Neymar’s endorsement was not, perhaps, the most ringing. Back in Brazil to play for his national team this month, he had been asked — not for the first time —…
Her sudden sprint to celebrity started on a small mound of dirt in South Williamsport, Pa., 46 feet from home plate, winging 71 mile-per-hour fastballs and sweeping curveballs, braids bouncing…
For the past several years it has not been clear if the NBA fully understood the damage that the league and players were creating as a result of the load…
Spain unveiled its roster on Monday for the first two matches of the women’s national team since the team’s World Cup win — and a postgame kiss that plunged women’s…
On a July night in Milwaukee, Joey Votto got his revenge.Votto, the first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds, had seen a clip weeks earlier of the broadcaster Chris Russo, known…
The police in Illinois were searching for the former N.F.L. player Sergio Brown after his mother was found dead from multiple injuries related to an assault near a creek behind…
As the players idled by the chain-link fence at the side of the field, taking great gulps of air and water and conducting an immediate autopsy of the game that…
He didn’t care that it was a no-hitter. He just wanted the Yankees to win.More than five hours after we arrived at Yankee Stadium, my 9-year-old son, Wes, had waited…
On a glorious evening recently, the runner Markelle Taylor — otherwise known as “Markelle the Gazelle”— entered the dark sally port and crenelated towers of a place he was once…
Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national soccer team, woke up on the floor of her apartment near Copenhagen, drenched in sweat and shaking.She had collapsed and…