Brian Hamilton

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Even inside the opulent owner's suite at Covenant Health Park, there is only so much to do before a rain-delayed minor league baseball game on a Tuesday night. The Tennessee softball team already has discussed the ceremonial first pitch - someone suggested a pickoff throw - and rehearsed how record-breaking ace Karlyn Pickens can avoid an awkward hug with the Knoxville Smokies' mascot.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Brian Hamilton

11 hours agoJessica Chastain was a vision last night as she attended the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, which celebrates the latest achievements in the scientific and mathematical fields. The actor was one of many stars who showed up and out to the event, yet she left her impression on the red carpet in a …

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

SAN ANTONIO - From the far corner of the Alamodome floor, Walter Clayton Jr. made one last play to take his team to Monday night: A loose ball, pursued and then saved back into play as time ran off the clock. The Florida star then stood there, stone-faced, clapping his hands while everyone else celebrated. No need to get excited. It was not his first resurrection project.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton

SAN ANTONIO - On May 2, 2010, Kyle Smith officially earned a long-awaited chance to run his own men's college basketball program. He was a military kid who played Division III hoops. He spent almost two decades on the sidelines at three different schools as an assistant. And, somehow, becoming the head coach at Columbia was the easiest part about becoming the head coach at Columbia. Smith moved to New York with a pregnant wife during the hottest summer in the city's history.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton |CJ Moore

Outside the Yuengling Center on the first day of March, the palm trees are still and partly cloudy skies are barely partly cloudy. Inside, the mood matches the moment. The South Florida men's basketball team is smiling and breezy before what's to be a light practice. A final home game, and the Senior Day celebration that comes with it, awaits the following afternoon. The season has not been what anyone expected, largely because the person everyone wants to be here isn't.