Jon Snow met them on the kingsroad half a league south of Mole’s Town, before they could turn up at Castle Black, claim guest right, or call for parley. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And there was little archaeological evidence that the league had existed for many centuries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The point is I’m the quickest striker in the league and on earth. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was playing by then in a Biddy Basketball league that had games every weekend and apparently had already tamed his nerves around performing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The next morning was a Saturday, and it was our first summer in Oklahoma, so we didn’t know that kids went to camps, and soccer leagues, and vacations, and stuff. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was going to take them all the way to a league championship for the first time in forever. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She masked her fears behind a face kept still and stem, yet they were there all the same, growing with every league they crossed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A little piracy to help the leagues go by. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They looked very handsome, but all the same, he’d rather not join this league. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

That afternoon we were scheduled to play the winning team of another neighborhood league, a team with a reputation for wild, offensive slugging and poor fielding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Not anything in the league can beat them.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred leagues divided Meereen from Astapor, yet it seemed to her that the sky was darker to the southwest, smudged and hazy with the smoke of the Red City’s passing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Way out of Skid’s league, if I’m being totally honest. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They had then walked almost eight leagues, and the hobbits could not have gone any further, even if they had dared. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The summer air was clear and I could see many leagues. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those players could play with anybody, but the white leagues were off- limits to us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a league from the crossroads, a barricade of sharpened stakes had been erected, manned by pikemen and archers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Our captain would prefer to be fifty leagues farther out to sea, well away from that accursed shore, but I have commanded him to steer the shortest course. Others seek Dae- nerys too.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If they lost again, it would be a blow to the chances of blacks in the major leagues, they said. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But wait, if I tell her Miss Hilly’s out a her league... then ain’t I saying they is a line?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bucksfield had a terrible offense, but they had the best defense in the league. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her team led the league by 4½ games, but their opponents were the defending champions and still had a chance to take the pennant. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Over all the leagues of waste before the gates of Mordor there was a black silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“That was a command, not an offer. It is forty leagues to Greyguard. Pack up your arms and armor, say your farewells, and be ready to depart at first light on the morrow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He thought the league should be a more loosely organized group and act mainly as a recruiting committee for the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“This is the last league meet. Let’s win this thing!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We had gone no farther than half a league when we were overtaken by the man who had given the warning. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Five leagues or one,’ said Gimli, ‘we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Unlike his Dodgers teammates, he hadn’t been slugging home runs all season. The rookie was still looking for his very first home run in the big leagues.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered if America really got into the war, if they would close down the major leagues. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would have been highly unusual to be a New York Yankees fan in Philadelphia, which had two major league baseball teams of its own, one in each league, through the mid-1950s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And we don’t want to have this game breaking down into a two man jitterbug contest. We saw what happened against Trinity. We can win because we have the best team effort in the league.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The colored couldn’t play in the big leagues, but if they could I know Pete would of made it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The NBA had heard about Reggie and wanted him to reach out to its players because the league felt that so much pressure was mounting for them to be connected all the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To the rest of us he complained that Camilla was out of her league, and a hindrance to serious scholarship. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I played park league and Pop Warner football into junior high. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just one season in the big leagues before an injury ended my career.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I have come so many thousands of leagues, and for what? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I would absorb such rejections and keep on looking, because for some reason the scholarship society and the athletic league and the yearbook staff didn’t satisfy me, were never quite enough. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of Negro leagues popping up for colored to play in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment Bran thought it was his sister Arya ... madly, for he knew his little sister was a thousand leagues away, or dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The league was predicated, in short, on the consent of the governed, without which the entire enterprise would collapse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back then, in our league, it was simple. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even Hodor could climb down into a sinkhole with Bran heavy on his back, and Jojen could no more walk three leagues than run a thousand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They used to play soccer with you and Coby till they got kicked out of the league for literally tackling opponents and then, get this, biting them. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm began by saying that he was interested in joining the league, but that he wasn’t sure about it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Probably not. He doesn’t play well. Strictly minor league. He moves around a lot.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Remember, all of you, we have the better record. The title is ours to win. Like they say in the big leagues, were in control of our own destiny.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Orcs will often pursue foes for many leagues into the plain, if they have a fallen captain to avenge.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A league of grass, washed by a slow broad stream, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

During an eight-year career playing for seven major league teams, he became known as one of the greatest base stealers the game had yet seen. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Years ago he’d been a star pitcher in one of the black baseball leagues and the history of his career was nailed and pasted all over his shop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Put that away! The Lan- nisters are a hundred leagues away. Neva draw your sword unless you mean to use it. How many times must I tell you, foolish boy?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Two minutes before, they had been in league and now they were at odds—childhood revisited indeed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Did we really think that little Mica, undefeated in its own third-rate league, could ever stand up to the big-city powerhouses around the state? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“You know, your game is getting pretty good, and I hope you do make it to the league, then we would all be living nice,” he said with a smile on his face. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Either word of my incredible skills had gotten around the private school league, or Will had let them know that I was on his list and should be on theirs too. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It is doubtful whether Homo sapiens will still be around a thousand years from now, so 2 million years is really out of our league. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between Deepwood and Dagmer lay long leagues, rugged hills, thick woods, wild rivers, and more northmen than she cared to contemplate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We watched rugby league every Sunday night on television. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s leagues away, dead or dying. Let winter do its worst. A few more days and the snows will bury him and his army both.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These Guardians were immortal and worthy of worship, but they were often considered separate from the main league of gods and goddesses. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Which actually matters in our pursuit of that league championship title because it’ll determine whether or not we make it into the section tournament. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

By the time players reach their midteens, the very best of the best have been channeled into an elite league known as Major Junior A, which is the top of the pyramid. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“You can hear them clanking ten leagues off” There were more, near as mad or worse: Lord Wobble- cheeks, the Drunken Conqueror, the Beastmaster, Pudding Face, the Rabbit, the Charioteer, the Perfumed Hero. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That same year, the Youth League outlined its policy in a document written by Mda and issued by the league’s executive committee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, baseball fans in Seattle had to choose an eastern team to root for if they wanted a stake in the big leagues. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not that I always agree with what he says about God...but in league with the Devil? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Julia first told me you had to be Asian to play in her basketball league, it hurt my feelings. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her batting gloves are fingerless, which I’ve never seen in our league. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Racing in the bush leagues was utterly lawless. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dry, scorched plains around Meereen were flat and bare and treeless for long leagues, but the Yunkish ships had brought lumber and hides up from the south, enough to raise six huge trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The back door is three leagues north, down a sinkhole.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The soccer games reminded me of the league matches I used to play in when my family first moved to the mining town of Mogbwemo. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That first season, the Fugees played in a recreational, or rec, league, an informal division teams played in before they could enter competition in the “select” grouping. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Inland from the river, at a distance of one or two leagues . . . there could be seen some very large cities.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the men to watch a hundred leagues o’ Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She also said I was the best in the whole league and that I'm stupid to quit. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

If Cade didn’t get drafted into the big leagues in his senior year, we had plans on going to college together, and Dunston was the place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Plus,” says Hannah, “they all have private tutors and go to academic summer camps. You know I love you, Piper, but you are so not in the same league.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I must try and find out about this league. It doesn’t sound good to me at all.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the Civil War, survivors of slavery in North Carolina formed Equal Rights leagues to lobby for political changes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Nay! The riders are little more than five leagues distant,’ said Legolas. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, the big leagues is the white leagues.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on where that fellow grew up, a league could be anywhere between two to three and a half miles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only twice in the day’s march had they rested for a brief while, and twelve leagues now lay between them and the eastern wall where they had stood at dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I was sad not to see you on Milo’s team this summer. Are you playing in another league?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And at Liberty High the track teams are the only ones of any of the sports to ever win league. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Barnsley was at a Lethbridge Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants and the Medicine Hat Tigers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The oak was too bulbous, the elm too straggly, and in their strangeness they seemed in league. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Watch had once manned seventeen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, but they had been abandoned one by one as the brotherhood dwindled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With a few of my colleagues in the league, I even went so far as breaking up CP meetings by storming the stage, tearing up signs, and capturing the microphone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must be leagues away by now, but it looks as if I could be back in an hour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After all, we were the league champs, the papers loved us, and college scouts were sending me letters like crazy. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Doreah took a fever and grew worse with every league they crossed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Far away, maybe ten miles or more, there was a great burning, but between it and the Riders lines of fire blazed in a vast crescent, at the nearest point less than a league distant. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Far over the Great River, and the Brown Lands, leagues upon grey leagues away, the Dawn came, red as flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I have waited for this day for years. And this is just the beginning, my friends. We are in the big leagues now. A show to be reckoned with.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But she was a thousand leagues away, in the clutches of the Lannisters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was as old as my father but in league with the younger generation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We think that starting all-star leagues and gifted programs as early as possible is the best way of ensuring that no talent slips through the cracks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

God’s body, who measured things in leagues these days? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I understand the demanding schedule of minor league baseball, but I also realize that I might not get a second chance to sign if I go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Langston is our big league rival, and even though they have everything our team would love to have, we have the one thing a team can’t buy. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

There are pictures of me as a baby, me on the first day of school, me holding a first place trophy with my little league teammates. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She was right there, only a few feet from him, but so far out of reach it might have been a hundred leagues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To the point where our coach wondered aloud if they were actually eligible for the ten-and-under league. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I may just do that,” I tell her, because I’m making the connection between training to break a league record and training to ace a math test. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear was accustomed to rise at first light, so Jon had until dawn to put as many leagues as he could between him and the Wall ... if Sam Tarly did not betray him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If the good weather did not change I would cover many leagues before dark. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait. A few more days, that’s all. We have crossed half the world, be patient for a few more leagues. Somewhere north of Yunkai our chance will come.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Comets look flashy, but they’re not in the same league as the Nimbus.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The rats, which had been troublesome that winter, were also said to be in league with Snowball. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I still lacked confidence as a speaker, and was intimidated by the eloquence of so many of those in the league. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of him believing in me, pushing me, tailoring my workouts, I’d become the fastest 400-meter sprinter in the league. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I can name you a dozen men in either league who’re more valuable than he is,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Jews, too, are in league with the Devil! For they deny the divinity of Christ!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Originally from Pennsylvania, she bowled in Langley’s Duckpin bowling league and was a faithful member of the Bridge Club. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Myron often regaled me with stories of the lame stuff they used to do together in that room—play board games like Risk and Stratego, trade baseball cards, set up their own Nerf basketball leagues. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Pausing beneath the tree in which I hid, I heard Matthew say, “I don’t think we’ll find the boy. He’ll have gone leagues by now.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For Anduin, from the bend at the Harlond, so flowed that from the City men could look down it lengthwise for some leagues, and the far-sighted could see any ships that approached. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When part one left off, Professor Aronnax had traveled only six thousand leagues. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ten thousand leagues in three and a half months, writes Professor Aronnax. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He stood looking at me with his head lowered, and the world snapped into position around him, as if in league with him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

His scribbled knots of lines are measured in leagues and compass degrees with painstaking detail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Northwestward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They might have easily been lost amidst the Land of Always Winter, a thousand leagues beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Then ride out two-and-twenty leagues. I will give you wagons, workers, mules, whatever you require.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It won’t hurt our record in the league or affect our standings as we head into tournament season a few weeks from now. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The Marshall game was only the second of the season, and since it wasn’t a league contest it had no effect on whether Permian made the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was firmly opposed to allowing Communists or whites to join the league. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray, a few years older, played in the six-man touch football league, sometimes against Caucasian teams who would come in from Lone Pine or Independence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a job working twenty to thirty hours per week, earning $8.50 an hour, for the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I was in a seniors’ league, but I was on my own two feet.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They did not know which was more shocking—the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She’d never fall for him, because she was totally out of his league. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Is she the boss of the whole league?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sure, we had our share of mean kids, but Ainsley’s in a whole different league. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Is the Bishop the boss of the league?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even if it didn’t drive them to a long delay in a foreign port, it would be with them every league of the way to Salem Harbor. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tigers and the Giants were the two finest teams in the Canadian Hockey League, which in turn is the finest junior hockey league in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This place lay on a headland a half league to the west of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of fans spent lazy summer evenings rooting for their family and friends on teams in an industrial baseball league that included the Swift Premiums. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If she could find a way to use the boys’ quickness against Athens, Luma felt the Fugees had a chance to knock off the best team in the league. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A host of the enemy was encamped upon it, three miles west of Amon Dîn, and some strength of men was already thrusting along the road and was no more than three leagues away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s only two leagues from where we are. An easy walk,” he said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His championship playing didn't just get him into the major league; it got him the Most Valuable Player award in 1949 and had proved him to be an All-Star player for the last five years. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Men were men, and these were the only women for a thousand leagues. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Above them streamed the stag-and-lion of the boy who sat upon the Iron Throne a thousand leagues away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“See their big foot pads? They don’t sink into the sand and can go for many leagues without drinking. They store water in those humps. And they can be ridden.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were under the eaves of Fangorn, and endless leagues lay between them and the Men of Rohan, their only friends in this wide and dangerous land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He knew enough about Riddle to believe that the old owner would never subject his skittish colt to a five-day rail journey to race in what he viewed as the sport’s minor leagues. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berg had been a mediocre ballplayer at best, hitting .243 over fifteen big league seasons as a backup catcher. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking about going right to the major leagues and playing pro ball while Kitty went to school. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A thousand leagues away and deaf to our need,” Jon replied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Canada had a second hockey league for those children born in the last half of the year, it would today have twice as many adult hockey stars. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

From his volunteer work at a youth basketball league here in Dearborn to his goal of becoming a doctor and bringing quality medical care to poor neighborhoods, Kamal embodied the very best of America. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I was well aware that my league and his league were spheres that did not touch. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She’s practically running in my direction, looking like she just heard that every team we’ll have to beat to win the league championship has forfeited. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In creating such checks on authority, the league was just the most formal expression of a region-wide tradition. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Just, good job, I guess. Agent Fiona is way out of your league.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

All over the walls were framed, autographed photographs of major league stars, and also some political and show business celebrities who would come there to eat, bringing friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, a major league team picked me in the first round to play professional baseball, and in the evening, my baseball team had to play in the semifinal round of the championship. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He paced back and forth as he gave us a speech about how everybody was saying it was our year, the newspapers, people in the league, even TV sports news was covering us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Lord Eddard was a thousand leagues away, a captive in some dungeon, a hunted fugitive running for his life, or even dead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It turned out the Cowboys had won the Super Bowl last year, so they were the best team in the league. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The article doesn’t mention there being proof or if JonJon was arrested, but it does reiterate what the headline said: he was kicked out of his baseball league and stripped of the records he’d set. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

A few leagues farther on, Praed pointed out more graves, a whole row freshly dug. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a fall sport, so they were done, but Ivy was pretty sure he played with a local league in the spring. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But since it wasn’t a league game, they could live with it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could totally still call the league now and say that we cheated or something. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The nearest silent sister was ten thousand leagues away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were out of our neighborhood, out of our league. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

To all this I responded with laughter, happy to be in league against the world of hypocrites and rulemongers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Open, or we'll know you for outlaws in league with the king's enemies." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Oh, my dear, I see that your eyes are opened, and that to you the lightning flash show all the leagues,” for Mrs. Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I am really out of my league in this conversation. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

About half the school had joined the league; of those, a few had fallen away, and of the rest, a few had given in and joined. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder how the baseball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tigers won the league championship that spring. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

‘You have the keen eyes of your fair kindred, Legolas,’ he said; ‘and they can tell a sparrow from a finch a league off. Tell me, can you see anything away yonder towards Isengard?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Lawes also invited major league baseball teams into prison to play against the Mutual Welfare League team, the Black Sheep. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty leagues it stretched from the Far Downs to the Brandywine Bridge, and fifty from the northern moors to the marshes in the south. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women at Langley joined softball or basketball teams and played in local amateur leagues. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Though the blast was two miles away, Werfel was terrified that it would continue to swallow the world, league by league, until nothing was left. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The whole statue had acquired around its northerly surfaces a bluish-green patina, so that from certain approaches, and in low light, the muscle-bound Triton really seemed a hundred leagues under the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’m not in league with her,” he says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And my exhilaration was snuffed out and transformed into an almost uncontrollable rage when I got to school and found it strewn with the leaflets of Reb Saunders’ anti-Zionist league. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was out of my league, and even though I was only twelve, I knew that I’d be one of those guys who always fell in love with the unreachable, ungettable, and uninterested. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Riddle did not believe that Seabiscuit was in War Admiral’s league and may have felt that by agreeing to run against a western horse in a match race, he would be demeaning his colt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child of a well-heeled, status-oriented Back Bay family of antique dealers, she was far out of the league of a jockey with a seventh-grade formal education and no fixed address. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Caswell's keep was scarcely tall enough to call a tower, but the country was low and flat and Catelyn could see for leagues in all directions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But all these were minor league teams that played only in local and regional contests. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was, naturally, a big basketball scene— a league, in fact, with prison-paid inmate referees and a scoreboard and games that took place about every other day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iam traveling through years as well as leagues, Tyrion reflected, back through history to the days when dragons ruled the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The game had also pushed the Fugees into third place in the league’s final rankings, one point ahead of none other than the Blue Springs Liberty Fire themselves. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

What I didn't know, though, was just how fast the girls in this new league were. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was no more than a league to where the out-walls had stood. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I have been running for more than a league,” he said. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foedus is a league, or compact, but it is often used as synonymous with lex, and Renaissance commentators on Lucretius interpreted him as talking about the laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But they saw now that the commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to donate part of this to help set up a little kids’ basketball league at the Islamic Center when it reopens,” he says, and the room erupts into cheers. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were some good teams in the Negro leagues, but they just didn't have much money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said a guy is starting a basketball league for kids from nine to eleven. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind the league. What did you do?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He was...he was the first major league baseball player to come out as gay.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“I had kind of an off day. And we got second in league. Langston squeezed us out.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At its nearest point the wall was little more than one league from the City, and that was south-eastward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The influence of the league had stabilized since its first big successes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"As well," the Lord Commander continued, ignoring the bird's protest, "it puts a thousand leagues twixt him and you without it seeming a rebuke." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nicole lounges with the Jocks, comparing scars from summer league sports. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then beyond the gleam of the beach and the bare rocks and reefs, more than a league beyond them, I saw a great white crest moving down upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to her mother, the Witch had big black boots that could travel seven leagues in a single step. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

"She would be dead, and I would know you better than I had before. But enough talk. You ought be sleep-ing. We have leagues to go, and dangers to face. You will need your strength." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The only time he had ever had contact with whites was during summer league baseball, but otherwise he stayed behind the concrete wall that fenced him and his friends in like cattle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was real busy with him and she went to peewee league games for him and even took him to work with her sometimes. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swam for many leagues in the morning through the bright water, weaving their foamy patterns. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me, I’m still learning, but John Mark says if I played in a league with other kids my age, I’d destroy them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Last Thursday she was back at the track, cheering from the sidelines as her teammates battled Langston High in a dual league meet. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She could hear that baby fussing from half a league away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Clearly, he and his col­league were still available. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though only half the height of the tallest eastern pines, the chestnut had a weight and mass and symmetry that put it in another league. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Watching Taylor, sun- kissed and bronzed and effortless, Petra felt jealous and more than a little out of her league. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A hundred leagues from end to end, and seven hundred feet high. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And...I suppose I reckon this league has got something to do with the CCD.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The horse lines alone stretched out over leagues. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said, “Pfft. The Cowboys are the worst team in the league.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was eighteen and one newspaper article about him said that he could be in the major leagues by the time he was nineteen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they were wondering if I were in league with the police! Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty leagues and more it was, as a bird flies, from Edoras to the fords of the Isen, where they hoped to find the king’s men that held back the hosts of Saruman. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Leaders from twelve different professional sports leagues, too, had agreed to promote a 60 Minutes of Play a Day campaign to help get kids moving more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Over the sundering leagues of land, far away they gazed to the edge of sight, and hope and fear bore their thoughts still on, beyond dark mountains to the Land of Shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They rode now more swiftly, and by midnight the Fords were nearly five leagues behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Swift and enduring were the steeds of Rohan, but there were many leagues to go. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Melita especially liked the sports, when the girls’ groups competed against neighboring girls’ leagues, playing games such as “capture the flag.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was mountains looming on the verge of sight, their jagged edges softened by wellnigh twenty leagues of misty air; perhaps it was but a cloud-wall, and beyond that again a yet deeper gloom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was back inside Summer, long leagues away, and the night was rank with the smell of blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I guess in the big leagues you could do somewhat better. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet next to Heather and Deirdre, you could tell she was out of her league. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

His wicked curveball attracted the major- league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall Rock was more than a league from the island and was black and shimmering because it was covered with cormorants. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexa says that she’s not going to try out either, but only because she already plays on a travel league that takes her all the way to Orlando and Tallahassee for tournaments. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“From here to the coast of Santa Barbara—twenty leagues away?” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The league also called for the integration of the county’s schools. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was less than half a league from my cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a way of putting the two of them into the same camp, in pretended league against me, that annoys me more than it should. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yvaine remained as pale as the moon, and she did not lose her limp, no matter how many leagues they covered. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The consensus among fans is that Iverson is one of the top players in the league. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The sport I wanted to play was called rugby league. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that I don’t want to be in the same league as them—hell, I don’t even want to be in the same ballpark. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m not s’posed to talk to you at all unless I’m persuading you to join the league.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"But the sea is hundreds and hundreds of leagues away, and Winterfell's walls are so high the water couldn't get in even if it did come." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We’re expected to do great things here and then move back up to the big leagues. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten leagues north of Widow’s Watch the seas rose again, slamming the Harvest into one of the galleys towing her and sinking both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I assumed it was mostly posture coaching and junior polo league.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She set a new league record in the 400-meter race just hours before the accident. She had the discipline, the determination. She had incredible potential.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m good, but baking a cake in an hour is definitely out of my league.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“There must be a village a league or so ahead,” Bear cautioned. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rugby league is a lot like American football, but with no helmets and no pads. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Abu’s love and passion for football was passed down to my brother, with Qareeb playing football from a really young age in Pop Warner youth football programs, a local league for young boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no surprise that my mother’s in league with the Snake and Toad. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed like the people who made the league were saying they didn’t want me to play with them. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In those days no other Men had settled dwellings so far west, or within a hundred leagues of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“All the peculiar children they kidnapped over the years . . . this is what they were doing to them? I figured they just became hollowgast food. But this . . . this is leagues more evil.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But it was only the majors and some of the white semipro leagues that paid anything decent. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were these people all in league against him? The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But Daddy told me it wasn’t about keeping me out; it was about lifting up the kids who played in the league. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘His arm has grown long indeed,’ said Gimli, ‘if he can draw snow down from the North to trouble us here three hundred leagues away.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jerome Paisley played in the major leagues for just eighteen days in September, when teams are allowed to expand their rosters. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Or worse: Octavian was actively in league with the earth goddess. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Although I agreed with this, I was nervous about joining the league and still had doubts about the extent of my political commitment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The danger will increase with every league that we go south under the naked sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Was she testing me, looking for a sign that I was in league with Hamlet? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The field at Indian Creek Elementary couldn’t be used for league games. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

From here, Jon Connington had ruled broad lands extending many leagues to the west, north, and south, just as his father and his father’s father had before him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even with our standing in league, usually the only people who show up at track meets are dedicated parents, plus the occasional boyfriend or girlfriend. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“What do the other teachers think of this league?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

‘For if ever we come through this darkness, many leagues lie beyond, and every hour that is lost there will bring the triumph of Sauron nearer. Follow me!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Warships cannot be made from brick. The slavers burned every stand of timber within twenty leagues of here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other kids had history—they’d been in the same class the year before, or soccer league, or Sunday school, or Girl Scouts, or had grown up on the same street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A year later, I came home from school one day and called to Mom from my bedroom while I was getting changed, asking her if I could play Saturday morning rugby league. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In terms of area conquered during his lifetime, he was in the league of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wide beds of kelp which surround our island on three sides come close to the shore and spread out to sea for a distance of a league. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness came early to the silent woods, and before the fall of night they halted, weary, for they had walked seven leagues or more from Henneth Annûn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And now, Jackie Robinson is at bat in the big leagues. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the ANC annual conference in Bloemfontein, the organization adopted the league’s Program of Action, which called for boycotts, strikes, stay-at-homes, passive resistance, protest demonstrations, and other forms of mass action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just some dumb stuff about if I was going to be a star in the big leagues some day.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was closer, only five leagues north, but Asha could not see it Too many hills stood in the way. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sixth grade was much the same as fifth—games in the playground, unsuccessfully searching for a sport to play—until our elementary school rugby league coach, Mr. McConnell, let me help out “coaching.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The point is, the rest of the league was no match for McNab. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said that maybe where Pete is now, if they have a team, colored could play in those big leagues. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never quite in their league, talent-wise. I was often rather sharp with him. You can imagine how I — how I regret that now....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that "the house is in league with me against the world". Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing by Jane Dunn – review 2013-04-20T08:00:48Z

Years into their existence, Keys home games were among the best-attended in the minor leagues. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Jordan, playing against some of the toughest competition in the minor leagues, didn’t just hit .202. | '30 for 30: Jordan Rides the Bus': A Big Star Transforms Into a Small Moon for a Season 2010-08-23T21:38:00Z

In 2012, according to the league, foreign guest artists were hired by U.S. orchestras to play in the United States more than 1,200 times. Ivory, at the tip of a complex issue for traveling orchestra members 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

But as he grew up, and his politics began to develop, he turned against the name and the league, both of which he found increasingly unacceptable. What Happens Now to All That Washington N.F.L. Merchandise? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

This year, there are 34 former major league players on the ballot. Should cheaters get into baseball’s Hall of Fame? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

But there will also be a new spot that’s very much needed, especially in light of the NFL’s continuous failure to address domestic violence in the league. Watch the first-ever anti-domestic violence Super Bowl ad, brought to you by the NFL 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

When you get into the big leagues, the really good stuff is going to play well in both cultures. 'Catastrophe' Stars on Why the Couple Acutally Has a Model Relationship 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

I admit there are plenty of problems in sports — from the playground to the pro leagues. Perspective | Sports has recently shown a dark side, but that doesn’t mean kids should stop playing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Now it's up to a critical mass of minor league players to vote in favor of unionization. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Just based on those things, and yet my grandmother had barbecues at her house, and cooked cakes for the school, and volunteered, and book clubs, and rotary, and bowling leagues, and all these other things. Embrace doing nothing, especially if you're working from home 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

Questions about how much the Ravens and Vikings organizations — not to mention NFL commissioner Roger Goodell — knew about their activities have dogged the case and continue to draw criticism to the league. With Paterno-Sandusky doc 'Happy Valley,' unsettling cultural questions 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Adding to the attraction of these concerts is the school’s ability to lure major league conductors to work with its young players. Music Review: Juilliard Players Join the Fierce Give and Take of a Prokofiev Concerto 2010-12-16T06:30:05Z

For example, the players generally did not wear helmets until the league passed a rule before the 1979-1980 season requiring new players to wear them. Perspective | NHL marks 100 years out on the ice 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

At Athlete Eats, the 16-seat restaurant he opened last year, he’s bringing big league food to the average fan. Restaurant Report: Athlete Eats in St. Louis 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

We compete in the same league every Friday. My workout: ‘Towards the end of a race, your legs are on fire’ 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

In terms of inspiring terror in little kids, the dementors — black-cloaked figures that are exactly what they sound like — are probably in the same league as the flying monkeys in “The Wizard of Oz.” So You Know Nothing About ‘Harry Potter’? Let’s Catch You Up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Until 2016, the league for years denied any connection between brain trauma on the field and hundreds of players’ crippling neurological ailments and, in many cases, deaths. A Son’s Future, a Father’s Final Down 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z

One study of Bible verses in pro athlete's Twitter bios concluded that major league baseball players were "far and away the most overtly religious group of athletes of the four major sporting leagues." How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Always raise your hand to jump in on new projects, whether it’s pitching new business, planning a happy hour, leading a research project, or organizing a softball league. 6 Smart Ways to Build Your Personal Brand 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

After more than two decades playing in local pub leagues and then at county level, Mitchell qualified for his first World Championship in 2010. Fame, fortune and new tractor await 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

