Baseball

Tim Anderson Is Here to Save Baseball From Itself

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Tim Anderson is a study in extremes. Anderson, the shortstop for the Chicago White Sox, had the highest batting average in the majors last season. He also made the most errors. He once was terribly shy. Now he is so outgoing that he has his own YouTube

Baseball

2020 Mar, 09

Mika Zibanejad’s 5 Goals for the Rangers Help Bring the Playoffs Into View

Mika Zibanejad on Thursday night became the third Ranger ever to score five goals in a game, definitively pulling his team into the swirl of a playoff race. “I feel like I’m speechless right now,” an ebullient Zibanejad said after he scored the overtime winner in a 6-5 victory against the

Baseball

2020 Mar, 06

Maria Sharapova’s Future: Architecture and Candy, but Not Coaching Tennis

The exit interview had just about ended last week when I asked Maria Sharapova if she would consider coaching in retirement. Sharapova, standing tall as usual, doubled over with laughter. Safe to say that was a no. She also closed the door on a comeback as a player even though comebacks are a

Baseball

2020 Feb, 29

Mickey Wright, One of the Greatest Players in Women’s Golf, Dies at 85

Mickey Wright, who won 82 L.P.G.A. tournaments, 13 of them majors, and was perhaps the finest player in the history of women’s golf, died on Monday in Florida. She was 85. The cause was a heart attack, her lawyer, Sonia Pawluc, told The Associated Press. Wright had been hospitalized for the

Baseball

2020 Feb, 17

Manchester City Banned From Champions League for 2 Seasons

Manchester City, the reigning Premier League champion and one of the world’s richest soccer clubs, has been barred from the Champions League for the next two seasons for “serious breaches” of European soccer’s financial regulations. The decision, announced Friday by an independent financial control body of UEFA, the governing body for

Baseball

2020 Feb, 14

A BlackBerry Brought D’Angelo Russell to Minnesota

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. Amid the havoc wreaked by three trades he made last week, involving seven other teams and 23 players, Gersson Rosas of the Minnesota Timberwolves missed one of the most important news bulletins of his professional life. Three

Baseball

2020 Feb, 12