N.F.L.

Premier League’s Restart Is Held Up by Bottom-Ranked Teams

LONDON — The sticking point in talks about reopening the Premier League, the richest league in global soccer, is not about how it would affect the best and wealthiest clubs, but about the way it would affect the worst ones. While leagues in Germany, Italy and Spain take halting steps toward

N.F.L.

2020 May, 06

Positive Coronavirus Tests Bring Scrutiny to German Soccer’s Reopening Plans

LONDON — As one of the first major sports leagues to detail plans to return to action, Germany’s soccer league has become the bellwether for the thorny task of restarting sports events postponed by the coronavirus epidemic. That decision became more complicated on Monday when 10 players were found to have

N.F.L.

2020 May, 04

Can U.S. Soccer and Its Women’s Team Make Peace on Equal Pay?

After a federal judge dismissed the equal pay claims of the World Cup-winning women’s national team on Friday night, it was not the words in the United States Soccer Federation’s response that stuck out. It was the ones that weren’t there. Nowhere in its two-sentence statement did U.S. Soccer say it

N.F.L.

2020 May, 02

L.P.G.A. Shifts Schedule Once Again

The L.P.G.A. Tour rescheduled its tentative events to July from June on Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the P.G.A. of America announced that the Women’s P.G.A. Championship, a major, was moving to October from June. Five other L.P.G.A. events were canceled. The first event of a resumed L.P.G.A. Tour

N.F.L.

2020 Apr, 29

Mekhi Becton, the Jets’ Top Draft Pick, ‘Moves People Like Furniture’

When Mekhi Becton signed up for the football team at Highland Springs High School in Virginia, he picked wide receiver and tight end as his positions. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 215 pounds. “At 13 years old, when someone is that big, you anticipate them growing even

N.F.L.

2020 Apr, 28

Leandro Barbosa’s Family Grew During the Pandemic

Leandro Barbosa had lofty goals for 2020. After playing 14 seasons in the N.B.A., Barbosa had hoped to make one more trip to the Olympics with Brazil’s national basketball team — his third — at age 37. In these coronavirus times, Barbosa, like so many others, had to abruptly modify his

N.F.L.

2020 Apr, 27