This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareWes Unseld’s calling card during a Hall of Fame career in the National Basketball Association was not a majestic jump shot or a slick crossover dribble or a thunderous dunk — it was the precise, bone-crushing picks he set on opposing defenders, inevitably freeing up one of his teammates for a score. His impact was measured less in points and rebounds than in bruises.“I don’t know of anybody who ever set a meaner screen,” former shooting guard Doug Collins of the rival Philadelphia 76ers once said of him.Mr. Unseld, who died June...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareWes Unseld’s calling card during a Hall of Fame career in the National Basketball Association was not a majestic jump shot or a slick crossover dribble or a thunderous dunk — it was the precise, bone-crushing picks he set on opposing defenders, inevitably freeing up one of his teammates for a score. His impact was measured less in points and rebounds than in bruises.“I don’t know of anybody who ever set a meaner screen,” former shooting guard Doug Collins of the rival Philadelphia 76ers once said of him.Mr. Unseld, who died June...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareEven as MLB struggled to contain the chaos spawned by this week’s — which forced the postponement of 14 games and upended the schedules of six teams from the National League East and American League East — new cases among the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday created an additional crisis and raised new questions about the season’s viability amid a pandemic.The Cardinals’ game Friday in Milwaukee, which , was postponed, MLB announced, and will be made up as part of a doubleheader Sunday; the teams’ game scheduled for Saturday...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareEven as MLB struggled to contain the chaos spawned by this week’s — which forced the postponement of 14 games and upended the schedules of six teams from the National League East and American League East — new cases among the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday created an additional crisis and raised new questions about the season’s viability amid a pandemic.The Cardinals’ game Friday in Milwaukee, which , was postponed, MLB announced, and will be made up as part of a doubleheader Sunday; the teams’ game scheduled for Saturday...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe flood of text messages, photos and videos swirling through the insular community of former Olympic swimmers left no doubt about the who, what and where: The towering figure in the videos and images, standing among the mob of rioters who had breached the U.S. Capitol and were pushing against police in the Rotunda, was unquestionably Klete Keller, a three-time Olympian and five-time medalist.If his 6-foot-6 frame and familiar face, covered by a beard but not a mask, didn’t give away Keller’s identity to those who knew him, one...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareThe flood of text messages, photos and videos swirling through the insular community of former Olympic swimmers left no doubt about the who, what and where: The towering figure in the videos and images, standing among the mob of rioters who had breached the U.S. Capitol and were pushing against police in the Rotunda, was unquestionably Klete Keller, a three-time Olympian and five-time medalist.If his 6-foot-6 frame and familiar face, covered by a beard but not a mask, didn’t give away Keller’s identity to those who knew him, one...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor decades, baseball historians and fans have accepted it as gospel that Willie Mays , Bob Feller and of all time belonged to Ty Cobb (.366), Rogers Hornsby (.358) and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson (.356). To suggest otherwise was to provoke a bar fight — or at the very least a peaceful consulting of Google.But on Wednesday, in a monumental change for the sport, Major League Baseball announced it was elevating the 1920-48 Negro Leagues to major league status, a move that not only seeks to right a cosmic wrong that has shadowed...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareFor decades, baseball historians and fans have accepted it as gospel that Willie Mays , Bob Feller and of all time belonged to Ty Cobb (.366), Rogers Hornsby (.358) and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson (.356). To suggest otherwise was to provoke a bar fight — or at the very least a peaceful consulting of Google.But on Wednesday, in a monumental change for the sport, Major League Baseball announced it was elevating the 1920-48 Negro Leagues to major league status, a move that not only seeks to right a cosmic wrong that has shadowed...WW…