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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Daniel Murphy looked out over the grass at Fairfield Properties Ballpark, where the Long Island Ducks were practicing under cloudy skies. “Baseball is a beautiful game,” he said,...

The crowd at TD Garden in Boston was serenading the star Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young with chants of “overrated!” It was late in Game 2 of Atlanta’s first-round playoff series against...

He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season N.C.A.A. scoring record. He went on to play pro basketball. But Dick Groat was mostly known as...

After months of workouts, measurements, interviews, speculation, prognostication and whispers about players rising and falling for inscrutable reasons, the top of the first round of the N.F.L. draft on Thursday night went...

Quarterbacks, top-10 trades and a bull market for running backs headlined the first round of this year’s N.F.L. draft.The Carolina Panthers chose Alabama quarterback Bryce Young at No. 1 overall, as expected,...

John Underwood, a stylish writer at Sports Illustrated for nearly a quarter century whose rollicking account of a fishing trip in Florida with the baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams led to...

After hitting an impasse in contract talks this off-season, the star quarterback Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens reached an agreement in principle on a five-year deal on Thursday, Jackson announced in...

College football stars will take their first steps toward becoming professional football stars (or flops) at the 2023 N.F.L. draft. Expect to hear “Alabama,” “Georgia” and “Ohio State” a lot, as well...

Most times in basketball, a foul is just a foul. But sometimes, it can feel like so much more: a Rorschach test unearthing a person’s biases about the game, a window into...

The Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta asked fans to be forgiving on Wednesday as he introduced the team’s new head coach, Ime Udoka, who had been suspended and then fired by the...