Will New N.C.A.A. Rules Really Keep Agents and Boosters at Bay?

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports If college athletes are permitted to cash in on their fame, how can the N.C.A.A. forbid guidance from people who have long worked in the shadows?https://nyti.ms/2WcCSS0

Andy Dalton Joins Crowded N.F.L. Free Agent Pool

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports After nine years starting at quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, Dalton joins two former No. 1 draft picks — Cam Newton and Jadeveon Clowney — among veteran players searching for jobs.https://nyti.ms/2Yl74gv

As Premier League Weighs Saudi Bid for Newcastle, It Criticized Kingdom

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports The Premier League wrote a letter to a U.S. trade body, urging it to keep Saudi Arabia on a list of nations that breach intellectual property rules.https://nyti.ms/2SoA9nz

Maggie Haney, Elite Gymnastics Coach, Is Suspended for 8 Years

By BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK from NYT Sports Haney was accused of verbal abuse and mistreatment of athletes, which included forcing them to train through injuries.https://nyti.ms/3bRFivX

Why NCAA finally caved on athlete profiting

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Jameis Winston’s Next Act: Where Else but New Orleans?

By BY BEN SHPIGEL from NYT Sports Displaced by one great quarterback, Winston will now back up another with the Saints. How he reinvents himself there depends entirely on him.https://nyti.ms/2W8KO6W

L.P.G.A. Shifts Schedule Once Again

By BY BILL PENNINGTON from NYT Sports Plus the future of the spitball in cricket and a backyard pole vault runway and pit that meets competition standards.https://nyti.ms/2WcOhRF

Scott Perry Keeps Knicks General Manager Job for One More Year

By BY SOPAN DEB from NYT Sports Perry, the Knicks’ general manager since 2017, will be staying in his role for a bit longer. But as the coronavirus continues to spread, what moves will he be able to make?https://nyti.ms/35gPpYJ

With Pro Sports Paused, a Women’s Hockey League Expands

By BY SETH BERKMAN from NYT Sports The N.W.H.L. announced a new Toronto franchise with all-female leadership.https://nyti.ms/2YcoTyi

Nothing Can Keep Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois Away From the N.B.A.

By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports In this week’s newsletter, Marc Stein talks with Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid about his N.B.A. fandom and revisits what Stein says is the best decade of basketball: the 1980s.https://nyti.ms/2ycUBRf

France’s Prime Minister Shut Down Soccer. That Surprised Teams Restarting.

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports France is the first of Europe’s big five soccer leagues to declare the season over. Now, its clubs are facing the financial consequences.https://nyti.ms/3aPz0LU

N.C.A.A. Outlines Plan to Let Athletes Make Endorsement Deals

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports The changes, with some big restrictions, would go into effect at the start of the 2021-22 academic year, after consideration and adoption by the three divisions of college sports.https://nyti.ms/3cWPuDC

An Ironman Sale Is Pending Amid Coronavirus. Can Its Racing Mojo Endure?

By BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN from NYT Sports The world’s leading endurance brand thought its global racing schedule made it sufficiently diverse. A pandemic has revealed the flaw in that strategy.https://nyti.ms/3bOv2ok

Some Sports May Have to Skip This Year, Fauci Says

By BY JAMES WAGNER AND KEN BELSON from NYT Sports Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the leading U.S. infectious disease expert, said widespread testing with speedy results would be needed if sports leagues are to safely restart their seasons.https://nyti.ms/2yc3H0L

Argentina and France Scrap Soccer Seasons

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports But the South Korean F.A. Cup is back on, and some outdoor recreational activities will again be allowed in Washington State.https://nyti.ms/2W8A34n

Cooperstown: Wait Till Next Year?

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is still planned for late July, but making it happen with the proper fanfare seems impossible while the threat of the coronavirus looms.https://nyti.ms/2yWjl00

Summer Olympics in 2021? ‘Exceedingly Difficult’ Without a Coronavirus Vaccine

By BY MOTOKO RICH AND ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports A Japanese medical authority has raised doubt about staging the Games, even a year later than originally planned, unless an effective vaccine has been developed.https://nyti.ms/2y9lQvZ

The Coronavirus Swell: Surf’s Up. Stay at Home.

