Ciencia y Tecnología

Connected media - Related media Memory, Now and Five Years Ago Chris Nilan is a quintessential Bostonian of a certain time and demographic, the kind they make movies about: A tough, working-class hockey player of Irish descent, hundreds, if not thousands, of local kids yearned to be just like him. He was born on Feb. 9, 1958, at the Faulkner Hospital in West Roxbury, Mass., the son of Henry and Leslie Nilan, a hard-working, blue collar couple who raised their four children in a strict household. Chris still found his way into scraps as a kid, and soon discovered he…

Linked media - Linked media As Sports reporters began other newsroom roles — and, in some cases, roles at The Athletic — Times Insider took a look back at the newsroom’s history. The New York Times Sports has hosted a host of distinguished columnists – including Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Dave Anderson and Selena Roberts – as well as reporters such as Alan Schwarz, whose reporting on the deadly effects of concussions in the National Football League led to the reforms at all levels of the game. Here are five times Times sportswriters and columnists went the extra mile for…

Connected media - Linked media Grote was “a tough catcher who pushed his teammates to throw harder, who could assault reporters and official scorers,” sports columnist George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote in 1981. He quoted Grote as saying, “I had a red neck. I was red all over.” Gerald Wayne Grote was born on October 6, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas. He was the eldest of three children of Clarence and Leila Rittmann Grote. In high school he pitched, caught and played third base, then enrolled at nearby Trinity University. Del Baker, a former Major League catcher,…

Associated media - Linked media The formal indictment and complaint were announced a day after The New York Times reported that Mizuhara and his lawyer, Michael Freedman, a former prosecutor who specializes in white-collar criminal defense, were negotiating a plea deal. On Friday, Mizuhara surrendered to law enforcement in Los Angeles and made his first court appearance, wearing civilian clothes and shackles. He did not enter a plea and was released on $25,000 bond. The conditions of his release require him to undergo drug tests and seek treatment for gambling addiction. Freedman released a statement Friday saying Mizuhara “is continuing…

Connected media - Linked media Mr. Simard spoke as he watched a game played by Quebec’s junior league team, the Remparts, at the Vidéotron Centre, the expensive arena that provincial and city leaders built in 2015 with public funds to show the NHL how committed they were to creating a team. . But if fans of Simard’s generation tended to share his feelings toward the Nordics, the team’s significance didn’t seem to resonate with the younger hockey fans in the arena, many of whom were born after the team’s departure. “I’m a Montreal Canadiens fan, while my dad still has…