Rocky Wirtz, Chairman of Chicago N.H.L. Team, Dies at 70
W. Rockwell Wirtz, nicknamed Rocky, the chairman of the N.H.L.’s Chicago Blackhawks, died Tuesday at 70. The Blackhawks announced Wirtz’s death on their Twitter account...
The Mind Is Willing, So the Body Doesn’t Have Much Choice
Mike Duggan and his hockey buddies were strapping on their gear one recent morning when their banter hopscotched, as it frequently does, to the subject...
Johnny Lujack, a Star Quarterback at Notre Dame, Dies at 98
Johnny Lujack, the celebrated Notre Dame quarterback who won the 1947 Heisman Trophy, played on three national championship teams and then starred in the N.F.L....
Bronny James, Son of LeBron James, Is Stable After Cardiac Arrest
LeBron James Jr., the son of the N.B.A. star LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest while practicing at the University of Southern California in Los...
A Continental Competition, All in One Neighborhood
At the eight-minute mark of the final of the CAN 18 soccer tournament, the players on the Mauritania team score three times in rapid succession....
New Zealand wants to build on ‘Fern Fever.’ Norway needs a comeback.
New Zealand, the World Cup’s co-host, has a chance to take another big step forward on Tuesday. Days after it earned the first World Cup...
The president of Norway’s federation, a rare woman of influence in soccer, is speaking up.
Lise Klaveness does not pull punches. It is not her style. To some, that is a problem. To Klaveness, a former national team player who...
Kylian Mbappé Is Being Pursued by a Saudi Team for a Transfer
Saudi Arabia’s turbocharged attempt to turn its domestic soccer league into one of the sport’s most glamorous has already attracted Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the...
Aaron Rodgers Is Now a Jet (and Becoming a New Yorker, Too)
Sports are a strangely transformative human event. They change people — the people who play them, the people who watch them. The pandemic changed sports...
Norway’s Lise Klaveness Is Calling Out FIFA From the Inside
Lise Klaveness was only a few weeks into her post as the president of Norway’s soccer federation last year when she decided to start saying...
At the British Open, a Mom’s Influence Looms Large for Many Golfers
In the beginning, there was Old Tom Morris and his son, Tommy, both of St. Andrews. The father won the British Open — the only...
Well-Traveled Stars Find Their Forever Home in Cooperstown
Fred McGriff played for six franchises, so many that his new plaque at the Hall of Fame has no logo on the cap. Scott Rolen...
Jonas Vingegaard Wins Tour de France Again After Vanquishing His Rival
When Tadej Pogacar slipped behind Jonas Vingegaard on the Col de la Loze mountain pass through the Alps on Wednesday, eight kilometers and a world...
Brian Harman Romps to British Open Victory at Royal Liverpool
Brian Harman knew Saturday evening that sleep might be hard to come by, as much as he knew he needed it. He had been in...