Category: Sports
![USWNT’s loss to Mexico was a jarring reminder that the team’s mystique is gone USWNT’s loss to Mexico was a jarring reminder that the team’s mystique is gone](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/02/27071304/GettyImages-2042052628-scaled-e1709036031304.jpg)
USWNT’s loss to Mexico was a jarring reminder that the team’s mystique is gone
Associated media – Related media For those who weren’t following along during the 2011 World Cup qualifying cycle — in which the U.S. lost to…
![Scenes From More Than a Century of Sports Scenes From More Than a Century of Sports](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/27/pageoneplus/27a2_insider-sports/27a2_insider-sports-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Scenes From More Than a Century of Sports
Linked media – Associated media As journalists from the Sports desk began other assignments across the newsroom — and, in a few cases, roles at…
![The tiny Brazilian club that fooled North Korea – ‘They would have been angry if we had won’ The tiny Brazilian club that fooled North Korea – ‘They would have been angry if we had won’](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/02/21120326/0221_NorthKoreaBrazil-scaled.jpg)
The tiny Brazilian club that fooled North Korea – ‘They would have been angry if we had won’
Associated media – Linked media Everyone seems to have a slightly different estimate of how many people were outside the stadium on that strange November…
![How Tim Flannery, the Giants Coach, Got Back to Writing Songs How Tim Flannery, the Giants Coach, Got Back to Writing Songs](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/08/multimedia/00mlb-flannery-lead-kbcq/00mlb-flannery-lead-kbcq-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg)
How Tim Flannery, the Giants Coach, Got Back to Writing Songs
Associated media – Related media As an old ballplayer, when the back pain attacked, he figured he would just play through it. “I took four…
![A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too Late A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too Late](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/09/12/multimedia/12hky-nilan-ptgq/12hky-nilan-ptgq-facebookJumbo.jpg)
A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too Late
Associated media – Associated media Memory, Now and Five Years Ago Chris Nilan is a quintessential Bostonian of a certain time and demographic, the kind…
![On Klay Thompson as a sixth man, boost from a living (Larry) legend and uncertain Warriors future On Klay Thompson as a sixth man, boost from a living (Larry) legend and uncertain Warriors future](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/02/27091158/GettyImages-2040785848-scaled-e1709043170913.jpg)
On Klay Thompson as a sixth man, boost from a living (Larry) legend and uncertain Warriors future
Connected media – Linked media SAN FRANCISCO — The motivational message, courtesy of the great Larry Bird, came at the perfect time. Klay Thompson was…
![Ohtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense Ohtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/01/10/multimedia/10ohtani-contract-promo-wgkb/10ohtani-contract-promo-wgkb-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Ohtani’s Contract Goes Beyond Dollars and Sense
Linked media – Associated media Ohtani, though, is beating the Americans on their own terms. “He can hit a home run 500 feet and throw…
![Baseball Has Grown in Bogotá, Colombia, Thanks to Venezuelan Migrants Baseball Has Grown in Bogotá, Colombia, Thanks to Venezuelan Migrants](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/11/22/multimedia/00colombia-venezuela-baseball-tcwg/00colombia-venezuela-baseball-tcwg-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Baseball Has Grown in Bogotá, Colombia, Thanks to Venezuelan Migrants
Related media – Related media “Once you’re here, it doesn’t matter,” said Gabriel Arcos, a systems engineer who grew up cheering for a Leones rival…
![Willie Hernández, Relief Pitcher Who Had a Banner 1984, Dies at 69 Willie Hernández, Relief Pitcher Who Had a Banner 1984, Dies at 69](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/11/25/multimedia/22hernandez-chfg-print1/22hernandez-chfg-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Willie Hernández, Relief Pitcher Who Had a Banner 1984, Dies at 69
Related media – Related media Hernández led major league pitchers in appearances (80) and games finished (68) in 1984, when he posted a 9-3 record…
![Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for .7 Million Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for .7 Million](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/26/sports/26xp-hockeycards1/26xp-hockeycards1-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Unopened Case of More Than 10,000 Hockey Cards Sells for $3.7 Million
Linked media – Linked media The box went to an anonymous buyer in Canada, Mr. Simonds said, breaking the record for the most money spent…