More than 70 percent of the league’s players are Black, but the N.F.L. has no Black owners and, until recently, only one Black head coach. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Plus, he's in a fantasy football league with my tour manager and I just think that's ridiculous. Kathy Griffin facing Emmys "nemesis" Ryan Seacrest 2010-08-03T07:25:00Z

Similarly, the league's championship trophy is named for Shiva, the valedictorian in the men's graduating class who's outgrown her nerdy high school identity to become a beautiful doctor. What fantasy football taught me about guys 2011-09-08T19:01:00Z

It is an escape that has pitched him into the big league when it comes to the art market. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z

We had all these great sports teams for the girls, and the women’s basketball team hadn’t lost a league game in—I think it was seventeen years. Jackie MacMullan Is the Great Chronicler of Basketball’s Golden Age 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z

He coaches little league and owns the only gas-station in town. House Watch: Score One for the Team 2011-11-08T13:43:47Z

“It’s going to be hard for them, as black men,” Snoop Dogg told The Times in 2015, in reference to players in his league. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Trainwreck’ and ‘Coach Snoop’ 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

But “Detroit” was the release that Hollywood was watching most keenly, in part because it represented an effort by Annapurna Pictures to join the movie-business big leagues. ‘Detroit’ Suffers Box-Office Setback as ‘Dark Tower’ Is No. 1 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Maybe I'm not the best person to speak to being in it, but my recollection of the league is that it was very fondly liked by some. Shearsmith: A man of many faces 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

It has been compared to Phoenix, but it's not quite in that league. New band of the day: Night Works (No 1,398) 2012-11-19T17:40:35Z

“Her views carry enormous weight, both with the other owners and the players,” said Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner. Lady of the Lakers 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

The cable company and the network should be in league against their common enemy. The TV Watch: Surviving CBS’s Fight With Time Warner Cable 2013-08-04T19:37:42Z

A win would catapult Mr. Lonergan, who also wrote the film’s screenplay, into Hollywood’s major leagues. Fates in Filmmaking: Who Were the Wallflowers at the ‘La La Land’ Dance? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In professional sports, baseball has led the way, driven in part by 22 major league stadiums that have been built since 1990. Late to the Game, Football Stadiums Aim for Better Food 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

One brother gets his shot at the big leagues, the other falls back into menial jobs and petty crime. TV Shows to Watch From Hong Kong, Brazil, Sweden and More 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Finding accurate financial data on any sport league is challenging. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

As such, it became the perfect stepping stone from the pub, club and hospital DJing circuit to radio’s big leagues. Cracker factory records: the surprising story of United Biscuits' radio station 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Remy Ma even started a battle rap league of her own, Chrome 23, with the goal of providing more opportunities for women in battle rap. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Shortly after, he started up a league in his backyard with a handful of friends. The joy of axe-throwing: 'When you hit that bullseye there's no better feeling' 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Akufo is also planning to create a “super league” of exceptional teams that will compete only against each other and thus can charge more for tickets than typical matches. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: The Rich Are Different 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

FanDuelers can pick hundreds of new teams every day, sometimes multiple teams in one league. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

One relieved new league member confided in Schneider that she had competed in a local coed contest that had 12 people and six of the guys asked her out. Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The victory extended the Hawks' points streak to seven and put them atop the league, and standings with 64 points. Hawks win 3rd straight 2012-01-21T05:25:00Z

And the NBA is the perfect choice for the first league to enter into this uncharted territory. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

Sheffield United fans will feel the most entitled to progress, given the club's stature, but Yeovil's advance, after just 10 years in the league, would be remarkable. TV highlights – 03/05/2013 2013-05-03T06:00:05Z

No further meetings are scheduled, making it even more likely the league will lose regular-season games to a work stoppage for only the second time. NBA cancels preseason, sets deadline 2011-10-04T23:25:00Z

The first gay major league baseball player to come out will not be a matter of if, but when. How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The defense was among the worst in the league. A championship football team isn’t built overnight 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

You can fly like Superman, go 20,000 leagues under the sea, or walk around as a literal demon; you can do whatever you can imagine and no one will judge you. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Better to say that the league is in the business of building bridges, not that it does what it needs to do in order to stay in business. The N.B.A. and China and the Myths of Sports Diplomacy 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

In the big leagues Make a family bracket challenge. Cool ideas for enjoying the World Cup as a family 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

“When you’re involved in a fantasy league, pretty much all you do is sit around on a couch all day and just watch football,” said Mitri. From fantasy to reality: Brooklyn sculptor turns love of fantasy football into business 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

"I love my wife but I don't want her in the league," Kevin grumbles to his friends. What fantasy football taught me about guys 2011-09-08T19:01:00Z

They had beers and Scotch eggs at an Irish pub and then headed to a minor league baseball game. Chasten Buttigieg has been a homeless community college student and a Starbucks barista. Now, he could be ‘first gentleman.’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

The parents met in high school and as Bill tells their son in a Season 2 episode, Gertz’s Judy was “the hottest chick in our class, she was way out of my league.” Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Already, “in terms of consumer appeal, he’s in the league there with Brad Pitt,” said Henry Schafer, a spokesman for the Q Scores Company, which measures celebrity likability. Dwayne Johnson, Star of ‘San Andreas,’ Is Solid. Solid as a ... 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Former major league outfielder David Justice because he would be Justice Justice. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My elderly dog could be a Supreme Court justice. Technically. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Gary Lundgren’s debut feature, “Calvin Marshall,” aspires to that league but doesn’t rise above Class A. Broken Sky Films Alex Frost plays the title role in “Calvin Marshall.” | 'Calvin Marshall': Covering the Bases 2010-08-20T00:40:00Z

According to NFL.com, Rodgers had petitioned the NFL to recognize a homeopathic treatment he'd received from his personal doctor to "raise his antibody levels" as equal to one of the league's three approved vaccines. Aaron Rodgers has COVID after misleading about vaccine status: What's next? 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

James was a part-time security guard who in 1977 started self-publishing a statistical baseball almanac whose influence eventually spread to every professional sports league. A Numbers-Cruncher Confronts Emotion and Other Unquantifiable Matters 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Barnes’s women are so intentionally eccentric that you wonder why she returns to bits of Bach cello music, which seems to show up the antics onstage as minor league and daffy. Dance Review: At the Joyce, Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes 2010-08-12T22:50:00Z

Every major sports league in North America has a corresponding fantasy universe. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But these are the big leagues, and Penn hasn’t quite got what it takes to top this list. Is Sean Penn the most unbearable Hollywood actor on the the planet? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t say anything about the ticklees in wrist and ankle restraints; if this were a league it was the kind the characters in “Fifty Shades of Grey” might join. Review: ‘Tickled,’ Is Fun and Giggles Until It Isn’t Anymore 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

At this point in the gambling drama “Uncut Gems,” the Diamond District jeweler is in leagues of debt, and his one final, desperate hope to raise cash — a gem auction — has just failed spectacularly. Adam Sandler Grows Up (Mostly) 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Public funding of sports venues was a divisive topic for the body politic, even before Seattle had a major league sports team. ‘Becoming Big League’: a history of Seattle baseball’s ins and outs 2013-04-26T20:22:13Z

Audrina's paso doble wasn't close to being in the same league. "Dancing with the Stars": Kurt Warner lumbers on 2010-10-26T12:30:00Z

Favorite players: Lots of kids watch matches on television from the major leagues in Europe such as the Premier League in Britain and La Liga in Spain. Perspective | With U.S. staying home, soccer fans need new World Cup favorite 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

I signed a futures deal there and when the league ran its course he welcomed me back with open arms. Former Bengal Collinsworth excited to call 5th Super Bowl 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z

Six years ago Friday he was suspended in the minor leagues for throwing a bat at an umpire. Tigers player arrested for hotel fight involving Chicago tourists: report 2012-04-27T15:11:00Z

In baseball terms, it may be a show destined for a career in the minor leagues. Review: ‘Hunting Season’ on Vimeo Starts Second Season 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

He threatened and yelled at plenty during four hot-tempered decades in the major leagues, but he rarely came close to actually slugging one. The night the New York Yankees manager wanted to kick my ass 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

It aspired to be in the same league as genuinely worthy films, and even more to do so in a genre — surveillance state thrillers — that aliens movies have rarely ventured into. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

George Roy Hill's film is about violence, capitalism and unfulfilled dreams set in the world of minor league hockey. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z

If Morrissey was wealthy before – he lives in, by all accounts, a very nice house in Hampstead – landing a big US TV show will have catapulted him into a new league. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z

A ski destination heads to the big leagues. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Her time in the league is over — she was never in it for the wrestling, anyway. What to Remember Before ‘GLOW’ Comes Back for Season 2 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Unfairly fired from the diner, she turns to what she knows, robbing hotel rooms in league with a crooked desk clerk. Review: With ‘Good Behavior,’ Lady Mary Takes a Lowlife Turn 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

But outside of Spain it’s hard to find a league that gets so many sweetheart deals. Spain props up soccer amid crushing austerity 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The other was of Lenn Sakata, a shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles — and the first Japanese American to play in the major leagues. Longtime bookseller David Ishii was quite a story himself 2012-03-02T06:27:40Z

Rather than focus on shrinking the league's number of teams, the league should be working to grow the number of elite players, both at home and abroad. Blame the NBA -- and China -- for Cavs' Losing Streak 2011-02-11T07:50:00Z

Trips could last for days; it wasn't considered cruel and unusual punishment to include clubs residing in Maine, Virginia and Ohio in the same league. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

They wrote histories of the Pullman train porters, Negro leagues baseball and the civil rights movement. Fredrick L. McKissack, Children’s Book Author, Dies at 73 2013-05-09T22:41:33Z

To commemorate the occasion, Jimmy Kimmel had some of the bigger names in the league read insults that had been posted about them on Twitter. Watch NBA Players Read Mean Tweets About Themselves 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Bully for the league if it helped do that. Salute to NFL leadership is a real head-scratcher 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

This triggers an intense league investigation, including a bone scan, to determine whether he's misrepresented his age, a major no-no that could drastically reduce his value on the market if proven true. 'Ballplayer: Pelotero' documents hard road of Dominican athletes 2012-07-12T18:17:03Z

Rosalie Genevro, who has led the Architectural League of New York for 37 years, is stepping down from her position as executive director at the nonprofit organization, the league announced Thursday in a news release. Architectural League Leader Is Stepping Down After 37 Years 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

“He gave the league the air it needed, elevated it to another level, pumped it up real good, and kept pumping till it exploded.” And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Officially, of course, the league condemns all forms of discrimination. Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

After he died, the league bought the plot of land in Woodlawn for $1,500. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z

Word nerds have been gathering at crossword tournaments and battling in competitive Scrabble leagues for decades. Wordle is our new drug 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

But I think the sign is a good reminder to everyone connected with youth sports — kids, parents, coaches, the folks who run the leagues — what is important about the games. Perspective | A sign that youth sports often forget what’s important about the games 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Axe-throwing, which is done in groups of eight or more, or in league play, with 30 competitors who register online. Competitive axe-throwing is an actual thing, and apparently it’s best done with beer 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Washington had the league’s best record during the regular season and outscored their opponents by more than 80 goals. Will the Capitals and Wizards stick around for a long run? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

It is leagues better than anything you'll ever buy from the store, and I believe it's better than any homemade ice cream you may have made in the past. Homemade ice cream courtesy of Grandma Bah, a wild child-turned-wild woman with taste 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

“You look at the W.N.B.A., and a high percentage of the league is African-American women,” Ms. Cash said. W.N.B.A. Stars Try to Move Up to Fashion’s Front Row 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

He’s opened a tea house in a Chicago suburb, founded a professional wrestling league and performed an eight-hour musical interpretation of Herman Hesse's existentialist classic "Siddhartha." Smashing Pumpkins complete new album 'Monuments to an Elegy' 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The major league pitcher A. J. Burnett wears a kind of bushy disconnected mohawk. The Disconnected Undercut Hairstyle Mixes Long and Short 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z

Art Angels” demands to play in the big leagues. Grimes, a D.I.Y. Indie Sensation, Ramps Up Her Sound 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

It's a pity that Charlie is not in the same league, but it's a timely reminder that putting children's literature on stage is never child's play. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – sickly sweet 2013-06-28T10:48:00Z

In 2018, when Marco and a few colleagues founded their own business, he immediately recognized an opportunity to bring the group together: He started a fantasy football league with them. The perks of being a sports fan: Cheering on a team has benefits beyond game day 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

The sport has three professional leagues battling for control of the pickleball kingdom. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

“The union not only had an extraordinary education program,” he continued, “but they had classes in economics and philosophy, drama clubs and an athletic league.” Cut, Baste, Stitch, Sing! 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z

During J.R.’s first two years in the league, his father lived with him in New Orleans, in a house that J.R. bought, enforcing most of the rules his other children obeyed in Millstone. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Instead, someone with the box office appeal of Mr. Ball really does exist a league apart. One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Well, little by little, our store gets better, and we had more of a standing in the community and you donate to a little league game, and you get more accepted. The riveting saga of "The Donut King," who was seduced by dough, money and power 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

With international leagues that pay a lot more than the WNBA, the Olympics and national teams, some women hoop stars play almost year-round. Hoops action isn’t just Cavs and Warriors. Check out the WNBA. 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Their running attack was the worst in the league — the worst! A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl 2012-02-02T23:28:04Z

Corporations, professional sports leagues, brands, and other business and cultural entities have been issuing statements left and right, while others have taken actions that may have been unimaginable in previous times. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

With the founding of a new major league, the American, in 1901, Baltimore and D.C. were each initially granted a charter franchise, simultaneously returning baseball to both. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z

While EA Sports has an exclusive license to use names, plays and other elements of the league, the N.F.L. has editorial oversight. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z

Most of them toil for years before being washed out of the game without ever having reached the promised land of the big leagues. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Hope's integrity in these matters puts him in a league of his own. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2013-05-06T11:47:52Z

And yet I will still watch this evil league, and I must admit I struggled to justify that decision. Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

There are some players in the league who don't talk, but that shouldn't be an issue with these two teams. 2010-02-02T21:30:00Z

So leagues and franchises alike are using technology to grow their fan base. SAPVoice: Get Ready For The Fastest Technology On Ice 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Not exactly in the War Horse league, but still a nifty 60 times the opening weekend. Skyfall's supremacy and the dawn of Twilight reduce the rest to also-rans 2012-11-13T13:22:31Z

“I thought, ‘I’m out of my league here, nobody’s going to know who you are,’” Yeoh said. ‘Everything Everywhere,’ All Through Awards Season? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

If everyone in international competition and domestic leagues agreed, “there’s too much diving, let’s do something about it,” that’d be great. Sorry, New York Times, but America flops too 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

He mistakes pub league for a drinking competition and thinks football is "the one with the sticks", although he also turns out to be brilliant at it. Doctor Who: The Lodger ? Series 31, episode 11 2010-06-12T18:30:00Z

The star power — players who would be stars in college — will now be going straight to the league. As coach of Georgetown’s men’s basketball team, Patrick Ewing is always thinking big 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

At Trinity College in Hartford, the women’s squash league began meditating together after every practice last year. Look Who?s Meditating Now 2011-03-18T20:45:35Z

The football league apparently covers the cost of production and other expenses. Super Bowl 2022: Fun facts to chat about during commercial breaks 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z

Yet she contemptuously dismisses as hypocritical both fictional and real parents who treat league tables and Ofsted reports with caution and actively choose to send their children to local schools. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

Find the consumer product that attaches itself to a player and then uses the league to promote itself, he says. 6 Ways to Invest in Football 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

I always thinking: "I'm going to prepare myself to play in the big leagues." The Nationals’ Juan Soto looks back on his first days in the majors 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

In league with art-punks from Joy Division to Frank Ocean, the music opens up a conversation across a spectrum of ideas. Album review: Savages. 'Silence Yourself' 2013-05-06T15:28:00Z

There is much — including this improbable justice league — that defies logic in the film, which is not to suggest that the illogical isn't stomach-churning entertainment. 'Cold in July' turns up the pulp fiction heat with Texas tale 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But Whedon’s route to the big-screen big leagues was somewhat more circuitous, with Serenity essentially flopping, and Dollhouse, his return to series television, following suit after two short, confused, seasons. Star Wars, Avengers, and TV’s Lost Generation: How Small-Screen Visionaries are Transforming Hollywood 2013-02-08T18:40:01Z

The youth sports juggernaut, fueled by breathless cable networks, corporate sponsors and power-hungry leagues, is gradually colonizing more and more time: weeknights, weekends, religious holidays and now vacations. Team Sports Are Taking Over Kids’ Lives 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

She played adult league soccer up to four nights a week. Why Wait? When You Know, You Know. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The league expanded to six teams from four last spring, and rookies are welcome. Urban Athlete: New York Gay Football League Soars 2011-11-10T22:14:41Z

Then, he says, “I fought back and I won, big league.” Donald Trump Was the Real Winner of ‘The Apprentice’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

“I feel like I feel every year on the draft day of my fantasy football league, when all 12 of us feel like we have the best team in the world,” Hudson said. On Capitol Hill, picture day at the start of 115th Congress 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The league had objected to a sequence of 11 seconds within the video that depicts Jesus on the cross being eaten by large black ants. Christian activists force Smithsonian to pull Aids video from show 2010-12-01T18:56:00Z

And unlike professional sports players, children in youth leagues often don’t have access to sports medicine professionals who fully understand both the impact and the recovery process. Motherlode Blog: The Fight to End Fighting in Youth Hockey 2012-02-28T22:24:08Z

The series that resulted, including a documentary film, detailed both Boogaard’s evolution into the most feared fighter in the league and his descent into prescription drug abuse. John Branch’s ‘Boy on Ice,’ About Derek Boogaard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

And so the saga of watching the league address violence against women continues. NFL’s epidemic of violence against women continues: 49ers’ Ahmad Brooks accused of sexual assault 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

They didn't have licenses from the major leagues nor sports teams to use their logos or uniforms. West Seattle brothers turned poster idea classics for a generation 2011-08-01T02:04:04Z

The Black Cat on 14th Street NW hosts league tournaments every Sunday evening, Bar Elena on H Street NE has two machines, and the owners of Pop’s SeaBar in Adams Morgan recently bought five. Competitive pinball is having a revival. This time around, women want their turn. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

And the lowly status of pro soccer in America is reflected in a brief segment where the anchors "catch up on everything that's happened since we last checked in on the league — four years ago." Onion News Network brings strong scent of satire to TV 2011-01-05T17:09:03Z

“Bad Cinderella” seems as if it could have been in the same league. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Review: The Title Warned Us 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

For 31 seasons, the Frederick Keys were the single-A minor league affiliate of the Orioles, their parent club 50 miles to the east. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

He was among the league leaders last season, allowing only 2.2 goals per game and blocking more than 92 percent of the shots on goal. Capitals look promising — but playoff success is never a sure thing 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

I was very productive in this endeavor until finally, I was recalled to the minor leagues of careerlessness in my hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. A year in my parents’ basement 2013-12-30T01:00:00Z

Later that year, after the couple had split up but before Ms. Augustine left for Spain, Mr. Mayer was playing in an dodge ball league and a bone in his arm snapped. Bonding After a Broken Arm 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

The league will then conduct its draft in October. XFL’s plans for upcoming season starting to take shape 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Did we prevent an alien invasion, or are the government's super-soldiers proof that the Syndicate has been in league with them all along? J.J. Abrams still smarts from "Lost" finale criticism 2011-08-04T23:05:00Z

Matt Ross, the show’s lead producer, said Friday the production in the August Wilson Theatre will now modify its plan to confirm with the league’s mask policy. Broadway to require vaccinations and masks as theaters reopen 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Hockey and Hockey Canada are “seriously considering rules that would effectively end fighting in nonprofessional leagues as soon as next season.” Motherlode Blog: The Fight to End Fighting in Youth Hockey 2012-02-28T22:24:08Z

Over the next few decades, amateur and professional baseball leagues popped up around Eastern Canada. The secret history of black baseball players in Canada’s great white north 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

If you’re going to play in the big leagues, as it were, you have to learn how to tune out the voices that you don’t necessarily want to listen to. ‘The Addams Family’ Musical Was Panned. Then It Became a Hit. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Your child’s panic and your embarrassment are not worth the price of the fall league you’ve paid for. Perspective | A 3-year-old wants to be 2 again. What’s she afraid of? 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Roiphe was preparing to play ball in a bigger league. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z

ON summer weekends, the unofficial league heads to less-gritty digs in the Hamptons. Tennis and Fashion: It’s a Love Match 2012-08-08T20:46:42Z

The Royals were supposed to play yesterday for the league championship, but because of a rain delay they’re playing on the actual day of my reading. On the Road with “Little Failure,” Part II 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The women had moved in for the spring haute couture shows, like a temperance league. On the Runway: And Now Couture 2011-01-24T23:47:55Z

He spent the remainder of the war trying to get out from under his very recent Nazi past, enlisting in the Army and organizing an anti-Fascist league at the Harvard Design School. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

We ranked all of the teams, then took the top four from each of the four leagues. America's Best Sports Fans 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z

Willy is white; Troy is an African-American, enraged at an oppressive system that essentially barred blacks from competing in major league sports until the 1940s and ’50s. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

More cleverly, the movie downplays the "big" in "the big show" — see also: "the big leagues," "the bigs" — and instead highlights the "show," the entertainment, more than once referring to baseball as a "children's game." 'Moneyball' and the myth of the wise kid 2011-10-31T17:45:33Z

To move ahead, into the big leagues with Taylor and Morris, his company needed greater revenue sources, to create bigger productions, hire more dancers and attract major presenters. The pandemic was the final blow for some dance companies. How do the survivors stay nimble? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

He recalls visiting New York City a few times in his early 20s and feeling out of his league. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z

I don’t mean a minimum amount of time, such as one inning or five minutes, as some leagues require. Youth sports should offer equal time for all players — until high school 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Accused by the Bush administration of being in league with Saddam Hussein, Mr. Zarqawi would use the Americans’ toppling of the dictator to empower himself. Review: ‘Black Flags,’ Tracing the Birth of ISIS 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

And he sees the same kind of unity in "extensive herds" of sperm whales, as though "numerous nations of them had sworn solemn league and covenant for mutual assistance and protection." The lessons "Moby Dick" has for a warming world of rising waters 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The song was “Satellite,” which declares, “I fathom leagues/I am the undertow.” Critic’s Notebook: Afro-Punk at Commodore Park in Brooklyn 2012-08-27T21:48:59Z

While the Senators continued their losing ways, it was the Orioles who, only two seasons later, were shipped off to New York, leaving Baltimore without major league baseball for the next 51 years. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z

Last season he poured in more than 36 points per game to lead the league. Perspective | How will NBA teams fare with these new dynamic duos? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

He becomes a batboy for the fabled Brooklyn Dodgers and witnesses firsthand the racist taunts and other challenges facing Dodgers slugger Robinson in his first game in the big leagues. Preview: 'Jackie & Me' at Seattle Children's Theatre takes us to the 1947 Dodgers clubhouse 2011-04-21T21:52:09Z

Its offerings this year include a story that illustrates the frustrations of obtaining menstrual products and a documentary about an American all-girl tackle football league. Growing a Generation of Movie-Loving Global Citizens 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Laura Veltz, a longtime songwriting partner, said Morris has always been in a league of her own, sonically and lyrically, and the new record reflects her ongoing evolution as a woman and musician. Maren Morris is grounded, but not silenced on ‘Humble Quest’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

That said, I guess it’s theoretically possible that he’s in league with … 'The Walking Dead' Recap: We Have To Control Who Lives Here 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

The Rams went on to win the NFL championship, and the Yanks were so bad they left the league after the 1951 season. Best single-game passer in NFL? It’s no one you’ve seen play. 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

His latest podcast focuses on the N.B.A., incorporating interviews with important players and revisiting top games and moments in the league. Podcasts About Impeachment, Mr. Rogers and a Purring Cat: What’s New 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Spanker league belaying pin snow rope’s end barque spyglass. Prod-5806 Test 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The league canceled games in Week 3, so the replacement team had two weeks to prepare for its first game. ‘I always hated being called a scab’: A new movie revisits the 1987 NFL strike — and Redskins’ triumph 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

He’s sized up his competition — both in the league and in the election. ‘We don’t talk politics out here’: Democratic staffers vent stress on football field 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Tinned Goods Pop culture obsessions including an appreciation of Karl Pilkington, an irrational hatred of Scrubs and unbridled passion for rugby league. Internet picks of the week 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Kids get a team jersey and a lanyard with a laminated player pass bearing three league rules: no bullying, play nice, have fun. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

If this sounds like major league fussiness — or a cynical stunt — on Nick’s part, the film, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, takes pains to get us back on his team quickly. ‘Love, Guaranteed’ Review: Swiping Left on Online Dating 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The Toronto Arenas won the NHL’s first championship and then played the champion of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, another professional league, for the Stanley Cup. Perspective | NHL marks 100 years out on the ice 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

In other words, he never led the league in many offensive categories. Shut up, stats nerds and haters: You’re wrong about Derek Jeter 2014-02-14T13:30:00Z

Mr. Cabrera, 35, was a former minor league ballplayer, and even though Ms. Sanchez says she isn’t necessarily a Marlins fan, the proposal was perfect because it was “totally him.” Thinking of a Jumbotron Proposal? Some Say, Ugh. Others, Say Yes. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ken Kaiser, major league umpire This arbiter of strikes and balls was fearsome, bold and stout. Style Invitational Week 1265: Parody for the course — write a song about school 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

So youth sports leagues and coaches should take it easy on them. Perspective | A sign that youth sports often forget what’s important about the games 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the reality is that their customers live uptown, and as Mr. Hernandez told Women’s Wear Daily, Madison Avenue “just seems kind of big league.” On Madison Avenue, a New Vibe 2012-08-16T00:25:24Z

One is whether the team can avoid ending up bottom of a four-strong league. Jumpers for Goalposts – review 2013-04-10T17:13:15Z

Major League Baseball: MLB started in 1876, and by the late 1890s had one league — the National League — with 12 teams. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Martin said the league encouraged theatergoers to buy their tickets at theater box offices and the Ticketmaster and Telecharge Web sites, though it was aware of sales on “tertiary” sites like Craigslist. ArtsBeat: Heavens! Fake Tickets Showing Up at 'Book of Mormon' on Broadway 2011-04-25T20:11:21Z

Mr. Kramer is in steady league with Jessica Mitford, who declared, “You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.” Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

I decided to adopt a team in the Dominican’s winter league, which begins every October, then peaks with a round robin playoff in January. The Lure of Baseball in the Dominican Republic 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Vaccinations will also be required for all performers, crew members and theater employees, the league said. Broadway to require vaccinations, masks for audience members 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

When the Celtics were ruling the NBA in the 1950s and ’60s, the league had eight to 14 teams instead of the 30 it has today. Perspective | Do the Patriots fit in with the other sports dynasties? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

And Grimsby is just what happens when the big league goes wrong The inquest went on. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The Bulls were third in the league in points allowed, holding their opponents to fewer than 93 points a game. Chasing Chicago: Can Golden State win more games than the 1995-1996 Bulls? 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The library recently registered the list with the international booksellers league in addition to Interpol, Mr. Ryden said. Swedish Royal Library Recovers Stolen 1597 Atlas in New York 2012-06-27T01:20:09Z

The magic mud soon spread through baseball’s American and then National leagues. Baseball’s secret ingredient? Mud 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

That means that Harper not only is one of the best players in the league but also is one of the youngest. Harper may measure up with some big names in baseball 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

His contacts in media circles make him indispensable during negotiations with the television networks that provide the bulk of the league’s income. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

He's also provided commentary for college baseball, softball, volleyball, and soccer games — plus minor league baseball games. Blind sports commentator to announce Illinois college basketball game for radio 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

Parents set the tone in youth hockey, along with older siblings, league rules,  and the games young players watch as spectators. Motherlode Blog: The Fight to End Fighting in Youth Hockey 2012-02-28T22:24:08Z

"This is a community that has been on the list of the largest cities in North America without a major league sports team, an academic medical center and a world-class performing arts center," he said. Smith Center aims to put Las Vegas on culture map 2012-07-08T01:06:04Z

This will be a busy month for the league. XFL’s plans for upcoming season starting to take shape 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

"Each team will attempt to get a sponsor, but the teams are responsible for paying the insurance for the entire league." 'Outrageous Sophie Tucker' opens 10th L.A. Jewish Film Festival 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

