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The Pandemic Is Already Affecting Next Year’s Sports Schedule

From restricted environments to daily testing to empty stadiums, it has been a year of drastic disruption of sports. But while leagues are eager to return to normalcy, it appears as if the virus will continue to alter their seasons for some time to come. With coronavirus cases surging across the

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2020 Nov, 11

Raiders and Jon Gruden Are Fined Again Over Virus Violations

The N.F.L. has fined the Las Vegas Raiders $500,000 and their head coach, Jon Gruden, an additional $150,000 and has taken away a late-round draft pick next year because of repeated violations of the league’s coronavirus protocols, according to a league employee who was not authorized to discuss the penalties

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2020 Nov, 06

The Sixers Need to Be Patient. For Real, This Time.

The Philadelphia 76ers and Daryl Morey seem like an ideal match. For the Sixers, who introduced Morey on Monday as president of basketball operations, he is an executive who gives their front office instant credibility. And for Morey, the job is a chance to transform a franchise with marquee players into

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2020 Nov, 02

The Lessons of the Pirate League

At first glance, the three men sitting around a table in the Embajadores restaurant in downtown Bogotá made unlikely companions. True, they were all roughly the same age, in their mid- to late-20s. And, as they traded tales of adventure, their accents would have given away that all three were

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2020 Oct, 30

N.H.L. Team Drops Top Draft Pick Accused of Racist Bullying

The Arizona Coyotes said on Thursday that they had renounced the rights to their top pick in this year’s N.H.L. draft after a published report described the player’s 2016 conviction in a juvenile-court case related to bullying of a Black classmate who has a developmental disability. The Coyotes said they knew

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2020 Oct, 30

The Manager, the Ace and a Decision That Will Haunt the Rays

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Tampa Bay Rays pride themselves on creativity, on aggressively challenging conventional wisdom. That ethos helps make them an annual contender on a tight budget, and this was their best season ever. But when the Rays needed to believe in the unseen, while facing elimination in Game 6

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2020 Oct, 28