Katie Baker

As Venus and Serena Williams’s mother Oracene in the Oscar-nominated tennis biopic, Ellis shines with righteous restraint

For decades, Colorado had been trying to get over the hump in the postseason, much like the pre-2020 Lightning. And now, after a tight 2-1 win in Game 6 Sunday night, they’ve finally done it.

The Thunder’s lanky center continues to show off new dimensions in Las Vegas. Plus, my thoughts on James Wiseman’s long-awaited return, whether the Pacers should trade for Deandre Ayton, and more.

The first year of Denver’s Russell Wilson experiment … didn’t go as planned. But this season—with a new, experienced head coach at the helm—the Broncos are trying to frame things differently. Will it work?

Rodgers’s injury Monday night sent local and national media into a tailspin and forced some broadcasters to go through the stages of sports grief on the air: shock, sadness, trade talks, more sadness … and maybe even a little acceptance

Growing up is hard to do. There are so many moments of opportunity and wonder; so many raw indignities and sticky situations. I mean, the sheer audacity of one’s menarche, just showing up unannounced! The cresting intensities of shame over one’s size and shape and place in the world! To become a promising young adult, you need both vigilance and flexibility: One minute you’re warding off peer/parental pressure that threatens the soft fontanelle of the self; the next you’re caught in the logistic…

United States v. Bankman-Fried, starting this week, will be as high-tech as it is high-profile. But even with all the celebrity, crypto jargon, and nu-money, the major themes are tales as old as time.

If you don’t want to be the traffic, you have to beat the traffic, which is why last Tuesday, I hopped in a taxi at the truly zesty time of 4:40 a.m. and headed to the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Lower Manhattan. My top basic objective? Snagging one of about 21 first come, first served seats allotted to the press and general public in the trial of crypto founder-hustler Sam Bankman-Fried, who was charged in December with misappropriating billions of dollars in customer fu…

“Members of the jury, here comes your intermission,” Judge Lewis Kaplan announced last Thursday, right before the case of United States v. Samuel Bankman-Fried went on a weeklong hiatus. “Enjoy!” Since early October, members of the jury and the public, myself among them, have sat in the top floor of a Manhattan courthouse and watched the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried—the 31-year-old cryptopreneur who’s been charged with seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the collapse of his crypto exch…

About a quarter past 4 p.m. on Thursday, roughly an hour after jurors in United States v. Samuel Bankman-Fried had been sent off to deliberate the seven counts of fraud and conspiracy charged to cryptocurrency faux-impresario Sam Bankman-Fried, the court read aloud a note from the jury. “We want cars,” it said. Earlier that day, Judge Lewis Kaplan had offered jurors free dinner and rides home—care of the American taxpayer, he pointed out—if they wanted to stay at the courthouse as late as 8 p.m.…