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HARTFORD, Conn. — An ace right-hander with 3,000 strikeouts and a Hall of Fame résumé took the mound at Citi Field on Wednesday afternoon. He fired eight shutout innings against a first-place...

WIMBLEDON, England — Just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, the American men are throwing a party on British soil.As night fell on Thursday at the All England Club, eight...

It’s always worth noting when a No. 1 overall draft pick makes his major league debut. But when Mark Appel took the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night, it wasn’t...

In 1998, Traci Green and her Florida teammates posed with an N.C.A.A. women’s tennis championship trophy after defeating Duke in five of six matchups. Green, who received a full scholarship to Florida,...

More than four months after she was first detained, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner is expected to appear in a Russian courtroom on Friday for the start of a trial on drug...

LONDON — Month after stressful month, the problems mounted inside Chelsea F.C.Almost a dozen employees of the club’s marketing department said they had come to expect being berated by their boss in...

In a season in which nearly everything has gone right for the Yankees, their rotation was leading the American League in E.R.A. and wins above replacement through Tuesday. Keeping it that way,...

WIMBLEDON, England — It was the 21st time that Serena Williams has played Wimbledon. It was Harmony Tan’s first time, but Tan will be the player heading to the second round at...

In the flat red frame of a photograph, a woman smiles upward. With the camera, we gaze down upon the whirl of her body. Near her face, a basketball sinks through the...

Marlin Briscoe, a pioneering quarterback who had to overcome prejudice against Black athletes playing the position during the 1960s, and who later won two Super Bowl rings as a wide receiver with...