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Saying He Was a ‘Scapegoat,’ Jeff Luhnow Sues the Astros

Jeff Luhnow, the former general manager of the Houston Astros, is free to work again in Major League Baseball. His one-year suspension — punishment for the team’s sign-stealing scandal — expired at the end of the World Series, as did suspensions for the former Astros manager A.J. Hinch and the

N.F.L.

2020 Nov, 09

Stars in a Slog: The Premier League Grind Will Only Get Worse

MANCHESTER, England — For a moment, it looked as if Jürgen Klopp was taking issue with Pep Guardiola. Klopp, the Liverpool manager, had sought out Guardiola, his Manchester City counterpart, as soon as the final whistle had blown on their teams’ draw on Sunday. Klopp pulled Guardiola in close, and

N.F.L.

2020 Nov, 09

Eddie Johnson, N.B.A. Star Who Fell Into Crime, Dies at 65

Eddie Johnson, who fell from N.B.A. stardom into drug abuse and a life of crime that resulted in a life sentence for sexually assaulting a young girl, died on Oct. 25 in a state prison in Milton, Fla. He was 65. The Florida Department of Corrections reported his death, at the

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2020 Nov, 06

The Houston Rockets Have to Keep James Harden Happy. But How?

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The N.B.A. draft will take place on Nov. 18, nearly five months later than scheduled. An abbreviated free agency period will likely be stuffed into Thanksgiving week afterward. The off-season, like the 2019-20 season that preceded it,

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2020 Nov, 04

What These Athletes Learned From Their Pandemic Pauses

The coronavirus pandemic had been blanketing countries and devastating populations for months by the time the American sports landscape was touched in mid-March. As positive cases were confirmed in professional athletes, leagues shut down completely, postponed entire seasons and, in the case of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, delayed culminating

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2020 Nov, 02

Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85

Jimmy Orr, the Baltimore Colts’ receiver who teamed with quarterback Johnny Unitas in one of the N.F.L.’s leading passing combinations of the 1960s, died on Tuesday at his home in Brunswick, Ga., in the state’s coastal low country. He was 85. His family confirmed his death. The patch of the end zone

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2020 Oct, 29