Author name: Irene Church

JJ Redick, on multiple occasions this season, has spoken about his belief in being process-oriented. It’s a necessary tool for any athlete, and especially one who earned his NBA fortune as a shooter while missing more threes than he made. If, Redick has said, he knew he was putting in the right kind of work,

In keeping with what has been a standard operating procedure since Kawhi Leonard has returned, the Clippers didn’t play their All-Star forward in the fourth quarter Sunday night against the Lakers. Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early

The instrumental track behind one of Los Angeles’ biggest songs played over the Intuit Dome’s best-that-money-can-buy sound system late in the opening half — the perfect tune for what had been unfolding. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” wasn’t a Lakers diss track, and he didn’t even have to rap the chorus for the point to

Fourth time’s the charm? The Buffalo Bills secured a spot in the AFC championship game with a 27-25 victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night, setting up a fourth postseason meeting between Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen and his Kansas City counterpart, Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes is 3-0 against the Bills in the playoffs since 2020,

PHILADELPHIA —  Jared Verse was the talk of the town before Sunday’s NFC divisional-round game between the Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles. After the Rams rookie edge rusher told The Times last week that he hated Eagles fans and found them annoying, he became the target of heated fan discussion on local sports radio. A billboard

PHILADELPHIA —  Cooper Kupp walked to the middle of an empty Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday morning. He looked around, as if he was taking in the scene. Hours later, Kupp trudged through the snow-covered field with his teammates, retreating to the stadium’s visiting locker room in the wake of the Rams’ 28-22 defeat to the

PHILADELPHIA —  Saquon Barkley’s final play Sunday was, appropriately, a handoff. The Eagles running back left the Siberian swirl happening on the field and ran up the locker room tunnel, a cluster of handlers and TV cameras in his wake. Just before he made a hard left to head to the locker room, he handed a

PHILADELPHIA —  It was a cold way to end a season. The Rams came to Lincoln Financial Field with an opportunity to win an NFC divisional-round game and host the NFC championship. The Philadelphia Eagles were having none of it. On a snowy and windy day, Eagles running back Saquon Barkley once again dominated the Rams,