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
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
