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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.At the first modern Olympics, in Athens in 1896, The New York Times was there to chronicle the presence of the king of Greece and the duke of Sparta, the hills “black with spectators” too poor to pay for tickets and the triumph of American athletes (“they won their victories with much apparent ease”).Since then, hardly a milestone in sports history has gone by that a New York Times reporter has not covered.The sprinter Jesse Owens’s four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The “Miracle on Ice” during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. The Chicago Cubs’ World Series victory in 2016, which broke a 108-year drought.But there will be no Times sportswri...

NEW YORK — Inside the New York Yankees’ oval-shaped clubhouse, with its plush blue carpet stamped in the middle with a white interlocking “NY,” Aaron Judge occupies prime real estate. He has two lockers — one for street clothes and game-day gear, and another to his left filled with surplus Jordan cleats, batting gloves the size of oven mitts and cases of Waiākea water bottles. The space also features a view that, for the Yankees’ captain, would seem ideal. Nestled against the back wall, he needs just two steps to slip away through a media-restricted doorway. If he wants to address the entire room, he can simply spin around in his navy leather office chair.So Judge has had an intimate, behind-the-scenes seat to the most miserable season of baseball in the Bronx since 1992 — the last time th...

Less than six months after a federal jury convicted a former Fox employee and an Argentine sports marketing company of participating in a scheme to pay bribes in exchange for lucrative soccer broadcasting contracts, a judge in Brooklyn vacated the convictions on Friday.In a 55-page ruling, the judge, Pamela K. Chen, concluded that the federal wire fraud statute under which the defendants had been convicted did not apply to their actions.In a seven-week trial that ended in March, prosecutors alleged that Hernán López, who holds dual American and Argentine citizenship and who until 2016 worked for a unit of what was then known as 21st Century Fox, had been part of a scheme to make millions of dollars in secret annual payments to the presidents of national soccer federations in order to secur...