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How Do You Pitch to Stan Musial? Very Carefully.

In 1954, when The Sporting News polled writers about the players they covered, Carl Erskine stood out. Among his fellow Brooklyn Dodgers, Erskine...

Playwrights’ Hoop Dreams Take Flight Off Broadway This Summer

In Inua Ellams’s new play, “The Half-God of Rainfall,” the gods play thunderous games of basketball in the heavens. For Candrice Jones’s “Flex,”...

An Honor of a Lifetime for the Last of the ‘Boys of Summer’

It is the first inning, you might say, and Carl Erskine does not have his best stuff. A camera crew has set up...

A Long, Shining River of Verse, Flowing From a Rower and Writer

The heart beats alone, keeping its own paceFear, rage, sorrow — storms beyond our rangeThe river bows and bends, birthing new spaceTo die...

The Contenders

The Women’s World Cup, which opens this week, is the biggest in its 32-year history, but it may also be the most open...

Lionel Messi Gives M.L.S. First Taste of the Weight of His Star

The celebration, broadcast globally in English and Spanish on Apple TV, M.L.S.’s first-year streaming partner, with a few glitches, purposefully coincided with halftime...

Why Every Women’s World Cup City Has Two Names

When soccer fans land in New Zealand this month ahead of the Women’s World Cup, they may find themselves welcomed not to Auckland...

C.R. Roberts, Scoring Sensation in Milestone Game, Dies at 87

C.R. Roberts, a Black running back for the University of Southern California, was afraid of what might happen when his integrated Trojans football...

Carlos Alcaraz Shows Novak Djokovic That His Championships Are Numbered

Now he has shown his mettle on grass, against the best players in the most prestigious tournament in the world. During an on-court...

Heralded Cuban Wins in an Unusual Introduction to Pro Boxing

“If Andy Cruz wants to show what they’ve been saying about him is true, he’s got to come out and fight,” Burgos said...

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