After his stint in Canada, he went on to junior leagues as a goalie, which he liked in part because his mask allowed him to hide his face. Wyatt Russell's new goal: an acting career 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The league and Turner Sports on Tuesday announced a seven-year agreement that begins next season. NHL reaches 7-year deal with Turner Sports, ending NBC run 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

He was Jackie Robinson, the first major league African-American baseball player, in the by-the-books drama 42, as well as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, in the dreary Marshall. Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

She and Graham threw themselves into research, speaking to the some of the surviving women who had played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League or in the Negro leagues. In ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The next season the National and American leagues lowered the pitcher’s mound and made the strike zone smaller. Perspective | Baseball has become a pitchers’ game, and MLB needs to fix that 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Will you talk to this group of lawyers or this minor league baseball team?” Make Dean Strang proud: If you really care about criminal justice reform, stop trying to get out of jury duty 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Their fine was later rescinded by the league president. Colin The Lionheart: Kaepernick is pushing the envelope for black male athletes 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Despite being turned off by the pinkification of football products and websites geared to women, female fans of fantasy leagues do not seem deterred by the N.F.L.'s recent domestic abuse scandal. Fantasy Football Isn’t Just a Man’s Game 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

He is a longtime presence on Fox for major league baseball and NFL games, and is familiar to hockey fans as the radio voice of the New York Rangers. Sportscaster Kenny Albert will have memoir published in 2023 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Films like Filth can be leagues ahead of the $100m movie, but they've got no money to get a poster in the paper. So who's going to come and see them? " Does it matter that only 7% of British films make a profit? 2013-12-09T14:05:57Z

To play in the league, players must hack the implanted microchips that otherwise track their movements. The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Although the backwardness of most North Korean infrastructure may make it an unpromising target for others to attack, thanks to a crash hacker-training program it is now in the cyberwarfare big leagues. Cyberwarfare — the Latest Technology of Destruction 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

For Levy, "Secret of the Tomb" represents saying goodbye to Williams and to the franchise that launched him into the studio-tentpole big leagues. Shawn Levy's 'Museum' debut had special effect on director 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The hallmarks of fantasy sports are analyzing professional sports players' stats and camaraderie among contestants in a league, he said. Nevada gambling regulators to weigh new fantasy sports model 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Even the most expensive restaurant is not in the same league as a $25 million apartment over Central Park. Top New York Restaurants of 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

"When you factor in the quality of our audience ... we're really in a league of our own," she said. Lauer: NBC's 'Today' will be back on top 2013-03-14T20:15:13Z

Davis also referenced Lavonne "Pepper" Paire-Davis, a women's baseball league star in the 1940s and the inspiration for "A League of Their Own." Actress Geena Davis critical of Oscar host 2013-03-05T04:01:04Z

But his dismissal, less than six months after he was hired to take over the Italian label, led to whispers that he was out of his league. The Lives of the Fashion Designer Lars Nilsson 2010-03-31T21:39:00Z

He said the estate has been looking for collaborators “in the highest league of their field,” with “a touch of darkness” as well as “an understanding of the Britishness of the stories.” Beyond ‘Wonka’: They Want Every Kid to Know Roald Dahl’s World 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

It is not a professional league, so participants spend a lot of money to play, Hirschberger said. 'Outrageous Sophie Tucker' opens 10th L.A. Jewish Film Festival 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

"What immediately put them into a different league was the fact that they controlled their own rights from day one," Rodger says. Canadian rockers Arcade Fire maintain DIY mystique 2010-07-06T07:35:00Z

If the NFL and NBA, leagues which are both coming off stellar seasons, miss actual games because of these labor disputes, it would be one of the biggest leadership failures that America has ever seen. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

“Even though I had been directing for 20 years up until then, none of that counted because none of it was in that major league,” Mr. Wain said. David Wain Tests Mainstream Credentials With ?Wanderlust? 2012-02-18T02:53:02Z

Mr. King told viewers he was leaving, to give “more time for my wife and I to get to the kids’ little league games.” The TV Watch: Larry King Goes Gently From CNN 2010-06-30T20:55:00Z

It was also the first time since 2016 that the league’s opener went up against Game 1 of the World Series. Too early to tell if injuries will affect NBA TV ratings 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Fewer than 30 of the 81 players selected in the first NFL draft ever played in the league. First NFL draft was all about sport, not spectacle 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Moses Fleetwood Walker became a catcher for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1884, before organized baseball was segregated and more than 60 years before Robinson broke the major leagues’ color line. ‘The League’ Review: A Crucial Baseball Legacy 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

Let's not let the health and safety of young baseball fans across America be a bargaining chip between the major league players and the owners. Chew on this: No tobacco in baseball 2011-10-19T00:42:00Z

But I don’t think I’m in your neighborhood, nor your league, or even your cosmos. We have to fix our friend! 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z

That happens on almost every team, whether it’s in the pros or in a kids league. With Bryce Harper coming back, a Nats starter will spend time on the bench

Prognosticators had wondered whether Rihanna may be a wild card choice for a league seeking to make amends. Katy Perry to play Super Bowl halftime show? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

If revenues are what matter, then the league clearly needed to pay up sooner rather than later. America’s national nightmare is over: The refs are back 2012-09-28T21:32:00Z

He recalled Charlie as a talented young baseball pitcher with his eyes on the major leagues until early acting successes like “Red Dawn” and “Platoon” set him on a different course. Television: Charlie Sheen Stars in ‘Anger Management’ on FX 2012-06-13T12:00:00Z

I want to accomplish something in this league. Derrick Rose voted All-Star starter 2012-02-03T00:19:00Z

In 2019, two pitchers led the major leagues with three complete games. Perspective | The Nationals should be a winning team this season. Will they be among the best? 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

The intense interest in Sam, of course, springs from his status as a pioneer in the league. NFL Blocks Oprah's Attempt to Make Michael Sam a Reality-TV Star 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Genevro said she would leave the league in June to focus on climate change and the design and construction industries. Architectural League Leader Is Stepping Down After 37 Years 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The team then complained to Major League Soccer that Live Nation had threatened to withhold talent, according to a statement by the league. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

I’ve been around the league a long time and you play with a lot of guys from a lot of different backgrounds, and that’s just the world we live in. 179 pro athletes’ reactions to Jason Collins 2013-05-06T18:50:00Z

But Tollin, who made the documentary for ESPN, sees a league that, had it continued on its original path, would have lasted longer than three years. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The leagues were referred to as Negro Leagues, because at that time Black people were commonly called Negroes. Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

His game-day attire was treated as something of an event by league executives and TV anchors because nearly every prospective N.F.L. player auditions in a nondescript T-shirt and shorts. Noted: Johnny Manziel Arrives at his N.F.L. Workout Dressed to Sell 2014-04-02T21:26:16Z

Be on guard, high school theater productions, minor league baseball games and any other location with a microphone and an audience: Kanye West is going to find his way onto your stage. 'SNL 40': Kanye plays new song 'Wolves,' is razzed for stage-crashing 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

More than a dozen players from the league will be trying to help teams from Australia, Brazil, Serbia, Senegal and other countries earn Olympic medals. Basketball action heats up this summer with Olympics and WNBA 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Will Smith threatens to give the NFL an almighty headache in the first trailer for Concussion, a new film that paints the league in a harsh light. Will Smith takes on the NFL in Concussion trailer 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

I’m tired of supporting a league that does not support its female fan base. I should not have to reconcile being an NFL fan with being a woman 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps he was waiting, darkly, anticipating the execution of a plot he hatched, maybe in league with … ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: What a Wonderful Wedding 2014-04-14T02:00:12Z

The deal would have provided the team a much-needed infusion of cash but the league accused McCourt of using the agreement to siphon off money for his personal use. Sinatra estate steps to plate in Dodgers Chapter 11 2011-08-16T20:01:11Z

She's out of her league -- and has been there for weeks now -- it will be interesting to see if the viewing audience finally accepts that. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Bristol Palin is out of her league 2010-11-16T13:30:00Z

He was selected 13th overall by the Cleveland Indians in the 1991 amateur draft and rose quickly through the minor leagues with a youthful exuberance and natural charisma. Ex-Sox Manny Ramirez arrested in Florida 2011-09-13T02:39:00Z

Competing against the best players in the world was a large enough difference, but the instant notoriety and public spotlight was a huge change from the minor leagues. After ‘Moneyball,’ Tabitha Soren kept shooting. The results are stunning. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

I thought it would be a good time to check in with the country’s biggest women’s professional sports league. Basketball action heats up this summer with Olympics and WNBA 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The result was their most successful league result in years. Last Chance U: you won't see a better drama all summer 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

“As someone who did ‘Monday Night Football’, I didn’t understand how the league was going to make Sunday night more significant and how it would be viewed,” Michaels said. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

Sweeney's happy to sign, but also hands out a Rat City schedule and urges people to go to the bouts, which kick off with a league doubleheader on Jan. 19 at Seattle's KeyArena. The Elvis crowd at EMP; Inslee to have a ball; a rollergirl cooks; and 826 Seattle reads on. 2013-01-15T05:05:04Z

For example, every third Thursday at the league is Canvas & Corks, a wine-and-painting event. Mid-Atlantic beach getaway itineraries

If you look across the league, you see it all the time — guys playing for totally different reasons other than trying to win. Injuries no problem as Bulls win 95-89 2012-01-22T05:28:00Z

In a way, this is more about the league as a whole — its structure, its meaning, and its consumption — than it is Collins himself. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

He’s a devoted softball player himself — for 10 years he’s run a friendly park league with his wife, the singer Kathleen Hanna, and downtown performers like Murray Hill and Bridget Everett, the bawdy cabaret singer. Adam Horovitz, a Beastie Boy in Middle Age 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Already he was in a different league than almost any other contemporary artist.” How Basquiat Became the $60 Million Man 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s Debbie who accidentally secures both women’s places in the league when she learns about the affair and then attacks Ruth in the middle of a callback. ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Marcus is a hated man because he got rich from doing business with the enemy, but he was more in league with the Union Army than anyone knows. | 'Another Part of the Forest': A Lillian Hellman Villain Before ?The Little Foxes? 2010-06-26T00:10:00Z

“You need girls who grow up playing. That’s why we need more leagues like the one in Utah.” How full-contact tackle football became ‘therapy’ for these girls 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

But using league revenue, economics professor Dave Berri was recently able to calculate a significant gender wage gap in another respect. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

He loves good ale, Scotch whisky, traditional food in substantial quantities and rugby league. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

The league’s disciplinary code, until recently, ran to more than 29,000 words. After a Year of ‘Rampant’ Cheating, Elite Bridge Tries to Clean Up 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Still, part of her internal focus will be on the Premier League race: Seeking its first league title since 1990, Liverpool leads Manchester City by two points. Lowe switches from Premier League horse race to real equines 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Federal charges are the major leagues. It’s a completely different ballgame for Kelly now,” said Phil Turner, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. Federal charges ramp up pressure on R. Kelly to make deal 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

But even if that was true, it says a lot about the PGA Tour and their over-reliance on one person to carry the whole league. Tiger Woods dropped from cover of his own game 2011-01-05T23:24:34Z

Certainly not in league with the above mentioned big-night movies that were subsumed with a distinctive sense of humor and authentic mood of where-were-you-when. 'Take Me Home Tonight': a big '80s party you may not want to crash 2011-03-03T00:57:04Z

Sandbox Sports, an indoor sand volleyball center formerly located in Magnuson Park, hosts leagues, teaches lessons, provides drop-in play and hosts parties. Indoor beach volleyball at Sandbox Sports 2011-12-21T21:50:10Z

I play ultimate Frisbee in the city league in winter at the local high school once a week at night under the lights on turf. Young Fitness Fogies Ditch $40 Classes for Hoops, Laps and Jogs 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

"Fist," hopefully people will see it, but with "Wick" you feel that pressure — this is the big leagues now, and you have to deliver at your max. "That was an epic moment":"John Wick 4" martial artist on that traffic battle and honoring Bruce Lee 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

For the new football season, the league switches from a snake draft to an auction draft. ‘The League,’ on FXX, Kicks Off Its Final Season 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

“This was basically just practicing to get the ball in the basket,” Allison says she told Constand, a former star high school, college and Italian professional league basketball player. What’s next for the Bill Cosby sex-assault case? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Parnell was an Irish member of Parliament, a champion of his country’s cause in Britain; as Kavanagh writes, his involvement in the league “would almost certainly guarantee the backing of Irish America.” The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's funny, if you watch Asian league basketball, we all are shorter. With basketball drama "Boogie," Eddie Huang is finally "free of the shadow" of "Fresh Off the Boat" 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

But some say it’s also indicative of the league’s long, jagged journey to embrace Black music and culture — especially rap — as well as its need to shore up its community bona fides now. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Other books we like include James Comey’s reckoning with honesty and accountability in politics, Rich Cohen’s look at a children’s hockey league in Connecticut, a bad-seed parenting thriller and a classic Surrealist novel, reissued. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Entertainment that followed Jordan’s career from his childhood to the league, and features some of the same archival footage found in “The Last Dance.” Rap Soundtracks the Michael Jordan Doc. The N.B.A. Wasn’t Always That Way. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

On this team, the kids are more aggressive and more skilled than his rec league teammates, and he seems very intimidated. Perspective | My tween gives up at the first sign of struggle. How can I help him stick with things? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

For years, however, league officials — at the ultimate direction of its owners, including Bowlen — denied the link between football and brain damage. When brain disease strikes an NFL team owner: The heartbreaking irony of Broncos owner Pat Bowlen 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

They went 8-2 in his first season and reached the league title game. Alex Morgan, US women’s soccer team honored at The ESPYS 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But there are some notable entries from the silverbacks of the auteur big league, including Jean-Luc Godard and Spike Lee. Peter Bradshaw on the Cannes 2018 lineup: Netflix out, plenty of newcomers in 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

If anything, that slightly understates the proportion of Dominicans in the major leagues, which is close to 20 percent. Inside the secret world of Dominican baseball 2012-07-10T22:15:00Z

He recalled watching his younger brother once play ultimate in a Connecticut summer league match. Can the MVP of D.C.’s pro ultimate Frisbee team raise the sport’s profile? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The league tries to leverage content at every opportunity. For the N.B.A., It’s the Most Tweetable Time of the Year 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ehler, 30, plays in the bar’s new league, which is just wrapping up its first season. Just Tossing Around the Old Bag of Corn 2011-09-15T03:37:50Z

Fox has done everything it can to make Ms. Bunbury, who plays the first woman to reach the big leagues, a plausible Major League pitcher. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Here in the 21st century, the Miser would have expected the two young gentlemen sharing his abode to be leagues beyond the analog board games that enriched the Miser’s childhood. Weekend Miser: One-Acts From Young Playwrights 2014-02-06T22:39:07Z

Lauren Walker, who leads the national league, is expecting 50 teams. The Art and Artistry of Double Dutch 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

When it comes to keeping it real, Ken Loach is in a league of his own. Beyond Ken Loach: where have the social-realists in cinema gone? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Felicity Jones steps into the big league with "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," in an action blockbuster role that carries the first spin-off movie in the space franchise. A Minute With: Felicity Jones finding the Force for 'Rogue One' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“The league is growing, not only in the infrastructure side, the financial side but on the level of play side.” After World Cup, MLS looks to steady growth 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

It was a little like getting a call from the major leagues! An evening with two familiar voices: Rosanne Cash and NPR's Michele Norris 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z

She has a long reputation of being one of the most respected, efficient and intelligent executives in the league. "Winning Time," HBO's show about the rise of the Lakers, has advice for fathers 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

Sign your child up for the once-a-week lacrosse that didn’t compete in the league? Motherlode Blog: Parenting, American-Style 2012-04-10T16:59:00Z

He plays pool twice a week in a league, made it to the national wheelchair championships, and is an avid Philadelphia Eagles fan. ‘Every day is a battle’: portraits of US veterans capture hidden toll of PTSD 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Neither of these works is in the literary league of Pinter masterpieces like “The Homecoming” and “No Man’s Land.” | Two Plays by Harold Pinter: Essence of Pinterland, a Terrain Both Warm and Flecked With Ice 2010-11-23T05:16:00Z

Pieranunzi has long been a master of song-form variations but has cut expressively free of familiar guidelines in middle age and begun to sound like a performer in the same league as his original inspirations. This week's new live music 2012-11-17T00:05:27Z

She was, in that one fleeting moment in 1998, just a hop and a skip from the big league. Natasha Lyonne, the original queen of the career capsize, comes up for air 2010-08-06T10:19:00Z

And feeding the hunger of folks in the league, too. Listen Up: SiriusXM NFL Radio 10 years old 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Once again the failing fortunes of the minor league Bulls of Durham, N.C., are at the center of the story. ‘Bull Durham,’ a Musical Adaptation of the 1988 Movie 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Is the good Samaritan in league with Hezbollah? 'Homeland' Recap, Season 5, Episode 5: Can Carrie Figure Out What's Going On With Allison? 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

But the big idea is that we — that means kids, parents, coaches and the people who run youth sports leagues — should use kids sports to include more kids and get all kids physically active. Adults want kids to play more. A new study looks at how to make it happen. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

For Hulu, Chance is a coup as it seeks to establish itself against the established networks, much in the same way that Netflix signalled its arrival in the big league with House of Cards. The new doctor: Hugh Laurie takes a Chance on Hulu 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

On the strength of this summer’s scorching “Lemonade,” the producer may finally be moving into the big leagues, working with Diplo, Madonna and Nicki Mina — even if he’s not entirely out of the shadows. 15 Musical Artists to Watch in 2015 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Also, as I’m writing this review, Heath Bell of the San Diego Padres is notching a save and moving me up to ninth place in my own league. | 'Silly Little Game': Charting the Glory Days for the Founders of Fantasy Baseball 2010-04-19T22:51:00Z

By night’s end, they closed up shop with a brilliantly reworked “Wake Up”, a proud closing statement and moment that further underlined the band’s status as a major league player. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Sayers, who died last year at 77 from complications of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, continues to hold the league record for most touchdowns in a game. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t even think twice about it, because I just didn’t work for people like that,” he said of his belief that the Coens were out of his league. Josh Brolin Revels in the Role of Go-To Guy 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

In many respects, last season was the culmination of a league resurgence from the hangover left by Michael Jordan’s last game with the Chicago Bulls in 1998, when the NBA ruled American sports. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-13T17:05:00Z

By most accounts, Mr. Kraft has become the league’s most influential owner, with seats on the powerful broadcasting, labor and finance committees. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

He informed me that my arrogance is in league with Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z

But lots of sports fans watch men’s games — college, high school, minor league games — in which the players are clearly not the absolute best. Should women’s sports get more TV time?

I also help coach the first-grade basketball league Saturdays at his school. Motherlode Blog: No City for Little Boys 2013-04-21T13:24:15Z

In general, NBA personnel are not allowed to contact locked-out players, though the league says an exception exists for Olympic business. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-07T09:00:00Z

None of their teammates are expected to experience existential anguish when these guys rejoin the league. Odell Beckham and the NFL’s fear of of gay men: “Football is the most homophobic subculture this side of the Westboro Baptist Church” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

This had been billed as a "very special double headline show", but Show of Hands, who followed, were in a completely different league. Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends and Show of Hands – review 2013-02-05T18:07:27Z

The most common reaction, though, illustrates the uphill battle the league faces. Katy Perry to play Super Bowl halftime show? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

A majority of NFL owners voted Thursday to ratify a 10-year deal to end the league's labor dispute, according to multiple reports. NFL owners vote to ratify tentative deal 2011-07-21T21:19:00Z

Slowly, the league grew with the help of certain star players. Perspective | The NBA is a big deal, but it wasn’t always that way 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Richmond, universally picked to finish at the bottom of the Premier League — which would entail them being once again “relegated” to an inferior league — is now near the top of the standings. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Zava Superstar 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The newest professional league, Major League Pickleball, is promoting the sport through mixed-gender competitions, with teams comprising two men and two women – a unique format in the male-dominated world of pro sports. Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

He has not been pleased with his recent performances in the wood-bat league that he is part of, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jon Hamm’s Second Act 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

After that debacle the league hired solid superstars of yesteryear: Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and the Who. ArtsBeat Blog: Packers? Patriots? How About Madonna as a Super Bowl Contender? 2011-10-04T18:37:40Z

Pete Rozelle would not be surprised to see television’s impact on the NFL as the league celebrates its 100th season this year. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The documentary, which airs on HBO this Saturday, 12 September at 10pm EST, follows the Anchorman star as he plays 10 different positions for 10 different major league baseball teams in one day. Mocking the mockumentary: Will Ferrell gets meta in HBO baseball special 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

In 1920 the Negro National League was formed, and other leagues followed. ‘Pitch Black’ traces African-American baseball history 2014-02-06T22:30:30Z

The league announced on Friday that Simon Woods, a longtime orchestra administrator, would be its next chief executive. As Virus Threatens Orchestras, Trade Group Taps a New Leader 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

As a pair, he says, they’ll likely follow the league and the World Cup wherever they live on American television, which would mean joining Fox Sports for the World Cup in 2018. Men in Blazers: America's Soccer Stars 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But in football, there's simply no other league where players can be similarly compensated for their specialized skills. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

The teams with the best records in the American and National leagues made it to the World Series only 31.7 percent of the time. Perspective | In major league baseball playoffs, every hit counts 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The complex league schedules are largely unavailable in English. Brazil, Where the Beautiful Game Struts 2013-04-12T18:36:34Z

This Sporting Life, a film about a rugby league player, starring Richard Harris and based on David Storey's 1960 novel, is a notable exception, he suggested. Harold Brighouse's The Game: Pampered stars, bankrupt clubs ? a tale of football in the 1920s 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

When her parents visited, she told them I was an older friend from her billiards league. A Forbidden Relationship, From the Other Side of the World 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

A bowling buddy had set me up in a sting operation when he noticed my car kept breaking down and I was arriving late for my bowling league. When Valentine's Day means 15 to life: 34 years ago today, I was sentenced to prison 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Scott is plugged into New York jazz’s high-level mainstream, and his band, Oracle, sounds sturdy and ready for the big leagues. Critic?s Notebook: Houston?s Jazz Stars, Celebrated in TriBeCa 2011-01-16T22:59:55Z

As a writer, though, she belongs firmly in the big league. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

The expectations were too high, and that league overspent itself into the ground. U.S. Women's Soccer: A Cure for the Lockout Blues 2011-07-08T09:30:00Z

Peanuts are a little more popular in the minor leagues, where about 8 percent of the 40 million spectators each season buy a bag. Ballpark Peanuts, a Classic Summer Pleasure, Have Been Benched 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

In 2007, she was recruited by the Carolina Core, a professional team in the now defunct Championship Gaming Series league. Video Games: When Girl Gamers Go Pro 2010-10-13T20:20:00Z

This allowed us to compare teams across leagues. Pro Sports' Most-Losing Teams 2010-05-25T21:10:00Z

This Sunday marks the return of Kenny Powers, the obscene, struggling pitcher looking for redemption and another shot at the big leagues in HBO's Eastbound & Down. Q&A: Danny McBride of HBO's 'Eastbound & Down' 2010-09-24T08:20:00Z

But Ms. Streisand is in a league of her own. Presenting Barbra: Streisand to Appear at 2016 Tony Awards 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Jamie, whose self-worth is based less on his culinary skills than on his marriage to a woman considered far out of his league, is not inclined to be flexible on those points. ‘Mammals’ Review: James Corden Gets Back to What He Does Best 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

It has its own hospitals and schools, its own makeshift cinemas and soccer leagues. Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

He sued the league for damages, but the case was dismissed on a technicality. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

You were a heel — a deliberate bad guy — during your time as a professional wrestler, in an era when the league was embracing ruthless men, sexed-up women and obscene language. Dwayne Johnson Is Ready to Embrace the Heel Again in ‘Black Adam’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s almost like moving chess — you make the wrong move, you’re cooked,” DiCarlo, the league’s commissioner, says in the film, to some incredulity from Morris. Erroll Morris creates ambitious documentary series for ESPN 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The Irish Dancing Commission, a subcommittee of the league created in 1930, still exists as the largest governing body of Irish dancing schools and competitions. Following ‘Riverdance,’ Competitions and Shows Abound 2014-02-14T21:38:53Z

“An illusion that the league takes care of its own and that all its ex-players don’t, in fact, suffer from debilitating pain and injury that leaves most guys dead before they’re 60.” What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Recent violence and deaths by suicide have again highlighted the league’s longtime issues with C.T.E., a brain disease found in a number of deceased players. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

The league lifted its on-field partying ban, so the players reinvented loony new ways to boast. The Best Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The league has faced criticism for more serious problems in the past few years—insufficient concern about head injuries, restrictions on political speech—but the product on the field has remained incredibly popular. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Though it was still wintry in more northerly Japan, Okinawa's cherry-blossom festival had already come and gone, and the Japanese baseball leagues had begun spring training there. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z

Critics hailed her as America’s “foremost novelist” and the only American woman writer in the same league as George Eliot. Erased from history: Too many women writers — like Constance Fenimore Woolson — are left to languish in moldy archives. What will it take to bring them back? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

This kind of hipster league is not for everyone. Just Tossing Around the Old Bag of Corn 2011-09-15T03:37:50Z

His play, about professional wrestlers in a fictional league, deals largely with themes of racial politics and ethnicity inside the professional wrestling world. Hogan’s racist remarks aren’t a shock: Wrestling is “a sport with both overt racism and bizarre racial ideas and practices” 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

Troy is a former Negro League baseball star who failed to cross over in the time before Jackie Robinson managed to bring down the racial barriers of the white-only major leagues. Letting the full force of August Wilson’s talent in, through ‘Fences’ 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Denied the chance to play for MLB teams, Black players formed their own teams and leagues. Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Plott describes it as “a modern twist to the corporate softball league.” Tool Kit: Video Gaming on the Pro Tour, for Glory but Little Gold 2012-11-28T23:49:36Z

His immersive courtship of Ms. Bowens, a woman who he at first thought seemed out of his league, is an example, though his fortitude would fail him a few times. That New York Vibe and a Life in San Diego 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

To judge from the first disc of its new recorded Bartók set, with the even-numbered quartets, the group’s account will not displace the Takács but promises to be in its league. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The league announced Wednesday that the Nov. 10 final will start at 3 p.m. MLS Cup returning to ABC for first time since 2008 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

But in a league with 32 teams, the union won't be satisfied with a fraction of the story. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

They’re really more of a character study on players from all different points in baseball’s history, as well as players from Japan and players from the Negro leagues. Colin Hanks Finds Perfection in ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and Tacos at Every Meal 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a chance to learn about a vital part of the city’s sporting history, one that was largely undocumented in the amateur and semipro leagues. The week ahead: ‘Journey to the South Pacific,’ Black History Month begins 2014-01-22T22:40:15Z

But this debate in Cleveland, the first of the 2016 election season, may be in a league of its own. Chris Wallace, moderator of the first GOP debate, plans ‘some doozies’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Let’s look at some sports history and how today’s biggest pro sports leagues were doing around their 23rd seasons. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

It wasn't the first time Crowley was playing in the biggest of big leagues. The Hollywood superlawyer whose death went unnoticed 2011-03-29T00:52:57Z

For the good of the game, and the fans, isn't it time for the league to show all of us — the players, the fans — the money? Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

I'm waiting for a show in which an impossibly hot guy loves an intelligent woman not in his league. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

That “The Little Foxes” has not been judged to be quite in their league is an oversight that Arena seems intent on redressing as part of a significant reconsideration of the playwright’s work this season. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Eventually a real pro turns up to show them how the game is played: a version of the famed Japanese hitter Ichiro Suzuki, who achieved greatness in the major leagues as well. Review: In ‘God Bless Baseball,’ Japan, Korea and America’s Pastime 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

These days, does there seem to be a candidate leading the leagues in mendacity? “Politics is always about lying”: But you’re not crazy if you think the lies are getting bigger and more frequent 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

There is Roc Nation Unified, a new division that provides strategic consulting to entertainment companies, venues, consumer brands and sports leagues around the world, run by twin brothers, Brett and Michael Yormark. Jay-Z Takes on the Super Bowl 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Every college player thinks they’re on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.” Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

I don’t care how great or sophisticated their snow-making is, they are not even in the same league as any of the other major mountains mentioned in this piece. Letters: Letters to the Editor 2012-12-21T16:59:39Z

