With several series getting very physical and the game slowing down, four NBA writers wonder if the league has gone too far.
Tag: Play
Ewan McGregor, Back Onstage, Is the Architect of His Own Folly
“My Master Builder,” a new take on the Ibsen classic, reduces a complex play to a tawdry marital melodrama.
The NHL playoffs and identifying one burning question for every series
All 16 teams are still alive in the playoffs and things are heating up with seven massive Game 5s coming on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Who Should Be a Tony Awards Nominee in 2025?
Our chief theater critic makes his picks.
Anthony Edwards and the complicated pathway to becoming the face of the NBA
Try as he might to avoid it, the spotlight is drawn to Edwards like Coppola’s camera was to Pacino.
As the $476 million Dodgers face the $69 million Marlins, MLB’s payroll gap has never been wider
Two teams on opposite ends of the payroll spectrum meet this week, for a series that sets records and focuses eyes on MLB’s payroll issue.
My Life With Uncle Vanya, the Self-Pitying Sad Sack We Can’t Quit
What is it about Chekhov’s melancholy inaction hero that makes him, and the play he stars in, so meaningful at all ages?
Devils’ Timo Meier, a controversial collision and the edge between reckless and ‘made for the playoffs’
Meier ran into Frederik Andersen in Game 4 of the teams’ first-round series Sunday, sending the Hurricanes goalie to the injury ward.
What the Steelers’ draft says about their confidence in signing Aaron Rodgers
Rodgers remains a free agent, but several breadcrumbs this weekend suggest the Steelers still expect to add the four-time MVP.
Canadiens, Capitals brawl spills into benches in Game 3
Linesman Kyle Wellington, at one point, was nearly toppled over the bench by Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson, the principle antagonists.