On a sticky August evening at Citi Field, toward the end of a crucial Mets victory against division rival Atlanta, closer Edwin Díaz threw his last warm-up pitch and began his long, familiar journey from the right field bullpen to the mound for the top of the ninth inning. But something unusual happened: The television … Read more
Allow me to begin with an admission. I haven’t exactly been a fan of pickleball, the sport that is sweeping America like thorny tumbleweeds blowing across the windswept plains. I’ve always been jarred by the sound of it: Thwack! Although pickleball, a hybrid paddle sport, is increasingly sharing space with tennis at many courts and … Read more
MASON, Ohio — The Serena Williams farewell tour is set to continue Tuesday at the Western and Southern Open. But for how long? The matchup — Williams vs. Emma Raducanu of Britain in the opening round — seems particularly well suited to the grand occasion that is Williams’ extended goodbye from professional tennis. With 23 … Read more
Pete Carril, who coached men’s basketball at Princeton for 29 years and scared big-name opponents with his undersized, often underskilled scholars playing an old-fashioned textbook game, died on Monday. He was 92. His family announced the death in a statement posted on the Princeton Tigers’ website. It did not say where he died or give … Read more
TEL AVIV — The families of the 11 Israeli athletes who were killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics said Wednesday that they intend to boycott a memorial ceremony planned in Germany in September to mark the 50th anniversary of the attack because of a dispute with German authorities over compensation. The decision … Read more
Scherzer. DeGrom. DeGrom. Scherzer. You can order them however you would like now that Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom are finally ensconced at the top of the Mets’ pitching rotation. Each would be nearly every other team’s No. 1 starter, and, either way, you’re not really choosing the order of the team’s rotation or the … Read more
IRVINE, Calif. — Six months ago, as the Los Angeles Rams celebrated winning Super Bowl LVI with the usual parade and pep rally, their top front office executive took a cheeky victory lap of his own. Les Snead, the Rams’ general manager, built the team’s win-or-bust roster with trades for quarterback Matthew Stafford and other … Read more
That a new Mike Tyson project hits stores this summer should not surprise us. The latest, simply titled “Mike Tyson,” arrives Sept. 6 and is a collection of photographs from Lori Grinker, who followed the fighter for more than a decade, beginning in 1980. Next week, Hulu is set to begin its biographical series titled … Read more
LOS ANGELES — When Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suárez misses a ground ball, he shoves his face into his glove and has a few choice words for his leather companion. “I’ll say, ‘Come on, come on,’” he recalled recently in Spanish. “‘If I don’t eat, you don’t eat.’” Yes, Suárez talks to his glove. … Read more
EDMONTON, Alberta — The pandemic shifted one of Canada’s longstanding holiday rituals, the World Junior Championship, from December to the middle of summer. But even allowing for that, the absence of a crowd before the Canadian team’s first game this week was striking. In a fan zone with sprawling television screens outside of the NHL … Read more