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NFL decision on tush push delayed as medical experts express concern

1 avril 2025 à 18:26
  • Motion on ban will be tabled until May
  • Eagles have used play with great success

The future of the tush push won’t be decided in the immediate future. NFL team owners had been set to vote on Green Bay’s proposal to ban the play that has helped the Philadelphia Eagles win one Super Bowl and reach another, but the motion was tabled until May. ESPN reported that 16 teams currently support a ban on the rush push. The NFL requires the approval of 24 teams to pass a change in rules.

Also on Tuesday, team owners approved modifying the kickoff rule, expanding replay assist and revising overtime rules.

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© Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

© Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

Auto Sales Surged in Anticipation of Trump’s Tariffs

1 avril 2025 à 21:23
Sales of cars picked up recently partly as buyers rushed to lock in deals before President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars and auto parts go into effect.

© Brett Carlsen for The New York Times

A General Motors facility in Spring Hill, Tenn. The company on Tuesday reported a sharp jump in sales in the first quarter.

Italy Tightens Citizenship Rules Amid Influx of Applications

1 avril 2025 à 17:41
The government says it tightened citizenship rules because of a deluge of applications from the descendants of emigrants who only coveted an Italian passport.

© Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times

Until last week, anyone who had an Italian ancestor who was alive after the country was formed in 1861 could seek citizenship.

Messi bodyguard says MLS has problem with pitch invaders after touchline ban

1 avril 2025 à 16:22
  • Yassine Cheuko had helped protect Inter Miami star
  • MLS now using its own security on matchdays

Lionel Messi’s bodyguard, Yassine Cheuko, has been banned from from the touchline during Inter Miami matches.

The former Navy Seal has gained a cult following from social media videos showing him closely watching the crowd to stop rogue fans from harming the Argentinian star. He has also chased down fans intent on getting close to Messi on several occasions.

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© Photograph: Chris Arjoon/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Chris Arjoon/AFP/Getty Images

Torpedo bats: a destroyer of worlds or baseball’s long-awaited savior?

1 avril 2025 à 10:00

The quandary over the Yankees’ new technology is solvable, but first MLB must take it on the chin and usher in a temporary ban

In its brief moment of fame, the torpedo bat has made quite the impression in MLB. Over the weekend, the New York Yankees used the bat, designed by an MIT-educated professor, as an instrument of destruction against the hapless Milwaukee Brewers. Since then, I’ve heard about the bats so often that they’ve been showing up in my dreams. And that makes sense, because prior to this weekend, even in a bandbox like Yankee Stadium, even for a franchise that’s featured the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle, such home run power could only have been cooked up in the sweetest slumbers of their fanbase. Such a display of muscle was less video game and more cartoon, as in the famed 1946 Bugs Bunny clip that saw the Gas-House Gorillas rack up 46 straight runs against the genteel Tea Totallers.

In case you missed it, the Yankees, minus the 68 home runs of the now departed Juan Soto and the injured Giancarlo Stanton, provided a franchise record nine home runs in one game, 15 home runs across three games and 36 total runs against the Brewers. We’re talking about a Yankees team that coughed up five errors on Saturday and still won by 11 runs.

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© Photograph: Pamela Smith/AP

© Photograph: Pamela Smith/AP

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