The only men besides Djokovic who have won Grand Slam singles titles are Marin Cilic and Andy Murray, but the women’s draw is brimming with major singles champions.
Burning sage, a player with an unwanted mustache, a few homers off Shohei Ohtani and an eighth-inning rally were all it took to end Baltimore’s losing streak at 19 games.
After 12 seasons in Detroit, the quarterback wanted out. The Los Angeles Rams, looking to move on from Jared Goff, saw in Stafford another shot at a championship run.
Steve Vucinich’s 54th and final season with the Athletics has pushed the team’s equipment manager past Connie Mack for the longest run in franchise history. He has stories to spare.
No proof of vaccination or a recent negative coronavirus test will be required for fans to enter the grounds, and no masks will be required when they are outdoors.
Rachel Nichols said in a recorded conversation that Maria Taylor, who is Black, was tabbed to host 2020 N.B.A. finals coverage because the network “felt pressure” on diversity.
Wednesday’s M.L.S. All-Star Game is the latest collaboration between the top leagues in the U.S. and Mexico. Owners and executives see profit in their partnership.
She often questioned whether life with a debilitating disease was worth living. But then she found a purpose, and it goes way beyond shooting arrows at targets.
She often questioned whether life with a debilitating disease was worth living. But then she found a purpose, and it goes way beyond shooting arrows at targets.
A young core of superstars and a few high-profile additions were supposed to take San Diego to the next level. A bad stretch has the team looking for someone to blame.
The decision sets up a confrontation with FIFA, which can order the players’ release. Spain’s league said it would support any of its teams that followed suit.
Under his tutelage, Lee Kiefer became a first for the United States. Leach led the women’s national foil team in five Summer Olympics. He died in a motorcycle accident.
With 18 straight losses, and a tough stretch of games, Baltimore could set a futility record. The stripped-down roster being part of a larger plan doesn’t make it any easier to watch.
The Rangers great, whose death at the age of 80 was announced on Sunday, was more than a sensational player and a good guy, writes a former Times hockey reporter.
The team signed the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner in anticipation of another World Series run. It ignored his troubling background, at odds with the franchise’s legacy.
Pacquiao did not announce his retirement after a defeat to Yordenis Ugas in Saturday’s title bout. But he dropped some hints and has also publicly considered a run for president of the Philippines.
Racing the 100 meters for the first time since a drug test kept her out of the Tokyo Olympics, Richardson lost to a field that included all three medalists from the Games.
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Player’s Association are ending their agreement with Topps in favor of one with Fanatics, an upstart sports collectible company.
Andrew Velazquez’s call-up to the Yankees has been “way better” than anything he had imagined. If he keeps it up, he might have to move out of his parents’ house.
“Everything in your body is telling you not to do this,” said Breannah Yeh, a professional slackliner whose bouncy escapades have entertained millions on TikTok. So why does she?
While many of his contemporaries from his prime have sought payday fights that lack serious competition, Pacquiao insists that at 42, he can still compete in real bouts.
Adoree’ Jackson, the headliner of the team’s off-season free agency signees, makes a habit of studying the experts around him. That includes his grillmaster father, Chris.
The Dodgers pitcher is still under investigation on suspicion of sexual assault by both the police and M.L.B., but a Los Angeles judge said Bauer did not pose a threat to his accuser.
The free-swinging team had been in free-fall when Steven Cohen snapped, criticizing the offense. An extra-innings win on Wednesday turned the volume down.
The researchers no longer claim a causal relationship between high testosterone levels and improved performance by female athletes. The correction comes too late for Caster Semenya of South Africa.
Out with a wrist injury, Thiem is one of many players on both the men’s and women’s tours who are struggling with injuries ahead of the season’s final Grand Slam.
After taking both games of a doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox, the once-listless Yankees suddenly resemble the team they were expected to be all season.
“My intention is to participate in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Please hold my hand and help me,” Zakia Khudadadi, a taekwondo athlete pleaded in a video from Kabul.
Salazar, the famed distance running coach, has been permanently barred from the sport by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexual and emotional misconduct.
The former Jets Coach Joe Walton has a stadium named after him, but not in the New York area. A sportswriter recalls the coach’s up-and-down pro tenure and how he found glory, and peace, elsewhere.
Osaka, who quit the French Open in May by saying press commitments worsened her anxiety, burst into tears and left the room after a question her agent said was asked “to intimidate.”
