For the past five years, the N.F.L. has turned its college draft into a movable sports feast, taking it from New York, where it had been hosted for nearly a half-century, to Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas and Nashville. Television broadcasters loved the new scenery, as fans across the country tuned in to witness the pageantry and […] More
The Giants and Jets, both selecting early in the first round once again, plan to use the N.F.L. draft to keep rebuilding. The Giants pick fourth overall after compiling a 4-12 record in 2019, a season that ended the era of Eli Manning at starting quarterback. They fired Coach Pat Shurmur and replaced him with […] More
The judge’s allegiance to Benfica, the biggest soccer club in Portugal, hardly made him an outlier. Benfica often boasts that it can count more than half of Portugal’s population as supporters, and judges, prosecutors, top police officials and even the country’s prime minister are regular guests in the directors’ box at the team’s matches. One […] More
The Cincinnati Bengals’ tiger stripes run deep for the Luehrman twins, Adam and Ryan. Growing up near Athens, Ohio, they shared Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson jerseys and had a passing chance of correctly spelling T.J. Houshmandzadeh. They know of the playoff pratfalls, the crushing injuries, the ownership’s tightfisted ways and the decades of rotten […] More
With the announcement that Rob Gronkowski will reunite with his longtime teammate Tom Brady on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, one of the most talented players and colorful characters in football returns to the N.F.L. It seemed as if we had seen the last of Gronkowski’s 6-foot-6 frame lining up at tight end when he retired […] More
Even the tight-lipped Bill Belichick admits that this week’s N.F.L. draft, and this year’s off-season, will be vastly different from any other for the New England Patriots in this century. “Over the last two decades, everything we did, every single decision we made in terms of major planning, was made with the idea of how […] More
The former commissioner of the XFL recently filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit in federal court against the football league’s controlling owner, Vince McMahon, three days after the short-lived sports venture filed for bankruptcy. The lawsuit, filed by Oliver Luck last Thursday in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, contends that McMahon breached the terms of Luck’s contract […] More
LONDON — The proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Qatar has spilled over into England’s Premier League, with a Qatari broadcast company seeking to block a Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of the Newcastle United team. The company, beIN Media Group, the rights holder for Premier League games shown in the Middle East, has sent a letter […] More
