Category: Sports

The father of the 11-year-old boy from Los Angeles who pulled the Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch autographed card thought it was either a checklist or a Topps promotional card. The kind of inserts typically thrown away. The mother asked, “Who’s Paul Skenes?” The boy knew. He knew even through sleepy, crusty eyes around 6 […]

Oleksandr Zinchenko had failed to read the room. Last summer, on vacation in the south of France, the Arsenal left-back had nowhere to run. Not in a metaphorical sense: he needed to find a pitch to maintain his fitness for a couple of hours a day before returning to Premier League duty. Fortunately, he thought, […]

At a time when some events are banning phones to ensure the audience is properly engaged in the experience, the perceived success of the new Champions League format was instead captured by the image of Aston Villa and Club Brugge players huddled around various devices anxiously checking the scores in Barcelona and Zagreb to see […]

Last week, Julie Stewart-Binks sat in an empty lounge on the rooftop of a hotel near her apartment in New York City. She is about to watch a clip from her time as a Fox Sports host and reporter. It is a moment that she thinks about often, but one that she has never wanted […]

NORWOOD, Mass. — It was impossible not to notice the clean, shiny sheet of ice upon stepping inside The Skating Club of Boston on Thursday morning. It was practically beckoning young skaters to get out there and put their magnificent talents on display; instead, the ice remained unused throughout the morning and into the afternoon, […]

The best part of Dan Hurley’s latest week at the center of sports villain discourse was his hard pivot on a podcast that was unfolding as expected — a little bit of damage control, a touch of mea culpa, Hurley saying it was embarrassing to have proclaimed himself the best coach in men’s college basketball […]

The college all-star game played Saturday in Mobile, Ala., is called the Senior Bowl, but the game between the Chiefs and Eagles a week from Sunday in New Orleans could be called the Senior Citizen Bowl. While the Sean McVay effect remains real (see the hirings of 38-year-old Ben Johnson and 39-year-old Liam Coen), coaches […]

IOWA CITY, Iowa — In a recent Iowa women’s basketball team meeting, after the Hawkeyes had dropped five straight Big Ten games, first-year head coach Jan Jensen told the story of Florence Chadwick, an American swimmer. In 1952, Chadwick attempted to become the first woman to swim the 26 miles from the Catalina Islands to […]

MOBILE, Ala. — This is not shaping up to be The Year of the Quarterback. Teams in search of a quarterback this offseason are facing a major dilemma. The prospect pool is way down, to the point where some personnel executives around the NFL don’t believe there’s a franchise signal-caller in the draft, and the […]

Pam Shriver, the 21-time Grand Slam doubles champion, got a call from the general manager of the Doubletree Hotel in Marina Del Rey on Monday. “We have your awards,” he told her. She thought he was talking about hotel rewards, following her family’s recent stay there. It was their evacuation destination as the Palisades fire […]