Motorized carts have ferried golfers from hole to hole for 50 years, but more players these days are walking their rounds, and some courses have shunned carts entirely.
“I went from one emotion to the next,” the W.N.B.A. star said. “From winning a gold medal to realizing, OK, I’m going home, and my daughter is going to be born in less than 24 hours.”
The 20-time Grand Slam champion will miss the U.S. Open and undergo his fourth knee surgery since 2016. He will be on crutches and off the tennis court “for many months.”
In his first career start, Tyler Gilbert of the Diamondbacks threw M.L.B.’s eighth no-hitter of the year. There haven’t been that many in a single season since 1884.
In M.L.B.’s Beat the Streak game, fans build virtual lineups in hopes of topping Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. After 20 years, the game is still looking for its first winner.
Pitchers are better than ever. Hitters seem worse than ever. With eight no-hitters, baseball has broken the modern record for a season and is tied for the overall record, which was set in 1884.
M.L.B.’s “Field of Dreams” game was packed full of nostalgia, but Tim Anderson’s walk-off homer made sure this sequel-of-sorts created memories of its own.
In the weeks since Norway’s women’s beach handball team was fined for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms, other countries have increased pressure for a change in federation rules.
The year’s final Grand Slam tournament begins in less than three weeks, but players including Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams have chosen to skip the usual hardcourt warm-up events.
From a cornfield in Iowa, the Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will emerge Thursday to play on a new field near the original setting for the film “Field of Dreams.”
The soccer great Lionel Messi, speaking at a news conference, said leaving Barcelona had been a “very hard moment” but he was excited to join his new club.
He could not stay where he wanted; few teams could afford him. Even one of the best players of all time was not able to resist the economic forces that carry the game along.
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U.S. Olympic officials are being criticized for their failure to provide personal assistants to some competitors. The champion swimmer Becca Meyers withdrew from the Games over the issue.
The University of Alaska Anchorage set specific goals for targeted teams to survive. Millions of dollars poured in, suggesting a template for schools hoping to keep programs afloat.
A diver’s heartbreaking scratch. A medalist lifting up a teammate. Cherished glimpses of Japanese culture — our journalists saw a lot viewers may not have.
The Colorado Rockies said they were investigating the incident, in which Lewis Brinson, who is Black, was the target of abuse during a game in Denver on Sunday.
“We have to get our act together soon,” Steven Cohen, the team’s owner, posted during a lost last week. The team is 1-4 since then and has fallen to third in the N.L. East.
The United States women’s basketball team is seeking its seventh consecutive gold medal, while Japan is making its first appearance in an Olympic final.
The Kenyan runner pulled away from the pack and ran alone for the final eight-plus miles, becoming only the third man to win gold medals in back-to-back Olympics.
A feat of organizational planning and execution in a pandemic left even gold medalists hurrying home from an atmosphere drained of pomp and full of anxiety.
The surplus players at English clubs would make fine assets for teams across Europe. The problem is that the clubs that could use them cannot afford them.
For six years, the filmmaker Dianne Whelan hiked, biked, paddled, snowshoed and skied from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic. Here’s what she learned along the way.
Tyler Austin plays professionally in Japan, in the same stadium where the game will take place on Saturday. He can tell his fellow Americans what to expect from the host team’s pitchers.
The United States and Japan will play for top honors in baseball, while Brazil and Spain meet for the soccer title. Women’s golf, men’s volleyball and water polo are among other events with gold medals on the line.
The runners best able to handle the brutal conditions prevailed. Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya won the race, with Brigid Kosgei taking silver and Molly Seidel winning bronze in her third-ever marathon.
American Molly Seidel finished just behind two Kenyans in the women’s marathon. The U.S. is going for gold in men’s basketball, baseball and women’s water polo.
Iguodala said he plans to return on a one-year deal after a detour to the Miami Heat. “The opportunity to end it here was just something special,” he said.
For five seasons in the late 1970s, J.R. Richard of the Houston Astros was as intimidating as any pitcher before or since. His legacy is the reverence of the batters who faced him.
April Ross and Alix Klineman of the U.S. won gold in beach volleyball. Women’s soccer gold is also on the line, and track finals from dashes to distance races are set in rapid-fire order.
Nunn helped turned the Steelers into a dynasty by welcoming players from historically Black colleges. As he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the league still searches for paths to diversity.
The second-ranked team, which faces Australia in the final on Thursday, created “heat-acclimation plans” for its athletes based on their risks of fatigue, illness or injury.
