NFL Draft 2018: Round 1 Pick-by-Pick Updates
The Cleveland Browns took Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield with the top pick. Stay here for live updates and analysis.
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Photo CreditGregory Shamus/Getty Images On Pro Basketball
LeBron James and Michael Jordan Now Have Another Thing in Common: The Shot
The buzzer-beaters, 29 years apart, have striking similarities. Just ask two players instrumental in the original play who witnessed the eerie echo.
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Photo CreditNoah K. Murray/USA Today Sports, via Reuters Yankees 4, Twins 3
After a Wild Twist, Yankees Walk Off With a Series Sweep
After worrying about being no-hit, the Yankees celebrated another win over the Twins on Gary Sanchez’s three-run, game-ending home run.
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Photo CreditSean M. Haffey/Getty Images Saquon Barkley Tries to Bring Running Backs Into the Draft Spotlight
Running backs used to be the top prizes in the N.F.L. draft. Now they aren’t. Barkley, a Penn State rusher, wants to change that.
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Photo CreditDale Robinette/Summit Entertainment, via Associated Press The Browns Have a Great N.F.L. Draft (It’s a Movie)
Remember “Draft Day,” starring Kevin Costner? Here’s what the film got right about football’s drama-filled night.
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Photo CreditMaddie Meyer/Getty Images Yawkey Way, Where Red Sox Fans Converge, Will Be Renamed Over Racism Concerns
The street, adjacent to Fenway Park, was named after a former Red Sox owner who resisted integration in the 1950s.
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Photo CreditAssociated Press Inside the Confidential N.F.L. Meeting to Discuss National Anthem Protests
“Let’s make sure that we keep this confidential,” Roger Goodell said to begin the session. The New York Times obtained an audio recording of the meeting.
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Photo CreditSamuel Corum/Getty Images ‘Divisive’ and ‘Disastrous’: The Most Biting Comments N.F.L. Owners Made About Trump
— Patriots owner Robert Kraft
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Cardinals 9, Mets 1
Photo CreditRich Schultz/Getty Images Matt Harvey (Emphatically) Has Nothing to Say About His Demotion
The former starting pitcher has taken an aggressive stance with the news media as he is unwilling to discuss his demotion or his poor debut as a reliever.
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On Pro Basketball
Photo CreditJason Miller/Getty Images LeBron James Is a One-Man Show. Sometimes That Is the Problem.
“You feel like he just keeps getting better,” says an opposing coach. But the Cavaliers and Pacers are still tied 2-2 in the playoffs’ first round.
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Photo CreditDarron Cummings/Associated Press N.C.A.A. Panel Proposes Reforms, Including End to ‘One and Done’
Condoleezza Rice and her commission have ideas for cleaning up college basketball. But they don’t challenge the longtime requirement that the players be amateurs.
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Photo CreditJae C. Hong/Associated Press Track’s New Gender Rules Could Exclude Some Female Athletes
New regulations by the sport’s international governing body to address women with high levels of testosterone could keep them out of some races if they don’t take medicine to lower the hormone.
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On Soccer
Photo CreditRonald Wittek/EPA, via Shutterstock Zinedine Zidane Has the Wins at Real Madrid. Where Is the Praise?
Zidane has compiled an outstanding résumé in his three seasons with Real, but he has not yet received the breathless acclaim that his more charismatic counterparts have.
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Photo CreditAlastair Grant/Associated Press Review Finds ‘Tsunami’ of Fixed Matches in Lower Levels of Tennis
An independent panel, created two years ago, made 12 recommendations to improve tennis’s anticorruption efforts.
