BATON ROUGE, La. — The Pete Maravich Assembly Center has spent 50 years seeing commencements and concerts, presidential power and a governor’s prayer rally. It was not until this past weekend, though, that it came within about five minutes of hosting the second-biggest upset in the history of the N.C.A.A.Continue Reading
Cleveland Browns, he’s your problem now. You courted Deshaun Watson, took him in and handed him the fattest guaranteed contract in N.F.L. history, despite his tarnished reputation and the many women who have accused him of sexual misconduct during massage sessions. Now, for all of his sublime talents at quarterback,Continue Reading
MILWAUKEE — When the cheerleaders — each of them carrying flags spelling out W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N — and Bucky Badger led the Wisconsin players onto the floor Sunday night, it seemed like a prelude to a celebration of basketball in the state. The game was played, after all, in the home arenaContinue Reading
The second round of the women’s N.C.A.A. tournament has arrived, and with it a slightly more manageable schedule of games. The first round had a slew of impressive individual performances and some emotional, closely fought games, but in the round of 32 — for some teams at least — theContinue Reading
After Arizona handed Connecticut a humbling loss in last season’s Final Four, Geno Auriemma, the Huskies’ head coach, was blunt about his team’s level of maturity. “When we’re high and when we’re on top of the world, we think everything’s great,” Auriemma said at the time. “And when things don’tContinue Reading
JUPITER, Fla. — Last to work 250 innings, next to earn 300 wins. That would be a fitting shorthand for the career of Justin Verlander, who has no plans to slow down any time soon. Verlander took the mound for the Houston Astros in Jupiter, Fla., on Friday in hisContinue Reading
SAN DIEGO — Coach Danny Sprinkle sort of already knew what his Montana State Bobcats would be in for on Friday. But just in case, as Sprinkle made the rounds doing prep work, a Big 12 coach whom he didn’t name made sure to remind him of Texas Tech’s threat:Continue Reading
A Russian court extended the detention of the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner by two months on Thursday, and denied an appeal from her legal team, who had hoped to have her transferred to house arrest. Griner, 31, has been held in Russia since mid-February on drug charges that could carryContinue Reading
The first full day of the N.C.A.A. tournament is in the books, and the madness is in full swing. Now, the action shifts to 16 new highly anticipated matchups. Eight games will take place across four cities Friday afternoon, beginning with a meeting between No. 10 Loyola Chicago — andContinue Reading
TAMPA, Fla. — For so long in Major League Baseball, the Yankees sat atop the payroll rankings. George Steinbrenner, the billionaire who reigned over the team for 37 years until his death in 2010, loved to spend and to win. His franchise earned seven World Series titles during his stewardship.Continue Reading