I now feel like one of the dads at practice, although I’m still out of my league at the games. Lonnae O’Neal: The (painful) birth of a basketball dad 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

How about the Israeli team in the European basketball league? Review: The Team That Put Israeli Basketball ‘On the Map’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is both the elephant in the room and the prairie dog; the outfitter not just of entire teams but almost entire leagues — and the lone runner in the wilderness. How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Local TV is packed with games broadcast from the United States, and Chavez himself is a player who once dreamed of pitching in the major leagues. Kidnapped Major League catcher rescued 2011-11-12T11:21:08Z

The National Basketball Assn. is the next big sports league looking to jack up its TV rights. Rob Schneider's big bet. NBA wants big increases in next TV deal. 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

A former baseball player who couldn't cut it in the big leagues finds himself in a downward spiral until he meets a young man with Down syndrome working at the local grocery store. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

But the young Dominican men who hope to make the big leagues live a hard life, the story of which encouraged Leguizamo to get involved in the project. John Leguizamo Steps Up to the Plate for Dominican Ballplayers 2012-07-11T15:07:05Z

Polar opposites, Bird and Johnson injected new life into a weary league and jump-started the engine on a heated rivalry. The Lakers-Celtics Rivalry 2010-06-15T23:10:00Z

But the growing league was encroaching on his job, too. The coolest, weirdest Internet community you’ll never be able to join

The following season, he was brought up to the big leagues. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

Of course, he has vested interests — perhaps he sees himself like Daniel Lanois for Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind," a role that doesn't seem out of his league for '80s dance-pop. Duran Duran comes back with new album, 'All You Need is Now' 2010-12-28T00:15:07Z

The winners automatically qualify for a berth in the World Championship, where they will face off with Hokkaido league veterans like the Seibu Raiders and N-Kai Sapporo, who took the tournament title last year. In Transit Blog: On the Horizon: A Winter Tournament Waged in Snow 2014-02-11T22:39:29Z

Because I don't think there's any like luge betting on the league or anything. Nick Kroll on returning to his filmmaking roots and the recommended age for starting "Big Mouth" 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

On Genevro’s watch, the league cast architecture as a morally responsible social art operating within a cultural landscape wider than issues of form, theory and personalities. Architectural League Leader Is Stepping Down After 37 Years 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The history of portraying the dark side of the NFL on TV is not a proud one, if you recall the quashing of ESPN’s Playmakers under pressure from the league. Review: Ballers Throws a Flag on the Playboys 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Dellavedova is also a white player in a league searching for white fans, white acceptance and white money. “The game isn’t the NBA. It’s the American racial empire”: Let’s talk about basketball’s white-privilege problem 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The success lifted tiny studio Summit Entertainment into Hollywood's big leagues and paved the way for its $412 million acquisition in January by Lions Gate Entertainment. "Twilight" sendoff starts with huge $341 million worldwide 2012-11-18T19:47:00Z

To Ellis, who tells his story convincingly, using acid was no great leap: “I pitched every game in the major leagues under the influence of drugs.” ‘No No: A Dockumentary’ Looks at Dock Ellis 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Not only was it beautiful, in league with the “best European cities,” he wrote to a friend, but it was “incidentally the queerest city I’ve ever been in.” In ‘The Letters of Thom Gunn,’ an Unusual Mix of Pleasures 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

The idea of "rap or go to the league" had been the top career options for so many Gen X-er’s like 2 Chainz. Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

His new book, "Running With Lions", is a more light-hearted romp, however, a story about teen romance with a backdrop of a youth soccer league. Queer young adult fiction grows beyond the coming out story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

He soon realized that he faced a monumental task in encouraging big league, brand-name players to stand up for themselves against management. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

At the same time, the league is a proxy for questions about racism in America and about the First Amendment, thanks to the “take a knee” movement, initiated in 2016 by Colin Kaepernick. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

“How to Behave in a Crowd,” Bordas’s third novel and her first written in English, joins the league of novels about adolescence persuasively told by adolescent narrators. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Portraying a woman who never planned to become an activist requires such agility, and Warren gracefully traverses leagues of psychological territory within these hours. "Women of the Movement," though imperfect, gives life to Emmett Till's story 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The new league — its season runs until mid-August — differs from being an affiliate in several ways. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

But as Roosevelt insisted, hundreds of major league and thousands of minor league players — including some of the game’s biggest stars — served in the military in the next four years. Perspective | During World War II, baseball players wore two kinds of uniforms 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

And look at the league of gentlemen he joins — the incomparable Michael Keaton, the remarkable Christian Bale — both actors of great emotional nuance, who earned high marks for their portrayals of the Dark Knight. Ben Affleck gets the manipulated man's every twist and turn right 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

His fate with the league was sealed right then — even before he tried to force the rest of baseball to follow suit. How owners are ruining the games we love 2012-07-23T19:22:00Z

It’s a lot like the country’s most popular sports league: loud, stimulating, engaging and, at times, a bit full of itself. From undercover to underwater: Four new Times Square attractions offer a variety of immersive experiences 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

But as a mass medium, television is in another league. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

That is the problem facing “The League,” an FXX comedy about six friends in a fantasy football league, which returns on Wednesday night. ‘The League,’ on FXX, Kicks Off Its Final Season 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Your blockbusters in one league, and a separate circuit for lower-budget movies, with much cheaper tickets. Return of the B-movie: why big-budget flops could be good for cinema 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Satchel did play football for a local youth league several years ago, but he was just running around and didn’t really see contact. When a son wants to play football, what’s a mother to do? 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood Reporter said Mr. Lanthimos “makes a practically effortless transition to the big leagues.” At Cannes, a Greek Filmmaker Explains Move to English-Language Film 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Bernstein, who in 2008 tried to revive his flagging career by creating an Indian reality television competition, looking to find a cricket bowler he could convert into a major league baseball pitcher. Tom Cruise in 'Edge of Tomorrow' takes on past, future 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, the network proudly announced that “Live! With Kelly and Michael” co-host Michael Strahan will jump to big leagues this fall to join “Good Morning America,” the most-watched morning show in the country. Kelly Ripa’s absence shows that office politics exist everywhere 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

As part of the deal, the CBS games will be simulcast on the NFL Network, the channel owned by the league. TV networks going far down the financial field with the NFL 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

For its part, the NBA players union has done some posturing, filing a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board in late May that accused the league of unfair labor practices. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

But corn casserole is in a league of its own. The truth behind my grandma's (not-so-secret) corn casserole 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

For years, Ms. Price placed small shows at small houses all across America — but now she is playing in the big leagues. Who Calls the Shots on Broadway? She Does 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

“Did you promise the cows you’d write?” he sneers at the sisters, after they leave jobs working at a dairy for the baseball league. “There’s no crying in baseball!”: “A League of Their Own,” a film about the sport’s women pioneers, resonates at 25 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Which leads to the question, if fighting is such an essential element of hockey, why is it banned in college and international play, and all European leagues, but encouraged in the NHL? Blame Canada! Fighting has turned hockey immoral 2014-02-11T00:00:00Z

In addition, the leagues and teams did not always keep complete statistics of the games. Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Some centuries later, Dante’s carefully gradated circles of hell and redemption mirror our own hierarchical obsessions, visible in league tables and the highest-to-lowest function of spreadsheets and e-commerce websites. Parasite, Us and the movies' subterranean blues 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Once exposed as a donor, the league tried to appease its fans in the cheapest manner possible. Black lives don’t matter to Major League Baseball — what else is new? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

He became the first rookie right tackle in team history to start every game in 2011, when he helped the Broncos lead the league in rushing. Broncos’ Franklin adjusting to life at left guard 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

So imagine a packed major league baseball stadium. Kids’ coronavirus questions: Can kids become very sick from the virus? 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

If only pro leagues would adjust By issuing one to each team And swapping each stadium’s turf For 1.3 acres of Nerf. Style Invitational Week 1369: Shoot some oops — jokes about typos 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Despite the froth that seemed to surround some artists at Christie’s, art world observers say it is heartening to see artists of color playing in the auction major leagues, commanding big prices. Artists of Color and Women Soar at Christie’s ‘21st Century’ Sale 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Children of the Sea” finds plenty of beauty and purpose in the watery depths but doesn’t provide enough grounding first: It’s all too easy to get lost 20,000 leagues under the sea. ‘Children of the Sea’ Review: Finding Beauty in the Watery Depths 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Still, there are problems with the top women’s basketball league. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Just a few years later, though — on Dec. 5, 1947, to be precise — the league appeared on a list of organizations considered “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” by the United States Attorney General. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z

What would be an impressive, even exhaustive, number of friends in real life is bush league for Facebook’s high rollers, who have thousands. When Facebook Says: You Have Too Many Friends 2010-05-28T22:46:00Z

All I know for sure is that minor league baseball today finds itself in a place it has never been before: on the precipice of real, profound change. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Think of your son’s football league, including the full-body impact, sometimes,” said Jason Williams, an entertainment-industry dancer who attended competitions as a student and frequently returns to teach and choreograph. Sequins and Soul-Searching in the Competitive Dance World 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“I couldn’t quite hit the fastball when I got to the major leagues.” He Called His Song ‘American Anthem.’ It Actually Became One. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

I follow Rich out of the eddy and into another league. An adrenaline-starved adventure traveler looks back at five close calls 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

When Nike took over as the uniform provider for the league, there were some questions whether it might attempt to shake up the mostly staid N.F.L. look. For Super Bowl Teams, the Seahawks and the Broncos, N.F.L. Uniforms Designed by Nike 2014-01-29T23:27:48Z

“I guess the next time that you attempt to bury damaging information about your league’s conduct,” Stewart said to the NFL, “I guess we’ll know to throw the red challenge flag.” Must-see morning clip: Roger Goodell really messed up, says Jon Stewart 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The Washington Wizards have the top scorer in the league. Perspective | The NBA’s rock-star teams can’t keep up with the Jazz 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

“I want it to be removed from Webster’s,” Weiss says of the word on Monday. Part of Sam’s misstep was getting above his appointed place in the league pecking order. NFL Blocks Oprah's Attempt to Make Michael Sam a Reality-TV Star 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

He debuted in the majors last year as the youngest player in the league at the time and is the youngest player in Nationals franchise history to hit a home run. The Nationals’ Juan Soto looks back on his first days in the majors 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

With the popularity of fantasy sports in America and the approval of the major pro leagues, the growth of FanDuel and its imitators is showing no sign of slowing down. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“The league has had its moments during these tumultuous times. Now, with us being all together in this room and stadium together, it’s the purpose of hope.” Usher performs classic hits at star-studded Chairman’s Party 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

He powered the Stealth to the league title, then snagged a gold medal and the M.V.P. crown with Team USA at the world championships. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z

Do you get nervous with stars in a higher commercial league than you? The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z

Are you an encyclopedia of sports statistics because you play in a fantasy league? | ?My Crazy Obsession?: ?My Crazy Obsession? Has Its Premiere on TLC 2012-03-06T23:53:22Z

Buss is one part business man and two parts huckster, over-leveraging his real estate and cash assets to buy a team nobody takes seriously in a league that's lost its relevance. HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” knows how to put on a show 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

My first job, as a reporter for a downtown financial news Web site, didn’t exactly put me in the same league as the illustrious gang at Elaine’s. Looking Back: A Good Way to Begin a Story 2010-12-11T00:13:00Z

Abraham H. Foxman, the league’s national director, said he thought it was a reasonable compromise. Met’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ Remains a Lightning Rod 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Advertisement In August, the game league invited me to a preview. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

But the major league players are on strike. Summer Book Club: Baseball helps boy with a loss in ‘The Way Home Looks Now’ 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

One of dozens of teams in the adult coed league run by Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, the Lions are also one of five that belong to the New York City Gay Hockey Association. Urban Athlete: Camaraderie on Ice 2010-10-14T20:31:00Z

So he starred in the Pacific Coast Football League, a minor league that allowed Black players. Perspective | Kenny Washington’s time has come. NFL needs to recognize the man who broke the color barrier. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

But the football league flatly denied the report later that day. N.F.L. Says Lady Gaga Not Banned From Talking Trump 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Robinson, of course, broke modern major league baseball’s color barrier in 1947, when the Brooklyn Dodgers called him up from the minors. Review: ‘Jackie Robinson,’ on PBS, Covers More Than Race and Baseball 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

This isn't in the same league, but if you're looking for excitement and sensation, this shouldn't disappoint.Roundhouse, This week's cultural highlights: The Raid and Bath festival jazz weekend 2012-05-20T20:00:09Z

To understand that, it helps to look further into the league’s history. Perspective | Kenny Washington’s time has come. NFL needs to recognize the man who broke the color barrier. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

And this is the N.B.A., the most progressive league in professional sports, with the most enlightened commissioner. In Praise of Doris Burke, Basketball’s Best TV Analyst 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

For months a veritable league of national types, united by desperation and the English language, push through the cold and the heat, slipping through forests and across mountains and deserts. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z

He shares his short-lived Ivy league education, his advice to a young Michael Macintyre and how he kept Brad Pitt and Robert Redford waiting while he signed autographs. Omid Djalili: 'patron saint of failure' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

In addition, the players in these leagues are often paid a lot. Perspective | The return of sporting events isn’t a sprint 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

The abduction of Ramos had been especially distressing for Venezuelan baseball fans, who are hugely proud of local players who make it into the U.S. big leagues. Kidnapped Major League catcher rescued 2011-11-12T11:21:08Z

The league is called 12 Again, because for two sweet hours each Sunday morning that’s how these middle-aged men feel. 2010-01-30T01:35:00Z

The Lakers helped turn the N.B.A. from a fringe sports league into a titan, which set the stage for Jordan and, later, Kobe Bryant to help make the game a global phenomenon. ‘Winning Time’: When the N.B.A. Went Pop 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

But in order to earn a spot in a league like URL, rappers must first cut their teeth in smaller, more humble arenas. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Two decades after a terrible plague destroys modern civilization, a hard-bitten black marketeer ends up in league with a 14-year-old girl as they try to rescue some life for themselves in a ruined America. Critic’s Notebook: Nintendo’s Wii U Is the Talk of the E3 Computer Game Expo 2012-06-10T21:22:17Z

“He was able to generate so much publicity and respect for the league,” said Steve Ehrhart, a former executive director of the league. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

After he published the column, he wrote, the bowling league had given him a “unanimous ‘too mean; not funny’ thumbs-down” on his article. Kanye, Out West 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

She is in her 11th season in the National Series, Cuba's premier baseball league, and says she is ready for the international stage. Cuba's female umpire seeks to keep breaking barriers 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

He was commissioner of the prison’s softball league. O.J. Simpson is granted parole, closing another chapter in a neverending saga 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Pricing safeguards need to be installed to ensure these festivals remain accessible and affordable to the vast majority of Chicagoans, a reasonable middle ground between "free" and "out of my league." Privatizing Taste of Chicago: Free isn't working 2011-01-04T21:20:18Z

Denmark, with its crime drama, its New Nordic cuisine, its classic design, its consistent spot at the top of national happiness league tables, was “hot”, for a start. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Before the major league baseball season, I wrote confidently, “The Nats should roll through the regular season . . . winning 95 to 100 games.” Perspective | Avoiding mistakes isn’t the way to win 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The team is a well-oiled machine, with a marketing staff, merchandise and a fan base that other leagues would envy. The best kind of growing pains for Rat City Rollergirls 2013-01-17T21:37:32Z

Before the league’s reversal, 10 theaters — out of 40 — were set to break with the league and dim their lights. Broadway League Backs Down, Agrees to Honor Rivers 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

"Crucial" may be pushing it at this early stage, but I'm finding it hard not to agree that Mosley should be in the BBC's On The Way Up, Worth Investment league. The Story of Science 2010-04-28T07:00:00Z

Four months after Warhol's self-described "disco décor" show closed, 50,000 rioting kids tore up a major league baseball field in Chicago on Disco Demolition Night. Alas, mere 'Shadows' 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

As a clinician, she is haunted, full of doubt and regret — leagues away from the twinkling omniscience of an Oliver Sacks. A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

With African players flocking to western European soccer leagues in the last generation, Mr. Thomas used his art to link that with the colonization of Africa by European powers. Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s, the league was in a slump, suffering from poor attendance, meager television viewership, and a general lack of enthusiasm. The Lakers-Celtics Rivalry 2010-06-15T23:10:00Z

The league soon morphed into the "Celebrity Wonks & Wonkettes" when they coaxed a few guys to join. Fantasy sports widows: Don't get mad, get celeb-ed 2012-07-16T18:48:10Z

“I’ve told you about that guy who came to my house to do the gas saying, ‘Oh, that Coogan, he’s in another league!’” ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

It follows the lives of eight families in Milwaukee, some black and some white, all several leagues below the poverty line. Review: In ‘Evicted,’ Home Is an Elusive Goal for America’s Poor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

Russell earned a business degree in Dartmouth and played in the minor leagues until his career ended when he was hit in the head by a ball. Bing Russell's grandsons explore his 'Battered Bastards of Baseball' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Madden NFL’s attention to detail is a huge help to the league and its players, because they receive tens of millions of dollars in licensing fees. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z

And despite its hard-line concussion stance, the league is contemplating the addition of two more grueling regular-season games to its schedule. The Way We Live Now: Gridiron Girls 2011-01-30T09:24:02Z

As the NHL fights for attention from U.S. sports fans, the league is hoping the new outdoor tradition, started in 2008, will provide some much needed excitement. The NHL Moves Outside 2013-12-26T10:45:50Z

He started pitching the sports leagues when he was running G.S.I., and continued as he built Fanatics. Michael Rubin’s Big Shot 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

“I started a shuffleboard league back in Milwaukee,” she said, “and I’ve been waiting for years to find one in New York.” New to the Brooklyn Scene, the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club 2014-01-22T22:17:02Z

Their idea of a league thrived there, growing to include almost 300 players on 64 teams. Bo?te: Brooklyn?s Full Circle Serves Drinks and Skee-Ball 2010-06-25T16:43:00Z

After overseeing a renovation project at the building, he took some painting classes and joined the league in 2004. At Art Students League, Air Rights and Airing Grievances 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Make plans to watch sports with dad or better yet, get cheap tickets to a minor league baseball game. 7 Terrible Father's Day Gift Ideas 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Season three will see Powers pitch for a minor league team in Myrtle Beach. HBO comedy on ballplayer to film in Myrtle Beach 2011-06-29T12:35:08Z

“WOW” is created by David McLane, the founder of the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling league and TV franchise, which “GLOW” is based on. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ and ‘WOW’ 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

But rather than being set in a high school or summer camp, Lewis's 2003 piece of classic reportage treads rather less well-explored ground: behind the scenes in major league baseball. Summer readings: Moneyball by Michael Lewis 2011-07-29T09:25:00Z

A leaderboard shows individual and teams rankings, along with national league leaders. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, however, there's been movement on the minor league front. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Only politics and business, the serious stuff, happens at global level, while we laugh in our own national leagues. Why Loriot gets lost in translation 2011-08-25T14:45:25Z

The founders of the league were mostly owners of arenas who wanted another sport to fill their buildings. In its early years, NBA blocked black players 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Johnson and Guber are partners in the Dayton Dragons, a minor league baseball team that has sold out 844 consecutive games, an ongoing record in U.S. professional sports. Magic Johnson-led group is picked as Dodgers' next owner 2012-03-28T05:45:00Z

That is by far the highest European domestic league viewership in the U.S., driven partly by NBC’s studio shows and promotion. 8 of 10 Premier League matches this weekend streamed in US 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

The league leader in assists hadn’t simply gone off on Kennedy. This is the horrific and violent gay slur a star player aimed at a ref: Rajon Rondo’s virulent tirade 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Whereas Ahab risks his own life and the lives of his crew for an unachievable goal, Henry, quite sensibly, wants to play in the major leagues. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

He even participates in the sport's fantasy league — though he assured IndyStar that he won't let that influence his turn on the track next month. Author John Green is in training to drive a pace car on Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

William is a bonus baby — he signed for $2 million right out of high school — and now he finds himself way out of his league, both athletically and emotionally. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

The major league baseball playoffs are a little crazy. Perspective | In major league baseball playoffs, every hit counts 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The NHL took the Stanley Cup to Keith Urban’s studio last year, and now the country music star will be taking his talents outside to play a league event. Keith Urban to play at NHL Stadium Series outdoor game 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

But is the often musty academy ready to introduce Netflix to the big league and will the fact that it’s in Spanish restrict its chances to the foreign language film category? Oscars 2019: who are this year's early frontrunners? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Baker played 18 years in the major leagues, and earned a World Series ring with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1981. Dusty Baker sees similarities in his team, wine and baseball 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

The notion of highly compensated athlete putting his professional dispute in the same league as slavery immediately set off a waves of disgust across the Internet. The NFL "slave" comment that won't go away 2011-03-16T15:30:00Z

His father was killed during a raid by Ukrainian fascists in league with the Nazis. He Gave David Lynch His Start. Now, at 82, He’s a New Director. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

If Kouyate's playing was extraordinary, the other musicians were not in the same league. Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate – review 2013-03-19T16:27:13Z

The league games started in January, later than usual, because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Perspective | Can Capitals’ veterans and young goalies carry them to the Stanley Cup? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

And a few have pinned their hopes on a controversial solution — a wave of new all-female leagues and tournaments. Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Just about the last bastion of America that hasn’t been cleaved in two is sports; there’s no other sports league that evangelicals can enjoy, as there are film and music industries. The last evangelical celebrity? Tim Tebow’s firing may signal a recession among the faithful 2013-05-07T11:45:00Z

“I said, ‘You just don’t understand how it’s played in the big leagues’ ― and, apparently, this was it. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

After 23 seasons, Major League Baseball was not major league. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

The ultimate hope is that the skaters are seen more as the athletes they are — and that the league is recognized as a major player in the Seattle sports scene. The best kind of growing pains for Rat City Rollergirls 2013-01-17T21:37:32Z

Four years later they went back to the league and it was name your price.” A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

A study commissioned by the league showed that football players are 19 times more likely to develop brain trauma-related illness than non-players. The NFL’s toxic lies: Here are the worst excuses fans use to justify watching football 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The New Egypt Speedway, one of hundreds of such dirt tracks nationwide, rumbles to life each week from spring to fall with what could be described as the minor leagues of auto racing. Dirt-Track Racing at New Egypt Speedway in New Jersey 2011-09-01T23:09:31Z

I could see him being involved, perhaps in league with … 'True Detective' Recap: Some Bounce Back, Others Descend 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

“Borgen” is in that league, even though it is a political drama set in, of all places, the Danish Parliament. The TV Watch: ‘Borgen,’ a Danish Political Drama Series, on Link TV 2012-10-11T22:07:07Z

They deserve a lot of credit, though, for capturing the breadth and spirit of the league. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z

The league is the trade group of theater owners and producers, whose members include Mr. Roth. Five Broadway Theaters Will Dim Lights for Joan Rivers 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

It has snow from June to August, but let’s be honest: it will never compete with the big leagues. 12 Months of Skiing, From Chile to China 2012-12-07T17:07:45Z

Marc Stein, also of ESPN, polled teams anonymously about whether Collins would be back in the league next year. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

Her speech condemning him was in the rhetorical league of Cicero flaying Catiline, and with better reason. Clive James: ‘Hillary should have told Trump at least once to go screw himself’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

This week, Harrison has called the NFL's safety measures "a show," and sarcastically suggested that the league "lay down a pillow" on the football field. A Guide For Looking Smart About the Super Bowl 2011-02-04T06:00:00Z

Second, write a letter to the proper authorities — club, league, tournament organizers, local governing body of that sport, however many of these apply. Carolyn Hax: Poor sportsmanship by adults offers a teachable moment 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Luck said the league will begin signing players later this month after the final showcase is held in St. Louis July 13. XFL’s plans for upcoming season starting to take shape 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Since the publication of Moneyball the Oakland personnel, and their ideas, have spread out across the league and their methods assimilated into mainstream thinking. Summer readings: Moneyball by Michael Lewis 2011-07-29T09:25:00Z

None have arrived with any interest in Boogaard, but a pair of them hastily alight to a nearby motor inn to fax league headquarters an official request for Boogaard’s services. John Branch's 'Boy on Ice' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The auction, held at the Sports Legends Museum in Baltimore a day after the 100-year anniversary of Ruth's first major league game, featured 200 items related to the home-run king. Babe Ruth bat sells for $214,000 but home run ball flops in Baltimore auction 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

The league also has added two new sponsors, Firestone and Scotts lawn care products, which are advertising on all networks carrying baseball. Advertisers returning to baseball telecasts 2010-04-05T16:26:00Z

In 2017, the league aired 20 games live on Twitter, while also offering a new fantasy game on the fantasy platform FanDuel. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

As the league comes out of the All-Star break and the push toward the playoffs intensifies, Roberts is pleased with the early results. Roberts pleased with changes, progress of ESPN’s NBA shows 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Soccer is a second- or third-tier sport in the United States, and books about it are mostly aimed at the coaches of children’s leagues. Tim Howard’s ‘The Keeper’ Tells That Athlete’s Story 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

“After the last movie, I only saw the Ducks as turning into this conglomerate, this franchise, this out of control competitive league. It got away from where it was at.” The Game Winner for Disney+? Slapping Down the Sports Clichés. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

When accusations surfaced that the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and many others in the league might have systematically tried to cover up a video of Ray Rice punching his wife, I was disgusted and outraged. Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Minor league baseball teams tend to be desperate for publicity. Weingarten: Way off base

From the aggressive displays of machismo at little league baseball games to the vaguely menacing etiquette of PTA meetings, the freakishness of suburban life far transcends the freakishness of ... well, freaks like you and me. "Neighbors From Hell": The perversion of the suburbs, unleashed! 2010-05-29T23:01:00Z

Two years later, he succeeded in not only raising the minimum major league salary 25% to US$10,000, but also securing for his players arbitration rights. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

The trio went to a minor league hockey game; the brothers forgot she was with them and left the game while she was in the bathroom. She took her date to a hockey game. He went to the restroom — and never came back. 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Young, too, believes the team will someday get back to the minor leagues. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Do you think the league does enough to prepare athletes for retirement? Michael Oher on where "The Blind Side" went wrong: "It didn't show the work ethic I put in" 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

The team is made up mostly of minor leaguers and former major league players. Perspective | New sports add thrills to Summer Olympics 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some played in smaller pro and semipro leagues scattered around the country. In its early years, NBA blocked black players 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

If Dennis Hopper’s character were buying, the drink presumably would be Pabst Blue Ribbon, a favored lager among many of the older league players who are habitués of yet another southeast Portland stronghold, Blitz Ladd. Where the Ping-Pong Scene Never Sleeps 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

And Evan Rachel Wood, a pretty campaign volunteer eager to play in the big leagues, is yet another figure giving female political interns a bad rap. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z

Having proved his worth in genre film-making, this ambitious first-world-war drama was Kubrick’s step up to the big league. Stanley Kubrick's best films – ranked! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

He bowls in a league twice a week. No ordinary lives: A tribute to Washington’s WWII veterans

See if it sounds like a profitable professional league to you. Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

He is among the league leaders in home runs. Cuba opens pipeline of baseball talent to Japan, U.S. left out 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

It's between people happy for both views to co-exist, and people for whom it isn't enough to play in the Premier League – you have to be energetically affronted by the existence of Sunday league. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z

The sports plot thickened when it was revealed that the MLB donated to Hyde-Smith's campaign weeks after she made the inflammatory comment, which the league claims it was not aware of at the time. Black lives don’t matter to Major League Baseball — what else is new? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

However, if nothing else Excellent Cadaver puts Lawrence up in the big league of actors with bizarrely-named production companies. Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver: why do stars give their companies unusual names? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I was teased for a while because I had picked literally the single worst football team in the league to root for here,” says Margaret, now a buyer at an Australian beauty retailer. On Love: Margaret Mitchell and Alastair Cottrill

“This is where we get to teach them how to stick-handle, shoot, some team concepts and just get them ready for getting into a league,” lead instructor Benny Kwon said. Olympics fever? Here’s where you can try 5 winter sports in the D.C. area. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Few people outside Miami are willing to embrace the Heat, though a LeBron-Bryant NBA Finals would be a dream matchup for the league and networks. NBA: Derrick Rose Helps Make the Bulls a Title Favorite 2011-04-15T09:20:00Z

