Before Sunday, Kendall Hinton hadn’t taken a snap for the Denver Broncos at quarterback — not in a game, not in a practice, not in the recesses of his imagination — for a pretty logical reason: He is not a quarterback. Once, back at Wake Forest, he was. But asContinue Reading
When Lisa Bloor heard that her daughter Abby’s elite-level soccer club was being shut down in England’s latest coronavirus lockdown she faced a tough problem: how to explain that boys at the same level were allowed to keep playing. “How do I tell my daughter it’s because she’s a girl?”Continue Reading
Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play during a regular-season game in one of college football’s Power 5 conferences by booting a kickoff on Saturday for Vanderbilt to start the second half against Missouri. Fuller, a senior and the starting goalkeeper for Vanderbilt’s women’s soccer team, was tapped toContinue Reading
After bobbing and weaving around the coronavirus pandemic for much of the fall, the N.F.L. nears the end of the third quarter of its regular season facing crises on teams from coast to coast. On Saturday, health officials in Santa Clara County threw the San Francisco 49ers’ season into turmoilContinue Reading
The first College Football Playoff rankings for this pandemic-disrupted season were revealed Tuesday. Then came all sorts of righteous and ritualistic self-regard and fury. The coming days will bring games that will feed the cycle. But that cycle — a staple of a sport that has thrilled generations of fansContinue Reading
Mike Tyson is back for a pay-per-view fight. Well, not exactly a fight. (“It’s an exhibition bout between two former champions,” said a seemingly exasperated Andy Foster, the California State Athletic Commission executive officer. “I don’t know another way to put it.”) Somehow, Tyson being back in the ring isContinue Reading
Texans love to brag that everything is bigger in their state. The land, the food and, this year, the size of the crowds at Dallas Cowboys games. The team’s five home games have drawn a total of 128,750 fans, by far the most of any N.F.L. team and nearly 20Continue Reading
Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback and the National Football League’s reigning Most Valuable Player, on Thursday became the highest-profile player to test positive for the coronavirus as an outbreak of cases spread to more than a dozen players on the team, according to several media outlets. The cluster ofContinue Reading
The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano once called Diego Maradona “the most human of the gods.” Argentines were happy to edit that down, to the singular version of the last word. When Maradona died on Wednesday at age 60, many of his compatriots had known him their entire lives. He wasContinue Reading
The Thanksgiving schedule took a major hit when the Baltimore Ravens’ ongoing coronavirus outbreak resulted in the rescheduling of their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers to Sunday. That leaves Thursday’s lineup with the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys each hosting a fairly mundane matchup, which was the way theContinue Reading
