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Remembering 'New Yorker' editor and renowned baseball writer Roger Angell

1:33pm May 24, 2022

by Terry Gross

Angell's writing earned him a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, when he received a career excellence award in 2014. He died May 20 at the age of 101. Originally broadcast in 2001.

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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins warms up before a game against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 5, 2021, in Pittsburgh.

Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was legally drunk when he was fatally struck

12:22pm May 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

The 24-year-old athlete had also taken drugs before he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking on a Florida interstate highway just before dawn last month, an autopsy report concluded.

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WNBA Players' Association calls for White House to take action on Griner's release

5:08pm May 22, 2022

WNBA athlete Brittney Griner is still detained in Russia. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nneka Ogwumike, president of the WNBA Players' Association, about efforts to get Griner released.

Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the PGA Championship for the first time in his professional career.

Tiger Woods withdraws from the PGA Championship

9:45pm May 21, 2022

by Emma Bowman

It marked the first time Woods has withdrawn from a major golf championship in his professional career.

Jose Ortiz atop Early Voting wins the 147th running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday in Baltimore.

Early Voting wins the Preakness Stakes

7:50pm May 21, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Early Voting won the 2022 Preakness Stakes, outracing Epicenter and Creative Minister. Early Voting came into the race as one of the top contenders to win.

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Saturday sports: Equal pay in U.S. soccer; NBA and NHL playoffs continue

9:48am May 21, 2022

by Scott Simon

We look at the historic equal pay agreement for the U.S. national soccer teams, controversy at Wimbledon over player bans, and the latest on the NBA and NHL playoffs.

Roger Angell, a renown baseball writer, has died at 101.

Longtime New Yorker writer, editor Roger Angell has died

7:46pm May 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

Writer Roger Angell died Friday of heart failure, according to The New Yorker.

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Phil Mickelson skips PGA championship after he made controversial comments

5:11am May 19, 2022

Golf's PGA Championship gets underway Thursday in Tula, Okla., but defending champ Phil Mickelson won't be there after he made inflammatory comments about a new Saudi-backed golf tour.

The U.S. women's soccer team will now be paid as much as the men's team

5:04pm May 18, 2022

by Tom Goldman

After years of litigation and tumult, U.S. men and women soccer players have struck an agreement with the U.S. Soccer Federation that would pay the players equally.

Players on the U.S Women's National Team celebrate their victory in the penalty shootout over the Netherlands in the Women's Quarter Final match of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

The U.S. men's and women's soccer teams will be paid equally under a new deal

10:42am May 18, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The new collective bargaining agreements will run through 2028 and will also include the "equalization" of World Cup prize money, the organization announced.