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The N.B.A.’s $500 Million Hope for the Holidays

Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein’s weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. The most frequently posed query in N.B.A. circles over the past several weeks — When do you think next season will start? — had also been one of the hardest to answer. Even Commissioner Adam Silver, at

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2020 Oct, 28

Looking Back on Baseball’s Silent Season

Two words that have been on my mind constantly these recent months are “room tone.” Room tone is the sound a space makes when there is no other sound but the sound of the space itself. The subtle sounds in a high-ceilinged room with brick walls and wide windows are

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2020 Oct, 28

N.F.L. Week 7 Predictions: Our Picks Against the Spread

The N.F.L. somehow got through a rash of facility closings last week without having to delay any games, which was a hopeful sign that the league had found a way to chug along despite the ongoing concerns about the coronavirus. Of course, the potential for a serious outbreak means the

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2020 Oct, 22

Did Bayern Complete Its Rebuild While No One Noticed?

Hansi Flick did not see the parallel. This spring, like millions of others, he found himself absorbed by “The Last Dance,” the story of how, seven years after their first triumph, that great generation of the Chicago Bulls — Jordan, Pippen and a fluid supporting cast — found the drive,

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2020 Oct, 20

What to Expect From the Dodgers and Rays in World Series Game 1

Madness was expected during this postseason. Instead of the usual 10, 16 teams were included in a new playoff format cooked up for this coronavirus-altered season, and each of them started with a three-game series. Still, though both series went down to the wire in the previous round, the two

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2020 Oct, 20

‘They Just Get It’: How Women in M.L.B. Found Support in a Group Text

When Alyssa Nakken in July became the first woman in major league history to coach on the field, it was big news in the baseball world. But it was a particularly extraordinary development in one small corner of the industry: a text message group featuring dozens of women working in

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2020 Oct, 19