Andrew Keh

It would be easy to miss the plaque in a parking lot that was once Ebbets Field, but the managers of a nearby apartment complex are happy to help.

Last year, race officials say, a cyclist hit a pedestrian on the early-morning ride. This year, those attempting to ride the route will be removed.

The state is already home to four teams whose uniforms say “New York.” Now it’s trying to lure the N.B.A.’s 76ers.

The Summer Olympics, which descended upon Paris’s most famous landmarks for 19 days of spirited competition, were passed on to Los Angeles in an elaborate closing ceremony.

At the Olympic Village, cuts, styles and manicures are free. The benefits, the athletes say, are priceless.

In a ceremony in Paris, the American team received the medals they won after the Russian skater Kamila Valieva was disqualified.

A few blocks from the table tennis venue, a restaurant has become an unofficial (and unlikely) clubhouse for fans, team officials and athletes.

Family, friends and fans were missing from two straight Covid Games. In Paris, one athlete said, competitors will have the kind of experience they dream about.

Two torches may have lit it to open the Paris Games, but that’s not a fire in the cauldron.

An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point.