Alan Blinder
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Marcus Freeman Begins His First Full Season as Notre Dame’s Coach
Freeman’s first full season as a head coach will unfold in one of the most high-profile institutions in American sports. First up: No. 2 Ohio...
College Football Is Back. Don’t Even Try That Fake Slide.
The play Kenny Pickett made famous has been banned. Defensive holding? Now an automatic first down. And the N.C.A.A. is still trying to rid the...
Cameron Smith, Winner of This Year’s British Open, Joins LIV Golf
Smith’s defection had been expected, but Rory McIlroy tried to stave it off back in July.
Rory McIlroy Captures the Tour Championship
McIlroy edged out Scottie Scheffler, who had held the lead in Atlanta for almost the entire tournament. Sungjae Im and Scheffler finished tied for second,...
At Chaotic Season’s Close, PGA Tour Banks on Patience and Its Stars
At the Tour Championship in Atlanta, the PGA Tour has rolled out a more muscular rebuttal to LIV Golf. The exodus may continue anyway.
In Sarah Nurse, a Found Voice for Hockey
Nurse, 27, is the first Black woman to win Olympic gold in women’s hockey. Before she set the single-tournament points record in Beijing, she faced...
Kelly Kay Green’s Grand Plan to Jump on the Field at the Super Bowl
Kelly Kay Green wanted to be someone. The internet rewarded a criminal stunt, because of course it did.
PGA Tour Can Bar LIV Golfers From Playoff, Judge Rules
The narrow ruling came less than 48 hours before the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs in Memphis, but the broader turmoil could last for...
At Least 4 Players on Alabama’s ’60s Football Teams Had CTE
At least four fixtures of Alabama’s great teams of the 1960s had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., at their deaths. Researchers expect it in other...
At the British Open, Another Letdown for Rory McIlroy
McIlroy, the 2014 Open winner and a son of Northern Ireland, was a gallery favorite in Scotland. But his streak of major tournament misery will...