Baseball

In M.L.S., the Pandemic Changes the Playoff Math

Major League Soccer’s reworked regular season is, at last, racing to a conclusion. Many of the league’s teams have only two games left to play of this year’s truncated, 23-game schedule. Several others must squeeze in three matches in the next 11 days. The Colorado Rapids, who missed a month because

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2020 Oct, 29

Even Cowboys Get the Blues

When a team is winning, it is all smiles and agreement in the clubhouse. But when a team loses a lot, the camaraderie gets fractured. The Dallas Cowboys have lost five games, and fingers are pointing in all directions. On Sunday, the Cowboys lost to the Washington Football Team, hardly a worldbeater,

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2020 Oct, 26

The Erasure of Mesut Özil

LONDON — Everything started with a tweet. Mesut Özil knew the risks, in December last year, when he decided to offer a startling, public denunciation both of China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority in the region of Xinjiang, and the complicit silence of the international community. Friends and

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2020 Oct, 26

Antonio Brown Plans to Visit Buccaneers as His Suspension Nears Its End

Antonio Brown, the former All-Pro wide receiver who is finishing an eight-game suspension after pleading no contest to burglary and battery charges and receiving two years’ probation, will visit the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his first step toward a return to the N.F.L. Brown, who has not played since Week 2 of

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2020 Oct, 24

Wild Days, New Faces and a Ticking Clock

The season is still young. The sample size is far too small to draw conclusions. Over the next month or two, order most likely will be restored. As the weeks clog with matches, as muscles tire and injuries occur, chances are that the familiar faces will be the ones left

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2020 Oct, 23

Going From His Childhood Bedroom to the N.B.A. Draft

Marc Stein is on vacation this week. Tyrese Haliburton didn’t imagine he would ever find himself living with his parents again inside his Wisconsin childhood home. Certainly, he did not throughout a sophomore season at Iowa State in which his stock skyrocketed in N.B.A. mock drafts everywhere. But once he realized the pandemic,

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2020 Oct, 21