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N.W.H.L. Prioritizes Independent Team Ownership in New Model

Tyler Tumminia has been named the interim commissioner of the National Women’s Hockey League, replacing the league’s founder, Dani Rylan Kearney. The N.W.H.L. confirmed the change on Monday and announced that it was switching its operational model to an unincorporated association with a six-person board of governors to ensure “alignment of

Handcuffed by a New Rule, Rays Manage to Escape

This is the rule that was meant to seem weird in 2020. Before the four-month shutdown, plus-size playoffs, cardboard cutouts, phantom runners, neutral sites and so on, the three-batter-minimum was the radical change for this season. The purpose was mostly to limit tedious pitching changes by requiring each pitcher to finish

At the French Open, Players Look to the Tao of Rafael Nadal

PARIS — Playing to his Paris audience, Rafael Nadal usually speaks in French for his on-court interviews at Roland Garros, where his astounding success on the red clay has afforded him abundant practice at polishing his sentences. But on Sunday, after winning his 13th French Open singles championship, Nadal, usually