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Reality Seeps In: Basketball Is Starting, and the Virus Is Still Here

July is supposed to be a magical month in the N.B.A. The mere mention of it evokes images of the feast known as free agency that, as we all understand by now, means as much (or more) to some fans as the games themselves. The calendar flipped Wednesday, but this is

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2020 Jul, 01

A Baseball Legend Wrestles With Removing His Former Boss’s Statue

The tumult of recent weeks has made my thoughts turn to Rod Carew, whose past life as a Minnesota Twin speaks to present days in Minneapolis, and the country. In a tweet the other day, the New York Times sportswriter John Branch (my former colleague, since I’ve been retired from the

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2020 Jun, 30

In a Season of Challenges, the Mets See a Unique Opportunity, Too

In the final 60 games of last season, the Mets went 39-21 for a mighty .650 winning percentage. “So if we can pick up where we left off and go through a 60-game sprint,” Brodie Van Wagenen, their general manager, said on Monday, “I think we’re going to be in a

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2020 Jun, 29

Jarome Iginla Headlines 2020 Hockey Hall of Fame Class

Like most kids growing up in Edmonton, Jarome Iginla admired Oilers legends Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier. As a young black hockey player, he paid particular attention when he saw someone in the N.H.L. who looked like him in Grant Fuhr. Iginla idolized Fuhr, cherishing their pictures taken together over the

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2020 Jun, 25

U.S.T.A. Reinstates U.S. Open Wheelchair Tournament

After an outcry from players, the United States Tennis Association has restored the wheelchair tennis competition to the 2020 United States Open. In the initial plans for the tournament announced last week, the wheelchair events, mixed doubles and the junior and legends events had been eliminated. Part of the reasoning for

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2020 Jun, 25

Basketball’s Getting Close. But the Hoops Talk Will Have to Wait.

Players from the 22 teams resuming the 2019-20 N.B.A. season at Walt Disney World Resort next month were required to be back in their team’s cities as of Monday. The league’s weeklong “transaction window” for roster tweaks in advance of the restart opened Tuesday at noon. Basketball things are happening. Writing about

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2020 Jun, 24