There’s the Trump administration, in league with the US religious right, which has been aggressively pushing anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ legislation, not to mention engaging in overt Islamophobia. Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The league advised ticket holders to contact “their point of purchase” for refunds or exchanges and noted that performances are scheduled to resume “the week of April 13, 2020.” Broadway to go dark, as coronavirus fears intensify 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

They speak a language that is many leagues past nihilism, because war, no matter how idealistic the rhetoric couching it, deserves no less a treatment. “War Machine” reveals the mentality behind America’s longest war — and the maddest of them all 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

"When a lot of players around the league get superstar status, they're always shouting," says Taj Gibson, a reserve forward for the Bulls. NBA: Derrick Rose Helps Make the Bulls a Title Favorite 2011-04-15T09:20:00Z

The N.B.A. might be among the most progressive leagues in the world, yet its officiating crews aren’t immune to implicit bias. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Almost in her league was Mrs. Bradley-Martin, who inherited an unexpected fortune from her father and shoved her daughter, Cornelia, into a marriage to the impecunious Earl of Craven, who was after her million-dollar dowry. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

He and Ms. Pursell are in two fantasy football leagues together. Haley Joel Osment Plays Pool at His Favorite N.Y.U. Hangout 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

If so, we owe her no small amount of gratitude, even if she is not quite yet in his league. At 88, Tony Bennett is still loving life, and you can hear it | Concert preview 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In my mind, I wrung out every bit of ability I had to play seven years in the big leagues. In his early days, even the Nationals’ F.P. Santangelo was bugged by his style 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

It was the first public school league for Black players in the country. Perspective | Kids help elevate E.B. Henderson’s contributions to basketball 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

NBC “Sunday Night Football” announcer Al Michaels said a huge reason for the league’s popularity on television is because it is the best-suited sport for it. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

“After 321 pictures or so, he hit his stride and it was time to get called up to the big leagues.” TikToker Lands the Role of a Lifetime: Playing Dead on TV 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

He's richer, better-looking, physically more at ease than Emma; in movie terms, he's out of her league. Anne Billson on One Day 2011-08-18T21:10:01Z

The 79-year-old comedian, whose memoir, What’s So Funny? will be published in October, was walking around with a name tag that read BOB FELLER, presumably after the famous major league pitcher of an earlier era. Galley Girl at Book Expo 2013: The First Night 2013-05-30T18:02:35Z

Schools, office jobs and sports leagues were all designed around a lark’s schedule. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

If the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has a softball league, I like my chances. Critic?s Notebook: All-Star Lineup: Major League Baseball?s All-Cameo Team 2011-12-24T01:37:18Z

The league prides itself on being an inclusive, umbrella organization for American composers of all stripes, and its catholic embrace of styles and generations was reflected in the program. Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

In other words, the team and league didn’t want the show to happen. NFL Blocks Oprah's Attempt to Make Michael Sam a Reality-TV Star 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Our league is really for the player who wants to have a fun social evening, drinking beers, meeting new people and playing volleyball while watching the sun set,” said David Walker, league director. Urban Athlete: Grownups Dig in the Sand, Too 2010-08-26T21:36:00Z

We kind of went into it like 'Ivy League, schmivey league.' Princeton-UCLA: Reflections on an Historic Upset 2011-03-16T10:05:00Z

Later, when Ben Carson went off script to suggest that Hillary was in league with Lucifer—not a joke!—it felt very on-brand. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

That last work, a milestone of early-20th-century music, was commissioned in 1927 by the league when the organization was only four years old. Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The two previous postseason series in the American and National leagues were slugfests that averaged nearly 10 runs a game. Game 1: Cardinals beat Rangers 3-2 2011-10-20T03:16:00Z

“We are not in the league,” Robert Mnuchin said in an interview. Robert Mnuchin Would Rather Not Discuss His Client (or His Son) 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

The Blue Rocks, not to be confused with the University of Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens, play minor league baseball in a downtown stadium. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Bush is unlikely ever to get near the Lincoln league. Decision Points by George W Bush ? review 2010-11-19T10:09:00Z

One reason was that the owner of the Washington football team, George Preston Marshall, did not want Black players in the league. Perspective | Kenny Washington’s time has come. NFL needs to recognize the man who broke the color barrier. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

A major league soccer stadium is also under construction: The 23,000-seat Bank of California Stadium will be home to the Los Angeles Football Club and is scheduled to open in April. What's coming in 2018: Arts 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

The paratroopers' song is not in the same artistic league, but its straightforward honesty and marching beat has won the hearts of many disgruntled Russians. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z

The girls’ league, which was initially open to only fifth- and sixth-graders, now has more than 650 players and includes girls up through 12th grade. How full-contact tackle football became ‘therapy’ for these girls 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

The Fantasy Sports Trade Association, in any case, demands that its members “ensure that current professional and amateur athletes will be restricted to not play paid entry games in the league they are a player.” Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

The band achieved album sales of up to 200 million copies, putting them in the same league as the likes of the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62 2012-05-20T23:19:00Z

After his exile, he came back in 1977 with with the milquetoast effort A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, but 1980’s Zigeunerweisen finally got him back in league with audiences and critics. Seijun Suzuki: can Japan's cult master cross over? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Here, too, is Cobb’s polar opposite, Henry Joseph Smith, an average outfielder for the Brooklyn Superbas who played only one year in the major leagues — but who went by the nickname Happy. Metropolitan Museum Opens Huge Show of Baseball Cards 2013-07-11T21:15:02Z

To play it on Broadway in the big leagues means so much to me.” Broadway Actors Who Are Bracing for Final Curtain 2010-12-29T23:00:28Z

I fought back any urges to chat him up at the time because I assumed someone so clever and good-looking was out of my league. I was a comedy groupie 2013-03-11T00:30:00Z

Then last year, the league broke the pattern when it asked the Black Eyed Peas and Usher to perform, along with the Slash, the former guitarist for Guns N Roses. ArtsBeat Blog: Packers? Patriots? How About Madonna as a Super Bowl Contender? 2011-10-04T18:37:40Z

In league with Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and other theater visionaries, Brook shifted modern drama away from the illusion of detailed realism. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

The doc could maybe spend more time drawing out Parker’s relationship to her peers — in a 2019 poll by The Athletic, W.N.B.A. players voted her the league’s most overrated player. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kobborg isn’t in the same league as Mr. Gomes, let alone Mr. Hallberg, but there are fine points of pure Royal Ballet style in his performance that deepen the role. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z

“On our first date, we went to see the South Bend Cubs play the Great Lakes Loons,” he said, referring to two Class A minor league teams. ‘Mayor Pete’ Gets Married, Then Takes His Husband to a Pride Party 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Success often depended on access to players and front office personnel, as well as cozy relationships with league officials. Serena Williams forced journalists to get out of the "toy box" and cover tennis as more than a game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Though I felt she was completely out of my league, I thought ‘Well, let me at least give this thing a shot.’” They Grew Closer Despite a Geographical Distance 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Benson’s attorney even threatened to sue the league if it prevented the move. Tagliabue memoir a strong look into the NFL’s inner workings 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

It is in a league above any other. Anonymous Oscar ballot: Publicist gives "Roma" 7, "Vice" 3, "Can You Ever Forgive Me" 2 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

As a little league coach, my team made it to the championship game year after year. My three wives 2013-04-14T01:00:00Z

In late June, the 2020 minor league baseball season was canceled, and six months later, the Orioles officially severed ties with the Keys. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

This cub reporter so badly wants to be in the big league. A look at how Hollywood depicts female journalists. (Hint: It’s not always positive.) 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The NBA, on the other hand, is a predominantly black league where a relatively small number of athletes play a game that both exposes them almost completely and often encourages self-expression. “Stick to sports” is no longer an option: What it means for NBA stars to take a stand for Black Lives Matter 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

But we never actually did those things in the premier league. Rockers reunion 2010-04-27T08:47:00Z

The film's creators want movie audiences to see that "Moneyball" is not just another tale in the vein of "The Natural," "Major league" or other baseball films that have become ubiquitous in U.S. theaters. Brad Pitt aims for home run with "Moneyball" 2011-09-10T15:32:44Z

And the lead Farrell dancers, though all exhibit signs of special insight into the ballets, are never quite in the top league of America’s finest interpreters. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Hodges would play overseas for a year before returning to the league as a coach. The Political Athlete: Then and Now 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

“The aroma and flavor of wood are in a league of their own.” Grilling Turns Back to an Ancient Fuel: Wood 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

As a cultural phenomenon, Gangnam Style is clearly in a bonkers league of its own. MoveTube: Gangnam Style and the changing face of South Korean hip-hop 2012-10-05T16:30:43Z

A reflection on the impossibility of recapturing the freshness of young love, it is a probing, sensitive, introspective song that squarely places Davies in the league of singer-songwriters like Hardin and James Taylor. Davies’ album showcases rock, country and pop 2013-03-27T02:54:35Z

I hope that this one is in their league. Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

As for the snubs, complaining about these has evolved to such an extent in recent years that they have become the pundits’ alternative refusenik fantasy league. Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Schmidt said by the end of the season more than 3,000 hours were recorded for all regular-season and playoff games throughout the league. Bucs’ Super Bowl film showcases Brady and Tampa Bay D 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

This expression is a challenge in roller derby leagues outside of the United States. The Wheel Thing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Asked how they’re maintaining their well-being despite the disruption of their leagues and routines, several seniors revealed strategies for overcoming adversity, regardless of one’s age or athletic ability. The way these older amateur athletes are staying fit despite the pandemic offers lessons for all ages 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

The league hopes to name the first recipient by the end of the year, a spokesman said. ArtsBeat: Drama League Fellowship to Support Female Writer-Directors 2014-02-04T20:27:25Z

“He’s probably the most stylish player of the playoffs,” Lance Darrell, who comments on league style for TNT and NBATV, said of Tucker. James Harden and P.J. Tucker: Name a More Iconic Fashion Playoff Duo 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

They’re in command of the second Wild Card spot — the best teams in the league that aren’t leading their division — and are two games back of the vaunted New York Yankees for the top spot. Disproving Trumpism on the field, the Minnesota Twins embrace diversity and win 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

But the owners claim that since, in part, player compensation has doubled over the past decade - according to the league — players need to take a smaller share of a growing revenue pie. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

Along the way, the vocal social justice activist worked hard to bring major league baseball back to Washington and continues the uphill battle for D.C. statehood. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Too often kids sports and youth leagues resemble the “grind” of professional sports. Perspective | Like Andrew Luck, kids quit sports when the joy goes away 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Yes, the NFL violated antitrust law by acting “to exclude competition within major league football.” And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

“This partnership of the world’s top hockey league and the platforms of The Walt Disney Company is a big win for our fans and our game,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. ESPN, NHL announce comprehensive 7-year agreement 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Kinsella brought back to life Moonlight Graham, who played one major league baseball game but never got to bat. Author W.P. Kinsella dies at 81; wrote the novel that became ‘Field of Dreams' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

We had success playing top high school leagues. “Asian men in media are so desexualized”: Rising star Jake Choi fights the Hollywood odds against Asian American actors 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

So here is the important material, which relates to the way schools are assessed for league tables. Michael Gove's statement on GCSEs - and what it means for cultural and creative subjects 2013-02-07T13:42:30Z

All their players play in the major league in the world, the English Premier League. Inside The USA Vs. England Matchup 2010-06-10T18:00:00Z

The vaccinations will also be compulsory for “performers, backstage crew and theater staff,” according to the league statement. Broadway to require vaccinations and masks as theaters reopen 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

I’m talking about it being 2018 and Dave Roberts of the Dodgers is the only African American manager in the major leagues. Black lives don’t matter to Major League Baseball — what else is new? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

But the panda just lives in another league. Just asking: The National Zoo’s Bill McShea on pandas

The BBC's coverage of the Games progressed rather more serenely than the fictional counterpart, catapulting one of its presenters, Clare Balding, into the television big league. Bafta nominations: three for Olympics – but four for Twenty Twelve 2013-04-09T20:43:43Z

She was something of an ambassador for the assembled fans of League of Legends, a multiplayer online game that draws amateur and professional players, as well as sponsors and fantasy leagues. Closing the Gender Gap, One E-Battle at a Time 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Once I moved to L.A. five years ago, it was the first time I joined an Asian league. With basketball drama "Boogie," Eddie Huang is finally "free of the shadow" of "Fresh Off the Boat" 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

An Atlanta man made the best of a sticky situation after being banished to a local Waffle House for 24 hours after losing a fantasy football league. Waffle House customer tips server $1G in surprise fundraiser 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

On April 15, 1947, baseball player Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Perspective | Jackie Robinson, known for breaking baseball’s color barrier, was a towering figure in American history 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Taylor wrote that one of Mr. Clark’s greatest strengths is that he knows, understands and respects the culture of the league. Art Students League Director Is Stepping Down 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

And he was tied for the lead in the major leagues for most complete games. Perspective | Some favorite Washington Nationals are gone, but the new guys are promising 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

You also recount the history of Africville, which was a Black town where the league started and was later demolished. Hockey "has always been diverse": Uncovering the unsung history and racism in Canada's beloved sport 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Then I discovered a sub-topic within this group called fantasy wrestling, where dozens of leagues of fully made-up wrestlers existed, feuded and fought. My life as a fake fake wrestler 2013-03-06T19:22:00Z

“According to a new report, three N.F.L. teams are considering pursuing quarterback Tom Brady when he becomes a free agent. Not to mention about a dozen bocce leagues.” Stephen Colbert Is Charmed by Republican Concerns About Ron DeSantis 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

The FX/FXX series about a fantasy football league announced that it was returning for a seventh season — but that the new season would also be its last, Deadline reports. It's Game Over for 'The League' 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Our league has a lot to address this offseason as consumer confidence continues to wane,” Troy Aikman tweeted after yet another week in which flags, or the lack of them, dominated stories about the N.F.L. Seven Turning Points from the Year in Sports 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

They are hard to define because science – unlike premier league football, the balance of trade figures, or party political briefings – so often delivers the unexpected. The Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2013 launches 2013-03-06T07:00:19Z

The government says the students, who attended a radical leftist teachers college, were seen as a threat by the mayor, who was in league with a drug gang. Elder statesman of Mexico's main leftist party resigns 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

After all, major league teams played about that number of games for more than half of the 20th century. Perspective | Have sports become too much of a good thing? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

No youth league championship is worth the risk of injury and possible surgery. Pitching injuries come from too much baseball too soon 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Previously, the Italian league was shown on narrowly distributed beIN in the U.S. Ronaldo and Serie A games moving from ESPN to CBS in US 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

Major League Baseball built a ballpark adjacent to the movie site, and the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox played the first big league game there on Aug. 12. Frank Thomas heads group that buys Field of Dreams site 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

This stems not only from the league’s fastidiousness about its image but also from Mr. Madden’s insistence that the game be exciting and educational. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z

Mr. Kelley used to be in that league, but his last real hit was “Boston Legal” eight years ago. Review: In ‘Goliath,’ Billy Bob Thornton Plays a Down-and-Out David 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It helps to have an expert team: The bassist Sean Conly fills leagues of space, while the drummer Chad Taylor provides a dose of earthy erudition, casting dark shadows on the toms. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

In many respects, last season was the culmination of a league resurgence from the hangover left by Michael Jordan's last game with the Chicago Bulls in 1998, when the NBA ruled American sports. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-07T09:00:00Z

Thirty years ago, Kevin Costner starred in this baseball classic as Crash Davis, a veteran catcher toiling in the minor leagues. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

In this first instalment of a double bill, Seattle Grace is stung by a steep drop in the teaching hospital league tables, while Meredith is disturbed by a recurring dream of boyfriend Derek's death. TV highlights 22/08/2011: Alesha's Street Dance Stars 2011-08-19T22:03:43Z

Somehow I sensed this wouldn’t fly in a more traditional league. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z

Cousteau's art was to have the curious viewer ask, How would I fare 20,000 leagues under the sea with a steel scuba tank on my back and a tiger shark circling my underwater cage? Tom Hanks on 'Pacific' HBO Series, World War II, History 2010-03-04T23:55:00Z

Without underplaying the challenges, especially of TB’s multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains, she presents a league of smart scientists whose ingenuity and commitment offer at least some sense of hope. Three Books That Track Diseases, Drugs and the World They Made 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Do you feel like there were a whole lot of lessons that you didn't have when you were in the league? Michael Oher on where "The Blind Side" went wrong: "It didn't show the work ethic I put in" 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

“The sun is going to rise tomorrow,” she promised in league with Richard Strauss, in his song “Morgen.” A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

If you want to understand the flaws in the way the major sports leagues address domestic violence, for instance, you need to understand the problems with zero-tolerance policies. The Ham-Handed, Money-Driven Mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

The rebellious former coach and owner of the Raiders built one of the great franchises while battling the league and former commissioner Pete Rozelle in court for years. ESPN uses technology to bring Davis, Rozelle back to life 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

The boys are in the big leagues now, and their adversaries treat them with contempt; “Cheech and Chon,” Lado calls them. Oliver Stone's Savages: It's the Dope 2012-07-05T12:00:32Z

Translation: “. . . the league vowed to not, again, get tough.” Style Invitational: Don’t be afraid of the dark — a song parody contest 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Paragon tops an unofficial league table of players' guilds In this raid, 25 players slay Nefarian and Onyxia in an epic battle. World of Warcraft's best ever guild raid 2011-02-01T13:51:00Z

He estimates that, based on data beginning in March 2020, about 2 to 5 percent of all pairs playing online were cheating, a figure that translates to several hundred players in the league. After a Year of ‘Rampant’ Cheating, Elite Bridge Tries to Clean Up 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Last season, they won a record 73 regular-season games; featured Stephen Curry, the back-to-back league M.V.P.; and beat the Thunder in the playoffs a month before. How Kevin Durant Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Start-up 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

There are podcasts to download and fantasy leagues to join. A ‘Bachelorette’ Bible 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Why else did the league finally make incremental changes in 2021? America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jumping from minor league baseball in small towns on a tiny salary to playing on a national stage for big bucks was a shock to my system. After ‘Moneyball,’ Tabitha Soren kept shooting. The results are stunning. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

She said she also found inspiration in Sacco, the occupational therapist and league co-founder and coach. How full-contact tackle football became ‘therapy’ for these girls 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the Chinese Basketball Association is an arm of the government; as a result, league bureaucrats were more interested in protecting their positions and not creating waves than risking change. 'Brave Dragons:' Basketball as a mirror to modern China 2012-02-16T21:19:04Z

Not unlike the realms of Westeros, Scotland then was riven by feuding noble families–and the Douglases happened to be at odds with the royal court and those in league with the king. Last Supper: The Real-Life Massacre that Inspired the Game of Thrones ‘Red Wedding’ 2013-06-04T15:24:37Z

A temporary 8,000-seat stadium will be built on the site to accommodate the first major league game ever played in Iowa. White Sox, Yankees to play at ‘Field of Dreams’ in 2020 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

But it is in a league of Disney movies - along with last year's Disney history piece "Saving Mr. Banks" and the upcoming sports drama "McFarland" - that enhance the Disney brand with an uplifting, against-all-odds story. Disney throws another feel-good pitch with 'Million Dollar Arm' 2014-05-13T16:55:23Z

The extension means that EA Sports will continue to be the league’s exclusive publisher of football simulation games through 2026. NFL, EA agree to extension of Madden video game franchise 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Another problem for the women’s league is that very few fans watch the games on television. Mystics have added talent, but will that multiply fans? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

I had league tables, so when I discovered Shostakovich he came in at number eight and pushed Nielsen down to nine. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z

Pitted against them is Seattle’s Legion of Boom defense, the hardest team in the league to pass against. The gay guide to the Super Bowl 2014-02-01T15:30:00Z

We could maybe use you on Wake Up, Hebrides or something, but for the big league, we need someone like you but younger. David Miliband's TV future: Strictly ? something 2011-01-09T21:00:01Z

The visual style of the game is what puts it in a league of its own. Best video games of 2017 feature new worlds and old friends 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

The article stated that Ms. Ross, a jewelry designer, had been “called up to the major leagues” by the “prime placement” of earrings on Mrs. Obama, most recently at the State of the Union speech. On the Runway: About That McQueen Dress 2011-01-28T17:22:01Z

But victories in a spring league were small potatoes for Trump. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Kingston is a huge baseball fan and a gifted player in his league. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z

When I came into the league trying to party and having too much of a good time, I found out the hard way how it affected my performance. N.F.L. Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez Is Serious About His Beauty Sleep 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The other, Pierre Boulez, is a modern legend, but Mr. Benjamin, who was born in London in 1960, is surely in his league, a creator of pristine and tantalizing sound worlds. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Explores George Benjamin’s Influence 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

An avid baseball fan, Dylan instead made time to quietly attend the season opener for the Tulsa Drillers, the town’s minor league baseball team, according to Brinkley. At 80, Bob Dylan finally gets a museum 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

With many of the best players serving in the military, hundreds of additional players got a chance to play in the major leagues. Perspective | During World War II, baseball players wore two kinds of uniforms 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

More than a million girls and boys play in youth leagues across the country. Perspective | It’s time for May Madness. The best college lacrosse teams face off this month. 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

I started playing in this league in Brooklyn called the Youth Basketball Association. Malcolm D. Lee on ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ and Directing LeBron James 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect.... NFL fail: Why won’t the Washington Redskins hire Colin Kaepernick? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Players of color were long banned from the pro and minor leagues, and amateur play was seldom in the spotlight. ‘Pitch Black’ traces African-American baseball history 2014-02-06T22:30:30Z

“When people think about the best leagues in the world, everybody knows who they are, and we want to be one of those leagues.” After World Cup, MLS looks to steady growth 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Davies, a soccer commentator who often compares “Jeopardy!” to a sport, dreams of airing the new league’s episodes live. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The Nationals collectively struck out 1,344 times this year, second highest total in the major leagues. To win season tickets, all he had to do was hit a home run in Nationals Park. Could he swing it? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

That is a figure Man v Fat has more or less maintained in the three years since launching, with more than 70 leagues now operating all over the UK. Goal! The football league that helped me lose five stone 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Owners decided in 2008 to opt out of the league's old labor contract, which expired March 11. NFL players OK deal, ending lockout 2011-07-25T18:34:00Z

“Joan Rivers loved Broadway and we loved her,” Charlotte St. Martin, the league’s executive director, said in a statement. Broadway League Backs Down, Agrees to Honor Rivers 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

In one recent video, Mila addresses a date with her friend Sawyer that went boringly wrong when he paid more attention to his sports league than to her. Kids Make the Darndest Viral Videos 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

I took my kids to video game little league. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

In addition to his national team achievements, for his club Pelé won six Brazilian league titles and two South American championships. Pelé: A global superstar and cultural icon who put passion at the heart of soccer 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

“He was breaking league rules … He has outsmarted the NFL, making a mockery of his request that he speak to reporters during access periods.” Dumber than Fox News: Super Bowl hype is brain-dead sports media at its worst 2014-01-31T19:51:00Z

I absolutely wish I got the opportunity to pitch in the big leagues, but “what if” this was supposed to be my path? After ‘Moneyball,’ Tabitha Soren kept shooting. The results are stunning. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Though women account for 45 percent of the league's overall fan base, according to the league, this new campaign is the first of its stature to focus on the female consumer. On the Runway Blog: The N.F.L. Markets to Fashion Fans 2012-08-13T19:23:18Z

Just as Ishmael wants to shake off melancholy and see the “watery part of the world,” Henry wants to play major league baseball? English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

The league routinely frontloads television appearances with the top picks early, figuring their teams will not be in contention after the All-Star break. Too early to tell if injuries will affect NBA TV ratings 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Evans and the two other guys in the league aren't looking to win. Fantasy sports widows: Don't get mad, get celeb-ed 2012-07-16T18:48:10Z

A minute's silence had been held at each local league baseball game, and players wore green armbands in solidarity. Kidnapped Major League catcher rescued 2011-11-12T11:21:08Z

And now the younger guys in the league dress better and care more about clothes. Henrik Lundqvist, Hockey’s Fashion Leader 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The decline, both physical and mental, chronicled in “King Lear” exists a league apart, and few productions of this play knock at the door of the psychic abyss that the play itself inhabits. Minds in Meltdown, and a Risk-Taking Director Back on Form 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The laissez-faire ethics of baseball are examined via the intersecting careers of three typecast big league players. 'Back Back Back' takes a swing at baseball's drug scandal 2012-04-06T23:19:04Z

The team was composed of players — many over the age of 30 — who had been rejected by major league baseball organizations. Bing Russell's grandsons explore his 'Battered Bastards of Baseball' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Zion Williamson, in a tropical suit of ivory, or maybe celestial cream, looked formal but relaxed, and seemed situationally aware that he is entering the league at a flowering of N.B.A. fashion. The Evolution of N.B.A. Draft Fashion 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

On the first day of the new league year, one of the NFL’s top broadcasting teams is moving from Fox to ESPN. Buck, Aikman going from Fox to ESPN’s ‘Monday Night’ booth 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

He put snooker on the channel and helped devise new forms of sport: one-day cricket and rugby league under floodlights. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

I went back to play with my Sunday league team. My East End: Tinchy Stryder, musician 2012-07-07T19:22:44Z

He became a professional rugby league player, but in 2008 was jailed for six years for blackmail and released only two years ago. Kerry Katona: 'Sometimes I think I attract drama' 2013-07-06T08:00:00Z

One of the fastest players in the major leagues, Turner stole 46 bases last year despite playing in just 98 games. The Nationals’ Trea Turner likes to steal bases. This season may have just made that easier. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Asked what he thought of MLB’s experiments at minor league levels, he responded: “The experience in some instances has been less than favorable.” Late innings = late nights as World Series games lengthen 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

But it was 1984's "Purple Rain," and the movie of the same name, that put Prince in a league of his own. Prince to get BET Lifetime Achievement Award 2010-06-15T19:16:00Z

You may be familiar with the life of Terry Donahue, who played for the women's professional baseball league that inspired the hit movie "A League of Their Own." What's new on Netflix in April, from "Kim's Convenience" to "#blackAF" 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

That take ended up in the final film, and it reassured leagues of fanboys worried that it could lose the dark, subversive tone of the graphic novel. Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z

Their total of 22 goals was the lowest in the league. Baseball and football aren’t only summer pro sports

But things got complicated in the Senate league in which they originally played, perhaps a little too hard and a little too well. ‘We don’t talk politics out here’: Democratic staffers vent stress on football field 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Less than three weeks into the season, the league’s television partners are still trying to assess the fallout from injuries. Too early to tell if injuries will affect NBA TV ratings 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

So, a league of professional female athletes emerges out of the Midwest, originally intended as little more than a publicity stunt as bankrolled by candy bar magnate Walter Harvey. There are all kinds of nurturers on “A League of Their Own.” Lupe is the best 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

"Even Tom Cruise was unable to beat the strength of two really strong newcomers that were devoid of stars anywhere near in his league," said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. Fans sink into Cruise's 'Oblivion' in $38.2M debut 2013-04-21T18:34:09Z

Looking for a style edge, Mr. Shanahan worked with the league’s official cap maker, New Era, to design a hat inspired by the trucker caps he favors off-field. Why the 49ers Coach Wears that Red Trucker Hat on the Sidelines 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

In a recent e-mail interview, Mr. Mann discussed the team’s fan base, the strange incentives of minor league existence and more. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z

It’s not simply a movie about how Giannis became one of the most dominant players in the league. ‘Rise’ Review: To Be Giannis 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The official organization, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, now has 158 member leagues in the U.S., The best kind of growing pains for Rat City Rollergirls 2013-01-17T21:37:32Z

Ottawa-based writer Paul Paquet, who runs a Canadian trivia league of 200 teams and composes a Reader’s Digest trivia column, agrees. Q: Their job is to stump you. Who are they? A: Trivia writers, of course. 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Like athletes in all the major U.S. sports leagues, NBA players agree to narrow controls over their clothing while on the job. 'I Can't Breathe' and the Not-So Protected Speech of Professional Athletes 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Of that party’s several hundred studied attempts at dressing with artless sophistication, even I could see that Cucinelli was in a league of his own. Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z

The restaurant at the Cell appears to be unusual for a major league baseball stadium. Sox restaurant paid for with public funding 2011-10-27T02:00:00Z

