Baseball

Cleveland Indians Say They Will ‘Determine Best Path Forward’ on Nickname

After decades of resisting calls to change their team name, the Cleveland Indians announced on Friday that they were willing to engage in discussions about whether the name is appropriate in the wake of national calls for social justice and reform. “We are committed to engaging our community and appropriate stakeholders

Baseball

2020 Jul, 04

City Runs Past Liverpool in a Race That Ended Months Ago

MANCHESTER, England — The thought struck Jürgen Klopp last Monday night: a couple of days before his Liverpool team played Crystal Palace, three before thousands would descend on Liverpool’s streets to celebrate the league championship, sending the smoke from firecrackers and flares billowing into the sky. That night, Manchester City was

Baseball

2020 Jul, 02

Gay Culverhouse,Who Helped Injured Football Players, Dies at 73

Gay Culverhouse, who put aside her career focusing on special education and child psychiatry to join the family business, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the N.F.L., and who went on to champion the cause of former professional football players debilitated by dementia and other health issues, died on Wednesday at

Baseball

2020 Jul, 02

Minor League Baseball Season Is Canceled for the First Time

The announcement that 160 minor league baseball teams and tens of thousands of workers and players had long been expecting finally arrived Tuesday afternoon: the 2020 minor league baseball season will not happen. It is the first time in the history of Minor League Baseball, which was founded in 1901, that

Baseball

2020 Jun, 30

Bill Belichick Never Tipped His Post-Brady Plan. Now It’s Clear.

When Derek Jeter retired after the 2014 season, the Yankees did not have an obvious internal candidate to replace him, and that was not a problem. They believed, and so did their fans, that the team’s next shortstop, no matter what, would be a good one, and he was: Didi

Baseball

2020 Jun, 29

Florida Court Will Hear Video Appeal in Robert Kraft Case

A three-judge panel in the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach will hear an appeal of the case against the New England Patriots’ owner, Robert K. Kraft, this week when it considers a lower court’s decision to throw out video evidence that is central to the

Baseball

2020 Jun, 29