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Feb. 28, 2023
The Baseball Clock Is Good The sport desperately needs to change, no matter how loudly purists complain.
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Feb. 23, 2023
Remember When Sports Never Canceled Games? Calling off events used to be reserved for weather disasters or 9/11, but we live in a new world now.
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Feb. 13, 2023
What Was Kyrie Irving Thinking? He arrived in Brooklyn a bona fide weirdo. He left for Dallas on even stranger terms.
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Feb. 12, 2023
An Anticlimactic Super Bowl Ending Blew the NFL’s Night Apart The holding call heard ’round the world was a reminder of sports’ inherent unpredictability.
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Feb. 8, 2023
Why You Should Root for the Eagles This Sunday It’s not only because I don’t want their fans to come after me.
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Jan. 31, 2023
The Lost Joy of Hating Sports Announcers Self-righteous jerks like Billy Packer don’t exist on TV anymore, and that’s a shame.
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Jan. 24, 2023
LeBron’s Career Has Been a Quiet Rebuke to Michael Jordan’s As he approaches the all-time NBA scoring record (and his eventual retirement), the Chosen One remains grounded.
games
Jan. 17, 2023
Tom Brady Is a Rickety Old Man Still Chasing the Dragon He’s still solid at 45, but Monday night’s debacle in Dallas was hard to watch — and a sign of things to come.
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Jan. 10, 2023
The Week We Pretended That This Time Might be Different Damar Hamlin almost died, but angst about the evils of football feels perfunctory at this point.
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Jan. 5, 2023
Are We Willing to Prevent Another Damar Hamlin? The dangers of football are obvious. But Americans can’t stop watching.
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Jan. 3, 2023
The Reaction to Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Represents Progress It took a terrifying event, but for once, the NFL abandoned its “show must go on” mentality.
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Dec. 30, 2022
The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of 2022 It was a normal-feeling year at last — but the real world kept intruding.
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Dec. 26, 2022
The Seven Most Important Athletes of 2022 Records broken, swan songs sung, and a superstar freed.
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Dec. 17, 2022
The Last World Cup After Qatar, soccer may never be the same again.
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Dec. 3, 2022
The U.S. Team Can Hold Their Heads High Losing to the Netherlands was deeply frustrating, but the Americans’ best days are ahead of them.
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Dec. 2, 2022
The U.S. Can Absolutely Beat the Netherlands on Saturday Your guide to this weekend’s very big, very winnable game.
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Nov. 29, 2022
The U.S. Pulled It Off They survived a tense second half and an injury to their best player to beat Iran.
games
Nov. 25, 2022
The U.S. Just Outplayed England at the World Cup They were the better team in Friday’s scoreless draw — which is amazing.
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Nov. 21, 2022
The U.S. Team’s Draw With Wales Felt Like a Loss Disappointment at not beating a top-20 team is actually a sign of progress for the Americans.
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Nov. 15, 2022
The World Cup Is the Only Real American Underdog Story Sometimes it’s nice to root for a scrappy up-and-comer, and this year’s men’s team is exactly that.
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Nov. 8, 2022
March Madness Is Perfect, So of Course They’re Trying to Ruin It Big universities want to expand the tournament, which would make the Cinderella stories everyone loves much less likely to happen.
games
Nov. 1, 2022
Kyrie Irving’s Days in Brooklyn Are Numbered Promoting an antisemitic movie is a new low, and his antics will only get worse.
games
Oct. 26, 2022
LeBron James Doesn’t Talk About Politics Anymore Two years after making himself ubiquitous in American political life, he’s sitting out the midterms, and his voting group is “dormant.”
games
Oct. 11, 2022
This Yankees Postseason Feels Existential By the team’s high standards, this century has been rough. If they don’t win a championship now, it might get a lot rougher.
games
Oct. 5, 2022
There Is No Fixing This Tua Tagovailoa’s ugly injury is the latest reminder that no policy change can excise brutality from the NFL.
games
Sept. 28, 2022
Brett Favre Was Always Pretty Awful Thanks to his legion of defenders, the ex-QB thought he could get away with anything. An egregious scandal in Mississippi shows there are limits.
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Sept. 20, 2022
Rejoice: Tom Brady Is Miserable It’s nice to know the guy who always wins experiences rough patches like the rest of us.
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Sept. 14, 2022
Did You Know the World Cup Is in Two Months? The strange timing (and location) of the world’s biggest sporting event will make it a hard sell in America.
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Sept. 7, 2022
The NFL Is America’s Best Crisis-Management Company A new season brings with it new scandals, but the league’s cultural dominance has never been more secure.
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Sept. 3, 2022
Serena’s Greatness Always Extended Beyond the Court Her final, unforgettable match is not the end of her story.
games
Aug. 27, 2022
College Football Is Now NFL Lite A sport once defined by regional charm is awash in money and becoming more like the pros every week.
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Aug. 18, 2022
Can Nasty Nestor Turn Around the Yankees? The pitcher has become an unlikely star for the Yankees. He’s just happy to be here.
games
Aug. 17, 2022
The ‘Real’ Home-Run Record Is 73, Not 61 Aaron Judge’s tremendous season has rekindled a tiresome argument about the purity of the game.
games
Aug. 9, 2022
The Mets Are Having an Extremely Un-Mets Season They’re overachieving their way to the playoffs — and having a great time doing it.
games
Aug. 2, 2022
The NFL Expects You to Forget About Sexual Misconduct Anyone expecting a harsher punishment for Deshaun Watson has just as short a memory as football fans have.
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July 19, 2022
The Time I Tried and Failed to Profile Derek Jeter The new ESPN documentary attempts to figure out who he really is. Good luck.
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July 14, 2022
The LIV Tour Is Built to Weather Outrage Indignation over its poaching of PGA players won’t last. But Saudi money will.
games
July 8, 2022
College Football Is About to Change Drastically — and Not for the Better The rise of two super-conferences will make the sport more like the NFL, and rob it of much of its character.
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July 2, 2022
It’s Not Too Early to Get Excited About a Subway Series The Mets and Yankees are simultaneously great for the first time in ages.
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June 22, 2022
The Nets Are Outdoing the Knicks in Dysfunction Kyrie Irving’s contract drama typifies a decade of missed opportunities.
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June 11, 2022
Endless Saudi Money Throws Golf Into an Existential Crisis A new PGA rival shows that when the payday’s big enough, loyalty to established institutions only goes so far.
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June 7, 2022
Can Men Be Friends? What fantasy sports reveal about the limits of male intimacy.
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June 2, 2022
Why You Should Root for the Warriors in the NBA Finals Golden State is the rare psuedo-dynasty that has remained likable, while Boston remains Boston.
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May 24, 2022
The Most Disturbing Part of the Yankees’ ‘Jackie’ Incident Was the Fans Yankee Stadium picking up Josh Donaldson’s taunt was another example of crowd dynamics gone haywire.
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May 18, 2022
Brittney Griner Still Isn’t Getting Enough Attention As a trumped-up trial in Russia looms, her case remains curiously under the radar.
games
May 10, 2022
Why Athletes Are Ignoring Roe v. Wade A short time ago, politics in sports was inescapable. But at this moment of profound crisis, there is mostly silence.
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May 3, 2022
Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Are Just Excuses for Being a Meathead A Mets-Cardinals brawl is the latest example of boneheadedness being passed off as tradition.
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