N.F.L.

Damian Lillard Out for Game 5 of Lakers-Blazers Series

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard, one of the standout performers of the N.B.A. restart at Walt Disney World, will sit out Wednesday’s Game 5 against the Los Angeles Lakers because

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 25

Black Former N.F.L. Players Say Racial Bias Skews Concussion Payouts

Two retired players have accused the N.F.L. of “explicitly and deliberately” discriminating against hundreds if not thousands of Black players who filed dementia-related claims in the landmark concussion settlement reached in 2013, making it harder for them to qualify for payouts worth as much as $3 million. In two legal actions

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 25

Neymar Finally Grows Up

Neymar was as good as his word. As he stepped off Paris St.-Germain’s bus a couple of hours before his team’s Champions League quarterfinal against Atalanta, all the pieces were in place. He had his sunglasses perched on his head. He had a speaker blaring “Hoje É Rave,” by the

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 23

Baseball’s New Game Plan: Wait a Few Days and Hope for Good Health

Health is paramount, of course, and not the usual kind of health we talk about with the Mets. Two members of their traveling party tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday — one player and one staff member — and Major League Baseball has paused their season in an effort

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 21

Dale Hawerchuk, Phenom in Hockey Hall of Fame, Dies at 57

Dale Hawerchuk, a hockey phenomenon who became the face of the Winnipeg Jets en route to the Hockey Hall of Fame, died on Tuesday. He was 57. The death, from stomach cancer, was confirmed on Twitter by the Barrie Colts, the Ontario Hockey League team that Hawerchuk coached. The team did

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 21

The Top-Seeded Lakers Set Things Right With a Game 2 Win

Earlier this week, after the Los Angeles Lakers lost their opening game of the N.B.A. playoffs to the Portland Trail Blazers, Anthony Davis found himself the object of LeBron James’s attention. Davis had struggled for the Lakers on Tuesday night in Game 1 of their first-round series, so James gave

N.F.L.

2020 Aug, 21