I just want to start this off by saying, I’m dedicating this piece to Carl Weathers, and if Shooter McGavin tries to claim otherwise, I will rattle off a stream of obscenities that’ll make Lee Trevino shake his head from Garland, Texas. The Commanders hiring Dan Quinn leaves Bill Belichick jobless If Chubbs Peterson isn’t…
In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threatened or flat-out killed as a warning or retribution. Usually, it precedes and prompts the anti-hero’s downfall. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey more or less sent the NCAA a hand-written note with the names and addresses of their family members Thursday,…
Even as the signals of approaching dementia became impossible to ignore, Joseph Drolet dreaded the prospect of moving his partner into a long-term care facility. Mr. Drolet, 79, and his beloved Rebecca, 71, both retired lawyers and prosecutors in Atlanta, had been a couple for 33 years, though they retained separate homes. In 2019, she…
On a sweltering July evening, the din from thousands of computers mining for Bitcoins pierced the night. Nearby, Matt Brown, a member of the Arkansas legislature, monitored the noise alongside a local magistrate. As the two men investigated complaints about the operation, Mr. Brown said, a security guard for the mine loaded rounds into an…
A flock of mostly 20-somethings gathered on Tuesday night in a chapel-like building in Brooklyn to hear about a subject that has been a hot topic in religious spaces for centuries: celibacy. Except no one was using that term. Instead, they were calling it “boysober.” “I hate the word celibacy,” said the host of the…
You are who you know — a truism forcefully demonstrated this week when Kristin Juszczyk, who happens to be married to the San Francisco 49ers fullback, Kyle Juszczyk, signed a deal with the N.F.L. to use its logos on the football jersey-like puffer jackets she designs. That agreement, first reported by Sportico, came on the…
If an elephant is in the room, you have two choices: address it or ignore it. When you’re the NFL, you have a third one: Remove it. Worst Darkness Retreats of the Week In an unprecedented move that feels like it’s something straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook, Roger Goodell and the NFL have moved…
Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in several sports. Now, the nation plans to make headway into women’s tennis and host the 2024 WTA Finals — if a deal can be reached. Being a Tennis Gladiator like Roger Federer | Bear Grylls’ Ultimate Sports Fantasy “As everyone knows, we are working through a process to…
You are who you know — a truism forcefully demonstrated this week when Kristin Juszczyk, who happens to be married to the San Francisco 49ers fullback, Kyle Juszczyk, signed a deal with the N.F.L. to use its logos on the football jersey-like puffer jackets she designs. That agreement, first reported by Sportico, came on the…
The first major acquisition of the Boston Red Sox offseason is…Theo Epstein? According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the former Red Sox general manager who helped break the “Curse of the Bambino” is joining Fenway Sports Group as a senior advisor. While Epstein is not in charge of personnel decisions, he is expected to “carry enormous…
