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
MEXICO CITY — Before she headed to the soccer game this weekend, Gabriela Gómez considered the matter of the coronavirus and its transmissibility in crowds. But she wasn’t going to let fears of a global pandemic stand in the way of witnessing a special moment: For the first time since the founding of Mexico’s women’s […] More
N.F.L. players have approved a new 10-year labor deal that will include the first major expansion to the N.F.L. season in more than four decades. A narrow majority of the league’s roughly 2,000 players signed off on the deal, paving the way for the addition of a 17th regular-season game, an expanded playoff format, more […] More
Enjoying this newsletter every week? Send it to a friend, or six, or 10, and tell them to sign up at nytimes.com/rory. All of a sudden, in the course of 72 hours or so, what had been a steady stream — a postponement here, a ban on fans there, a piecemeal response to an all-consuming […] More
A professional soccer team from Wuhan, China, went to Spain for preseason training. And got stuck. For weeks. Now, as the virus spreads in Europe, they may be safer back home. The Stranded Stars of Wuhan F.C. By Photographs by MARBELLA, Spain — Many times, Yao Hanlin has pictured what his homecoming will look like. […] More
LONDON — The pilot of a small plane that crashed into the English Channel last year, killing the Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, was not licensed to fly commercially, and neither was the aircraft, investigators said in a report released on Friday. Mr. Sala, 28, had been flying from France to Wales with David Ibbotson […] More
