The Atlantic League has become an M.L.B. testing ground for ideas that could make the game livelier. Experiments include larger bases and an automated strike zone.
The N.F.L. Hall of Fame linebacker confronted life’s triumphs and tragedies with a fighter’s mentality. But dementia and other ailments raised questions about the consequences of his career.
The Olympian wrote a first-person article in which she said she was attacked as a teenager in 2008 by an older skater: John Coughlin, who killed himself this year.
By Jeré Longman
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The Yankees let the trade deadline pass without improving their struggling pitching staff, a decision that could benefit in later years but might cost them this October.
After John Looker announced he had brain cancer, he became a star fund-raiser and the heart of Pelotonia, a charity event in Ohio that raises millions of dollars. But something wasn’t right.
He won two Super Bowls with the Dolphins and later fought to find a cure for his son’s paralysis. Struggling with dementia, he donated his brain to science.