Gong Lijiao, who won China’s first Olympic gold in the shot-put, was questioned on state-owned media about her life plans and whether she had a boyfriend.
Barriers and water jumps, not unlike those in the equine counterpart, make the steeplechase one of the most entertaining — and difficult — events in track and field.
The men’s semifinal is a rematch after the U.S. stumbled last month in an exhibition game. The U.S. women’s soccer team faces Australia in the bronze medal game.
Garnbret, the most dominating competition climber of recent years and the gold medal favorite, cruised into the eight-woman final with a typically strong performance.
A park competition with lip tricks, grabs and aerial spin ends with gold for Sakura Yosozumi of Japan and more youthful celebrating at the Tokyo Games.
Spain’s top soccer league has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake to CVC Capital Partners. The deal, which requires the approval of clubs, could alleviate a cash crunch.
McLaughlin beat Dalilah Muhammad, a fellow American and the defending champion, for the gold. The women’s park skateboarding competition could crown one of the Olympics’ youngest champions.
Kokona Hiraki, 12, and Sky Brown, 13, are vying to capture gold in park skateboard. Whether that would make the winner the youngest-ever champion involves an Olympic mystery.
Dr. Ullyot argued in her research, and showed over miles and miles in competition herself, that, yes, women are built to run marathons. Olympic officials finally agreed.
Chenchen won with a more difficult routine than her rivals. Her compatriot, Tang Xijing, won silver. Simone Biles won bronze in her return to competition.
How did John Ball become the go-to health professional for track and field athletes with creaky hips and balky knees? A devotee answers: Have you seen his hands?
Anna Cockrell’s brother, Ross, is a cornerback for the team. On Monday, the Buccaneers took a break from training to watch her advance to the 400-meter hurdle finals.
Biles has missed much of the Tokyo Games after bowing out of the gymnastics team final. But she is back for the balance beam — her last chance to win a medal during these Olympics.
To Japan’s traditionalists, karate represents qualities fundamental to the national character. But to be a modern sport, the discipline has been forced to adapt.
Biles, who will compete in the balance beam final women’s gymnastics competition of the Tokyo Games, gave Jade Carey a pep talk before Carey won gold in the floor exercise.
Artistic swimmers strive to look graceful, but the sport comes with significant risks. A survey of competitors found that at least a quarter had sustained concussions in training.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs, a 26-year-old sprinter who took gold in the 100-meter dash, was born in El Paso to an Italian mother and African American father.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men’s 100 meters and Gianmarco Tamberi shared gold in the high jump a day after discussing how improbable it would be if they won.
Raven Saunders of the United States crossed her arms over her head. A second athlete, the American fencer Race Imboden, accepted a medal with a symbol drawn on his hand.
Raven Saunders of the United States crossed her arms over her head. A second athlete, the American fencer Race Imboden, accepted a medal with a symbol drawn on his hand.
Xander Schauffele defeated a field of pros on the manicured grounds of a formerly men’s only club, in a sport still struggling to get into the Olympic spirit.
Cut off from most restaurants because of coronavirus restrictions, thousands of international visitors at the Olympics make do — and delight — in convenience store offerings.
Cut off from most restaurants because of coronavirus restrictions, thousands of international visitors at the Olympics make do — and delight — in convenience store offerings.
The women’s 100-meter dash headlines Day 2 on the track. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, a top contender, called the attention on the event “long overdue.”
Mixed relays in swimming and in track and field are among the highlights on Day 8 of the Games. And the U.S. men’s basketball team takes on the Czech Republic.
The heralded rookie quarterback’s unsteady training camp debut on Friday came after the death of a Jets assistant coach with whom he’d worked and a prolonged contract negotiation.
Sebastian Coe, world track’s leader, has spent the past five years pushing his vision of a level playing field. Critics say he is violating athletes’ human rights.
Smaller brands are working with athletes in different ways, like giving them equity or roles in developing products, and are paying more attention to their personal stories.
Harrison will compete in both the high jump and the long jump at the Tokyo Games, the first American man to do so at the Olympics since Jim Thorpe in 1912.
The quarterfinals will be an unwelcome memory for many of the United States players. It was the stage at which they exited the Olympic tournament at the Rio Games in 2016.
Despite trailing three teams in the A.L. East and four in the wild card race, the Yankees and Brian Cashman are all-in with the acquisitions of Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo.
