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Byline: Mary Pilon Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. eight-time All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist, remains in a Russian jail, nearly 200 days after she was arrested on Feb. 17 for [...]

Byline: Mary Pilon What Frederick Trump's death, in 1918, tells us about the costs of mismanaging a pandemic. In May 1918, a German immigrant businessman, husband and father of three [...]

Byline: MARY PILON The Games. A Global History of the Olympics. By David Goldblatt. Illustrated. 516 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $29.95. In the late 19th century, Pierre de Coubertin, [...]

Byline: MARY PILON For generations, the story of Monopoly's Depression-era origins delighted fans almost as much as the board game itself. The tale, repeated for decades and often tucked into [...]

Byline: MARY PILON NEWARK -- The cold rain had been pouring for several hours by the time the Olympian Tim Morehouse exited a cab in front of Vailsburg Elementary School. [...]

Byline: LYNN ZINSER and MARY PILON New York -- Wilson Kipsang of Kenya surged ahead of Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia as they raced through Central Park to top a strong [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Adrien Marlault, a Parisian businessman and avid runner, has stayed at hotels in the past when running marathons in Berlin, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Rome. But for this [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Before the women's singles semifinals on Friday, at Arthur Ashe Stadium, two Grand Slam champions were to be crowned at the United States Open. But most fans [...]

Byline: MARY PILON EUGENE, Ore. -- Down the road from Hayward Field at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the conductor, composer and music professor Brian McWhorter [...]

Byline: MARY PILON It was a hot and dusty afternoon, about 30 hours into my Indian journey, when the bus driver dropped me off in a small town that he [...]

Byline: MARY PILON When NBC Universal agreed in the past week to spend $7.75 billion on six Olympic Games through 2032, perhaps it was counting on the added value of [...]

Byline: BILLY WITZ and MARY PILON LOS ANGELES -- For most of the Clippers' 30-year tenure in Los Angeles, they have been viewed as a punch line in hightops. And [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Maybe you and your friends have made Free Parking more like a winning lottery ticket by adding the proceeds from taxes and fees. Or you've started your [...]

Byline: MARY PILON On a recent evening in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, Pat O'Meara sat with his wife and two daughters and watched the American Kaitlyn Farrington snag a gold medal [...]

Byline: MARY PILON SOCHI, Russia -- Each ice dance and pairs figure skating team at the Winter Olympics here will get no more than seven minutes of ice time, if [...]

Byline: MARY PILON SOCHI, Russia -- Michael Christian Martinez did not win a medal at the men's singles competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace. His 19th-place finish was marked by [...]

Byline: MARY PILON SOCHI, Russia -- Zbigniew Brodka of Poland won the men's 1,500-meter speedskating event, but the continuing story at Adler Arena was the Americans' baffling performances. The United [...]

Byline: MARY PILON SOCHI, Russia -- Among the things that a curling team would not seem to need, an official athletic trainer might rank with a beach umbrella and a [...]

Byline: MARY PILON KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia -- The United States captured the podium in the first Olympic men's ski slopestyle competition Thursday, only the third time in history the Americans [...]

Byline: MARY PILON SOCHI, Russia -- Rollerblading is back. Well, at least among American Olympic speedskaters. To understand the marvel of the blade runners of the Winter Games, it may [...]

Byline: MARY PILON and JERÉ LONGMAN A figure skating judge ordered a quick bowl of soup for lunch at the Cup of Nice international competition in France. She did not [...]

Byline: MARY PILON LAS VEGAS -- The sun had set on the Strip, and some members of the Norwegian curling team were taking a break from competing in a tournament [...]

Byline: MARY PILON When the Milwaukee Bucks traveled to Memphis for a preseason game against the Grizzlies, the Bucks lost by 3 points - and the backup point guard Nate [...]

Byline: JOHN BRANCH, ADAM SKOLNICK, WILLIAM J. BROAD and MARY PILON Nicholas Mevoli saved money from an assortment of jobs to pay for the bottomless pursuit of holding his breath [...]