Tennis

The Boston Bruins Had Home Ice. Now They’ve Got a Hub.

Four months ago, the Boston Bruins had an all but assured plan for postseason vengeance. In the team’s last game, on March 10, it shut out the Flyers in Philadelphia, 2-0, increasing its lead over its closest Eastern Conference rival to eight points. Boston, a one-goal loser in Game 7 of

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2020 Jul, 16

Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere

On Monday, the N.F.L. team in Washington announced that it would be retiring the name “Redskins” and its feather-topped Indian head logo, abruptly reversing its staunch defense of a name long considered as a racial slur. But there’s one unexpected place where the team’s logo will be preserved, at least through

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2020 Jul, 14

She Found Her Voice in a W.N.B.A. Locker Room, Then Used It in Sweden

Four years ago, the Liberty became one of the first professional sports franchises to make a unified on-court statement against police brutality and racial injustice. Even before Colin Kaepernick drew widespread attention for kneeling during the N.F.L. preseason later that summer, the Liberty took the court for a game wearing

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2020 Jul, 13

Two Ex-Players Sue N.F.L. and Union Over Cuts in Disability Payments

Two former N.F.L. players have sued the league, the players’ union and the medical board those institutions jointly control for agreeing to reduce the disability payments they received for life by tens of thousands of dollars a year. The complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday, stems from

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2020 Jul, 12

In Campaign Against Racism, Team Names Get New Scrutiny

Guy Jones had been advocating for 21 long years, hoping for the day when Anderson High School, outside of Cincinnati, would drop the nickname he found vulgar and insulting to his Native American heritage. A member of the Hunkpapa Lakota nation from the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota, he and

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2020 Jul, 10

‘I Just Cost Myself 250 Grand.’

On the final green of virtually every PGA Tour event, a golfer will stand over a routine short putt worth between $200,000 and $500,000. It might take one second for the ball to roll toward the hole, but if the result is a costly four-foot miss, it usually takes another

Tennis

2020 Jul, 09