7 posts tagged ‘Sports / The Sporting Scene’
What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have to Do with Chess
The New Yorker,
The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.
Three Great Football Coaches Crossed Paths for Years, and Now They’re Leaving Together
Pete Carroll, Bill Belichick, and Nick Saban worked for, learned from, and competed against one another, and changed the way that the game is played.
Naomi Osaka Is Returning to Tennis Right When the Game Needs Her
No player on the women’s tour now has Osaka’s star power. Whether she can win a major again is anyone’s guess.
Watching Ja Morant Fly Again
One of the N.B.A.’s most thrilling, perplexing players soars on the court, but stumbles off of it.
The Michigan Sign-Stealing Story Is the Perfect College-Football Scandal
The whole thing is stupid, which is why it’s all such good news, even for Michigan.
The Glorious Comedy of Victor Wembanyama
The San Antonio Spurs rookie, who stands seven feet four, with an eight-foot wingspan, is making other players look silly—when he isn’t looking silly himself.
The Man Who “Completed Football”
Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu, a central midfielder for Luton Town F.C., is the first player to rise from England’s lowest tier of professional soccer to its highest with a single team.