The sneaker has come under scrutiny, with claims that its foam and carbon fiber composition in the sole serves as a spring that gives runners an edge by providing an increased forward push on each stride. The design of the shoe is under review by a group of officials who are slated to reveal their findings later this year. “A working group, consisting of technical officials, athletes, health and science practitioners and legal experts, are reviewing the shoe, the technology and the wording around the rule....

Nike unveiled the new Air Force 1 Low shoes earlier this week. The white shoes feature angel wing-like covers on the tongues and a definition of Nike’s name on the insoles. The back of the shoe features embroidery that appears to say “NIKE Air,” with “NIKE” written using letters from the Greek alphabet. But Greek speakers have pointed out that the writing does not read “NIKE,” but instead says: “PIKS....

Nearly seven years later, Nikola Jokic was front and center on national television to accept the 2020-21 NBA Most Valuable Player award, making him the lowest drafted player to ever be named MVP. (Three-time MVP Moses Malone was selected in the 1974 ABA Draft out of high school, then jumped to the NBA as part of the 1976 ABA Dispersal Draft.) NBA AWARDS: List of winners for MVP, ROY and more...

Turner lost the Democratic primary in Ohio’s 11th congressional district to Shontel Brown, who is a Cuyahoga County Council member and is widely seen as the candidate of the party’s establishment. In her concession speech in Cleveland, Turner took aim at super Political Action Committees (PACs) that had opposed her election, and invoked biblical language to describe her defeat. Turner said that Americans have been on a “long justice journey through a desert of despair, indifference, inequality, and racism....

Tributes remembering Skaggs have poured in throughout the season, but for the MLB Players’ Weekend starting Friday, a few players are taking it a step further. While patches will be on the arms of each jersey, nine players will pay a special tribute to Skaggs on the back of the jersey instead of a player-specific nickname, MLB.com’s Anthony Castrovince reported. MORE: Ranking the 25 best nicknames for 2019 MLB Players’ Weekend...

The video game publisher stated on its site that 160,000 Nintendo Network ID (NNID) accounts have been affected by hacking attempts. Nintendo states that login IDs and passwords “obtained illegally by some means other than our service,” have been used since the beginning of April. To combat these hacking attempts, Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into the Nintendo Account through the NNID. Passwords are being reset for the affected accounts and an email will be sent to those affected....

Trump is continuing to refute the election outcome, despite network calls having tipped it in Joe Biden’s favor, and making persistent calls of widespread irregularities and fraud—despite having not substantiated such claims thus far. While Trump pursues his action against the results in several states, speculation has mounted that should his last-ditch efforts prove futile he might consider running again in 2024. A person can only serve two terms as president, though these do not necessarily have to be consecutive....

That’s what the doctor told me after looking at my bloodwork. It was 2015, and I was 29 years old. After months of heavy menstrual bleeding, I had finally gone to the doctor to get to the bottom of my issues. This was the beginning of my journey with uterine fibroids. Normalizing Painful Periods As a Nigerian American, talking about reproductive health was always taboo. Although I knew that my mother and sisters had experienced heavy periods, it wasn’t something that we ever really discussed....

The Mets, looking to start on a road to back-to-back World Series appearances for the first time in their history, send major league FIP leader Noah Syndergaard to the mound looking to build on last year’s postseason, when he won two of his three starts and struck out 26 hitters in 19 innings. For the Giants, it’s 2014 NLCS and World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner, toting a 7-3 career postseason record and 2....

Expect raucous crowds when the Mets host their first playoff game Monday. MORE: Mets preview | Dodgers preview | Mets’ best postseason moments The Dodgers have experience on their side, plus two of the best pitchers in baseball. The Mets have to win one of the three games Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke pitch — which won’t be easy. Series Schedule: Game 1: Friday, 9:45 p.m. ET, TBSGame 2: Saturday, 9:07 p....

The veteran left-hander and the young infielder were named series co-MVPs after Chicago closed out the series in six games. Lester went 1-0 with a 1.38 ERA in two starts; Baez turned in a series of dazzling defensive plays and drove in five runs in the six games. MORE: NLCS photos | WS sked | Get Cubs gear The joint award is the first in the NLCS since 1990, when Reds relievers Rob Dibble and Randy Myers shared the honor....

His two-run throwing error on a sacrifice bunt opened the door to Washington’s 4-1 victory at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The Nats now trail the best-of-five series two games to one. Game 4 will be Tuesday night, also in San Francisco (9:07 p.m. ET, Fox Sports 1). MORE: Series photos | Schedule Bumgarner threw away Wilson Ramos’ seventh-inning bunt while attempting to get a forceout at third base....

Yes, it is weird; a less-than-necessary flight from Vancouver to Toronto across two time zones isn't ideal. Then Wisniewski took it a little too far. That might've held water last year—but not anymore. The league realigned in no small part to help out the Blue Jackets, who wanted to play Eastern time zone teams generally and the Pittsburgh Penguins specifically. The end result was an unbalanced Eastern Conference and a potentially disastrous playoff seeding process....

NEWSWEEK: Is it true that you and Mr. Greenspan had only one phone conversation on Monday as Wall Street tanked? RUBIN: We spoke once or twice. [Deputy Treasury Secretary] Larry [Summers] spoke to him, too. The thing we were focused on on Monday was, ““Is the [financial] infrastructure working?’’ We couldn’t do anything about what the market was going to do . . . The critical thing was not to have what happened in 1987, when we were dealing with structural breakdowns which could threaten the system....

Nemanja Matic scored a screamer from 30 plus yards to make it 4-2 and Nathan Ake came in and performed brilliantly in place of Gary Cahill, who was hit by sickness before the match. Unfortunately for Antonio Conte, all of those players are either injured, AWOL or have left the club. 7/1 for Spurs and Chelsea to draw 0-0 Danny Rose, like many Spurs players that day, seemed in awe of Chelsea as they brought on a group of champions from their bench....

If Florida State plays to its potential and doesn’t play bored (like it has in two other games this season), Clemson couldn’t beat the ‘Noles if Maguire played the entire game. Which is, in fact, what he’ll be doing. FSU is that good; Clemson has that many holes on defense. Don’t think FSU coach Jimbo Fisher will hold back on what he gives Maguire in the offense. It’s not his personality, and there’s no need for it....

“Of the 346 players tested for COVID-19 on the NBA campus since test results were last announced on July 13, zero have returned confirmed positive tests,” the league said in a statement on Monday. Last Monday, the league said two players returned positive results out of the 322 samples taken in the first round of tests since players arrived at the bubble the week before. MORE: LeBron is enjoying at least one aspect of bubble life...

Following Neymar’s shock €222m move to PSG, Dembele was supposed to be the first piece of a new jigsaw as technical secretary Robert Fernandez promised at least two new arrivals going into the last week of the transfer window. Barcelona 13/2 to beat Juventus 1-0 But there were no further additions as Barca bizarrely pulled the plug on a deal for Nice midfielder Jean Michael Seri at the last minute, were never close to Liverpool’s valuation for Coutinho and even missed out on Angel Di Maria in the final few hours before the deadline on September 1....