The N.F.L. will announce its schedule for the upcoming season on Thursday night in a prime time TV event. But a handful of teams have begun tempering expectations that fans will be able to attend some of those games — assuming they will be played in front of fans at all. On Wednesday night, the […] More
LONDON — The eyes of the soccer world will be on Germany next Saturday. After weeks of planning and nervous negotiations, the Bundesliga has finally been cleared to return, the first of soccer’s major leagues to try and mount a comeback from coronavirus-induced global sporting stoppage. There is certain to be outsized interest in the […] More
LONDON — The sticking point in talks about reopening the Premier League, the richest league in global soccer, is not about how it would affect the best and wealthiest clubs, but about the way it would affect the worst ones. While leagues in Germany, Italy and Spain take halting steps toward restarting, the return of […] More
Jonathan David was already thinking about what might come next. He had been in Belgium for almost two years, his first taste of professional soccer in Europe since moving from Canada. He had met every target that had been set for him: He was K.A.A. Gent’s leading goal scorer in his first season and the […] More
Don Shula owns some of the most hallowed records in N.F.L. history: the most wins by a coach, the most games coached, the league’s only perfect season. Despite all the victories and accolades — Shula was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997 — he was proudest of how his teams won. […] More
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
