Coaches and Managers
Brittney Griner’s Tearful WNBA Teammates Play On After Her Conviction
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Phoenix Mercury Coach Vanessa Nygaard and her coaching staff stood in the empty Mohegan Sun arena on Thursday, puzzled. The Mercury were set to take on the Connecticut Sun at 7 p.m., and her players were supposed to be on the court going through their normal pregame shoot-around, but no one showed […]
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Bill Russell, Celtics Center Who Transformed Pro Basketball, Dies at 88
At McClymonds High School in Oakland, Russell became a starter on the basketball team as a senior, already emphasizing defense and rebounding. A former basketball player for the University of San Francisco, Hal DeJulio, who scouted for his alma mater, recognized Russell’s potential and recommended him to the coach, Phil Woolpert. Russell was given a […]
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What’s the Most Curious and Fraught Job in Tennis?
Consider Halep’s quarterfinal win, 6-2, 6-4, over Amanda Anisimova of the United States on Wednesday. For more than six years, Darren Cahill, the longtime coach and ESPN commentator, who has worked with Andre Agassi, Andy Murray and Ana Ivanovic, among others, coached Halep. They split in September. Cahill, who is Australian, said the rigors of […]
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Supreme Court Sides With Coach Over Prayers on 50-Yard Line
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games. The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The decision came less than a week after the court ruled, by the […]
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Swimmer Anita Alvarez Is Rescued After Fainting During World Championships
As the American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez sank slowly to the bottom of the pool at the world championships in Budapest on Wednesday, her coach, Andrea Fuentes, quickly scanned the pool deck and made a split-second decision: She dived in to save her. Alvarez, a 25-year-old from upstate New York, had lost consciousness at the […]
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Stephen Curry’s Golden State Is the NBA’s Newest Dynasty
BOSTON — The N.B.A.’s dynasties share certain commonalities that have helped them tip the scales from being run-of-the-mill championship teams to those remembered for decades. Among them: Each has had a generational player in contention for Mount Rushmore at his position. The 1980s had Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics battling Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Los […]
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Buck Showalter and Bob Melvin Face Off in Mets-Padres Series
SAN DIEGO — They were hired with much fanfare over the off-season and have received rave reviews around Major League Baseball for their early work with their new teams. Both have won three Manager of the Year Awards and, should things keep up, would be strong contenders in this year’s voting as well. But before […]
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N.B.A. Finals: Boston Celtics Take On Golden State Warriors
It would be Stephen Curry’s fourth N.B.A. championship, or Jayson Tatum’s first. It would be a comeback story for the ages for Klay Thompson, or a fairy-tale ending to the debut of the first-time head coach Ime Udoka. Much is at stake in the 2022 N.B.A. finals for Golden State and the Boston Celtics, two […]
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Jon Gruden’s Lawsuit Against the NFL Can Proceed in Open Court
Jon Gruden won two important battles in his civil suit against the N.F.L. on Wednesday when a judge in Clark County, Nev., denied two of the league’s legal motions — one to dismiss his lawsuit outright and the other to compel a closed-door arbitration. Gruden filed the lawsuit in November 2021, a month after The […]
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