Stadiums and Arenas
Audio: Damar Hamlin Emergency Response Captured on Recordings
The radio traffic moments after Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday night in Cincinnati crackled with urgency. “I don’t like how he went down,” one person said on a channel that appears to have included medical personnel on the sidelines. Seconds later, as the gravity of Hamlin’s condition became clearer, […]
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The Oakland Athletics are the Loneliest Team in Baseball
OAKLAND, Calif. — On one quiet night earlier this month, fewer than 3,000 fans attended an Athletics game. It was so vacant and tranquil at the bulky, old coliseum that the visiting Tampa Bay Rays players could hear the crisp enunciation of every taunt flung their way. Brett Phillips, a Rays outfielder, said one of […]
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How the N.F.L Learned to Like Las Vegas, Host of the Draft
LAS VEGAS — Barely half a decade ago, this gambling mecca was still largely off limits to the N.F.L. In 2015, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo called the league greedy and jealous when it prohibited him from attending a fantasy football event here because it was held at a convention center attached to a casino. […]
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What to Know About 2022 World Cup Travel to Qatar
The most avidly followed sports event on earth, the FIFA World Cup, returns this fall — another chance to find out if what’s often been said about soccer is true: That 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and the Germans always win. At the last World Cup, in 2018, the Germans didn’t win. […]
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An English Soccer Team’s Existential Crisis: Is It Really in Wales?
Chas Sumner has heard the quiz question in all its forms. There was the one that asked: “Which club has an international border running along the halfway line of its stadium?” Or this one: “Which soccer team gets changed in one country but plays in another?” Or: “Where can you take a corner in England, […]
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Bob Blitz Held the NFL to Task Over the Rams’ Relocation
In a separate deposition in October 2020, N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell was pressed repeatedly on the question at the heart of the lawsuit: Did the N.F.L.’s team owners ignore their own relocation guidelines when they voted to allow the Rams to move? Goodell gave elusive responses on whether the owners had considered each of 12 […]
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NFL to Settle Lawsuit Over Rams’ Departure for $790 Million
The N.F.L. has agreed to pay the city and county of St. Louis $790 million to settle a four-year dispute over whether the league broke its own relocation guidelines to pave the way for the Rams to move to Los Angeles in 2016, according to two people who spoke on condition of anonymity. A league […]
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Why Crypto.com Is Putting Its Name on the Staples Center
It was then, during a slump in cryptocurrency prices, that Mr. Marszalek decided to rebrand Monaco. He contacted Matt Blaze, a cryptography professor then at the University of Pennsylvania, who had owned the crypto.com domain name for 25 years. During that time, Mr. Blaze had refused to part with the web address and had publicly […]
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