During the offseason, several NBA players, including superstars Jayson Tatum, Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard, extensively discussed their Achilles injuries — from vividly recalling the moment their tendon popped to opening up about their mental battles and progress in recovery.

THE improvement of the breed of football players has been proceeding with such efficiency that though fullbacks can run the hundred-yard dash as fast as trackmen, and quarterbacks can throw a ball with the accuracy of a Milwaukee outfielder, one good, rousing collision with, an opponent can retire one of these brittle performers for life. The graduation from college of a number of valuable young men last June has done little more damage to the fall collection of football teams than has the testing to destruction (seemingly no trick at all) of other valuable men in spring and/or autumn practice. The little Vassar girls who become couriers for Harper’s Ba- zaar and Vogue and spend all day on their feet exploring the market will soon be more than a match in a test of strength with their football heroes; in fact, in more than one stadium last Saturday, when they came trooping in, arrayed like Solomon, to take their seats, they looked as if they were already far fitter and more alert than the players they had presumably come to admire. NONE of the League teams, and perhaps none of the teams anywhere in the East, could handle the new Army team, which, on offense, uses only ten men, plus an end who plays hull down on the horizon to one side. This special method of operation has led to a great deal of conversation, although the flanker (the trade term for a player who drifts as far apart as Army’s end) has been used within memory by the team known as Yale, and could hardly be deemed a rarity in professional football. True, the Army end does not take part in the conference that precedes each Army play (he keeps his distance), and some of the conversation turns on the problem of how he is told what play is coming up. Anyone who has ever been concerned with team sports, though, knows that the science of the sign is not a dead language. The theory that Army is so far ahead of its opponents this fall that it can afford to run off a set series of plays without notifying all its players must be summarily rejected. ♦ Published in the print edition of the October 11, 1958, issue. As part of an effort to make The New Yorker’s archive more accessible to readers, this story was digitized by an automated process and may contain transcription errors. How the rise of “prop” bets helped create the conditions for the N.B.A.’s latest gambling scandal. The Sporting Scene Why Can’t the N.B.A. Move On from Its Old Stars? Even as the league drastically evolves, the narratives around it are still orbiting its aging icons. The Sporting Scene The Fight for the Future of Women’s Basketball The W.N.B.A. star Napheesa Collier’s blistering critique of the league has brought it to a turning point. Shohei Ohtani isn’t the only ballplayer with a side gig. Mantle’s old girlfriend Greer Johnson recalls the money-making hustles of Yogi Berra, Babe Ruth, and the gang. The aftereffect of a new ceramics show, “Watch Out for the Ghosts,” at the Nicola Vassell Gallery, is of feeling . . . pricked.

A rogue elbow landed Dylan Efron in the emergency room with a broken nose. While trying a new move during rehearsals, his partner Daniella Karagach accidentally elbowed the Traitors star in the face, "and it made a really loud crack," the actor revealed in a video he later posted on Instagram.

Moore missed three games due to an Achilles issue, but he has been able to manage the injury to play in the Colts' last two games. He'll continue to have his practice snaps monitored and should be good to go for Sunday's game against the Steelers unless he suffers a setback.

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Although their cooperation did not last long, Becker still has positive emotions towards Rune and great respect.

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