Sports

A football game is really contested among four teams: two offenses and two defenses. In recent seasons, though, explosive offenses have dominated much of the coverage. Each playoff team’s chances are usually...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Coco Gauff versus Emma Raducanu sounded like quite a tennis match for a new age. The Australian Open organizers clearly agreed and gave the youngsters top billing: 7 p.m....

You know Bomani Jones is about to say something funny, deadly serious or both when he spits out a sentence like “The question is simple” or “Let me tell you a secret”...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The end came all at once for Rafael Nadal, and then it happened slowly.Down one set and on the ropes against Mackenzie McDonald in the second round of the...

The quarterback sneak is football’s simplest play. So simple, in fact, that N.F.L. coaches have long underestimated its value.The sneak is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. N.F.L. teams sent their quarterbacks...

The atmosphere and dialogue are indeed changing in elite sports, especially in pro tennis with stars like Naomi Osaka opening up about their psychological struggles and the emotional rigors of the tour....

His 34 home runs and 94 runs batted in were among the few accomplishments worth celebrating on a team that famously went nowhere in 1962.

TEMPE, Ariz. — Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, layered with modern beats, flowed from a loudspeaker as a group of young men, virtually all of them American-born Black...

TAMPA — The Dallas Cowboys finally figured out Tom Brady.After seven consecutive losses against Brady dating back to 2003, the Cowboys demolished the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the future Hall of Fame...

TAMPA — The Dallas Cowboys finally figured out Tom Brady.After seven consecutive losses against Brady dating back to 2003, the Cowboys demolished the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the future Hall of Fame...