Liam Payne was just 14 when he took his first shot at the big time, trying out for the hit star-making show, “The X Factor.” He was 17 when the show’s judges teamed him up with Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson — all young, handsome, telegenic-but-relatable …
Read More »Draw Sports Fans to an Art Museum? That’s the Goal.
As museums experiment with ways of attracting new visitors beyond a niche audience of art lovers, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has assembled an ambitious exhibition anchored in a subject with wide appeal: sports. Occupying over 13,000 square feet and the museum’s entire seventh floor, “Get in the …
Read More »Abdul Salaam, Quiet Member of the Jets’ ‘Sack Exchange,’ Dies at 71
Abdul Salaam, an unassuming but important member of the ferocious Jets defensive line, known as the New York Sack Exchange, that preyed on quarterbacks in the 1980s, died on Tuesday in Cincinnati. He was 71. His wife, Debbie, said he died in a hospital from multiple illnesses. The Sack Exchange …
Read More »How Roger Goodell Became the N.F.L.’s $20 Billion Man
As they met in the lobby of the Omni Viking Lakes Hotel in Minnesota in late August, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, and Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, greeted each other warmly, sharing fist bumps as a small entourage that included their oldest …
Read More »Billy Shaw, a Singular Hall of Fame Lineman, Dies at 85
Billy Shaw, an offensive guard for the Buffalo Bills who was known as a Southern gentleman off the field but a terror on it, and who became the only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to play his entire career in the American Football League, died on Friday …
Read More »Eagles Players Feared Crime in Brazil. Have They Considered Philadelphia?
“I do not want to go to Brazil.” To National Football League executives, who have worked for years to bring Friday night’s opening-weekend game to Brazil, the comment from Philadelphia Eagles player Darius Slay on his podcast last week had already gotten off to a bad start. Then it got …
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