Jürgen Klopp, the coach of Liverpool, ambled out of the tunnel at Anfield before his team’s Champions League match on Wednesday night when the wiggling, outstretched hands of some enthusiastic fans entered his sightline. It is a common sight, spectators at a sporting event looking for a bit of skin contact from their heroes, who […] More
Del Shofner, one of pro football’s most brilliant pass receivers of his time, who combined with Y.A. Tittle to help propel the New York Giants to three consecutive league championship games in the early 1960s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 85. His death was announced by his daughter Laurie Shofner Corwin, who […] More
Carlos Cordeiro, the president of the United States Soccer Federation, abruptly resigned Thursday night, taking personal responsibility for U.S. Soccer’s decision to criticize its women’s national team in a legal filing that was widely condemned as misogynistic. Cordeiro said he was ultimately responsible for U.S. Soccer’s legal strategy and for its language in a much-criticized […] More
The United States Soccer Federation apologized Wednesday night for arguing in legal filings this week that “indisputable science” proved that the players on its World Cup-winning women’s national team were inferior to men. Facing on-field protests by the women’s players and withering criticism from major federation sponsors like Coca-Cola, U.S. Soccer’s president, Carlos Cordeiro, attempted […] More
The Champions League, the richest, grandest tournament in club soccer, is facing the prospect of being suspended after Real Madrid became the latest of Europe’s elite teams to go into quarantine because of fears of exposure to the coronavirus. Real Madrid confirmed in a statement on Thursday morning that one of its basketball players had […] More
A player for Juventus, the Italian soccer champion, has tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the club announced Wednesday, a worrisome development for a sport — and a country — struggling to contain the outbreak. The player, the 25-year-old defender Daniele Rugani, is believed to be the first athlete in […] More
LIVERPOOL, England — Anfield, for once, was hushed. It was a deflated silence, but it was also a reflective one, as if those in the stands — and possibly, for a moment, those on the field — were trying to process what had just happened, what it meant, and what that feeling was. Liverpool has […] More
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — The N.F.L. Players Association board of directors elected J.C. Tretter of the Cleveland Browns as the president of their union for the next two years. Tretter, now the highest-ranking player in the union, will replace Eric Winston, the former offensive lineman who held the job for six years but had to […] More
