Sports

MEXICO CITY — A day before Major League Baseball played regular-season games here for the first time, Nick Martinez, a pitcher for the San Diego Padres, had an idea. Accompanied by a...

Chess is considered the ultimate game of cold, logical calculation, but it is also a game of passion and, at the highest level, of nerves. That was clear on Sunday when the...

PARIS — The contrast could not be more stark.On a frigid Saturday evening earlier this year inside the Stade Charléty, a World War II-era stadium tucked alongside a highway, the stands are...

These Boston Bruins have not been accustomed to losing streaks.They tore through the N.H.L. during the regular season, winning 65 games, a single-season record; claiming the Presidents’ Trophy with a league-high of...

SACRAMENTO — The Golden State Warriors prepared for the finale of their first-round playoff series with the Sacramento Kings by gathering for an off-day film session on Saturday on an upper floor...

TOKYO — Over a span of nearly 100 years, Meiji Jingu Stadium in central Tokyo has been the scene of numerous important events. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played there on a...

The only thing in doubt after 10 laps, really, was which Red Bull would win Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. But even that, by the end, was no contest.Sergio Pérez outclassed both the...

The Philadelphia Eagles’ general manager, Howie Roseman, hustled like a pool shark. The Detroit Lions’ coach, Dan Campbell, displayed his rugged individualism. And the Green Bay Packers, playing the role of a...

SAN FRANCISCO — In an otherwise quiet moment before the Sacramento Kings took the court for their most important playoff game in nearly two decades, Harrison Barnes gathered his teammates around him...

Artem Moroz’s four-mile race in Central Park in Manhattan this month didn’t go as planned.The former Ukrainian soldier had hoped to run on new prosthetics made for him in the United States,...