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The N.B.A. will formally present a return-to-play plan to owners on Thursday that calls for 22 of its 30 teams to resume the 2019-20 season at Walt Disney World in Florida in late July, according to several people familiar with the league’s…

Some clubs had plans to try to mitigate the strangeness. Borussia Mönchengladbach solicited photos from its fans and used them to produce more than 12,000 cardboard cutouts that were propped up in the stands. Other clubs chose to pipe in…

Thomas Waerner of Norway, the Iditarod sled dog race winner who was trapped in Alaska for three months, made it home on Wednesday after a 20-hour flight.His unconventional ride was a 1960s-era DC-6B airplane that happened to be bound for an…

His obsession with “looking weak” is of course a dead giveaway. It suggests not strength but emotional collapsibility. It’s not really so surprising that the man who serially kicks his golf ball out of the rough and exaggerates his high…

After stints in Canadian football and the Army, Dye was hired as an assistant coach at Alabama in 1965 by Bear Bryant, who was beginning to make the Crimson Tide a mainstay of the biggest bowl games. Dye remained at Alabama, in Tuscaloosa,…

LOS ANGELES — The Sacramento Kings announced on Tuesday that Grant Napear, their longtime television play-by-play broadcaster, had resigned, two days after tweeting “All Lives Matter” in an exchange with one of the team’s former players.In…

“I’m angry. I’m afraid,” he wrote. “And I’m in pain.”Russell Wilson plays quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. As he mulled the path forward for his stepson, his daughter and another son on the way, he wrote, “I fear because of the color…

Wes Unseld, a Hall of Fame center and indefatigable rebounder who was only one of two N.B.A. players to be named rookie of the year and most valuable player in the same season, died on Tuesday. He was 74.His family confirmed the death in a…

With players having been out of official competition since March, there has been discussion of changing the format of men’s singles matches at the U.S. Open from best-of-five sets to best-of-three sets to reduce players’ injury risk. But…

Wes Unseld, a Hall of Fame center known for indefatigable rebounding who was named most valuable player after the Washington Bullets won the 1978 N.B.A. championship, died on Tuesday. He was 74.His family confirmed the death in a statement…