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How Great Was Bill Belichick, Really?

It was over before it was over. Last Sunday, in a game against the Los Angeles Chargers, the New England Patriots trailed 6–0 with just over two minutes remaining. The Patriots’ quarterback Bailey Zappe hurled a desperate pass to a double-covered receiver. It bounced off the crowd of bodies and to the ground—a turnover on downs. On the sideline, the team’s head coach, Bill Belichick, pulled back his headset and wiped his nose with his hand. The rain was cold and steady. The sodden pompom on his beanie had sunk into the folds of his wet cap.It had been a day of unrelenting futility. And the two previous Sundays had been much the same: the Patriots had not scored in nine of their past twelve quarters. This time, playing at home, the team’s offense had not even made it so far as the twenty-y...

Deion Sanders, the Inveterate Disruptor

They say Deion Sanders is all about himself, as if that’s a bad thing. They say he needs the spotlight, as if that isn’t the point. A few days before his University of Colorado football team took on Oregon, on September 23rd, Sanders paced on a stage in the meeting room. “You’re on the tip of everyone’s tongue, you’re the thought process of everyone’s mind. You are there,” he said. His hands were in his pockets. His tube socks were pulled over his pants, up to his calves. His chains and big cross glimmered against the gold lettering of his black Buffs sweats. “I Ain’t Hard 2 Find,” the sweatshirt said—a Tupac reference, at least until Coach Prime turned it into his own clapback. “That’s all we want to get in life. That place called ‘there,’ ” he continued. “There’s peace, there’s joy, the...

Q&A With Volvo Group’s Karin Svensson

Volvo Group is a global company in one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors: It makes trucks, buses and construction and marine equipment, but not passenger cars. The Swedish heavy transport group generated 287 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent last year—almost 95% of that generated by the use of its products—but it aims to have net zero emissions by 2040.In charge of that lift is Karin Svensson, the company’s chief sustainability officer. The 23-year veteran of the company took time out to talk about the broad electrification of transport, the complexity of decarbonization, the one carbon-heavy habit she can’t quit (yet) and the difficulties of meeting net-zero goals that depend on multiple parties for EV incentives and i...