New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton is the first known member of the N.F.L. community to test positive for the coronavirus. Payton told ESPN on Thursday that his symptoms started on Sunday — the day after he attended the Rebel Stakes, a thoroughbred horse race at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. He said he […] More
In Italy, soccer stopped as fans of Lazio, a club based in Rome, were dreaming that their two-decade wait for a league title might be ending, buoyed by an unbeaten run that started in September. In England, Liverpool was on course to end its 30-year championship drought with an all-but-insurmountable 25-point lead. But these teams, […] More
Rick Field, the founder of Rick’s Picks pickles and a lifelong New England Patriots fan, vividly remembers the moment that changed his favorite team’s destiny. On Sept. 23, 2001, he gathered with friends in front of a TV to watch a Patriots home game against the Jets. Drew Bledsoe, the Patriots’ beloved quarterback at the […] More
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers played one night game last season, on a Thursday in Week 2. That looks like it’s going to change. The limit for prime-time appearances per team is six, but with Tom Brady poised to join the Buccaneers’ pirate ship — maybe they’ll let him control the animated parrot resting on its […] More
MANCHESTER, England — Power, it turned out, was the problem: Who had it, who wanted it, who would get to keep it. Remove that, and present those who scrapped and bickered and threatened to paralyze soccer over it with something they could not barter or bully, and suddenly all the hard, red lines turned a […] More
With other sports leagues around the world shut down, the N.F.L. has a captive audience for the frenzied days of free agency, which began at noon Monday, when teams were officially permitted to start talking with unrestricted free agents. Trades will not be official, and teams cannot announce them, until the beginning of the league […] More
Tom Brady’s 20-year career with the New England Patriots, which came to an end on Tuesday with the announcement that he would seek a new team as an unrestricted free agent, had no shortage of superlatives. Six Super Bowl championships. Nine A.F.C. championships. A 219-64 record as a starter — that’s an average season of […] More
Tom Brady says he will be leaving the New England Patriots, the team he led to six Super Bowl championships. In a statement posted to his social media accounts, Brady, 42, thanked the New England fans for their years of support but said, “It is time for me to open a new stage for my […] More
