Sunday, 4 a.m. Can a building be one of a hockey team’s three stars? After all, it is brick and steel, a cavernous arena by the water. But for the Tampa Bay Lightning, it has become a fortress. It is a castle worth defending, and there is something about Amalie Arena that makes a good […]

Friday, 4 a.m. The other guy was larger than the net. New York goalie Igor Shesterkin was terrific Thursday night. He was intimidating, agile, smothering. He looked the part of a former Vezina winner. Andrei Vasilevskiy? He was better. Content beyond this point is for members only. Already a member? To view the rest of […]

Wednesday, 4 a.m. In college football, all that matters, really, are the playoffs. Anything else is just a side order of fries, Conference titles don’t mean anything, and non-playoff bowl games don’t matter and rivalry games don’t matter. The Old Oaken Bucket and the Heisman Trophy and whichever All-American teams you follow don’t matter. Conference […]

Monday, 4 a.m. For most of the night, he looked dreadful. His team, too. For most of the night, he seemed unfocused, unsettled, uncomfortable. He spent most of the night going uphill, trying to make something out of nothing. He missed opportunities repeatedly. For a change, he looked his age. And when you thought that […]