Charlotte St. Martin, the executive director of the league, said a decision would be made soon about Tuesday’s performances. Snow Leads Met Opera to Cancel a Premiere; All Broadway Shows Canceled 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Swinton’s first foray into the Hollywood big league, playing another business-suited corporate type: the creepy representative of Life Extension, who sells Tom Cruise his “lucid dream”. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Eric Kokish of Canada is this year’s winner of the American Contract Bridge League’s Blackwood Award for long-term service to bridge, which gains him admission to the league’s Hall of Fame. Bridge: For a Top Player and Coach, Two Hall-of-Fame Addresses 2011-07-20T22:44:17Z

Since October, the NFL has announced multiple initiatives, including educating players and their families and updating its personal conduct policy, in order to address domestic violence in the league. This May Have Been the Best Year for Women Since the Dawn of Time 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

To be fair, this group—a tight-knit group of friends who routinely flex their power around the league—haven’t exactly ignored current events. “Stick to sports” is no longer an option: What it means for NBA stars to take a stand for Black Lives Matter 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In interviews, top players, league officials and data analysts described a surge in cheating as the coronavirus pandemic pushed players online, and a subsequent backlog of cases in the game’s byzantine disciplinary system. After a Year of ‘Rampant’ Cheating, Elite Bridge Tries to Clean Up 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The education secretary's remarks follow a December report that showed British teenagers slumping from 17th to 25th place in an international league table for reading standards. Children's laureate raises doubts over Gove's 50-book challenge 2011-03-22T16:46:04Z

“I was out of your league,” she sings, going on to rap, “So much time at the gym/But maybe work out your brain a bit too.” Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

We are told that Aunt Jemima, of flapjacks fame, is a cunning businesswoman who owns an entire Negro baseball league. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

In the past five seasons, the cast has managed to place 205 songs on the Hot 100, which puts them leagues ahead of the competition. 'Glee' Has More Chart Hits Than Anyone Else In History 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Brooks hollers when his ballplayer partner communicates the league’s reticence to relocate any teams to Los Angeles. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Keeping It Civil 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

These leagues are virtual monopolies, tasked with protecting and promoting games that are now a public trust. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

“After the first time I saw him in the big leagues, I looked around the dugout, like, ‘Do we have one of those?’” said Showalter, who opposed Moncada while managing the Baltimore Orioles. Broadcaster Kaat apologizes for “40-acre” comment 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

He’s 23 and he’s tearing up the league. How Integration Came to the American League, in Cleveland’s Glory Days 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Because the good-looking Leslie seems way out of Brian’s league, he is all the more anxious when he escorts her home. Review: ‘The Young Kieslowski’ Is a Sobering Comedy of Consequences 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“It is a perfect way to celebrate the league’s 100th season by going back to the beginning,” Gaudelli said. Joan Jett, Underwood to perform ‘Sunday Night Football’ open 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

On Glow, Netflix's new period series based upon the real-life league "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling," Ruth Wilder takes that to heart. Review: Budget Wrestling Lights Up the Screen in Glow 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

But then we would play other, like the Culver City league and other teams, and we would win it. With basketball drama "Boogie," Eddie Huang is finally "free of the shadow" of "Fresh Off the Boat" 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

With this genre, Beckmann was in a league with Rembrandt and van Gogh. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

His character is a 60-ish ornery Irish theater critic who takes a leave of absence from his newspaper gig to work for a league of vampires in London. Two gentlemen optimistic about ‘Gentleman’ at Kennedy Center 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Renzi is a knowledgeable and opinionated fan — as a teenager, he was a referee for an amateur soccer league. Meet Matteo Renzi — the Justin Trudeau of Italy and the Obamas’ final state dinner honoree 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet early on Saturday the mood around Exposition Park was one of a festival that was still transitioning to the major leagues. FYF Fest 2014: Angel Olsen smolders while fans bake in lines 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Born in 1819, she became one of the 19th century’s foremost piano virtuosos — in the same league as her contemporary Franz Liszt, and over a much longer stretch, remaining active for more than six decades. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

“You’ll never play in this league again!” a coach or parent yelled as we excited the park. No, white people, you still can’t say the N-word: That word belongs to black people and our culture now — not yours 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

ESPN, which is among the networks holding TV rights to National Football League games, gave lavish coverage to the release of the league’s 2021 schedule in May, for example. NBCUniversal invested heavily in the Olympics. Is that why NBC News has made it a major story? 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's a big ego, but I don't know how you can play major league baseball or manage a ballclub without believing in yourself. Ozzie's leaving with a hole in his heart 2011-09-27T15:18:00Z

Passions run so high that no alcohol is allowed at matches, and opposing team fans are banned from all regular league games in the city. 36 Hours in Buenos Aires 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

In assessing my “Swing for Your Seats” readiness, I considered it a favorable omen that last week I had gone 5 for 7 in a doubleheader with my Fairfax County men’s softball league team. To win season tickets, all he had to do was hit a home run in Nationals Park. Could he swing it? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

And down to you – in rock's league of howlers, who is the greater – you or Howlin' Wolf. 30 minutes with … Howlin' Pelle Almqvist 2012-05-30T11:41:55Z

Other leagues have participants as young as 14 years old. Axe-throwing leagues: 'The millennial version of lawn bowls, with less booze' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

No major league team had a Black manager until Frank Robinson was hired by the Cleveland Indians in 1975, three years after Jackie Robinson's death. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

“There were so many problems, much of which happened with the increased spending on players even before Trump even was part of the league.” And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

If the league's players and owners can't sign a deal by March 4, the owners will most likely lock the players out of their facilities, and shut down the booming game of football. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

Do you remember the cringey “Imagine” video that Gal Gadot and her league of naïve celebrities devised and posted on social media at the start of the pandemic, in March 2020? ‘The Same Storm’ Review: A Lockdown Grab Bag 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

He had no desire to make “Pitch” without the league’s approval — a fictional ball team was not going to work when verisimilitude was so important to the show’s world. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Those were the leagues African Americans formed when Whites did not allow Blacks to play in the MLB National and American Leagues. Perspective | As the Cleveland Indians search for a new name, history offers several oddballs 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

For years the MetroBulls seemed like a team specifically designed to fail, a description that also applied to the league around them. Has American pro soccer finally arrived? In this strange saga, the answer is “almost” 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Whether daily fantasy games open leagues and teams to the risk of match fixing is an open question. Daily Fantasy Sports Join Hands With the NFL 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Last weekend’s storm prompted the cancellation of 61 Broadway performances, the league said. Broadway Box Office Feels Storm's Sting 1457-09-18T05:00:00Z

The Good Dinosaur looks great, of course, but it’s not in the league we’ve come to expect.” Final Hunger Games film beats Rocky spin-off to stay atop US box office 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

“He’s the only guy who could get booed at a Broadway musical in Manhattan, a town hall in Utah and a minor league baseball game in his home state of Indiana.” Late-night TV hosts on Trump's golf habit: 'He's the Tiger Woods of hypocrisy' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Withholding this information would put you in weird league with your in-laws. Honey, That’s Not Why Your Dad Left 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

If you ever wished for a season of “Hard Knocks” that focused on the Harlem Globetrotters, or you’re looking for ideas on how to spice up a softball league, watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

The Boston Derby Dames, as the local league is known, is one of over 250 across the world — from Waterloo, Iowa, to Copenhagen. A Low-Brow Day in Harvard’s Backyard 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

That goes with the territory of a longtime series shutting down, but this is in a rare league. As "Endeavour" enters its final run we bit a sober farewell to the detective who isn't yet bitter 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

Then there are the league’s troubles with domestic abuse and race. The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

South Korea’s K league was starting on Friday. Soccer comes in from the COVID-19 cold in Faroe Islands 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The marketing potential of fashion is obvious to league executives. W.N.B.A. Stars Try to Move Up to Fashion’s Front Row 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

I told her I’m in a league right now. Date Lab: She asked him to show her Pokémon Go 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

In a league where most players are Black, very few head coaches are Black. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

How can one place Sam Rockwell’s minimal role in “Vice” in the same league as Ali’s or the other actor misplaced in supporting, Timothée Chalamet? Anonymous Oscar ballot: Publicist gives "Roma" 7, "Vice" 3, "Can You Ever Forgive Me" 2 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

He worked in a grocery store and played in minor football leagues. Perspective | Taylor Heinicke isn’t the only quarterback with an unlikely path to a starting position 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

So let’s check in on some of the big stories in the best hockey league on Earth. Perspective | For NHL fans, the action is close to home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

No matter what he faced, including heartbreak and betrayal later in life, the game and his heroes in the major leagues — Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Juan Marichal — provided an example of how to move forward. Review | Poetry that explores love and aggression, baseball and the natural world 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The clothes were a bit out of my league, price-wise, but the food was on point. Cups of Tea, Pashminas and Momos, Seeing India’s Himalayas on a Budget 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“We have made massive improvements” as a league and as a team, she said, “but it’s not a totally safe game.” Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

A Times profile a few months into her tenure noted that she had already “forcefully questioned the league’s pay model and labeled its entire cadre of owners as replaceable.” ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird had entered the league a few years before; CBS was still airing some playoff games on tape delay. Jackie MacMullan Is the Great Chronicler of Basketball’s Golden Age 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z

Ailey II operates as a kind of minor league, a stop on the path from advanced student to full-fledged professional. Ailey II Review: A Light in the Darkness 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Not only did that provide the upstart with more cash, but it would help set in motion the merger between the two leagues. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The second wave struggled for access in the major leagues. Lonnae O’Neal: Meet the new power players: athletes. Case in point: Mizzou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The coach Pat Riley, remembering Jordan’s arrival in the league: “As a rookie, he wasn’t a rookie.” In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

He blows off steam playing soccer in a league and hiking. Wes Bentley Was at Rock Bottom. Now He Is on ‘Yellowstone.’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

From We Need a Resolution's odd, skittish argument with a bad boyfriend to the gentle soul of I Care 4 U, it's pop music in a different league, as playful as it is inventive. Aaliyah: still rocking the boat 2011-08-25T11:21:40Z

Earlier this fall Mr. Jones threatened to sue the league and six of its team owners who were negotiating a contract extension for Mr. Goodell. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

“I met this boy in San Francisco and he’s, like, way out of my league.” A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

When Dan came to you with the idea for the show, were you nervous about whether he going to be able to hold his own in the big leagues? Eugene Levy on Playing the Straight Man in 'Schitt's Creek' 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Still, Campbell’s words reflect a growing sense of unease about the league. Is America’s Most Popular Sport Under Siege? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

“So I guess this case felt like something that would be in the same league.” From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

You could define yourself, taste-wise, as either in league with the popular or against it, and while you didn’t have to like what was popular, you certainly were aware of what it was. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

Of course, Trump turned out to be the leader of a group of owners pushing the new league to shift its games to the fall, a direct challenge to the NFL. Football is Trumpball Lite: Who needs Super Bowls when Trump’s real-life plays are more aggressive? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Today you would be hard pushed to find a young professional who had any experience in the amateur leagues at all. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

After every major league desegregated, the idea of winning had begun to trump something as pedestrian as color. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

On the other, it might just as well be set during the dark ages, in a realm of grinding poverty and ironclad irrationality, leagues away from the civilised world. 'Beyond the Hills has no obvious villains': Cristian Mungiu 2013-03-07T17:35:43Z

The league suspended operations and laid off all of its employees on April 10 and filed for bankruptcy protection on April 13. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson acquires XFL 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

In high school, Rubin developed a serious interest in major league baseball and discovered a knack for facts and statistics. In the Land of Too Much Television, This Nerd Is Queen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Long remembers joining a bowling league with Carol Scott around that time. A New Life for an Old-School Couple 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Made in cooperation with Major League Baseball, this series is premised on something that the league has yet to see happen in our world: The debut of a female star. Here Are the Best Pilots of the Fall Season 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The next time Ms. Colello arrived at the course she had her own set of clubs, and an invitation to go out for drinks along with other members of the league, including Mr. Nixon. Sharing Golf Clubs and Now Their Lives 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

It isn’t in those shows’ league, but it’s a welcome change from the glossy triviality of other summer filler like “Rookie Blue” or “The Good Guys.” | 'The Bridge': Aaron Douglas Stars in a New Police Series on CBS 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z

Will the league survive to fight another day? ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Some of these questions could be settled by creating an independent organization of professional game officials, akin to major league baseball’s umpires. Better Referees: Why College Football Needs to Herd Its Own Zebras 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The deal means NBC’s run of covering the league ends after after this season’s playoffs. NHL reaches 7-year deal with Turner Sports, ending NBC run 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

He was president of the league in 1986 and an architect of its education foundation. Bridge: Bridge Players Tom and Carol Sanders 2012-08-31T21:58:58Z

But, without a full-body solution, the girls were unable to field a swim team that could compete, for instance, in a civic league, as the girls’ basketball team does. Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Caruso hit one more homer that season before his major league career ended almost before it began. Unforgettable City Series games at Wrigley 2012-05-18T01:28:00Z

Harper, who most recently helmed balloon adventure, "The Aeronauts," and the flinty character study "Wild Rose," seems out of his league here. "Heart of Stone" stars Gal Gadot in a lackluster Europudding action flick 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

I wrote six or seven of those, each still quite bush league, and I started getting jobs as a writer’s assistant. I froze up in the writers’ room 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z

They are made primarily of tapioca starch, but in addition to being grain-free, they are the reason my homemade pizzas are leagues better than anything we can get at a restaurant. Two classic Italian favorites meet in this satisfying, cheesy Pizza Pasta casserole 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

And the NFL, perhaps more than any other sports league, thinks in terms of dollars and cents to the detriment of their players, their fans and society as a whole. Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Everyone should also try harder to design games and leagues that are appropriate for the ages of the kids playing. Adults want kids to play more. A new study looks at how to make it happen. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Priced at $625 and served up at such breadth, though, it is in a league all its own. Review | The best cookbooks of 2017: The inspiration you need to get dinner on the table 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

More than 90 teams and venues and 13 separate professional leagues are now members of the GSA, and examples to follow abound. Making pro sports pro-green 2012-07-07T00:00:00Z

He has overcome devastating injuries to become one of the most dominant players in the league. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

There are lots of teams other than the pros: college, high school and even recreation league teams. Who’s your favorite team? Perhaps it’s the one you play on. 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Seven days later, they called me up to the big leagues. The Nationals’ Juan Soto looks back on his first days in the majors 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Between the two books, you get a really full picture of what it must be like to play major league baseball. ArtsBeat: Reading Suggestions for Baseball's Opening Week 2012-04-06T16:28:27Z

With a new NFL season upon us the trophy hunt begins again; but what about the league's other trophies, the ones with a dark past that people are more reticent to discuss? Cultural taxidermy, not appropriation: the trophies in sports no one wants to talk about 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

It also helps that there are ways of playing without leaving home, like a “battle league” feature that allows you to pit your Pokémon against other monster teams from around the world. Pokémon, Stay 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

It’s promotional for the league and an experiment in quick-turnaround TV for the network. ‘Road to the NHL Winter Classic,’ on Epix 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

In general, the players in the league felt very strongly about this. “Keep the heat on Adam Silver!”: Author Dave Zirin sounds off on Sterling, LeBron and Muhammad Ali 2014-05-09T13:24:00Z

And it suggests Mr. Wang’s ambitions lie in a different league. At Alexander Wang, Leather, Studs and Combat Boots 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Both the MLS and European leagues have loyal followers in the U.S. Why many soccer fans in the U.S. will be cheering on another team (probably Mexico) 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

He still throws in a league, as do many of the staff at BATL. The joy of axe-throwing: 'When you hit that bullseye there's no better feeling' 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

“There are a couple other guys in the league that are from Kansas City. They’re especially excited because they know about the place already.” 'Avengers: Endgame' star Paul Rudd gets Kansas City barbecue sandwiches shipped to his NYC home every year 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

However, just as we say running for president puts you in the big leagues, it’s also true for the reporters. Insults, threats and more insults: What it’s like to be a reporter covering Trump 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The league also lobbied for state funding for Martinelli's previous film, Barbarossa, about Italians repelling the army of the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th century, and featuring league leader Umberto Bossi in a cameo. Venice film festival: Italy turns on Quentin Tarantino over prizes 2010-09-17T19:15:00Z

The NBA's collective bargaining agreement also expires soon - on June 30 - and the NFL points out that even though that league recently turned over audited statements to the players, the union disputed those numbers. Game Over: Should the NFL Show Players the Money? 2011-01-21T08:20:00Z

He served in many executive positions, including chairman of the league’s board of governors. Bridge: Winner Understood Opponent?s Psychology 2010-03-08T06:14:00Z

Many Hardy connoisseurs believe that it was this film, from the Danish provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn, that really propelled the actor into the big league. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Now, the Mystics are a tough, hardworking team that leads the league in defense and is second in rebounding. Baseball and football aren’t only summer pro sports

Naliyah’s story is among many in “First Down,” an 11-minute documentary about the girls’ league team that has been making the rounds at U.S. film festivals this year. How full-contact tackle football became ‘therapy’ for these girls 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Briggs approached the Bears after watching younger, less proven linebackers around the league sign lucrative deals. Briggs, agent formally ask Bears for trade 2011-09-02T11:00:00Z

Guppy divides the U.S. audience into three camps: “agnostics,” who follow the sport anywhere they can; “Europhiles,” who prefer top European leagues; and “Euro snobs,” who watch those leagues exclusively. Men in Blazers: America's Soccer Stars 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The Sporting News wrote in 1946 that there was “not a single Negro player with major league capabilities.” Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Controversy over Morey’s comments has damaged the lucrative relationship between the NBA and China and drawn in the league’s most famous player. Quentin Tarantino won't censor Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for China – report 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Another stadium next door hosts two teams in the Korean Baseball league. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

“So when iBattle went defunct and the original league owner couldn’t run it anymore because of health issues, I knew I couldn’t let it die.” The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Expect the Freemasons to make a sinister comeback in episode four, quite possibly in league with the Nazis. Dancing on the Edge: episode three 2013-02-11T22:00:01Z

Since then, Kaepernick, 34, has been allegedly blackballed from the NFL, with every team refusing to sign him, even though he is arguably better than half of the quarterbacks in the league. "Colin in Black & White" writer on Kaepernick's parents & awakening: "They didn't see him as Black" 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

I think all youth leagues and teams should aim at getting as many kids as possible into the games and not limit playing time to the “best” kids. Perspective | NBA draft mistakes show that it’s hard to tell who will be the next big talent 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

Although he went back to school and got a federal government job and benefits when he left the league, many other players have been left financially strapped and unable to obtain medical treatment. Retired NFL players team up to lose weight

But the game is also inextricably entwined with the league. Capturing Football’s Snaps, Crackles and Pops in Madden NFL 2014-01-28T22:55:42Z

The Middle East, for my wife, was the big league. Stay-at-home dad in a war zone 2012-09-30T23:00:00Z

The Bears were one of the healthiest teams in the entire league. 10 thoughts on Bears' 14-13 loss 2011-08-28T14:17:00Z

In fact, just a month ago, the NFL announced a new proposed settlement with more than 5,000 players who had filed a lawsuit claiming that the league hid the dangers of concussions from them. When brain disease strikes an NFL team owner: The heartbreaking irony of Broncos owner Pat Bowlen 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

A painted, two-story bouquet of 32 balloons — one for each team in the league — commands a wall in the Miami Beach Convention Center. The Super Bowl Is the Biggest Art Show in Miami Right Now 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Eldritch Palmer is the evil, sickly billionaire and head of the aptly named Stoneheart Group who’s in league with the Master, as the granddaddy of all vamps is called. 'The Strain' recap: These vampires aren't sexy; they're just deadly 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

True, she was with the other two in the best-sellers' league. From the archive, 13 January 1969: The Peter Pan world of William 2011-01-13T11:26:35Z

All I knew for sure is that there was a soccer team in the city, that they played in the Mexican major league, and that they had an American on the team, midfielder Marco Vidal. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

The league encouraged its members to roam the city and direct an intimate eye at urban subjects, and its newsletter addressed the role of photography in the political climate. The Week Ahead: Mar. 25 ? 31 2012-03-23T14:29:22Z

It’s the same with college, high school and youth leagues. Perspective | Losing gracefully is one of the most important lessons from playing sports 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Though “Devil of Choice” isn’t in that league, it offers an opportunity for fine actors to explore new material, almost as if in scene-study class. Review: Alpha Male Romantic Problems in ‘Devil of Choice’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

The travel league may be more competitive and would help you improve your skills. Should Washington sack quarterback Kirk Cousins? 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

“I cannot play in the same league as certain American actors because my accent didn’t allow me just to play a banker from New York or an astronaut,” he said. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

“When she got out of the car, I immediately felt like I was out of my league,” he said. For NBC’s Kristen Welker, Love Took Its Time 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

"We thought, if baseball has a Little League, why shouldn't kids who play video games have their own league?" Movie theaters branch out to host video game contests and other events 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Before the NBA finals, commissioner David Stern didn't sound confident that his league could avoid a lockout. Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

His father, Robert Delfin, said he had no qualms about bringing his son to video game little league. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

What’s new: This summer, Skyscanner added the Indian carrier IndiGo as a partner and hit the 100 million monthly user milestone, putting it in a league with the big boys. Ranking the best airfare search sites and apps 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

The success of the business has put Mr. Rubin at the nexus of nearly every big sports league, an unusual position that not even media executives enjoy, since networks mostly broadcast different sports. Michael Rubin’s Big Shot 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Second, protect the league from serious scandals and lesser embarrassments, which he seems unable to master. Is America’s Most Popular Sport Under Siege? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The film also explores how the revelations of steroid use in the league would later call the accomplishments of the sport — and that season — into question. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘30 for 30’ and ‘Marcella’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

By the third season, he was calling for the major leagues again. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Becoming’ and ‘Brockmire’ 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

She wasn’t quite in the same league as Tina and Amy at The Globes, but she landed a few solid jokes. Oscars 2014: The Best Jokes From Ellen’s Monologue 2014-03-03T01:41:25Z

Well, it’s not every day you can feel proud of your profession, even if talking to film actors isn’t quite in the same league as processing Wikileaks or being shadowed by the Russian security services. Mark Ruffalo on Spotlight: ‘The whole of Boston was complicit. Everybody looked the other way’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Down the premiere league Angelina Jolie must have been thrilled with the red carpet company at her Salt premiere in London last week. Trailer Trash 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

The music records set in 2017 will probably be looked back on the way major league hitting records set in 1998 are viewed in hindsight — with an asterisk. How to dominate the charts and alienate no one: Lessons from Drake’s “More Life” 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

His presumed killer, it emerged, was in league with the Italian neo-fascist party; the verdict is still open. Pier Paolo Pasolini: No saint 2013-02-22T11:01:01Z

“When you’re a comedian, other than getting a TV show, this is hitting the big leagues. Your own show on the Las Vegas Strip.” A juicer, a palm tree and a microphone: A D.C. comedian heads to Vegas

The new MyTeam mode invokes fantasy sports themes in assembling and trading talent, but it isn’t grounded to a larger league or story. NBA 2K13 2012-10-09T21:52:22Z

A pity the rest of it just wasn't in the same league. BBC Philharmonic/Sinaisky 2010-07-25T20:45:00Z

No other ex-major league baseball player – much less one still in uniform – has yet followed in Bean's and Burke's footsteps. How much longer will major league baseball stay in the closet? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In July, the league fined the franchise $10 million after an investigation into allegations of harassment in the team’s front office. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

And then there are the ideas that are still being batted around: spinoffs for sports and pop culture trivia, a tournament for librarians, and a masters league featuring the show’s most successful players. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

It’s all good when the kid makes the league. The plight of young hoop stars who don't go pro 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

So is Orlando City, which joins the league next along with New York City FC as MLS reaches 21 teams. After World Cup, MLS looks to steady growth 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

She’s slightly out of his league and just exotic enough to appeal to an affable Southerner dazzled by mohawks, literary theory and strident political protests. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

But caution lay in the fine print: All sales of NBA teams must be approved by the league’s Board of Governors, which meets at the end of each regular season, in April. Win or loss this week for Hansen’s NBA quest 2013-04-15T04:33:14Z

In a preseason game, Jordan was fined $1,000 for violating the league’s dress code — a steal, publicity-wise — but the offending article was a pair of Air Ships, not Air Jordans, as Smith suggests. How Sneakers Intersect With Recent American History 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

“I honestly think Trump was really good for the league,” said Jim McVay, who did communications work for the Tampa Bay Bandits. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The NBA is a league where highly personal relationships, or the possibility of them, are the basic currency of the profession. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

Now they’re among the new faces for success in the league. Philly, long the underdog of ‘Rocky’ and ‘Creed,’ actually had a winning year 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

With never-before-seen footage, the players including involved in the brawl explain their roles in one of the NBA’s darkest moments in league history. Netflix’s ‘UNTOLD’ to dive deep into epic sports moments 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

At age 66, he found his transition from major league manager to country vintner interrupted by his desire to manage a team to a World Series championship. The Washington Nationals have themselves a manager-vintner 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

A University Place author tells the stories of "dozens of vanished teams that once graced — and often disgraced — North America's big leagues." Newly released books with local ties include 'Kiss'em Goodbye' and 'Out of Body' 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z

Even Andrew Stevenson, who started the year deep in the Nats minor league system, recently saved a game with a diving catch in left field. Nationals bench players get the team through tough times 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

A Turner spokesman told The Associated Press that it is still early for them to discuss scheduling changes with the league. Too early to tell if injuries will affect NBA TV ratings 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Asked about his generous support of the league, she says it makes “logical sense” that he would invest in a group whose mission aligned with his interests. Inside an eccentric mogul’s quest to save D.C.’s most distinctive buildings 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Last year you recommended jailing opposition players to give your beloved Liverpool FC a better chance in the league. Ian McCulloch: 'Car parks are a bigger threat than war' 2013-04-11T16:23:18Z

Men and women regularly compete against each other in tournaments, though increasingly women like Traub are organizing their own leagues and tournaments to encourage more women to play. Competitive pinball is having a revival. This time around, women want their turn. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

Then, around fifth grade, start playing for a recreation league. Volleyball isn’t just for the tall kids 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I mean, of course it will be valid — acknowledged by the league and celebrated by his fans — but how will true competitors receive his victory? Kevin Durant could win a championship tonight. But don’t call him one of the greats 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Some people dream of seeing a game in every stadium in the major leagues. Review | In ‘Short Life in a Strange World,’ paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder help an author make sense of his existence 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

The other three — Edmonds-Woodway, Garfield and Newport — are right in the same league. Starbucks Hot Java Cool Jazz features 5 great high school jazz bands 2011-04-15T00:35:13Z

Nobody knows who wrote Flame, but the consensus in the industry is that it was an expensive high-end creation in the same league as the Stuxnet worm that attacked the Iranian nuclear programme. How Flame has changed everything for online security firms 2012-06-16T23:05:51Z

There’s a lot of heartbreak, a lot of dashed dreams and what happens to you when your whole life you’ve been preparing to be a ballplayer and you don’t make it to the major leagues. John Leguizamo Steps Up to the Plate for Dominican Ballplayers 2012-07-11T15:07:05Z

But the movies are leagues apart, beginning with the $15,000 budget for "Monsters," arguably the most amazing example of guerrilla filmmaking this year. "Monsters" sets standard for guerrilla filmmaking 2010-09-20T07:25:00Z

Having spent so long considering you miles beyond my league, I was taken aback. A letter to the woman I adored but was afraid to be with 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Runaway slaves went up through the East Coast into Nova Scotia, and met up with the Canadians in 1843 to the early 1900s and formed an all Black hockey league prior to the NHL. A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.: The film he really wants to make and why it’s not about... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

The pool is the thing, up there in the design league of the one at the Raleigh in Miami Beach. Check In: Hotel Review: Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles 2013-05-21T21:05:26Z

Nor was Mr. Powell in league with Junior Barreiros, the upbeat Brazilian who reviews fragrances in Portuguese for more than half a million. Chasing the Scent of a Brooklyn Fragrance Lover 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

It wouldn’t look out of its league on television. Television Review: ‘Blue,’ With Julia Stiles, Is Back for a New Season 2014-03-28T20:14:15Z

In 2008 and '10, the Lakers and the Boston Celtics reached the finals, which rekindled memories of the league's glorious past and sparked promise for its future. The NBA Lockout: All About Timing 2011-10-07T09:00:00Z

To counter the notion that video games get in the way of academics, the league plans to award $35,000 in college scholarships to winning teams in this year’s finals. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

