Editor’s note: Throughout the week, The Athletic highlighted the Harlem Globetrotters and their contributions to basketball, vision for entertainment and overall commitment to goodwill. This series will conclude on Sunday, Feb. 16. The Washington Generals epitomize the notion of an underdog. That’s an easy reputation to earn with more than 18,000 losses compared to three […]
US confirms Europe excluded from Ukraine peace talks aimed at ending Russia’s war. Europe will be excluded from talks aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States lead Ukraine envoy said. General Keith Kellogg made the announcement on Saturday after the US sent a questionnaire to European capitals to ask what they could […]
Amad Diallo has suffered an ankle ligament injury in training with Manchester United and could miss the rest of the season, sources told ESPN. Amad, 22, United’s six-goal Premier League leading scorer, has been ruled out of Ruben Amorim’s squad for Sunday’s clash with Tottenham Hotspur and faces a scan to assess the full extent […]
A Brazilian woman suspected of poisoning her husband’s family with an arsenic-laced Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in what police think was most likely a suicide. Deise Moura dos Anjos, 42, had been in pre-trial detention since January after prosecutors accused her of the murder on Christmas Eve of three […]
Initially scheduled to take on Jarrah Alhazzaa in a flyweight submission grappling match, the Kuwaiti has withdrawn, with Mohammed Hilal Ahmad Abu Rumuh from Jordan stepping in. Alketheeri might be making his ONE Championship debut next week, but brings a wealth of experience and accomplishment to the table. The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt became […]
We’ve got some more thoughts on Elon Musk’s $97 billion hostile bid for Sam Altman’s OpenAI, which, we’re told, still hasn’t been delivered to anyone at OpenAI. Assuming an offer does show up, from a legal standpoint it’s actually dead on arrival. That’s because the board of OpenAI has no legal fiduciary duty to maximize […]
Gunnar Nielsen’s Premier League career was brief. Extremely brief, in fact: it lasted 17 minutes. The goalkeeper was introduced as a late substitute for Manchester City against Arsenal in 2010 after Shay Given had aggravated a shoulder injury he picked up a week earlier when diving in vain for Paul Scholes’s late winner in the […]
It turns out that the Isley Brothers, who sang that 1966 Motown hit “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You),” were onto something when they linked age to an aching and flagging heart. Heart disease, the nation’s leading cause of death and disability, has been diagnosed in about 6 percent of Americans ages […]
At ONE 168: Denver, Erdogan took on the history-making Aung La N Sang, in just his second ONE Championship bout. Aung La N Sang, a hero in his home country of Myanmar, was a former two-weight MMA world champion, having ruled over both middleweight and light-heavyweight classes in ONE Championship. He had built a three-fight […]
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Last summer, as I worked on an article about the global fan base of the N.B.A. star LeBron James, I bragged to a friend that I had interviewed a resident of every continent. “Even Antarctica?” […]