Baseball

The Lakers’ Winding Path Ends With a Championship

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — It was not a season. For the Los Angeles Lakers, it was an obstacle course. It was 12 months packed with tragedies and togetherness. It was disjointed and odd, unprecedented and often unpleasant, an odyssey that began for them in a Chinese hotel amid a geopolitical

Baseball

2020 Oct, 12

N.F.L. Week 5: What to Watch for

This N.F.L. season is coming to be defined by numbers of all sorts. Positive Covid-19 tests around the league are forcing league execs to slide around games from week-to-week, changing the traditional lineup to odd hours. Case(s) in point: the Tuesday night (7 p.m. Eastern) clash between the 4-0 Buffalo Bills

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2020 Oct, 11

This Miami Heat Player Rained 3-Pointers on the Lakers’ Parade

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Duncan Robinson was struggling with his 3-point shot in the N.B.A. finals, and that was a problem because shooting 3-pointers is the one thing he does exceptionally well. Jimmy Butler, his teammate on the Miami Heat, invited him to his hotel room for a late-night

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2020 Oct, 10

2020 French Open: Women’s Final Preview

How to watch: 9 a.m. on NBC; streaming on the NBC app. Sofia Kenin, the Australian Open champion, is back in her second Grand Slam final of the year and the second of her career. The 21-year-old has had a breakthrough year, which is quite a feat considering she won the

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2020 Oct, 10

Rafael Nadal Could Tie the Men’s Majors Record at the French Open. Novak Djokovic Is in His Way.

It should come as no surprise, even in autumn and in the midst of a pandemic, that Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will meet in another French Open final. Djokovic is No. 1 and has not lost a completed match in this disjointed 2020 tennis season. Nadal is No. 2 and

Baseball

2020 Oct, 09

Can Democracy Work in Soccer?

These may be the last days in office for Josep Maria Bartomeu, Barcelona’s embattled, unpopular president. An insurgent group, frustrated by the decline of the team and furious at how close the club came to losing the star forward Lionel Messi, has succeeded in collecting the signatures of more than

Baseball

2020 Oct, 09