By BY ADAM SKOLNICK from NYT Sports There’s also a widening schism between surfers able to get in the ocean and those forbidden from doing so.https://nyti.ms/3aFU5s9

Mekhi Becton, the Jets’ Top Draft Pick, ‘Moves People Like Furniture’

By BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK from NYT Sports Becton is 6-foot-7 and weighs 364 pounds, but his array of skills tipped the scales for the Jets.https://nyti.ms/2SdY8pm

European Soccer Tries to Find a Way Back, or a Way Out

By BY RORY SMITH from NYT Sports The Netherlands has canceled its season. Germany wants to play again next month. But European soccer is finding that clarity tends not to last long.https://nyti.ms/2y67JaL

Leandro Barbosa’s Family Grew During the Pandemic

By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports Barbosa, a Brazilian basketball player and one-time N.B.A. champion, and his wife found out they had the coronavirus shortly before she gave birth to their daughter.https://nyti.ms/35cuNkr

Harland Svare, 89, Giants Linebacker and Young Head Coach, Dies

By BY RICHARD GOLDSTEIN from NYT Sports Brainy more than brawny, he helped put New York in three title games, then became, with the Rams, the youngest head coach in modern N.F.L. history at the time.https://nyti.ms/2YcTjQS

Will Returning Players Be Out of Shape? Soccer May Need More Subs

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports FIFA suggested a rule change for when play returned. Plus: bull riding, Formula One and rugby in Australia and New Zealand.https://nyti.ms/2y3uPio

Running Backs, Drafted Late, Are Still Coveted in the N.F.L.

By BY BILL PENNINGTON from NYT Sports Seven teams, most with already strong rushing attacks, selected a running back in the second or third round of last week’s N.F.L. draft.https://nyti.ms/2xd3lq5

How I Found Common Ground With My Immigrant Dad on a Clay Court

By BY SOPAN DEB from NYT Sports Our writer was not much of an athlete growing up but long pined to connect with his father through sports. It took 30 years and a humid day on a tennis court in India.https://nyti.ms/3eSvILe

Dennis Rodman’s College Coach Recalls Recruiting Him Over H-O-R-S-E

By BY SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports Lonn Reisman, who coached Rodman at Southeastern Oklahoma State, said he dreamed of wooing the “raw” elite rebounder from junior college but figured it wasn’t possible.https://nyti.ms/2SbJFdA

Patriots Draft Kicker With Tattoo of a Militia Group

By BY KEN BELSON from NYT Sports The kicker, Justin Rohrwasser, out of Marshall University, said that he did not support the far-right group, the Three Percenters, and also that he would cover the tattoo.https://nyti.ms/3aM6g76

The N.F.L. Draft Pics You Haven’t Seen

By BY TED CROW AND ANDREA ZAGATA from NYT Sports In its remote broadcast format, the N.F.L. gave sports fans something to talk about until games begin this fall. Here are some of the most interesting moments.https://nyti.ms/2Ky7lEI

Giants Draft Pick Andrew Thomas is ‘Everything You Want in a Left Tackle’

By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports Thomas, the No. 4 overall pick in the N.F.L. draft, described the opportunity to block for Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones as a “blessing.”https://nyti.ms/2S8w1YE

High School Sports Pushed Out of Bounds By the Pandemic

By BY JERÉ LONGMAN from NYT Sports The cancellation of the Texas state basketball tournament hit a small town hard and reflected the wave of spring sports shutdowns in all 50 states during a normally busy playoff season.https://nyti.ms/2S826zD

Katie Ledecky Is Swimming, and Studying

By BY KAREN CROUSE from NYT Sports The five-time Olympic gold medalist is taking an infectious diseases class at Stanford and still finding a way to train.https://nyti.ms/2zqUNww

Tim Duncan to Springfield? Take It to the Bank

By BY MARC STEIN from NYT Sports During his Hall of Fame career, Duncan was called the Big Fundamental largely because of his signature shots off the backboard, which were as mundane as they were effective.https://nyti.ms/2KzgtsK

Could a Merger of Men’s and Women’s Tennis Come Out of This Hiatus?

By BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY from NYT Sports The idea of combined tours has been around since at least the 1970s. But with the sport shut down, Roger Federer made a suggestion that could lead to a complex and ego-bruising endeavor.https://nyti.ms/2Y3U12X

The N.F.L. Draft Adds More Stars to the Cool Kids’ Conference

By BY BILL PENNINGTON from NYT Sports The N.F.L. is a quarterback’s league and one conference has the edge in exciting young stars.https://nyti.ms/2xMtEnv

U.F.C. Says Its Fights Are Back On, Next Month in Florida

By BY KEVIN DRAPER from NYT Sports The mixed martial arts organization, which had to cancel plans to stage fights California, said it would hold at least three events in May.https://nyti.ms/2Vyy5va

N.F.L. Drafting Players, but Will They Play in the Fall?

By BY KEN BELSON AND JOE DRAPE from NYT Sports “We’ll go anywhere the science takes us and nowhere the science doesn’t,” said the medical director of the players’ union.https://nyti.ms/2VAiWtj

Newcastle, Saudi Arabia and the Power of Words

By BY RORY SMITH from NYT Sports All too often, sports blurs the frivolous and the significant. Why should there be a higher moral burden on fans to draw bright lines?https://nyti.ms/2S7hM6l

Detroit Mercy hires AnnMarie Gilbert as women's hoops coach

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A Stripped-Down N.F.L. Draft Turns Out to Be Pretty Special

By BY TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports Cut off from its usual pomp, the draft gave viewers some memorable snapshots: a general manager’s children, a coach’s sublime landscape and some curious decorations, like a team-branded surfboard.https://nyti.ms/2yIzEhe

2020 N.F.L. Draft: What We Learned

By BY BEN SHPIGEL AND KEN BELSON from NYT Sports Green Bay delivered the shock of the night drafting Jordan Love as a potential successor to Aaron Rodgers, Miami’s rebuild is coming to fruition and New England is still New England.https://nyti.ms/350tR2x

Giants and Jets Take Offensive Tackles Early in the N.F.L. Draft

By BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK from NYT Sports The Giants chose Georgia’s Andrew Thomas at No. 4, and the Jets drafted Mekhi Becton in the 11th spot.https://nyti.ms/351aar9

He’s Got Fries, Beer and Video Chat. Tell Us How You’re Watching the N.F.L. Draft

By BY RENAN BORELLI from NYT Sports The drinking games and broadcaster clichés live on. But parties will happen virtually. How are you watching? Send us a tweet @nytsports to show us your set up.https://nyti.ms/2SiVI99

N.F.L. Draft 2020: Live Updates

By BY KEN BELSON AND BEN SHPIGEL from NYT Sports The spectacle of the draft may be gone, but the sports world will still tune in to see how teams maneuver in the first round.https://nyti.ms/3az7su4

World Chess Moves Online. But Check, Don’t Cheat, Mate.

By BY VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Grandmasters compete from the safety of their own homes. But it’s now much easier for players to cheat. Plus, the slow return of sports in some parts of the world, and auto racing in South Dakota.https://nyti.ms/2S2LTvM

Ivey introduced as new Notre Dame coach, succeeding McGraw

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Spain Plans to Play Soccer Again … Very Carefully

By BY TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports Spain’s top leagues will create a hygienic cocoon for teams readying for a return to actionhttps://https://nyti.ms/2XZtqUs

When N.F.L. Draft Day Signals the End of a 22-Year Love Affair

By BY TOBY GERHART from NYT Sports Toby Gerhart, a former N.F.L. running back, reflects on how he went from one in a million to one of a million.https://nyti.ms/3av3P8D

N.F.L. Draft 2020: Joe Burrow Goes First … Then What?

By BY KEN BELSON from NYT Sports The L.S.U. quarterback seems a lock to be the Cincinnati Bengals’ pick. But in a year in which teams haven’t vetted prospects as usual, the rest of the draft should be anything but predictable.https://nyti.ms/3cDqRM2

Woods and Mickelson Set for a Charity Match With Brady and Manning

By BY BILL PENNINGTON from NYT Sports The location of the event was not disclosed, and discussions were said to be continuing about the safety of staging such a match in May during the coronavirus pandemic.https://nyti.ms/3bx4aJc

Giants and Jets Scream for Help With Early N.F.L. Draft Picks

By BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK from NYT Sports Both teams are committed to developing their young quarterbacks. How long that development will take depends on success in this year’s draft.https://nyti.ms/2x4D9hs