Tatum’s first. It would be a comeback story for the ages for Klay Thompson, or a fairy-tale ending to the debut of the first-time head coach Ime Udoka. Much is at stake in the 2022 N.B.A. finals for Golden StateContinue Reading
Outside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, lightning cracked and rain fell on Midtown Manhattan. Inside the arena, Rangers fans roared, the reigning Stanley Cup champion Lightning cracked, and Tampa Bay fell in a shocking first game of the Eastern Conference finals. In the Rangers’ first foray into the thirdContinue Reading
