Why America’s top TV networks are banking on English soccer
It sure seems like there are more red-blooded Americans patrolling our streets in Arsenal and Liverpool shirts these days
Sports
Tuesday
Friday
Football is now going hog-wild for legal betting
You can bet the game’s embrace of its sportsbook partners will turn out better for them than for bettors
Wednesday
Why the New York Times sports section failed
It’s a funny quirk of history that the New York Times was the only paper to really thrive in the Internet age, all while struggling with sports, which gets so aggressively followed on the Internet
Wednesday
Roque is alive and well in Angelica, New York
On the first weekend of every August, Angelica hosts a tournament in its village park during ‘Heritage Days’
Basketball is more popular, and soccer-like, than ever
The NBA relies more and more on international players who grew up playing soccer
Friday
Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?
It has been more than a century since baseball had such a double threat
Sunday
How the NCAA twisted women’s sports
It wasn’t supposed to be this way
Tuesday
Did Ernest Hemingway have CTE?
His suicide remains one of literary history’s mysteries
Sunday
The unstoppable march of the gambling giants
The golden age of sport betting has barely begun
Monday
Barn Hunt: a strange, but not obscure event for dogs
The sport involves dogs finding live rats inside pneumatic tubes
Saturday
Why track and field is such a great kids’ sport
It teaches children about goal setting, hard work and sacrifice
Monday
Big Pickleball is coming for your tennis court
A casual pastime appealing to limited-mobility seniors develops big ambitions
How Formula One took America by storm
One of the world’s most popular sports has begun to get a foothold in the US
Tuesday
Degenerate sports gambling is good for the soul
The morality police don’t understand why people bet on football
Sunday
What it’s really like to play sports against men
There was simply no question they had a major advantage
Thursday
The ultimate human futility of sports
Sports would not have survived Classical Greece and the Roman Empire
Cricket in Buenos Aires
In the nineteenth century, the sport was played across Latin America
Sunday
Hoosiers of New York
On a March day in 1991, I watched a bittersweet rural New York version of ‘Hoosiers’ play out
Thursday
America the fat and impotent
We watch too much porn and too much sports — and it’s weakening us
Friday
Gracious China allows athletes to speak out on social issues again
Basketball stars can speak about human rights issues China feels need addressing
