We have been learning in recent days what athletes do when they’re stuck at home, including working out in creative ways. Lately, we’ve also been getting a peek at N.F.L. coaches and general managers’ activities. Sean Payton of the Saints, who had been self-quarantined after testing positive for the coronavirus, jumped into a Twitter thread […] More
Faced with mounting concerns and daily updates about the crisis wrought by the coronavirus on the global soccer industry, FIFA is drawing up plans for an emergency relief fund worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The fund, should it be signed off on by global soccer leaders, […] More
Sign up for Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer (and, for the foreseeable future, quite a few other topics) at nytimes.com/rory. Watford General Hospital is a couple of minutes’ walk, no more, from Vicarage Road, the neat, slightly frayed home of the town’s representative in the Premier League. Head out of the Graham Taylor […] More
The coronavirus pandemic has upended much, but with a late summer start to the season five months away, the N.F.L. has been one of the few major professional sports leagues to avoid postponing or canceling games. With little else going on in sports, the league has doubled down on holding its annual three-day draft — […] More
With soccer’s global calendar upended by the coronavirus, FIFA is scrambling to draft new regulations for player contracts and transactions between clubs in an effort to create a road map out of the sport’s unprecedented shutdown. Lawyers at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters have huddled (virtually) with representatives from leagues, clubs and players unions to provide a […] More
European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, posted a message on its Twitter account on Friday evening with a seemingly innocuous update: Its European Championship — another sporting casualty of the coronavirus outbreak — would still be known as Euro 2020, even though it has been postponed until 2021. Within minutes, however, the tweet was deleted and […] More
On Monday, the Los Angeles Rams unveiled a new logo, which had been subject to speculation for most of the month. The redesign was the culmination of a two-year process, and the rollout, ahead of the team’s relocation to a new stadium, was clearly important to the Rams. The design process was painstakingly detailed on […] More
The Carolina Panthers portrayed their decision to part after nine seasons with quarterback Cam Newton as a magnanimous gesture. They announced last week that they were granting him, the best player in franchise history, permission to seek a trade. But as teams around the N.F.L. scurried to add quarterbacks, Newton languished in a sort-of purgatory, […] More
