Baseball

N.H.L. Conference Finals Begin After Hectic Second Round

Against the sizzle of late summer, the ice in Edmonton, Alberta, is being prepared to host both of the N.H.L.’s conference finals, beginning with Sunday night’s Game 1 of the Western Conference series between the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights. In the Eastern series, the Tampa Bay Lightning will

Baseball

2020 Sep, 06

After Cancer Treatment, Oskar Lindblom Is Back in the Fray

Oskar Lindblom had described his surgery and extensive chemotherapy treatment as “hell” earlier in the season. He had said he felt like a potential return to the ice was eons away after his first treatment for bone cancer and the ensuing push-and-pull of recovering from treatments that for months alternated

Baseball

2020 Sep, 05

Gary Sanchez Finally Shored Up His Defense. Then His Bat Disappeared.

In the latest step of their yearslong refurbishing project known as Gary Sanchez, the talented-but-streaky catcher, the Yankees hired a new catching coach this off-season. Just as he had done with the Minnesota Twins, Tanner Swanson was tasked with teaching Sanchez a new one-knee catching style intended to convert more

Baseball

2020 Sep, 04

A Basketball Friendship Became a Tag Team for Social Justice

Like the rest of the world, Natasha Cloud and Bradley Beal were watching history unfold. They saw the Milwaukee Bucks refuse to take the court for a playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin, the Bucks’ home state.

Baseball

2020 Sep, 02

2020 U.S. Open: What to Watch on Wednesday

How to watch: From noon to 6 p.m. Eastern time on ESPN, and from 6 to 11 p.m. on ESPN2; streaming on the ESPN app. The second round of the United States Open singles competitions starts Wednesday, and the doubles competition begins as well. While singles often claims the majority of

Baseball

2020 Sep, 02

Coco Gauff Loses in the First Round of the U.S. Open

With no roar from the fans, all that was left on Monday for Coco Gauff was the roar of the planes as they passed over the all-but-empty Louis Armstrong Stadium. Down below was a strange scene: Gauff and Anastasija Sevastova, an opponent nearly twice her age, locked in an edgy and

Baseball

2020 Aug, 31