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Byline: Jerry Brewer As usual, Shohei Ohtani couldn't keep his greatness simple. There is nothing standard about his high standards, nothing typical about the way he infiltrates every facet of [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer For a final time Wednesday, Adrian Wojnarowski took to social media and shocked every NBA junkie in his orbit. He had his own news to deliver: He [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer We'll always worry about Tua Tagovailoa. His football career, iridescent when he's healthy, carries an unshakable burden because his brain seems especially vulnerable to a game that [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SANTA CLARA, Calif. - One year, one janky four-play cameo and one torn Achilles' tendon later, Aaron Rodgers finally made it through a Monday night game in [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer In his disappointment, Isaiah Likely resorted to bluster. It was hard to blame him. The Baltimore Ravens tight end had just played the best game of his [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer The spectacular mistake served as a perfect metaphor for this college football season. On Thursday night, at the end of a typical, sloppy opener between North Carolina [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - Victor Wembanyama sat on the bench, tears streaming, and watched the best men's basketball team in the world celebrate again. LeBron James pinched the corners [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - On the first possession, A'ja Wilson stole a bad pass from Australia forward Stephanie Talbot. About a minute later, she blocked a shot. Forty seconds [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SAINT-DENIS, France - Noah Lyles, energy personified, collapsed on the track after his double-gold quest ended. He stayed on his back for a disturbing while. He rolled [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - Early Sunday evening, after a gripping men's tennis final ended with Novak Djokovic relishing his long-desired gold medal, there was a sighting that captured the [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - In perhaps the final memory of Simone Biles on an Olympic podium, she bowed. Her motivation was not to acknowledge an adoring crowd, though she [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SAINT-DENIS, France - In the rain, a poetic ending washed away. This was not the night Sha'Carri Richardson would craft a beautiful last stanza to her comeback. [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - Simone Biles pulled out a necklace with a diamond-encrusted goat pendant, and that marvelous little piece of jewelry blinged so much you could have seen [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer VILLEPINTE, France - In the boxing ring, where corruption and distrust are forever undefeated, the saddest story of the Paris Olympics snakes down a deranged path. Two [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SAINT-DENIS, France - Ilona Maher put one foot up and leaned against a metal railing. She touched the bronze medal dangling around her neck, trying to relax. [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - On the night before her 10th Olympics appearance, Nino Salukvadze carried the flag for Georgia during the Opening Ceremonies. It was her third time as [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer VERSAILLES, France - At an Olympics of unrivaled beauty, you figure there couldn't be a more impressive view than the Eiffel Tower striking its ravishing pose above [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - American dysfunction hovers beyond the U.S. Olympic team. On this side of the North Atlantic, more than 4,600 miles from home, athletes don't just compete [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer PARIS - We're at the Olympics again, the real thing, not some pandemic-addled zombie version. The gloom and health-cautious restrictions of 2021 in Tokyo and 2022 in [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer If you're feeling frisky and blasphemous, you can carry on believing this U.S. men's basketball roster is better than the Dream Team. Recency bias is a helluva [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer You need an accountant to follow the NBA offseason. You can't just approach any standard bean counter, either. You must find an absolute basketball nut who also [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer In the end, Klay Thompson wanted to be in control again. It's hard to blame him. He had been forced to play defense for the past five [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer It was the quintessential LeBron James legacy moment, an unfathomable yet uncomfortable feat, one so much bigger than him yet so under his influence. He saw his [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer BOSTON - It was a long wait for an early celebration. With a minute left in the championship-clinching blowout, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown stood on the [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer DALLAS - His night ended with a wedgie. It wasn't the bully kind, though Luka Doncic has received criticism for bringing his irascible behavior and optional defense [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer DALLAS - I remember the first time I saw Jerry West, the Logo, Mr. Clutch, beholder of great talent, builder of dynasties. It was October 2002 during [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer BOSTON - Jaylen Brown wasn't their best player. Neither was Jayson Tatum. On Sunday night, as the Boston Celtics took a 2-0 series lead, it was Jrue [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer DALLAS - When he comes back to his basketball home, Dirk Nowitzki makes a right turn onto the street named after him and takes a bashful look [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer LAS VEGAS - The party would not end, no matter how ugly it seemed. That made Super Bowl LVIII the most Vegas thing ever, a kind of [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer LAS VEGAS - The last time the Kansas City Chiefs lost a game, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid engaged in a physical confrontation more intense than the [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer LAS VEGAS - In 1976, Steven Spielberg articulated our contradictory low tolerance for success. âEverybody loves a winner,â the esteemed filmmaker said, âbut nobody loves a winner!â [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer LAS VEGAS - They deserve each other, this excessive game and this excessive city. When the Super Bowl descends upon most places, you feel its presence long [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer It was the most legitimate hiring process the NFL has had, maybe, ever. As eight franchises jostled to find new head coaches, there was no procedural buffoonery, [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer SANTA CLARA, Calif. - In the absence of Lombardi Trophy validation, the San Francisco 49ers have settled for being the NFLâs greatest influencer. Their brand quilts the [...]

Byline: Jerry Brewer The Los Angeles Chargers are a talented NFL afterthought. TheyÇÖre kind of boring despite the aerial aesthetic that quarterback Justin Herbert provides. TheyÇÖre tragically predictable, an inevitable [...]