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Almost All the Complaints About the World Series Are Wrong Grousing about late-night games and too many relief pitchers just makes you sound old.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Oct. 21, 2021
Baseball Teams Should Get to Pick Their Playoff Opponents It’s much more fair-minded than the current system — and much more fun.
By Joe DeLessio
The NBA Would Like You to Stop Talking About Kyrie Irving The league is now a culture-war lightning rod, even as its on-court product dazzles.
By Will Leitch
Jon Gruden Is Out of a Job Following Email Scandal In addition to a racist comment about a Black NFL union leader, Gruden frequently made homophobic and misogynistic remarks, per a new report.
By Chas Danner
the sports section
Oct. 6, 2021
Just Buy the Damn Championship Already After another early playoff exit, it’s time for the Yankees to embrace their biggest advantage.
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Sept. 19, 2021
The 2021 Mets Season As Told Through 15 Steve Cohen Tweets The team’s owner has learned in public that rebuilding a benighted franchise isn’t so easy.
By Joe DeLessio
Dave Zirin Thinks the Kaepernick Era Is Just Beginning Talking with the veteran sports journalist about his new book, which examines how the activist quarterback transformed the sports landscape.
By Will Leitch
Javy Baez Should Have Remembered Why Fans Boo The Mets player’s strange overreaction to being jeered is understandable but misguided.
By Will Leitch
The Strange Beauty of Seeing Andy Murray Lose The former world No. 1 is seemingly at peace with not contending for titles anymore — and it’s a joy to watch.
By Caira Conner
College Football Is the Wild West Now As a new season kicks off, it’s clear that the Supreme Court–weakened NCAA isn’t really in charge anymore.
By Will Leitch
The Only Thing That Can Stop Jacob deGrom Is Jacob deGrom The Mets ace is dominating hitters like no one in baseball history. If he can stay healthy, it’s the best show in town.
By Joe DeLessio
Jon Rahm’s COVID Disaster Is a Great Vaccine PSA Some athletes are still inoculation reluctant. Maybe watching a golfer lose more than a million dollars will help.
By Will Leitch
Fans’ Bad Behavior Isn’t New. The Outrage Over It Is. Players have been complaining about how they’re treated by fans for years, and now they’re finally being heard.
By Will Leitch
The Extremely Welcome, Slightly Jarring Return of Sports Crowds With screaming fanatics back in the mix, games are no longer a pale imitation of themselves.
By Will Leitch
The Dynamic NBA’s Future So Bright As the playoffs begin, the league looks to be on solid ground — despite the political haters.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
May 6, 2021
Uh-oh, Jim Dolan Found a New Team to Meddle With The widely reviled Knicks owner had mostly left his hockey club alone. Not anymore.
By Joe DeLessio
Kevin Durant Needs to Win It All It’s the only way his big move to Brooklyn will truly pay off.
By Will Leitch
Why Everyone Is Enraged About the European Super League Europe’s top soccer teams are forming an exclusive new league just for themselves — and even their biggest fans are now in open revolt.
By Will Leitch
The Knicks’ Revolutionary Competence In what feels like a miracle, the perpetually embarrassing squad is showing signs of life.
By Will Leitch
Sports Are About to Look Like 2019 Again The Texas Rangers and Wrestlemania are paving the way for crowded stadiums and arenas to become the norm within weeks.
By Will Leitch
March Madness Is Back, Outbreaks Be Damned The NCAA won’t let COVID ruin its cash cow a second time.
By Will Leitch
The Athletes Have More to Say Athlete activism is the new normal — and organizations like LeBron James’s More Than a Vote are here to stay.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
Feb. 25, 2021
Why Did Someone Pay $5 Million for a Baseball Card in 2021? The pandemic isn’t the only reason the sports-card market has been booming lately.
By Joe DeLessio
It Already Feels Like the Post-COVID Era in Sports A shockingly ordinary baseball spring training presages a return to normalcy — or close to it.
By Will Leitch
Tom Konchalski Was the Last of the Old-School Basketball Scouts The legendary high-school basketball talent evaluator died Monday at 74.
By Joe DeLessio
Bill Belichick Can’t Escape Trump That Easily The Patriots coach declined a Medal of Freedom, but his and other Trump-friendly sports figures’ legacies remain linked to the president.
By Will Leitch
The 10 Most Important Sports Figures of 2020 The athletes, executives, and yes, politicians, who defined a stormy year.
By Will Leitch
How Sports Leagues Are Gearing Up for Another Weird Season Everyone is hoping for vaccine-enabled normalcy in 2021, but some sports are better positioned than others to wait things out.
By Will Leitch
The NFL Is Too Big to Let COVID Stop It The increasingly pandemic-afflicted league has learned an important lesson from other sports: Just keep playing.
By Will Leitch
COVID Is an Existential Crisis for College Basketball Thanks to unlucky timing, no sport has been as badly hit by the pandemic.
By Will Leitch
The Fans Can Go to Games Again. Will They? The stadiums are open, but fans aren’t exactly rushing through the doors.
By Will Leitch
The NFL Is Returning To a Different World. Can It Adapt? Every NFL season brings with it madness and unpredictability, but none has ever had more potential for implosion than this one.
By Will Leitch
Baseball Without Fans Is Best Enjoyed From Afar If you find yourself envious of those who are able to set foot inside the ballpark, you shouldn’t be.
By Will Leitch
george floyd protests
June 6, 2020
NFL Players, Employee Forced Goodell’s Protest Ban Apology The NFL commissioner apologized on Friday for the league’s ban on the protests started by Colin Kaepernick, but not to Kaepernick, and not on his own.
By Chas Danner
just asking questions
May 15, 2020
By Joe DeLessio
coronavirus
Mar. 12, 2020
Most U.S. Sports Leagues Have Suspended Their Seasons Due to Coronavirus The NHL, MLB, MLS, and NBA are all either suspending or canceling play due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Chas Danner
the sports section
Nov. 5, 2019
And a Cat Runs Into the End Zone! If you don’t listen to this incredible football play-by-play, you hate fun.
By Devon Ivie
the sports section
Aug. 27, 2019
By Adam K. Raymond
the sports section
Dec. 4, 2018
With White House Invitation, the Red Sox Couldn’t Win The Red Sox will leave behind the green monster to visit the orange monster.
By Adam K. Raymond
just asking questions
Nov. 27, 2018
Donald Trump Doomed a Football League, But He’d Have Been a Great NFL Owner Author Jeff Pearlman on how Trump’s time as a USFL owner predicted so much of his presidential behavior, including his feud with the NFL.
By Joe DeLessio
the sports section
Aug. 10, 2018
The NFL’s Back, and So Are Trump’s Attacks on Protesting Players Two members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the anthem on Thursday and someone got very cranky.
By Adam K. Raymond
the sports section
July 20, 2018
NFL Anthem Protest Policy Put on Hold Under Agreement With Players’ Union The joint announcement came hours after a report that the Miami Dolphins might suspend protesters for four games sparked new outrage.
By Margaret Hartmann
The Sports World Needs Its #MeToo Moment Unfortunately, when fans don’t care, executives certainly won’t.
By Will Leitch
The NBA Draft Is Great. It’s Also Totally Un-American. Sports have some really unfortunate ideas about competition, free markets, and labor, it turns out.
By Will Leitch
the sports section
June 17, 2018
Mexico’s World Cup Goal Caused Man-Made Earthquake Mexico City literally trembled during Mexico’s stunning upset win over Germany on Sunday.
By Chas Danner
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