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Oats was asked what his message would be to his team as it enters the tournament.“Obviously, we never lose sight of the tragedy that’s kind of marked our season,” he said. “It’s...

Care to see the full number written out? It’s 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. And if you need help with the commas, a quintillion equals a billion billion.But basketball games tend not to be true tossups....

March may be 12 days old already, but its namesake madness doesn’t start until Sunday.The brackets for this year’s men’s and women’s N.C.A.A. tournaments will be announced on Sunday night, at 6...

Bud Grant, the stoic, strait-laced Hall of Fame coach who led the Minnesota Vikings for 18 years, building a team that went to four Super Bowls and was one of the best...

Mary Wainwright does not know Ja Morant, but she prays for him, worries about him and wishes she could sit down with the troubled young N.B.A. star to help “set him straight.”Wainwright,...

Corinne Diacre, a veteran coach facing a revolt by several of her best players only months before the Women’s World Cup, was fired Thursday as coach of France’s women’s soccer team. The...

A soccer program that has been a mainstay on British television since the 1960s was thrown into turmoil on Friday after the BBC suspended the program’s host, the former English soccer star...

As Oats answered basketball questions, he was expansive and almost ebullient, describing the selflessness of his players — “All of our kids are high-character kids,” he said — and the importance of...

After a six-year wait, the World Baseball Classic roared to life again this week, with group play starting in Japan and Taiwan. Some of the tournament’s favorites, like the United States, the...

Corinne Diacre can take pride, really, in lasting this long. She was, eventually, dismissed from her post as coach of the French women’s team on Thursday. But her position had been untenable...