U.S. Women’s Soccer Coach Vlatko Andonovski Resigns After World Cup Exit
Vlatko Andonovski, the head coach of the United States women’s national soccer team, has resigned, the U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed Thursday, ending a relatively tumultuous...
‘Blind Side’ Lawsuit Shows Strains in Depiction of Black Athletes
There’s a scene in the film “The Blind Side” that intends to be an uplifting moment of triumph. Michael Oher, a talented offensive lineman who...
Former San Jose State Trainer Pleads Guilty to Groping Athletes
A former athletic trainer at San Jose State University pleaded guilty on Tuesday to unlawfully groping four women who had come to him for medical...
Kerr Scored. The Crowd Roared. But England Wasn’t Done.
The entire continent of Australia had been waiting not so patiently for the moment that finally arrived in the 63rd minute of Wednesday night’s Women’s...
They Make CrossFit Documentaries. CrossFitters Can’t Get Enough.
The morning after he uploaded his new movie “Froning: The Fittest Man in History” to the iTunes store, in early October 2015, the director Heber...
Neither Messi Nor Miami Has Come Back to Earth
After all the hubbub over Lionel Messi’s five goals in his first three games with Inter Miami, soccer fans relaxed a bit, knowing that the...
A Dream Ending for England, a Dream Denied for Australia
The noise was giddy, and gleeful, and just a little bit wild, as if the 75,000 fans who had packed into Stadium Australia could not...
The Sixers’ Unraveling Did Not Start With James Harden
For Philadelphia 76ers fans, this is The Bad Place. “Disgust among Sixers fans is at one of the highest levels I have ever seen here...
Australia’s Matildas Unite a Nation and Crack the Code Wars
That figure does not include those who streamed it online or the vast crowds that gathered in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth to watch it...
‘Untold: Hall of Shame’ Review: Cheaters Never Prosper
Why would an athlete use performance-enhancing drugs? “Untold: Hall of Shame,” a documentary about a high-profile doping scandal in the early 2000s that shocked the...
Spain, Getting Last Word, Reaches First World Cup Final
The clock started ticking as soon as Rebecka Blomqvist’s shot, crafted with considerable calm and poise given the circumstances, swept into the net. Sweden did...
Alex Collins, a Former N.F.L. Running Back, Is Killed in a Motorcycle Crash
Alex Collins, the former N.F.L. running back who played for the Seattle Seahawks and the Baltimore Ravens, died in a motorcycle crash in South Florida...
A World Away From the World Cup, Soccer With a Different Goal
They do not have marked soccer fields in Tennant Creek, a town in Australia’s Northern Territory, halfway across the continent from Sydney. So one morning...
‘Blind Side’ Player Says He Was Conned With Adoption Promise
The former N.F.L. player Michael Oher, whose journey out of poverty and into football stardom was dramatized in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” asked...