For its insights into American theater in the postwar era, Mr. Lahr’s biography has been compared to Kazan’s autobiography, “A Life,” but they are not in the same league. John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’ Fleshes Out the Playwright 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Bearden could have become the first Black baseball player in the major leagues, but the catch was that nobody would know that. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Do I deserve to be in the big leagues as an actor?” he asked. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The first overtime title game in league history was called “The Greatest Game Ever Played” and vaulted the sport into popularity. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

“After one of the most egregious cases of domestic violence among National Football League players two years ago . . . the league vowed a not-again, get-tough approach.” Style Invitational: Don’t be afraid of the dark — a song parody contest 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

“Rosalie has a deep sense of justice — and this has informed and animated her leadership of the Architectural League,” Billie Tsien, a former president of the league, said in the news release. Architectural League Leader Is Stepping Down After 37 Years 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

He soon began a steady climb up the Nationals minor league system, playing for the Class A Auburn Doubledays in Auburn, N.Y, the Hagerstown Suns in Maryland and the Potomac Nationals in Woodbridge, Va. They Saw a Sign and Didn’t Shake It Off 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Dozens of major league baseball players are free agents and may move to other teams over the winter. Perspective | Stephen Strasburg chose to stay with the Nationals. But players didn’t used to have a choice. 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“But I felt like it was perfect, conceptually and practically. For me, the Sanitation Department was like the major leagues.” An Artist Who Calls the Sanitation Department Home 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

At a ceremony to present its 80th annual awards, the league also named “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” best revival of a musical and “The Glass Menagerie” best revival of a play. Drama League Honors 'Gentleman's Guide' and 'All the Way' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

This comedy about a group of old friends in a fantasy football league returns for a fourth season. Thursday TV Picks: 'The League' on FX 2012-10-10T19:59:03Z

The Coens' reinvented western is now second only to The Color Purple in the dubious league table of biggest disappointments on Oscars night. Oscars 2011: The King's Speech resonates as The Social Network blips 2011-02-28T06:43:17Z

Every look came paired with fairy-tale “seven league boots,” as Ms. Viard called them in her show notes, which were cool. From Plagues to Floods to Black Tuesday, Fashion Goes On 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Her talent, beauty, grace and work ethic are all in a league of their own. Adele Says 'Lemonade' Left Her Speechless 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

He finished the 2016 season with an 88.9 quarterback ranking, making him number 18 in the league, which means he’s better than plenty of the active quarterbacks. NFL fail: Why won’t the Washington Redskins hire Colin Kaepernick? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Flanagan said that coaches, school administrators and the folks who run youth leagues will have to “be creative” to make this work. Perspective | Youth sports experience needs a do-over. Will the pandemic help bring about change? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Others are “First Position,” about ballet students; “Undefeated,” about high school football in Memphis; “Lemon,” about the poetry star Lemon Andersen; and “Knuckleball,” about major league knuckleball pitchers. A Documentary Filmmaker Wants to Help Others Use Product Placement 2011-10-30T21:22:30Z

As part of the arrangement with the league, we get access to the teams. 2010-02-02T21:30:00Z

She, of course, complained to the league president that that was unacceptable. Perspective | Miss Manners: Getting a garrulous golfer to stop gabbing 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Under Christie’s watch, New Jersey officials delivered almost $18 million of taxpayer money to the league to offset costs associated with the 2014 Super Bowl. Chris Christie’s bromance with Jerry Jones could be his undoing 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

One or two of the jokes on Dave's shortlist are in that league. Dave's Edinburgh fringe one-liner award misses the point of comedy 2012-08-22T12:45:00Z

Marti Barletta, author of "Marketing to Women," said the league stumbled early on, but she hailed a "No More" campaign against domestic violence launched in October. U.S. activists keep domestic violence in Super Bowl spotlight 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The league took in $5.9 billion a year in its current contracts. Amazon gets Thursday night games, NFL nearly doubles TV deal 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

If the league remains on its 17 games over 18 weeks regular-season schedule, the 2026 Super Bowl will take place on Feb. 8, the first weekend of the Milano Cortina Games. Super Bowl/Olympics Sunday about to become routine for NBC 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

Whitney also helped bring major league baseball and hockey to the Twin Cities and was a former co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings. Minnesota businessman Wheelock Whitney Jr. dies 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Time was when the league’s concerts were dominated by rigorous, post-tonal works. Music Review: Showcase for Orchestra of the League of Composers 2010-06-09T00:34:00Z

Could our visual arts sector emulate our recent sporting success, catapulting us into the art world's premier league? Why a Welsh Guggenheim makes sense 2013-06-10T11:25:52Z

He’s 58 and still plays in a hardball league. To win season tickets, all he had to do was hit a home run in Nationals Park. Could he swing it? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

More than any other major American sports league, the N.B.A. has become adept at generating story lines in the age of social media. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Clearly he’s not in the same league as Mr. Wright, and about half the jokes in his set fell flat. ArtsBeat Blog: Senators and Congressmen, All Trying for a Laugh 2011-12-05T16:53:17Z

His wife admires the Führer and volunteers for the National Socialist women's league – details deleted from the published edition. Publisher dusts off missing chapter in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-03-09T19:08:23Z

In all truth, their scene together — featuring soft music and candlelight — was perhaps the most touching, romantic and positive representation of sex the series has ever had — and by leagues the most feminist. On “Game of Thrones”, male virgins make the best lovers 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

"It seems to happen every other game around the league," Hawks captain Jonathan Toews said. Blackhawks win 5th straight but lose Seabrook 2011-12-19T04:45:00Z

I lived in Arizona, in Scottsdale, while I played in the league. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Deadfall” isn’t in the same league as these classics, but that it evokes both — along with a half-dozen other old noirs, including those with a western twang — points to its satisfying, if humble quality. Movie Review: ‘Deadfall’ Stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde 2012-12-07T00:31:59Z

Earlier this year, the Daily Mail published the BBC's leaked Knowledge Commissioning Graded Talent List, the corporation's sinister league table that ranked its own presenters into four categories. The Story of Science 2010-04-28T07:00:00Z

“I think it’s the Broncos uniform that, in many ways, is still the most radical in the league,” he said. For Super Bowl Teams, the Seahawks and the Broncos, N.F.L. Uniforms Designed by Nike 2014-01-29T23:27:48Z

I was in a team in the Liverpool and Merseyside quiz leagues, and two of us began writing to production companies asking for work. TV's unsung heroes 2010-10-01T23:03:00Z

After all, this is the guy who has racked up around $1.7 million in fines over the last decade for criticizing the league and its referees. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z

“Success today is not limited to the quality of execution,” said Mr. Rosen of the orchestra league. The Big Five Orchestras No Longer Add Up 2013-06-14T12:00:01Z

On its face, the film seems like standard rom-com fare: The unlikely guy somehow gets the girl way out of his league. ‘The Valet’ Review: A Crowd Pleasing Buddy Comedy 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The next season, he added another fan activity: joining a fantasy football league. The perks of being a sports fan: Cheering on a team has benefits beyond game day 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

The league added that more than 20 Nashville-based acts will perform with additional names announced soon. Tim McGraw, CeCe Winans to perform during NFL Draft 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, youth league ballplayers and marching bands parade at 10 a.m., followed by the throwing of the ceremonial first pitches. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Since it began in 2003, Frieze London has grown to become one of the world's largest art events, in a league with Art Basel. London Frieze art fair: something for everyone, at a price 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The National Football League agreed to license team logos for the novelty sweaters, as did all the other sports leagues and college teams Lewis approached. The Big Business of Ugly Christmas Sweaters 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ironically, because Columbia wasn't in the same league with such studios as MGM and Paramount, casting had been difficult for the film. 'It Happened One Night' gets makeover on 80th anniversary 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

But a group has no claim to the major leagues unless it can do Wagner, and the challenges are irresistible to ambitious companies. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Lawrence was one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate in the same league as Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He has met with grassroots organizers, criminal-justice-system reform activists, police officers, and league officials. Malcolm Jenkins’s Message for Those Not Listening 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Here’s how the league works: For $80, your child gets admission to a weekly hour-and-a-half game practice that starts at 4:30 p.m. Gamers Have a Little League of Their Own 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

But, he added, "I'm aware of the fact how I perform in my fantasy league is important." Author John Green is in training to drive a pace car on Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The winners would be flown to the United States and intensively prepared for major league tryouts. In ‘Million Dollar Arm,’ Baseball Talent From Overseas 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

At 35 years old, James was leading the league with more than 10 assists a game when the coronavirus pandemic closed down the NBA. Perspective | New film raises an old question: Who’s the greatest NBA player? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The change was made after his team paid its $240 entry fee, he argued, making it impossible to withdraw and find a league “in which men played like men.” Gloves off 2012-08-10T23:30:00Z

The league’s rule changes have irritated some baseball purists, including Alva Noë, author of the book “Infinite Baseball” and a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

N.F.L. television ratings are down, and President Trump bashes the league on Twitter. Keeping the Cowboys Cool, as N.F.L. Takes the Heat 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

While government at most levels still did little, the league opened 18 commissaries throughout King County to distribute fuel and food into their “Republic of the Penniless.” When the Great Depression hit, county’s citizens rallied 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

All of that was easier and leagues more fun than taking long flights and enduring the giant meals. Peace on Earth — and at home for the holidays 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

I surrounded myself with individuals who are more educated, prettier or smarter than me, even in the face of people saying, quite literally, “they are out of your league.” Unpretty: I live the life I want to live – even if I didn’t win the beauty lottery 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

As the Washington team remained mired at the bottom of the barrel, Baltimoreans saw the rebirth of their city’s major league baseball dreams in 1954. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z

Even in the early 1980s, years after the sport’s popularity peaked, local papers reported that hundreds of leagues, thousands of teams, and some 250,000 people in the metropolitan area played the grassroots game annually. Gloves off 2012-08-10T23:30:00Z

Harvard was ranked first in the Ivy League, and fifteenth nationwide, within striking distance of both the league tournament and the national N.C.A.A. tournament. The Dehumanizing Sexism of the Harvard Men’s Soccer Team’s “Scouting Report” 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Dr. Buss saw the fledgling league as a gold mine and knew that showmanship provided a direct path to the promised land. Gen Z needs "Winning Time's" history lessons to understand why they enjoy the NBA now 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z

There's enough diversity of sound and interpretation to satisfy any number of fantasy leagues. Tom Service on fantasy orchestras 2012-10-14T18:30:02Z

Did you ever play in the minor leagues? A. R. Gurney and Bobby Steggert on ?Grand Manner? 2010-06-19T06:40:00Z

The box office data is compiled weekly by the league, the trade group of theater owners and producers. ArtsBeat: They Love the Nightlife: Audiences Flock to 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' 2011-03-28T20:42:52Z

If Walker is often out of his league, he has a knack for solving crimes. 'Assumption': a trio of gripping crime stories 2011-12-28T21:48:07Z

Mr. Goldberg’s departure is the second leadership change for the league in a short period. Art Students League Director Is Stepping Down 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

In Trump’s first two years, out of 20 major league title winners, only 10 teams visited, with many players refusing to come. Analysis | Jill Biden’s gaffe about women’s basketball and its endless fallout 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

The deal also comes as Apple is looking to expand to other leagues. Apple, MLB announce ‘Friday Night Baseball’ package 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

The early NHL was different from today’s league in several ways. Perspective | NHL marks 100 years out on the ice 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

But what if this is just a pre-ordained script, with the refs, the owners, and the league all in collusion to produce a repeat of last year’s high-rated showdown? The Truth Is Out There: N.B.A. Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

I decided I would shoot out of my league. Unpretty: I live the life I want to live – even if I didn’t win the beauty lottery 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

“They’re from an area of town that is challenged, and they don’t have many of the same opportunities as some of the other girls in the league,” she said. How full-contact tackle football became ‘therapy’ for these girls 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

There are, to be sure, suburban soccer moms and children in their youth league uniforms, but, for the most part, it’s a “Portlandia” casting call come to life. Soccer as Spectacle in the Pacific Northwest 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

Browne said he saw the pilot and said there was no way the league would go along with it. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

The league announced Monday it will partner with iHeartMedia in launching a podcast network. iHeart will distribute podcasts currently produced by the league’s media division. NFL, iHeartMedia teaming up to launch podcast network 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Theater producer Tom D’Angora had started an online petition asking the league to reverse its decision. Broadway League Backs Down, Agrees to Honor Rivers 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Where Putnam charted the decline of American communal participation through shrinking bowling league membership, Klinenberg’s basement of virtual bowlers illustrates how technology might actually enhance our social fabric — provided there are supportive spaces. The Key to Happiness Might Be as Simple as a Library or a Park 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

I joined the minor leagues, as a first-round draft pick for the Chicago Cubs, in 1991, I was aware of these slim chances, but I was also naïve about life beyond my amateur status. The Dream Chasers of Pro Baseball 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

But Hill is not quite in the same league as 1D - yet. The Voice 'is building careers' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

The UK is 21st in the league table for women, with a predicted life expectancy at birth in 2030 of 85.2 years, and 14th for men, whose life expectancy is predicted to be 82.5 years. Life expectancy forecast to exceed 90 years in coming decades 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The production values are leagues beyond anything seen in the previous show. Class-system melodrama as comfort food 2011-04-08T15:31:00Z

“Imagine trying to organize a basketball team, if the point guard adheres to modern league rules, but the center only knows how to play ancient Mayan handball.” Dungeons & Dragons Remake Uses Players? Input 2012-01-09T13:00:00Z

He didn’t have summer camp, swimming lessons, soccer league, violin practice, a Mandarin tutor or anything that could even remotely be called an “enrichment activity.” Motherlode Blog: The Genius of Unstructured Summer Time 2012-04-20T16:15:07Z

And Grimsby is just what happens when the big league goes wrong. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The following week was the highest grossing New Year's week and the best attended and highest grossing week overall to date, according to the league figures. Broadway attendance up 13 percent in 2014, highest grossing year 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In that moment, Rupert is the big man in the room: buying everyone's drinks, loudly berating Rebecca for failing to pull its team out of the league's bottom ranks, calling Ted a hillbilly. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Serra’s art “engages the senses in terms of scale, space, volume, and materiality in a way that is inevitably fascinating for every architect,” said the architect Annabelle Selldorf, the league president, in a statement. ArtsBeat: Richard Serra Wins Architectural League Prize 2014-04-23T20:18:49Z

This was a robust turnout, though hardly in the league of "Jersey Shore," which, a week ago, seized 8.4 million viewers for its Season 3 debut. That uproar over 'Skins': A blessing for the show 2011-01-22T01:01:09Z

Even as someone who ran his way to the NFL, Gordon found that running is “definitely a big thing in this league.” What we can learn from NFL players’ wellness routines (no pricey trainer required) 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

In or out of bed, in league or at daggers drawn, this merrily amoral duo never seem to be having much fun, and for the most part, neither do we. Theater Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-07-12T22:07:59Z

Like both bowling and lawn bowls, axe throwing is intended primarily as a social activity, so Day is thrilled to be a part of Adelaide’s inaugural league. Axe-throwing leagues: 'The millennial version of lawn bowls, with less booze' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Eventually, they formed their own female-centric league, which is where I found myself sitting ringside that night. Place 9 of 52: The Paradox of the Women of La Paz 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

This means that fighters must pay for things leagues and teams typically cover in other sports. The rise of female UFC fighters obscures profound exploitation, inequality 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

There seems little risk that Kroenke and the league, with so many eyes on its return-to-L.A. experiment, will allow the stadium itself be anything less than a well-appointed, over-the-top showpiece. Success of Inglewood's new showcase NFL complex depends on how it develops its surroundings 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Back in Ohio, Kilburn started a Pokémon card league at his public library, which allows him to help younger players improve their game. Yes, people are still obsessed with Pokémon — and this is their Super Bowl 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

Every major American sports league already calls the Twin Cities one of its greatest homes. Screw Los Angeles: Minneapolis should host the 2028 Summer Olympics 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

Poncho offered the only real disappointment, when virtuoso saxophonist Greg Osby delivered a spiritless concert with a trio of young musicians not in his league. Miguel Zenón among Earshot’s remaining don’t-miss acts 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

His career as a battler was just beginning to take off when iBattle, a league he grew up performing in, started to decline. The Fierce, Flourishing World of Battle Rap 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The duo had also elevated women’s tennis from second tier to a league of its own, drawing new viewers and inspiring a generation of female athletes. Review | Serena Williams is more than a tennis player. ‘Seeing Serena’ offers a prismatic view of her impact. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

“He was like, ‘Why are you fighting with a girl who is not in your league?’ ” With ?Mob Wives?: Silent Partners No Longer 2012-03-28T21:24:05Z

It’s 2005 and Rusty was in the big league, riding high on a run of good choices and juicy roles. Russell Crowe's divorce auction: what's under the hammer 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

How does a dance writer from the Northeast end up fixated on a collegiate summer league baseball team from Savannah, Ga.? ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

“When the World Cup is behind us, it is the professional league that we need to continually lift up and grow,” she said. Alex Morgan, US women’s soccer team honored at The ESPYS 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

No grand thought emerges about the league after Jordan, or about how he changed the sport. In ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

However, the Raiders balked when the league stipulated that they would have to share the stadium with another NFL franchise for "a limited amount of time" in exchange for hosting two future Super Bowls. Raiders owner Al Davis dies at 82 2011-10-08T16:27:00Z

“There are 20 labor task forces, one for each union,” said Charlotte St. Martin, the league’s president. New York City can’t rebound without Broadway. And Broadway’s road back is uncertain. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

The causes that the families with sons donate to, scouts, athletic leagues, Boys and Girls Clubs, reflect more activity oriented, masculine concerns. Why Parents of Sons Are More Generous with Their Money 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

If she lands a spot in the WNBA, she will be the league's eighth-oldest player and its only rookie over 30. Marion Jones: 'I'm a sucker for a challenge' 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

When he founded the league, “I felt like, ‘Okay. The world’s cornhole elite, chasing that one perfect toss 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

As baffling dream sequences go, it's in a league of its own. Your next box set: Berlin Alexanderplatz 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z

Most are art house or independent films that never made it to the big leagues. A painstaking effort to reunite forgotten films with their owners 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Venezuelans are huge baseball fans, and though you’re not a ballplayer, are people there rooting for you in this Oscar competition with the same intensity as they do for Venezuelan players in the big leagues? Inspired by Simón Bolívar and Gustavo Dudamel 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Think of a 1950s bowling league on skis. On Maine’s Slopes, Plenty of Elbow Room 2013-01-04T18:54:04Z

“I was intimidated. I dodged connecting because he was out of my league.” The Mystery Text That Sparked a Romance 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

His problems weren’t a secret in the sport: He was twice sent to rehabilitation facilities as part of the league’s substance-abuse program, though he seems to have been allowed to treat the visits as vacations. John Branch’s ‘Boy on Ice,’ About Derek Boogaard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

His lengthy and carefully constructed set wasn't quite in the Springsteen league, so there was no danger of the organisers pulling the plug. Paul Simon's Graceland 2012-07-16T11:16:50Z

Big music festivals with too many choices are becoming the norm throughout North America, but in terms of sheer numbers Montreal is in a league of its own. Smokey Robinson Delights Montreal Jazz Festival 2010-06-29T16:40:00Z

Ms. DeBenedictis said that 63 women participate in a league with other teams and that the group is open to adding more skaters through these classes if they pass muster at an annual tryout. Urban Athlete: Roller Derby Class With the Gotham Girls 2013-01-10T19:52:16Z

Yet bowling alleys always must hustle to draw customers whether through leagues, tournaments, or through the laser beams and disco music of cosmic-bowling nights. Fit & Fun: Free games are breakfast dessert at West Seattle Bowl 2012-02-01T20:40:08Z

As a performer, as far as I’m concerned, I’m not in the same league as the others. Terry Gilliam and the Time He Shared a Crew With ‘Star Wars’ 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

As for the rest of the league, the bye weeks are finally over, we got three great games on Thursday and it's now or never for many of us making a fantasy playoff push. Obama prods lawmakers on payroll tax cut 2011-11-22T18:59:00Z

Admittedly the numbers are not in the Michael Moore league but he is a phenomenon and a $9m-plus gross is nothing to sniff at. The Expendables 2 holds on as 2016: Obama's America surges at US box office 2012-08-27T12:11:10Z

The league is planning to open the 2011-12 season on Christmas Day with regularly scheduled games that include the Chicago Bulls playing the Los Angeles Lakers. Tentative deal reached to end NBA lockout 2011-11-26T10:23:00Z

Probably no team in the league is as comfortable playing at home as the Broncos, who won seven of eight home games this year, losing only to the San Diego Chargers 27-20. Take that, Tom Brady — Peyton Manning’s really the better quarterback 2014-01-19T14:00:00Z

International breaks, as the name suggests, are weekends when national soccer leagues skip their matches in order for their top players to participate in FIFA-sponsored, nation versus nation competition. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 10 Recap: The Rich Are Different 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

“But I almost thought, this guy is out of my league. He’s so cool and really sophisticated.” After a Tragic Beginning, a ‘Happily Ever After’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

As he began wrestling on the independent circuit—the equivalent of baseball’s minor leagues—his behavior became increasingly erratic, including instances of drunken breakdowns in the ring and exposing himself to the crowd. Jake “The Snake” Roberts: “I started drinking when I was 11″ 2013-03-04T22:04:00Z

To put it as charitably as possible, the actors in "Safe Haven" are not in the same league. Review: 'Safe Haven' is routine romantic thriller 2013-02-14T01:31:06Z

“When people ask, ‘Why do you need a special women’s league?’ ” she adds, “I’m like, ‘This is why, because parts of this industry can be tone-deaf and uninviting.’ Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

The drama about Jackie Robinson, the first black player in the major leagues, earned $18 million from Friday through Sunday after leading the charts a week ago. Tom Cruise takes back box office with 'Oblivion' 2013-04-21T16:28:04Z

National League teams did not play American League teams, although the two leagues competed for players and fans. World Series was a big hit from the beginning 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Johnny Earl is a former major league baseball prospect with “the morals of an alligator” who hit the skids and did a prison stint after lapsing into the region’s remaining thriving business: drug-dealing. Is there a cure for Rust Belt rhetoric? This witty little novel might be a start. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

But it was his title performance in “Sherlock,” which debuted in 2010, that propelled him to a new league. T Magazine: The Case of the Accidental Superstar 2014-03-07T14:00:51Z

But the league exists primarily as a trade organization and overseer of the Tony Awards with the American Theatre Wing. Broadway producer Scott Rudin steps aside amid accusations of abusive behavior going back decades, apologizes for pain he caused 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z

When the Golden Knights became the league’s 31st team, the NHL allowed the other 30 teams to protect most of their best players. Perspective | For NHL fans, the action is close to home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Embarrassed by their losses — even before the court ruling, the league had hemorrhaged an estimated $200 million over three years — the owners decided not to play at all in 1986. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

And everyone should support local community sports organizations for kids instead of expensive travel leagues. Perspective | Youth sports take a punch from the pandemic 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

But the 66-year-old actor and writer was prepping to sing on Broadway, a different league entirely, and a formidable medium to master, as he has discovered in the last month. Chazz Palminteri Is Singing. Sonny Would Tell You to Listen. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Once you paint on canvas, you’re in the league with Matisse and Picasso and the rest of the bunch who wrestled with the canvas. Street Art and Subversion from Stephen (Espo) Powers 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

As Nantz, the announcer, put it: “Love for Damar, it was definitely in the air. Not just here. All across this league, this nation.” How Damar Hamlin’s Recovery Allowed Us to Breathe 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The league also is involved with a film project on the Hall of Fame coach that will star Robert De Niro. NFL to help produce Broadway play 2010-04-15T11:03:00Z

TIME: You’ve done smaller budget films in the past, but Looper puts you in the big leagues. Director Rian Johnson on Looper’s True Meaning and Who's the Next Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2012-09-28T12:00:34Z

A silly hand injury forced me to retire from the gay volleyball league, and I found myself trekking alone whenever I showed up for a gay hiking outing I’d found on Meetup.com. I Was Done Dating. Then I Joined a Hookup App. 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

We are lucky to live in an area abundant in parks and playgrounds, in a community obsessive about baseball and softball, with multiple leagues to choose from. Why Beyonce's viral fitness campaign is doomed 2011-04-28T15:29:00Z

But you can’t tell the history of the league without NFL Films’ role in making it the juggernaut it is today. NFL Films’ creative force Steve Sabol enters Hall of Fame 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Riding through Dyckman Fields, abuzz with softball leagues, I paused where a fisherman relaxed against the backdrop of the Hudson River. Urban Athlete: Oh, the Places You Could Bike by the Harlem River 2010-06-24T22:22:00Z

An anti-trust lawsuit against that league followed, ending in a Pyrrhic victory. Football is Trumpball Lite: Who needs Super Bowls when Trump’s real-life plays are more aggressive? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

That assumption is so strong that the league still has a rule that threatens a player with suspension for publicly accusing another of cheating. After a Year of ‘Rampant’ Cheating, Elite Bridge Tries to Clean Up 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Alas, he is seized upon as a useful tool by some major league scam artists. Review | Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’ and other best audiobooks for summer’s end 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The league is looking for a replacement who plays bridge, knows the tournament and business worlds and is willing to relocate to the Memphis area. Bridge: Change Ahead for League Chief Executive 2011-02-06T22:32:55Z

The old-but-new leadlights are destined to shine on what business and government cheerleaders see as the epicenter of a wide movement to propel Madrid into the big league of global shopping destinations. From stained glass to stylists, Spain bids to be global shopping hub 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Because aerosol art is created with spray paint, the artists were lumped together with graffiti taggers, though aerosol artists saw themselves in a different league. L.A. again carries a torch for 1984 Olympic murals, their artists 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The year after Miss Williams’s City Opera debut, Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z

Is there a town more densely packed with that type than Washington, where professionals deep into their 30s still belong to kickball leagues and rock grizzly beards and Vans to the office? The invasion of the scooter bros: A new tribe whizzes past the haters on Washington sidewalks. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

As the Lakers and Celtics rivalry evolved, interest in the league grew and more games were shown live on TV. ‘Winning Time’: When the N.B.A. Went Pop 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

She trained for the Ultimate Fighting Championship even though the U.F.C.’s president, Dana White, said he would never let a woman into the league. Ronda Rousey’s Next Fight: Body Image in Hollywood 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

As the 2010 World Cup in South Africa draws near, an estimated 50 American players are currently playing in the top ranks of Europe's best leagues. Top 10 American Soccer Players In Europe 2010-05-03T21:10:00Z

After 15 interviews on the league’s red carpet, Mr. Harris catches his breath. Neil Patrick Harris Prepares for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2014-02-19T13:00:18Z

By this point the league was a fully functioning school and exhibition space. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z

"Draft Day": Director Ivan Reitman offered up a less caustic take on professional football in "Draft Day" earlier this year — unsurprising given that the movie was made with the league's cooperation. Steve Ballmer-Donald Sterling saga has some on-screen analogues 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

He said that he wanted "more time for my wife and I to get to the kids' little league games". Larry King ends an era as colourful host 2010-06-30T18:49:00Z

The brothers eventually set up licensing agreements with the various major sports leagues. West Seattle brothers turned poster idea classics for a generation 2011-08-01T02:04:04Z

The latest hero to get called up to the big leagues: Ant-Man. Who is Ant-Man and Why Is He Getting His Own Movie? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Messi became the most desired free agent in soccer history after his attempts to stay at Barcelona were rejected last week by the Spanish league because of salary limits. Soccer star Lionel Messi to play for Paris Saint-Germain after 2 decades with Barca 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

In recent years, “Hot Ones” has edged itself into the big leagues: with spoofs on “The Simpsons” and “Saturday Night Live,” and Daytime Emmy nominations for Evans and the show. ‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Ben McGrath examines the daunting trajectory of the New York/New Jersey Comets, a women’s softball team in the fledgling National Pro Fastpitch league. Sunday Reading: The Women Reshaping Professional Sports 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

Why did the league spend as much time investigating deflated balls as it did looking into a horrifying incident of domestic violence that was captured on video? Fun fact: NFL’s “Deflategate” report is twice as long as its Ray Rice investigation 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

He popularized the phrase “He could go all the way!” on long plays that became TDs, and was never shy about criticizing players, coaches, the league or his fellow announcers. A look at iconic announcers in NFL history 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the film, in a scene that lasts just seconds, a Black woman returns a foul ball with force and accuracy, a nod to the league’s segregation. In ‘A League of Their Own,’ Abbi Jacobson Makes the Team 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

