The owner of Sports Illustrated said it had chosen a new company to publish the magazine, a deal that could settle some of the recent friction at the storied publication and continue the print edition. Authentic Brands Group, which owns the intellectual property rights to Sports Illustrated as well as to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe […]
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In Paris, the Olympics Clean Up Their Act
How do you produce a global sporting event, with millions of people swooping down on one city, in the age of global warming? That is the test for the Paris Olympics this summer. The organizers say they’re putting the games on a climate diet. These Olympics, they say, will generate no more than half the […]
Read MoreFour Years After Covid-19 Shutdown, Are Audiences Back?
It was four years ago — on March 12, 2020 — that the coronavirus brought the curtain down on Broadway for what was initially supposed to be a monthlong shutdown, but which wound up lasting a year and a half. The pandemic brought live events and big gatherings to a halt, silencing orchestras, shutting museums […]
Read MoreDartmouth Basketball’s Union Took Shape in the Campus Dining Hall
Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team congregated at the stately Hanover Inn near campus on a dreary, drizzly Tuesday and walked over to a small office building where they smiled for a group photo. Then they went up to a second-floor conference room and took a vote that had been six months — […]
Read MoreBig-League Dreams
We met the two sisters in a small village a thousand miles away from where the main event was taking place. India had just launched a new cricket league for women, drawing a whopping $500 million in private investments, and it felt like a big moment. A career in sports for young women was no […]
Read MoreWhy Women Outnumber Men in South Korea’s Sports Stadiums
Each time the South Korean men’s soccer team scored against Singapore during a recent 5-0 rout in a World Cup qualifier, the roar from the home crowd came largely from women, who held nearly two-thirds of the tickets to the match. In the Seoul stadium that November day, a billboard-size banner for the star striker […]
Read MoreKansas City Shooting Is Latest Violence to Mar a Sports Celebration
Last June, 10 people were shot during celebrations on the night the Denver Nuggets won the National Basketball Association title. In 2019, four people were shot at the N.B.A. championship rally for the Toronto Raptors. Two men were shot and killed in a Los Angeles suburb during a celebration of the Dodgers’ World Series victory […]
Read MoreOnce an Escape, Sports Talk Embraces Politics
Just before flying to Las Vegas this week for the Super Bowl, Clay Travis announced his prediction for the game on his popular sports podcast, “OutKick.” The San Francisco 49ers would defeat the Kansas City Chiefs. Other topics on that episode: the future of college football and whether President Biden is “actually capable” of serving […]
Read MoreSuper Bowl Broadcast Is a Crossroads for CBS Sports
On the one hand, Sunday will be a joyous occasion for CBS Sports. The sports division will broadcast its 22nd Super Bowl, the most of any network. The game is guaranteed to be the most-watched event in television this year, and it will generate hundreds of millions in advertising revenue and provide a huge promotional […]
Read MoreDisney, Fox and Warner Bros. Join Forces for Sports Streaming Service
For years, the rising price of sports rights has been a major headache for media executives, who have watched viewers abandon traditional TV for streaming services even as their companies pay up to broadcast games. On Tuesday, Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery proposed a new offering that could keep them in business with some […]
Read MoreArt But Make It Sports Brings History to a New Audience
LJ Rader tries to be online as much as possible during big sporting events, but he missed the first half of last Sunday’s N.F.L. playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs because of a dinner engagement. After he left the restaurant, Mr. Rader checked his phone and saw an unusual request: […]
Read MoreWill Fanatics Upend the World of Sports Collectibles?
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, thousands of people filed into a dated convention center near O’Hare Airport to participate in the very American pastime of buying and selling sports trading cards. The Chicago Sports Spectacular, one of the country’s biggest and oldest card shows, is like a rummage sale from the days before eBay, but […]
Read MoreThe Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports
Maybe it was the wordless image of the United States Olympic hockey team celebrating the “Miracle on Ice.” Perhaps it was the perfect frame of Dwight Clark making “The Catch” to send the San Francisco 49ers to the 1982 Super Bowl. Or it could have been the declaration that a 17-year-old LeBron James was “The […]
Read MoreThe End of the Bill Belichick Hoodie Era
In all the words currently being written about the end of the Bill Belichick era in Boston — or, technically, the Boston suburbs — which reportedly finally came to a close on Jan. 11 after weeks of speculation, the end of the N.F.L. season and the Patriots’ dismal loss to the Jets, the one that […]
Read MoreIn Philadelphia, Chinatown’s Champions Fear New Arena for 76ers
Deborah Wei first wore a “No Stadium in Chinatown” T-shirt emblazoned with red English letters and Chinese characters in 2000, when she helped to scuttle a proposed baseball stadium for the Phillies. She wore an updated version a decade later, with the word “Stadium” crossed out and replaced by “Casino,” when local opposition derailed a […]
Read MoreA Midwestern Republican Stands Up for Trans Rights
As 2023 slouches to an ignominious end, some news came Friday that gave me an unexpected jolt of hope. I have spent much of the year watching with horror and trying to document an unrelenting legal assault on queer and trans people. Around 20 states have passed laws restricting access to gender-affirming care for trans […]