The U.S. women’s soccer team faces the Netherlands, a rematch of the 2019 World Cup final. The U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew swims for gold in the 200-meter individual medley.
The team’s all-or-nothing offense will get even more extreme with a trade for a slugger who is the master of baseball’s so-called three true outcomes: homers, walks and strikeouts.
The men’s 10,000-meter track final is set for Friday night. There will be four finals in swimming, and the U.S. women’s team plays the Netherlands in soccer.
The American swimmer, who has three career gold medals in relays, is seeking his first individual win in the 100-meter freestyle. Australia is a favorite in the women’s 4x200 free relay.
By withdrawing from competition citing concerns over her mental health, Biles showed that resisting expectations can be more powerful than persisting through them.
Caeleb Dressel will swim in the 100-meter freestyle, his first chance at an individual medal. The U.S. gymnastics team moves ahead without Simone Biles.
The history of women’s gymnastics is full of stories of athletes who sustained life-altering injuries after being pressured to compete when they didn’t feel up to it.
Caeleb Dressel competes for his first individual swimming medal. And men’s golf starts without two of its stars after they tested positive for the coronavirus.
Simone Biles dropped out of the individual all-around gymnastics competition and Katie Ledecky bounced back to win the inaugural 1,500-meter freestyle swim.
The quarterback remains the subject of 22 civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct. But you wouldn’t have known that as training camp opened Wednesday.
Caeleb Dressel competes for his first individual swimming medal. And men’s golf starts without two of its stars after they tested positive for the coronavirus.
Biles will not compete Thursday after missing most of the team final on Tuesday because she said she was not in the right mental place to continue without risking severe injury.
Ledecky, the world’s best distance swimmer, dominated the new Olympic women’s race. Earlier, Ariarne Titmus, nicknamed ‘The Terminator,’ won the 200-meter freestyle with Ledecky far behind.
They don’t have to be big names to make an impact. “Getting buckets for myself, getting buckets for my teammates — that’s what I do,” Florida’s Tre Mann said.
The United States had the top-ranked softball team in the world, but it lost the gold medal game the same way it did in 2008: At the hands of pitcher Yukiko Ueno.
The tennis superstar, who lit the cauldron during the opening ceremony as one of Japan’s biggest sports celebrities, was upset in the third round and is out of the Tokyo Games.
Lydia Jacoby upset Lilly King in the breaststroke. The women’s gymnastics team final begins Tuesday evening in Tokyo, and the U.S. women’s basketball team makes its debut.
A former top coach who was once one of the world’s greatest distance runners, Salazar had already been suspended for breaking rules governing banned substances.
The Longhorns and the Sooners may move to the Southeastern Conference, which could soon have 16 teams. The repercussions would be felt across college sports.
The U.S. women’s water polo team won Olympic championships in London and Rio. A one-year delay of the Tokyo Games merely gave them more time to improve.
In another brutal loss for the Yankees, the Red Sox won, 5-4, by scoring five times in the eighth inning after Domingo German lost his bid for a no-hitter.
The South Korean broadcaster MBC showed photographs associating pizza with Italy, Chernobyl with Ukraine and Count Dracula with Romania in its coverage of the opening ceremony.
Biles, the transcendent American star, begins her latest run for gold with her team after 3 p.m. in Tokyo (2 a.m. in the United States). All day, gymnasts are attempting to qualify for team and individual finals.
Simone Biles will compete in four events. The U.S. men’s basketball team will seek to redeem itself against France after recent upsets in exhibition games.
Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, who has used her influence to speak out against injustices, arrives at her second Olympics prepared to soar above the sport’s devastating recent history.
Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, who has used her influence to speak out against injustices, arrives at her second Olympics prepared to soar above the sport’s devastating recent history.
Ariarne Titmus of Australia has been faster lately, even in one of Ledecky’s best races. How will the defending Olympic champion respond to the threat?
The U.S. team said the schedule was being adjusted because of an “inclement weather forecast.” Reports show that a storm could hit the Tokyo region on Tuesday.
The match was not played because the Czech athlete Marketa Slukova had tested positive for the coronavirus. She is one of several members of the country’s Olympic team who are infected.
The always-confounding Tampa Bay Rays have already been buyers and sellers in a lead-up to the trade deadline, which may see big changes for the Chicago Cubs and others.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said outbreaks traced to an unvaccinated player or staff member could warrant a game forfeiture for their teams. The announcement prompted a backlash from some players.