Chicago Bulls
Tampa Bay Lightning Try To Win Stanley Cups. How Hard Is It?
Winning a championship is the peak achievement for a professional sports team. Repeating the next year is a rarity. But trades get made, and players retire. Injuries happen, and so do upsets. Postseason play is a grueling gantlet to run, and it keeps expanding. Winning a third straight title is one of the toughest feats […]
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N.B.A. Playoffs Preview: Good Luck Predicting Anything
The N.B.A. playoffs at long last are here. Even though teams dealt with waves of the coronavirus, this was the most normal season the N.B.A. has had in three years. It was the first full 82-game season since the 2018-19 campaign. The season has also given rise to the most wide open championship race the […]
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‘New Year, New Me’ Actually Might Work for the Chicago Bulls
About a month before training camp last fall, the Chicago Bulls began meeting up in their city, which would become a new home for most of them. They got together for workouts they didn’t have to do. They played five-on-five. They hung out. With only three players who had been with the team during the […]
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Pro Sports Leagues Hit Hard by Covid Outbreaks Should Halt Play
In the midst of a new wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the globe, sports officials are scrambling to figure out how to keep their seasons going with schedules intact, to maintain the normal churn of competition and revenue. They shouldn’t dither with such foolishness. It’s time to press pause on games, matches and meets. If […]
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