Read MoreHerbert Kohl, Former Wisconsin Senator and Milwaukee Bucks Owner, Dies at 88
Herbert H. Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat who kept watch over federal budgets in four terms as a United States senator, but as the die-hard owner of the National Basketball Association’s often mediocre Milwaukee Bucks spent lavishly to keep the team afloat in his hometown, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Milwaukee after a brief […]
Read MoreOhtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense
Ohtani, though, is beating the Americans on their own terms. “He can hit a home run 500 feet and throw a ball 100 miles per hours, and he’s bigger and stronger than most Americans,” said Robert Whiting, who has written several books on baseball in Japan, including “You Gotta Have Wa.” Ohtani’s Ruthian contract might […]
Read More2023 in Sports: A Record Year, Especially for Women
Records are made to be broken, the saying goes. If so, 2023 ought to go down as a record-breaking year for breaking records. The shattering happened not only on the courts, marathon courses and racetracks, but off the fields and around the game. The Formula 1 driving maestro Max Verstappen won all but three of […]
Read MoreDallas Mavericks Sale Reflects Growing Links Between Pro Sports and Gambling
For years, professional sports organizations like the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball prohibited liquor companies from buying advertising in locations in stadiums and arenas that could be seen on television, in deference to efforts to curb drunken driving. But in 2009, during the depths of the worst recession since the Great Depression, those […]
Read MoreTerry Taylor, First Woman Named Sports Editor of The A.P., Dies at 71
Terry Taylor, who as the first — and only — woman to be named the sports editor of The Associated Press brought a tireless management style to covering the Olympics, the World Cup and leagues and teams worldwide, died on Nov. 14 at her home in Paoli, Pa. She was 71. Tony Rentschler, her husband […]
Read MoreOff the Court and Field, Top Athletes Become Players in the Art Market
Carmelo Anthony, the 10-time N.B.A. All-Star who announced his retirement in May, said that when he was starting out as a professional basketball player he did not understand art, but grew to appreciate it and began collecting as he matured. Now paintings by major Black artists including Nelson Makamo, Swoon, Rashid Johnson and Kehinde Wiley […]
Read MoreRory McIlroy Resigns From PGA Tour Board
Rory McIlroy, the esteemed golfer who was among the most outspoken opponents of his sport’s swelling ties to Saudi Arabia, has resigned from the PGA Tour’s board. The tour confirmed his departure in a statement on Tuesday night. “Given the extraordinary time and effort that Rory — and all of his fellow player directors — […]
Read MoreAfghanistan Wins Big in Cricket’s World Cup
The national flag they play under no longer exists officially. The anthem they stand for at the beginning of every game belongs to a republic that was toppled two years ago. Yet Afghanistan’s athletes have become the unlikely — and widely celebrated — heroes of the Cricket World Cup that is underway in India. In […]
Read MoreN.F.L., on Lookout for Growth, Finds Open Arms in Germany
About 60 hardcore fans of the National Football League piled into the party space at Der Player, a fancy eatery, on a chilly evening in Hamburg, Germany, last month. Wearing jerseys and hoodies of teams like the Chicago Bears, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders, they grabbed seats to watch a taping […]
Read MoreAs Users Abandon X, Sports Twitter Endures
Hours after the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros on Monday night to advance to the World Series, Adolis García, the Rangers right fielder, posted 29 shushing-face emojis on X, the social platform once known as Twitter. It was a message to the Astros fans who had booed him during his at-bats. Dozens of Rangers […]
Read MoreRunning for Our Lives
Why run? I ask myself this question as I lace up my shoes, as I confront an approaching hill, as I coax one more lap out of my aching calves. The obvious answer is that we run to be healthy, to improve our cardiovascular systems and our moods, to become fitter and stronger. But sometimes […]
Read MoreHow Phoenix Fans Watch Their Teams May Change How You Watch Yours
Days after Mat Ishbia reached a deal in December to buy majority stakes in the N.B.A.’s Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury of the W.N.B.A., he met with top executives to learn more about the teams’ business operations, including how local fans were able to watch their games on TV. The executives detailed three possibilities […]
Read MoreRussian Olympic Organization Suspended Over Ukraine Move
The International Olympic Committee suspended Russia’s Olympic organization on Thursday, less than a year before the Paris Games, after Russia moved to make captured Ukrainian regions part of its national sports program. The I.O.C. said that the Russian Olympic Committee had moved last week to incorporate sports bodies from four Ukrainian regions that it occupies, […]
Read MoreRich Paul, N.B.A. Power Broker, Growing Up and Finding Peace
When Rich Paul considers his life now, he sometimes thinks how far it seems from his childhood, growing up Black in a particularly dangerous part of Cleveland. For the past two decades, Mr. Paul, 42, has been a polarizing force in basketball. A power broker in a specialized world, he is slim, 5-foot-8 and sharply […]
Read MoreShohei Ohtani’s Impossible, Unrivaled, Bittersweet Season
That willingness to look terrible at the plate is rooted in confidence. If he wanted to, Ohtani could hit like his countryman Ichiro Suzuki, who retired in 2019. Suzuki amassed more than 3,000 hits, a vast majority of them singles, and rarely struck out. But as baseball has evolved, the ability to hit the ball […]
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