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A Night With the Best Baseball Team in New York

About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi...

How Nonbinary Runner Nikki Hiltz Rose to the Top of Track

A transgender pride flag appeared in the stands of Hayward Stadium in Eugene, Ore., just as the middle distance runner Nikki Hiltz stepped...

The Real Tahiti Olympics Celebrate Polynesian Culture

Drenched in sweat, lungs heaving, Christopher Ravatua looked like any other athlete in the wake of a hard-fought win. But the remains of...

One Long Reporting Trip Around the World

While growing up in a small town on Louisiana’s Cajun prairie in the 1950s and ’60s, I longed to see the world. I...

John Devitt, Champion Swimmer With a Tarnished Gold Medal, Dies at 86

John Devitt, an Australian champion swimmer who was awarded a gold medal in the showcase race of the 1960 Rome Olympics even though...

For Spain and England, a Swift Rise Is Also a Warning

Not long after he had taken up his post as president of the Spanish soccer federation, Luis Rubiales called a meeting with the...

After a False Start, Sean Payton Aims to Reset the Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos had just finished a training camp practice in 90-degree August weather under their new coach, Sean Payton, when the players...

The Most Impressive World Championship Team Isn’t a Country. It’s a Brand.

Dathan Ritzenhein, the coach of On Athletics Club, was juggling a couple of jobs on a brisk morning this spring. As members of...

Darryl Strawberry Is Not Trying to Save You

It was a lazy, humid weekday afternoon at Citi Field, and the early birds were taking a steam bath. Ed Kranepool, an original...

At Inter Miami, Lionel Messi’s Only Complaint Is the Humidity

The version of Lionel Messi who has become South Florida’s reigning sport king is not the playmaker in his prime that he was...

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