The explosion of young black quarterbacks with phenomenal athletic ability and passing acumen has become the rage of the N.F.L. As defenses in the league have become more athletic, offenses have made an adjustment at the sport’s most important position. Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs won the league’s Most Valuable Player Award last […] More
With the N.F.L. schedule shifting from one game on Thursday to three games on Saturday, the shape of Week 16 is a bit different from the rest of the season, and the stakes are awfully high for the teams still trying to make the playoffs. Eight of the 12 postseason teams are already known, but […] More
DOHA, Qatar — To make it to the big game, the Saudi soccer fan resorted to unusual measures. He first flew to Kuwait, where he told his parents he was going on vacation. Then he boarded a plane to Qatar, the site of a major soccer tournament this week. Officially, it was a forbidden journey: […] More
CARSON, Calif. — It is the second quarter of the Los Angeles Chargers’ home game with the Minnesota Vikings and the fans are a cheering, chanting, delirious mass. One of their defenders has just scooped up a fumble and rumbled into the end zone for a touchdown. The defender runs to the stands and jumps […] More
The Jacksonville Jaguars fired their top executive, Tom Coughlin, on Wednesday, parting ways with him a little more than a day after the N.F.L. players union won a fight to overturn millions of dollars in fines he had imposed. Coughlin — who spent most of his career as a coach, winning two Super Bowls at […] More
One of the world’s most-watched soccer matches was played amid heavy security Wednesday night as the Spanish authorities sought to keep Catalonia’s separatist movement from disrupting the game between host Barcelona and Real Madrid. While the game in Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium began without incident, some riot police clashed with protesters in the streets outside, […] More
The end of the American calendar sports year features a festival of college football bowl games that fill television airwaves — if not attendant stadiums — and since 2014 a four-team playoff to determine which of the blessed chosen gets to shout from a mountaintop that is, arguably, mythical. This year, however, the most memorable […] More
Drew Brees’s four-touchdown performance on Monday night did not only lead the New Orleans Saints to a comfortable 34-7 win over the Indianapolis Colts, it also gave him more touchdown passes than any other quarterback in N.F.L. history. But a look at the statistical standings shows that another quarterback wasn’t left too far behind: Tom […] More
