Making protection for quarterback Daniel Jones a priority, the Giants on Thursday selected Andrew Thomas, a Georgia offensive tackle, at fourth over all in the N.F.L. draft. Then the Jets, aiming to add support for their young quarterback, Sam Darnold, chose Mekhi Becton, an offensive tackle from the University of Louisville, at 11th over all. […] More
It’s been roughly a month and a half since the last pro basketball or hockey game. March Madness was canceled. Baseball never started. For my group of childhood friends and me, and surely for plenty of others, this year’s N.F.L. draft has become the most important sporting event since the Super Bowl. We make a […] More
Live, from Roger Goodell’s basement, the first round of the N.F.L. draft offered something of a surprise gift on Thursday night: A chance to focus on selections over spectacle with a smooth run through the top 32 picks. Sure, the evening generated plenty of questions to keep sports fans engaged, despite the almost universal shutdown […] More
LONDON — Daily tests for coronavirus. Only two people in the gym at a time. Players dressing for practice at home. Those are just some of the protocols La Liga, the organizer of Spain’s top two soccer leagues, deems necessary to allow even practice to take place before games resume, with a new target date […] More
I stared at the TV screen in disbelief. My replacement had just been chosen. I could hear it in the echo of these words: “With the 36th pick of the 2015 N.F.L. draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars select T.J. Yeldon, running back from Alabama.” Just a year earlier, the Jaguars had signed me as their starting […] More
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
