Jere Longman

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jere Longman

A former N.B.A. player and the father of the All-Star Kevin Love, he was also the brother of the pop group's Mike Love and a caretaker for its troubled leader, Brian Wilson. Stan Love, a former professional basketball player who was the brother of the singer Mike Love of the Beach Boys and a onetime bodyguard and caretaker of the band's brilliant but troubled leader, Brian Wilson, has died at 76.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jere Longman

Many considered him to be greatest American amateur since Bobby Jones. So why didn't he try for the PGA Tour? An old hand injury had something to do with it. Jay Sigel went to Wake Forest University in 1962 on a golf scholarship named for Arnold Palmer. He won an Atlantic Coast Conference individual title and became a second-team all-American.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jere Longman

He was a ferocious part of a dominant defense that swept the 1985 Chicago team to victory in the Super Bowl. After 15 N.F.L. seasons, he became a pro wrestler. Steve McMichael, a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears with a theatrical personality and a ferocious intensity who helped anchor what might have been the most predatory defense in the history of the N.F.L. during the team's 1985 Super Bowl-winning season, died on Wednesday in Joliet, Ill. He was 67.

3 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Jere Longman

A star runner from Kenya, Faith Kipyegon, is set to try to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes this summer, after a study suggested that she could do so under the right conditions. Kipyegon, 31, set the world record in the women’s mile, running it in 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023. More than 70 years after Roger Bannister, a British medical student, became the first person to break the four-minute barrier, it remains the next frontier for women’s middle-distance running.

3 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Jere Longman

A star runner from Kenya, Faith Kipyegon, is set to try to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes this summer, after a study suggested that she could do so under the right conditions. Kipyegon, 31, set the world record in the women’s mile, running it in 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023. More than 70 years after Roger Bannister, a British medical student, became the first person to break the four-minute barrier, it remains the next frontier for women’s middle-distance running.