Category: Sports
Valencia’s Nou Mestalla ‘ghost ground’: After 15-year delay, will it finally be built?
The cheers rang long and loud around Valencia’s Mestalla Stadium as fans celebrated Hugo Guillamon’s late equaliser against Barcelona in their final home match before…
Professional tennis is broken. Here’s how to fix it
Tennis is doing what it does every 10-15 years or so — having a reckoning with its endless schedule, its nonsensical governing structure, and a…
Israeli sisters find strength, support and safe place in college basketball
In the days after Oct. 7, in which Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people, Yarden Garzon struggled to eat and sleep. The outbreak of war…
The football stadiums that never were
Peter Storrie can remember visiting the London studio of Herzog & de Meuron, the renowned Swiss architects, and being shown a striking vision of Portsmouth’s…
NFL playoff picture after Week 16: Ravens close in on AFC’s top seed; NFC up for grabs
The Baltimore Ravens scored their most impressive victory of the season Monday night, defeating the San Francisco 49ers 33-19. Along with making them look like…
First World War Christmas truce: How much football was actually played?
It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their…
Golf with a purpose: How The Park dared to be different
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — It’s lunchtime on a mid-November Saturday afternoon and the word of the day is eclectic. I’ve just finished my morning…
No Hit League? The ‘lost art’ of body checking in the NHL
Seventeen years and more than 1,200 games ago, Andrew Cogliano remembers how difficult it was to traverse the state of California. The Los Angeles Kings,…
NFL Power Rankings Week 16: 49ers, Ravens on top, plus a surprise from every team
We’re coming down the stretch of the NFL season, and the playoff seedings and Power Rankings are starting to sort themselves out, but that doesn’t…
Sean Payton’s flare-up at Russell Wilson puts coach-QB relationship back in spotlight
(Editor’s note: This is excerpted from Mike Sando’s Pick Six of Dec. 18, 2023.) Sean Payton blasting quarterback Russell Wilson on the sideline, then suggesting he was…