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Apr 14, 2026
Growing up, when Jimmy O’Brien’s two sisters held a back-yard contest to determine who was more athletic, O’Brien, then a high-school student in suburban...
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Apr 6, 2026
On Wednesday, during a break in a 153–131 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Washington Wizards led a fan onto the court to attempt a half-court shot, blindfolded, for a...
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Mar 23, 2026
LeBron James began this N.B.A. season, his twenty-third, as a punch line. When it was announced, in October, that he would miss a number of early games because of sciatica, a cartoon...
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Mar 2, 2026
Two years ago, two very bad teams, the Detroit Pistons and the Brooklyn Nets, played a game that meant very little in the league’s over-all standings. To Cade Cunningham, it...
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Feb 23, 2026
Less than two minutes into overtime of the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the Milano Cortina Olympics, between the U.S.A. and Canada, the American Jack Hughes—a fresh...
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Feb 17, 2026
Four years ago, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Alysa Liu, a U.S. figure skater, seemed happy.
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Feb 2, 2026
Last Sunday, in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room, after the team’s loss to the Golden State Warriors, 111–85, the young star Anthony Edwards sat back in a...
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Jan 26, 2026
Last week, at the Australian Open, Amanda Anisimova sailed through much of her second-round match, against Kateřina Siniaková, displaying her superior power and accuracy. Few...
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Jan 12, 2026
Perhaps it was all part of a grand plan: The Pittsburgh Steelers’ dreadful 2–5 stretch in October and November. The failure to convert nine consecutive third downs in a...
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Jan 8, 2026
In late November, the Washington Spirit and Gotham F.C. met at PayPal Park, in San Jose, California, for the National Women’s Soccer League’s championship game. During a...