This time, it was Washington that was left without a major league team, while the rival Orioles strutted through their glory years, heads held high. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z

There are no fancy hotels, first-class flights or rubbing elbows with celebrities in the anxious life of a minor-league baseball player as he dreams of making it to the major leagues. Teammates and Cheerleaders for Life 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Why should the many players in the league be punished for the mistakes of the few? Women Don't Have to Boycott the NFL 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Another faithful member of the axe-throwing league, Jason Nip, a 40-year-old industrial designer, joined a league more recently and has taken part in five consecutive seasons. The joy of axe-throwing: 'When you hit that bullseye there's no better feeling' 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

I am the only one who won the world’s three most important leagues. How much do you know about Jose Mourinho? 2013-06-08T23:05:00Z

Republicans in the House and Senate preferred to nearly tank the country rather than appear to be in league with him. Obama’s Parting Gift: The Power Not to Fear White Racism 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

I had been watching his performance over the summer league. Shooting hoops and K-dramas: The American dream of not being relegated to a subplot 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

He led the underperforming club to the Mexican league championship last year, and earned a reputation for turning teams around. Mexico’s coach theatrical style excites World Cup 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

An extended work stoppage in the basketball league, whose lockout started on July 1, looks inevitable. Why Baseball Is Avoiding Other Sports' Labor Woes 2011-08-19T09:45:00Z

Once viewed as the league's best player, injury ended his pro-athlete career, an injury he still continues to deal with: unable to run and sometimes limping. Turn "Ted Lasso" into the Roy Kent show, you cowards 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

The legs of the fellow at the heart of “The Abandonment” are in perfect league with his illness. This Week in Fiction: Joshua Ferris on the Ease of Self-Sabotage 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

The specific register of the show’s humor, a few leagues farther into the briny deep of camp, favored the inexplicable and outlandish. SpongeBob at 20: how the pineapple-dwelling fry cook endured 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The National Association of the Deaf began working with the NFL in 2010 to connect the league with deaf artists to perform the anthem in ASL. Deaf musicians part of Super Bowl halftime show for 1st time 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The couple first met as kindergarten recreation league soccer players coached by the bride’s parents. Emily Hanno, Elías Sánchez-Eppler 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

In certain lower leagues, pitchers have 20 or sometimes only 15 seconds to start their delivery or the umpire can call an automatic ball. Perspective | MLB playoffs games aren’t geared to young fans. They take way too long. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Our membership is committed to reopening as soon as conditions permit us to do so,” Charlotte St. Martin, the league’s president, said in a statement. More hardship on Broadway, as the theater shutdown pushes past Memorial Day 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

What his exact stature is as a poet is a pointless question; there is not much to be said for league tables here. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z

MLB leaders said they hope to one day create a legal route for players to leave Cuba for the major leagues. Cuba welcomes baseball players who left the country illegally 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

His career languishes in the lower depths of Argentina’s minor leagues; then, to make matters worse, Mono is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Eduardo Sacheri's 'Papers in the Wind' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

As the project proved, Gang and her team were more than ready for the big leagues. AD Innovator: Jeanne Gang 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Luck points to the league being able to offer more at skill positions. XFL’s plans for upcoming season starting to take shape 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

Skoloda, a marketing expert, says for the NFL's female fans and the sponsors who want to court them, it is a defining moment for the league. As NFL tries to reassure women, sponsor Crest is first to retreat 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The awards are to be presented at a ceremony during the league’s national conference, which is being held in Seattle, Wednesday through Friday. Bold Sounds: Orchestras Honored for 'Adventurous Programming' 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

For major league baseball fans in Washington, it’s been 79 years of waiting for another postseason appearance. First in war, first in peace, first in the National League 2012-10-05T16:28:00Z

Yet it’s the interactions happening outside the room that provide the play with a relevant, weighty backbone it would be well without, but is leagues better for including. Review: Without Bloodshed, the Ingénue Takes the Lead 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Twenty years ago, Britain inexplicably plumped for five more years of Tory rule, Leeds United won the league and teenagers circumnavigated the M25 in search of the next rave. Old music: Ride – Twisterella 2012-07-06T11:56:00Z

For that reason, even though they don't actively discourage fans from betting on games, the major leagues have resisted the idea of Las Vegas getting its own franchise. Alex Rodriguez's Poker Scandal: Why Athletes Love Gambling 2011-08-05T10:30:00Z

And now, the Cavaliers and the Warriors will play each other in the finals for the fourth straight year — something that has never happened in any North American sports league. What’s on TV Thursday: N.B.A. Finals and ‘A Bronx Tale’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Other photographs capture the Black institutions that arose in response to racial segregation: a Negro league stadium in Michigan, a hotel for Black travelers in Mississippi. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Ghosts of Segregation 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

The way the NBA is constructed plays right into this strategy; Collins’ career gives him as many relationships to leverage as anyone in the league. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

“My wife and I were in a kickball league with friends last year before the pandemic,” he says. Country star Scotty McCreery knows pressure NFL players face 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

He was traveling with one of his so-called "goddesses" and former major league baseball player Todd Zeile. Charlie Sheen tours tornado damage in Alabama 2011-05-02T15:35:48Z

Then on Friday, the league announced that Rondo was being suspended for one game for “directing a derogatory and offensive term towards a game official and not leaving the court in a timely manner.” This is the horrific and violent gay slur a star player aimed at a ref: Rajon Rondo’s virulent tirade 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

It was all in league with a new, internal voice, one that spoke quietly and unexpectedly. After a Breakup, an App to Help Breathe, Then Run 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

So they joined a larger public league, where they could just leave it all on the field. ‘We don’t talk politics out here’: Democratic staffers vent stress on football field 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

He went on to win the Spanish league with Real Madrid after a £25m move from United before joining LA Galaxy. Beckhams expecting fourth child 2011-01-09T18:15:53Z

In 1989, when I was 21, I got my chance in the whale-saving major leagues when I got a job at Greenpeace. Travel: Olive oil in Paciano, Italy

But the involvement of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation with the league in the years following has remade the halftime show both musically and socioculturally. At the Super Bowl, Rihanna Returns to Music, Briefly 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

“She was always leagues ahead of me, at least in academics and focus,” says classmate Eileen Alonso Stratton, now an accountant in Oak Brook. Always running, always prepared: Hillary Clinton as a high school politician 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

By that point televised baseball had begun to eat away at attendance in the minor leagues. The battle of the ballparks: Cubs vs. Dodgers and the lost history of L.A.'s own Wrigley Field 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

National Basketball Association rather than China’s homegrown professional league. Yao Ming Shoots for a Basketball Revolution 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

“You could bring a friend to a league night to spectate and they’ll be welcomed as warmly as any member,” he said. The joy of axe-throwing: 'When you hit that bullseye there's no better feeling' 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five-part fantasy league of the best actress winners. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The story mode — creating a player and taking him from the minors to the big leagues — is more realistic and forgiving. Game On: 'The Show' maintains streak 2011-04-14T18:17:05Z

Comedy Central bills the pilot and 10-episode series as taking on "teams, players, leagues, sycophantic fans, ridiculous products and over-hyped coverage." Comedy Central picks up 'The Onion Sports Network' 2010-04-14T14:44:00Z

Boy meets girl way out of his league, boy brags about his nonexistent rock band, boy scrambles to assemble said band. The Best Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

For each star like Puig or Abreu, many more defectors labor unceremoniously in the minor leagues, never to sign the big contract nor return to play in Cuba. Cuba opens pipeline of baseball talent to Japan, U.S. left out 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

But how many new slots are open in EDM's major leagues? LED makes a splash in EDM 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Things had mostly settled down by 1903, and to bury the hatchet, the leagues decided to face off in a friendly competition. The origins of 25 fall traditions 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“The league took a risk and at the same time put us on the map.” A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

What could redress the balance better than an origin series devoted to explaining how a normal boy named Clint Barton could ever justify joining the ranks of an all-powerful superhero league. Batman's butler: origins and the most pointless prequels imaginable 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

"Rap or Go to the League" is a collection of soulful ballads about 2 Chainz as a ball player, who didn’t catch the league and ended up in the streets. Top 5 rap and hip hop albums of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

As recently as five years ago, men’s wear was fashion’s sleepy minor leagues. Fighting Back With Color 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: BBC/Lion TV It's now 19 seasons since the beginning of the Super League, a marker of rugby league's satellite TV makeover. TV highlights 01/02/2013 2013-01-31T20:00:01Z

Well, with Oz the Great and Powerful and lead roles in films from 127 Hours to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Franco's status as a major league box-office draw would appear secure. Maladies – first look review 2013-02-11T16:26:56Z

It’s a big advantage to be able to pick players from other towns or leagues. Little League takes a hit as World Series U.S. champs stripped of title 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

“Out of his league” becomes “beyond his bandwidth.” Gene Weingarten has the trite stuff 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

"We were one of the worst teams in the league." Wisconsin couple win $1M prize on 'Amazing Race' 2012-05-07T23:01:05Z

Q: My 12-year-old son plays on a recreational soccer league, and he's basically the leader and star of the team. Perspective | My tween gives up at the first sign of struggle. How can I help him stick with things? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

These other gangs act as the minor leagues for the brotherhood. Inside the Aryan Brotherhood’s prison heroin empire 2013-03-19T17:58:00Z

Thousands of people turned out to scale an outdoor climbing wall, sign up for fitness classes and wander a gymnasium where youth and adult sports leagues will compete. In Cleveland, They’re Cooking Up a Gay Neighborhood From Scratch 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Yes, Ferrell played 10 positions for 10 different major league baseball teams at spring training this year—all for laughs and for charity. See Will Ferrell Play for 10 Baseball Teams in HBO's 'Ferrell Takes the Field' 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Logue would have been out of our league, and as for seeing a shrink – well, that meant you were mad, right? Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z

Mr. Taylor added, “It puts us up in the big league.” Paul Taylor Leaps Over to the Koch 2011-07-14T21:12:20Z

"Corporations are much more interested in diversifying who they are talking to," WCG marketing and operations manager Paul Brewer says, regarding finding sponsors for professional gaming leagues. Video Games: When Girl Gamers Go Pro 2010-10-13T20:20:00Z

When the N.F.L. season began this past September, it appeared as if the sport’s cultural prominence — no other league is anywhere close to as popular or rich — might be in jeopardy. The Way We Live Now: Gridiron Girls 2011-01-30T09:24:02Z

The “warts” that Crews was so happy to see in the script are limited to the characters’ personal lives, not the depiction of the league. How the NFL Helped Make Draft Day a Super Accurate Sports Movie 2014-04-11T14:00:59Z

It has been banned by most professional sports leagues in the US and by the International Olympic Committee, since some athletes use it as a performance enhancer. A 'miracle' healing gel, a cult-like following, and a fiercely protected empire 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Still, for many Los Angeles artists and critics, this exhibition is a long-needed accounting of the emergence of the region as an art capital in the same league as New York, Berlin and London. Southern California Claims Its Place on the Art World Map 2011-10-12T13:27:24Z

That included $8 million worth of sales tax breaks, plus millions more in security costs the state picked up for the league. Chris Christie’s bromance with Jerry Jones could be his undoing 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

All that was on top of New Jersey property tax breaks that benefit the league. Chris Christie’s bromance with Jerry Jones could be his undoing 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Official beer sponsor Anheuser-Busch on Tuesday criticized the league for its handling of a spate of abuse cases. Rihanna, CBS bench opening number for Thursday football 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

The most popular sports league in America is facing criticism and legal issues on several fronts, ranging from discrimination to athletes’ injuries. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Robinson spent the 1946 season with the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top farm club, where he led the team to the minor league championship. Jackie Robinson was a radical 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

These are all fine, accomplished performers, but not exactly in the movie-star league. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-08T07:00:12Z

But they aren’t “Savages,” the one that will jolt Mr. Winslow into a different league. Books of The Times: New-Wave Drug Dealers in Don Winslow?s ?Savages? 2010-07-07T22:18:00Z

To Davies, players like Schneider and Amodio are like professional athletes playing among amateurs, and so it makes sense to him to feature their talents in a separate tournament or league. Celebrities Are Just the Start of the Expanding ‘Jeopardy!’-verse 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I have never felt so much urgency for change and seen so much sincere work for change,” said Simon Woods, the president and chief executive of the orchestra league. U.S. Orchestras Gradually Diversify but Are Slow to Hire Black Musicians 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

Victory dance by the fantasy league pool winner who is $100 richer. The Bachelorette Finale Is Terrifying If You Know Nothing About the Show 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

The league alleged McCourt's financial mismanagement in asking the Bankruptcy Court to order a sale, even threatening to kick the Dodgers out of the league if McCourt retained control. Magic Johnson-led group is picked as Dodgers' next owner 2012-03-28T05:45:00Z

Minor league baseball team Salem-Keizer Volcanoes will play a morning game on 21 August that will feature the first ever “eclipse delay” in baseball history. 10 of the best views, festivals and events for the US total solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

A tiny budget – the third smallest in the league – forced the Oakland Athletics to become revolutionaries. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong – review 2013-05-24T08:00:03Z

But in the space of a day, one is cut from his minor league team; the other, who was hoping to be signed, loses his community college scholarship because of poor grades. | 'Touching Home': Ed Harris Stars as an Alcoholic Father 2010-05-13T22:53:00Z

This kind of thinking runs deep across the league. Bears front office vs. locker room 2012-03-23T03:03:00Z

Including it on Monday’s program — at the expense of a recent work by another living composer, or longer selections by those represented — was the league’s way of congratulating itself on its own importance. Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

In his first full season with the team, he won the Sixth Man of the Year Award, given to the league’s best bench player. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

There are 1,500 league players — that is not a typo — in the province of Ontario alone. Competitive axe-throwing is an actual thing, and apparently it’s best done with beer 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Through 2025, the PV of the lost revenue tied to these disgruntled fans would total about $154.4 million, about twice as much as it would cost the league to end the lockout now. America’s national nightmare is over: The refs are back 2012-09-28T21:32:00Z

Now, it’s an illustration of just how much Collins resonates as an individual throughout the league. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

A rival league, Major League Ultimate, soon started up as well; he joined its Boston team before decamping for Washington in 2015. Can the MVP of D.C.’s pro ultimate Frisbee team raise the sport’s profile? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Broadcasting the national anthem, which is not traditional for Monday Night Football, was a way for the league and its broadcast partner to acknowledge a topic of national interest. The NFL Should Thank Trump for Finally Shaking Up Monday Night Football 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

But even before a bizarre finale that witnessed Corgan invite dozens of personalities from his pro-wrestling league onstage, the duo ballooned into a sextet and succumbed to excess. At Ravina, Billy Corgan challenges himself, audience

The next year, a competing league, the National Basketball League, brought the team in instead. ‘High Flying Bird’ Is Rich With Historical References. Here’s a Closer Look. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

It portrayed Black people as criminals, sex fiends and goggle-eyed fools, in skulking league with Northern carpetbaggers. A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, since 2010, when the league started examining organizational metrics, the percentage of nonwhite staff of American orchestras has hovered at around 14 percent, with black staff accounting for just 5 to 7 percent. That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

I was out at ultimate frisbee spring league, which is played at the Parade Grounds in Prospect Park, complaining to my teammate Dan about some ache or pain or other. Can Ultimate Frisbee go mainstream? 2013-06-12T12:57:00Z

When the Major League Baseball Players Association sent union authorization cards to approximately 5,000 minor league players in an attempt to unionize them, I was both surprised and not surprised at all. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

But the overtly racial and political valence of his accomplishments more naturally placed him in a league with Jack Johnson — a competitor too fierce for any Great White Hope to contain. Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ Helped Me Beat the Odds. Will We Finally Even Them? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Fortune shines on the members when a real live murder lands in their laps, that of a shady builder in league with a soulless property developer who threatens their peaceful enjoyment. Review | 3 great new audiobooks for your drive, your walk, your laundry folding ... 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

There are hardly any vintage photos or archival films, no roll calls of minor league teams, no forced detours into women’s baseball. | 'The Tenth Inning': Ken Burns & Co. Return to the Old Ballgame 2010-09-27T22:42:00Z

Rune is looking for information about a son he never knew: a minor league baseball player who once captured the town’s heart and then vanished. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

In 2015, Harper was simply the best player in major league baseball. Perspective | With Bryce Harper gone, it’s time for kids to find a new favorite Nats player 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t race cars, own a minor league baseball team or play bass in a celebrity rock band. The evolution of Tom Hanks

The league announcement sidesteps the notion of a “reopening” for the 41 designated Broadway theaters; it stipulates only that “individual productions” will “determine the performance schedules for their respective shows.” More hardship on Broadway, as the theater shutdown pushes past Memorial Day 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

The league has about 250 members and works to promote the style in terms of preservation and both the retro styling of new construction or renovations. Once in jeopardy, doo-wop buildings now imitated 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Due to the harsh winters, Sweden’s football league is usually played from April to October. TV the key to Sweden's long love affair with English football 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

In kids’ sports, it seems there are fewer local neighborhood leagues and teams than years ago. Perspective | Sports fashions change, and so do the games themselves 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Jackie Robinson was much more than the first African American to play major league baseball. Perspective | Jackie Robinson, known for breaking baseball’s color barrier, was a towering figure in American history 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

It did mark a culture shift for the league because it now aired its significant prime-time game on Sunday instead of Monday. A look at the seminal broadcasting moves that define the NFL 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

She’s right; it just may take a while in the sports world, where players fear losing their next contract with franchises worth millions and leagues that generate more than that. Are professional sports more gay-friendly than ever? 2012-10-20T15:00:00Z

In those days, a major league ballpark was no place to bring kids. Perspective | The WNBA is having trouble catching on, but men’s pro sports had problems, too 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

In the United States, where youth sports are a $15.5 billion-a-year business, costly travel leagues and private training foster early sports specialization and year-round participation. Tommy John’s son wants to help kids avoid sports surgeries like the one named for his dad 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Media companies pay the leagues and teams billions of dollars for the rights to show the games on television and other video devices. Why do some athletes make millions? Because fans support them. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Perhaps more important from the NFL's perspective, the naming of a woman to perform during the coveted slot is a potent symbol for a league suffering a series of blunders. Katy Perry to play Super Bowl halftime show? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Adults should try to set up youth leagues so more kids play with and against kids from nearby schools and neighborhoods. Perspective | A sign that youth sports often forget what’s important about the games 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

With 22% of its MPs female, Britain is number 50 in the league table of women in parliament, a dubious distinction it shares with the Czech Republic, Eritrea, Latvia and Uzbekistan. Women, Power and Politics: script for a revolution 2010-06-08T21:00:00Z

A night the stadium league got a whole lot brighter, and lightning struck London twice. The Killers – review 2013-06-23T17:14:07Z

I had seven years in the minor leagues. In his early days, even the Nationals’ F.P. Santangelo was bugged by his style 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I’m not a big rosé guy,” says Mr. Faxon, who grew up around Boston and still plays in an ice hockey league. The Easy Banter and the Vicious Retorts of ‘Married’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The league of exciting professional comedians in suits was called onstage to help auction off a customized Harley-Davidson Fat Boy. A Night of Wise, Tortured Election Anxiety with Jon Stewart and Friends 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

He reeled in new residents by offering cash prizes for babies born in his homes, equipping kitchens with “domestic science cabinets” and organizing resident softball leagues. The Trumpian Origins of New York’s Floating Billboard Problem 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Backwash In a completely different financial league from “Awkward Embraces” and “Jack in a Box” is the strange and heavily promoted serial “Backwash,”currently unspooling on Crackle.com, the Sony online entertainment site. Watchlist: Boxers, Trekkies, Lilliputians and Other Favorites 2010-12-11T23:20:00Z

And the commonality among the teams selected for contraction was that their stadiums’ facilities were not up to the league’s standards. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Over the next week Trump is accused of improper groping by enough women to form a professional softball league. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

My typical experience in that realm would be compared to eating a fatty food like guacamole – which certainly does produce a lot of happiness – but this foie gras was in another league altogether. Eat it without the guilt? The story of the world’s first 'clean' foie gras 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

They loved it for the same traits the show capitalizes upon, which is the warmth, sisterhood, and friendship that endured decades after the women's league shut down. "A League of Their Own" makes up for the past's missed swings, but isn't quite a home run 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The fact that NBA players get a much larger piece of the revenue pie does seem to say something about how each respective league values its players. The case for boosting WNBA player salaries 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Recent MLS expansion teams in Orlando and Atlanta have been big hits, and the league will soon add franchises in Cincinnati and Memphis. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

I'm talking about a guy that played, coached, was an owner and just did so much for the league. Bears coach mourns Al Davis' death 2011-10-08T19:48:00Z

Since Russians, Czechs, Finns and Swedes began joining the NHL, it’s become an international league preserving fighting as a relic of its Canadian roots. Blame Canada! Fighting has turned hockey immoral 2014-02-11T00:00:00Z

Still, it certainly will require the Hawks to shelve their inevitable frustration and irritation with the league to focus on maintaining home-ice advantage. Hawks' Hossa stretchered off ice after hit 2012-04-18T02:02:00Z

“There wasn’t a minor leagues anymore,” he said. Nobody knows cartoons like the New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff. Were mine good enough for him? 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

One team might play 80 league games while another team would play only 40. Perspective | Negro Leagues get long-due respect as part of MLB 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

But I really preferred it when there were eight teams in each league. Cubs fans: hope, inspiration, protest 2012-04-05T17:59:00Z

JR Leeds Rhinos and Melbourne Storm meet at Headingley for the annual clash between the champions of the planet's two foremost rugby league competitions, Europe's Super League and Australia's NRL. TV highlights 22/02/2013 2013-02-22T07:00:05Z

France is second in the league table for women – as it was in 2010 – at 88.6 years, and Japan is third on 88.4 years after decades with the longest life expectancy in the world. Life expectancy forecast to exceed 90 years in coming decades 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Live Nation denied it had made any kind of threat and pointed out that the soccer league has a small equity stake in SeatGeek. Live Nation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

There are decisions being made by the league without consulting the players. Q&A: New Orleans Saints Quarterback Drew Brees 2010-11-21T06:00:00Z

And while most of the drinks are top-notch, tequila with green chartreuse and soda is not in that league. Gypsy Soul: R.J. Cooper brings a wanderer’s touch and Southern flair

Besides Spenser, whose first name is never revealed in the novels, Parker created several detective characters including his more recent protagonist, Jesse Stone, a former minor league baseball player. 2010-01-19T21:50:00Z

Cox managed in the big leagues for 29 years. Torre apologetic for slight in his HOF speech 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Two years later, the league was dead, and Trump was the prime suspect. And then there was the time Donald Trump bought a football team . . . 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The deal called for Jay-Z and his company, Roc Nation, to consult on live entertainment, including the halftime show, and for the music impresario to contribute to a league social-justice campaign called “Inspire Change.” At the Super Bowl, the Political Was Debatable 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

For professional leagues and broadcasters, offering viewers the best product available means new, customizable camera angles, higher definition, and greater expectations of clarity, certitude, and precision. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was one of many signs that postmodern dance had graduated into the big leagues. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Seattle may not have had big league teams, but the sports writers in this town were top notch. ‘Becoming Big League’: a history of Seattle baseball’s ins and outs 2013-04-26T20:22:13Z

This year, the chatter will be about what penalty the league may impose upon Mr. Kraft for “conduct detrimental to the league” — code for making the owners look bad. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

This led to a warning from the league. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The Cardinals Triple-A affiliate plays at a snazzy downtown stadium, complete with the sort of contests and fans-on-field participation you get when you cross corporate America and minor league baseball. Frugal Traveler: Memphis on the Cheap: Elvis, Barbecue and Baseball 2013-07-25T18:05:28Z

Before the 1980s, the N.B.A. was a struggling league with low ratings, and the networks wouldn’t give it prime slots. ‘Winning Time’: When the N.B.A. Went Pop 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

The Brazilians fled for the football leagues of Europe, the Russians for the Canadian minor hockey leagues. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

There’s an awful lot of grim reality on display, including a long and bitter fight over control of the league, some depressing financial and managerial ineptitude and several excruciating shots of dangling broken limbs. | ?Total Badass? and ?Hell on Wheels': Sport and Grim Reality 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z

Meanwhile, the median minor league salary hovered around the national poverty level. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

I started playing in a league, a women’s doubles league. How an Almost-Divorce Kept Them Together 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

College football is becoming like a kids sports league where everybody gets a trophy at the end of the season. Playing sports catch-up: Bowl games, pricy pitchers and Tiger’s future 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

College debate champ Sen. Ted Cruz was remarkably unimpressive, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson looked out of his league in a political setting. Fox News tries to expel Donald Trump — but last night’s debate didn’t finish him 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The league decided to ease the rules, as long as gear was from NFL licensees. 'I Can't Breathe' and the Not-So Protected Speech of Professional Athletes 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

The minor league is a place where successful players inevitably leave teams behind, often just when the teams need them most. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Lucas Mann Talks About 'Class A' 2013-05-16T19:00:06Z

McCaffrey got stopped Sunday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but is still among the league leaders in rushing yards and catches for a running back. Perspective | There’s plenty to watch in the NFL. Just not in Washington. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

That said, this is brutally efficient film-making from director Patrick Hughes, graduating to the Hollywood big leagues after his debut film, the Australian western Red Hill. The Expendables 3 first look review – a blundering jackhammer of a film 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

The league has a deep interest in the state’s policy governing sports gambling. Chris Christie’s bromance with Jerry Jones could be his undoing 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Artest was eventually suspended for the remainder of that season for his role in one of the darkest moments in league history. New Artest documentary shows extensive Palace brawl footage 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

She is also known for negotiating key deals, like a $3 billion broadcast agreement with Time Warner Cable, and playing a central role in league business, like sitting on the influential labor committee. Lady of the Lakers 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

There’s sexist twaddle — “‘I actually prefer the women’s league to the mens.’ Put down the Trevor Noah pitchforks: His offensive, unfunny tweets shouldn’t cost him “The Daily Show” just yet 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Anti” might be too weak of a prefix to describe this heroine: She’s more of an outright villain, a red-haired seductress in leagues — culinary, homicidal — traditionally dominated by men. Why Can’t Women Be Serial Killers, Too? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

The league and Nielsen said Wednesday there was an average of 17.1 million viewers for games, which is a 5% increase over last year. NFL Week 1 ratings up 5% over last year 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

“The Power of the Dog” was in a different league and not just because of Campion’s involvement. Ari Wegner: The other woman behind ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

This month, Brian Flores, the Miami Dolphins head coach who was fired last month, sued the league, claiming he and others had been discriminated against in the hiring process. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Let’s leave the wives to their talk about the office and soccer leagues and go outside. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z

The league also named “Pippin” best revival of a musical and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” best revival of a play. ArtsBeat: Drama League Prizes Go to ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Vanya and Sonia’ 2013-05-17T20:15:33Z

Clearly, this was very much what he wanted: not the paddling pool of Britain, but LA, movies, the big league. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Often, teams in the lower minors are composed of a mix of 19-year-old prospects destined for the big leagues and players in their mid-20s looking for their big break. The Frederick Keys were evicted from the minor leagues. They’re still playing. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The dance was flawless -- passionate, intense and in a league above. "Dancing with the Stars" finale: Who won? 2010-05-26T12:27:00Z

Crowe, who receives his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame outside the Kodak Theater on Monday, is also a recording artist and part owner of the Australian rugby league South Sydney Rabbitohs. Russell Crowe drops tights for "Robin Hood" 2010-04-12T08:01:00Z

Even Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson, one of the few voices who sounded a note of dissent, acknowledged this dimension of the league. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

So he literally travels overnight from the Negro leagues to the major leagues. How Integration Came to the American League, in Cleveland’s Glory Days 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Was there some aspect of tutelage or mentorship that you didn’t get that is different now than when you entered the league? Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

A former NFL executive told USA Today that during his 30 years with the league, teams covered up “hundreds and hundreds” of domestic violence cases, preferring to “handle them internally” by looking the other way. Former NFL exec: Teams covered up “hundreds and hundreds” of domestic violence cases over the years 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But we can still enjoy their attacks on each other from a place of anonymity many, many leagues out of attack range. "Billions" resumes within a pandemic that made the rich richer, making its cruelty more relevant 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z