And now, 16 thoughts from an unanticipated three-day College Football Playoff quarterfinal bonanza.1. Let me start by acknowledging the awful New Year’s tragedy in New Orleans, a beautiful city that goes all...
Nikola Jokić’s dramatic leap as a shooter this season isn’t directly linked to the Denver Nuggets’ playoffs semifinal loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves last spring. But when one goes 2 for 14...
Sport is often defined by mistakes — fumbled catches, missed penalties, duffed putts — but what about its moments of perfection?Every game has its own version of nirvana in which, put simply,...
Celine Haidar dances on the upper deck of a crimson open-top bus. Around the 19-year-old midfielder, team-mates sing. A flag bearing the Beirut Football Academy (BFA) crest sways to an undirected melody...
NEW ORLEANS — Thirty-six hours after a deadly attack rocked the heart of one of America’s most vibrant cities, New Orleans went back to doing what it does as well as anywhere:...
The first 12-team College Football Playoff is now down to a stage more familiar to the sport’s postseason.Following three days of quarterfinal games, the expanded bracket has reached the semifinals, with a...
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — His eyeball felt like it would burst.In the first game of the NFL season, Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy pursued Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes...
It became clear that the fractured dysfunction that courses through professional tennis was getting worse on a bright November morning in Turin, Italy.Andrea Gaudenzi, the chairman of the ATP Tour who views...
