LONDON — As one of the first major sports leagues to detail plans to return to action, Germany’s soccer league has become the bellwether for the thorny task of restarting sports events postponed by the coronavirus epidemic. That decision became more complicated on Monday when 10 players were found to have the virus after blanket […] More
The N.F.L. Players Association announced plans to review provisions in the collective bargaining agreement ratified in March that are set to take away tens of thousands of dollars in benefits from permanently disabled former players. Cleveland Browns center J.C. Tretter, the N.F.L.P.A. president elected in March, notified the union’s membership in his monthly newsletter that […] More
The judge in the United States women’s soccer team’s equal pay lawsuit rejected the players’ most important claims on Friday, delivering a crushing blow to the team’s four-year legal campaign against the United States Soccer Federation. The judge, R. Gary Klausner of United States District Court for the Central District of California, accepted the federation’s […] More
Enjoying this newsletter? Tell a friend to sign up at nytimes.com/rory and then you’ll have something new to talk about every Friday. The story of how the term “tiki-taka” entered soccer’s lexicon, how it came to define a style, might, perhaps, be apocryphal, but that does not matter. Sometimes, whether a story is true and […] More
People throughout the sports world, from athletes to arena staff members, tell The New York Times how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic. The professional soccer player David Najem has not put on his cleats or shot on a goalkeeper in seven weeks, and it is all very disorienting to him. Just as […] More
The Cincinnati Bengals cut quarterback Andy Dalton on Thursday one week after drafting his replacement, Joe Burrow of Louisiana State, with the first overall pick. Dalton spent nine seasons as their starter and will now head into a free agent market that is already crowded with talent and offers very few landing spots for veteran […] More
In the video, posted three weeks ago on Twitter, Jameis Winston has his right arm cocked, feet shuffling as if he’s moving around the pocket, as his trainer launches an oversize speed bag at him, again and again. The drill, it seems, is intended to simulate defensive pressure, and Winston, looking trim and coiled, evades […] More
When Mekhi Becton signed up for the football team at Highland Springs High School in Virginia, he picked wide receiver and tight end as his positions. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 215 pounds. “At 13 years old, when someone is that big, you anticipate them growing even more,” Loren Johnson, Becton’s […] More
