Bookmakers took a look at the Grizzlies-Thunder game in Memphis on Thursday night, weighed all the factors, and decided that the Grizzlies should be 9-point favorites. Yeah, I think they covered. The Grizzlies led by 15 after a quarter, 36 at the
Bookmakers took a look at the Grizzlies-Thunder game in Memphis on Thursday night, weighed all the factors, and decided that the Grizzlies should be 9-point favorites. Yeah, I think they covered. The Grizzlies led by 15 after a quarter, 36 at the
MINNEAPOLIS — There’s an adage among running coaches: Run your own race. Don’t focus on things you can’t control, including your competitors’ tactics. Last month Chris Lundstrom, the coach of Minnesota Distance Elite, watched as one of his athletes, Annie Frisbie, did
INDIANAPOLIS — The Michigan Wolverines needed an affirming victory after clearing their defining hurdle of the season with a commanding win over Ohio State. And late Saturday night, in a chilly Lucas Oil Stadium in front of the largest crowd in the
Training for Double Dutch at the Apollo James Thomas��Reporting from inside the ropes “We average about 380 jumps in two minutes,” Katherine Rocha, the assistant coach, told me. Today, they will compete against teams from around the world at the Apollo Theater
IRVING, Texas — On Thursday morning, many baseball fans woke up to find their favorite sport in a very different state. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, immediately after the collective bargaining agreement between the owners of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs
ATLANTA — Most of the time in November, Alabama barely held on. It started December by routing Georgia, the nation’s top-ranked team. And Alabama, the reigning national champion suddenly cast into an underdog’s existence after escaping three games last month by a
When most people picture bobsled from the Winter Olympics or from the film “Cool Runnings,” they usually see four people, or at least two, vigorously pushing a sled and then leaping in before racing down an icy course. But in monobob, an
The contract terms for Louisiana State University’s new football coach promise an unusually enormous payout for mediocrity: If the Tigers win just half of their regular-season games, de rigueur for a program with three national championships since 2003, Brian Kelly will receive
M.L.B. has said it also wants to improve the competitive balance among teams but has proposed different ways to accomplish that than the union. Among its proposals, some of which have been rejected by the union: an N.B.A.-style lottery format for the
LaMarr Hoyt, the Chicago White Sox right-hander who coupled outstanding control with a fine sinkerball to win the 1983 Cy Young Award as the American League’s leading pitcher, died on Monday in Columbia, S.C. He was 66. The cause was cancer, his