Redefined

Our sports culture is being redefined — one disgusting lowlight after another

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Our sports culture is being redefined — one disgusting lowlight after another

I’ve become a sour old grump? You bet your tapped-out DraftKings credit card I have. I’ve devolved from my younger version. And if you don’t like it, turn the page.  If you think what has happened to our sports — most of it by authoritative and greed-sickened design — is good for sports, then hah! … Read more

Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless

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Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Joyce Brown’s New York minute lasted longer than most. A onetime secretary, Brown became homeless in 1986 and began camping on a heating grate on Second Avenue and 65th Street in Manhattan. … Read more