The Formula 1 Race Fans Don’t Get to See
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — By late Sunday night in Baku, a few hours after Sergio Pérez of Red Bull had won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix,...
Max Verstappen Wins Miami Grand Prix in Red Bull Runaway
The only question at Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, as usual, was not if Red Bull would win the race. It was which Red Bull driver...
A Reborn Team and a Star Who Never Wanted to Leave
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For a Pittsburgh Pirates fan born in the 1990s, childhood was an endless string of losing seasons. David Bednar, a Pittsburgh...
After the Kentucky Derby, Racehorses Fetch Top Dollar in Breeding Sheds
VERSAILLES, Ky. — Flightline had put on 100 pounds in the five months since the end of his brief but astonishing racing career. He was...
Derby Entrant Is Scratched as Four Horse Deaths Renew Safety Concerns
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two days before horse racing’s signature event, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky racing officials on Thursday threw a horse out of the race...
Secretariat Is Still the GOAT, 50 Years Later, Kentucky Derby Fans Agree
Before he was “moving like a tremendous machine” in a literal earth-shattering performance in the Belmont Stakes, before he secured the ninth Triple Crown sweep...
Ferdinand Habsburg Would Have Been King. Instead He’s a Racecar Driver.
“I have my friends,” he said, and these friends include the owner of a natural wine bar, a painter and a puppeteer for the opera....
The Model Club
He knows, though, that the correct answer is likely to be the simplest one. Navarra’s success has its roots in two things that are not...
Steph Curry and LeBron James Meet in the Playoffs, Maybe for the Last Time
Tim Hardaway knows stars when he sees them. Hardaway, a Hall of Fame point guard, battled against his share of them, including Michael Jordan, during...
Erika Kemp Wants to See More Runners Who Look Like Her
The video of local police officers forming a bicycle blockade in front of a group of Black supporters during this year’s Boston Marathon seemed to...
A Tennis Match That’s Also a College Program’s Farewell
On an overcast day, before a few dozen people at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, a team of players wearing light blue uniforms...
Canelo Álvarez Rarely Fights in Mexico. He Wants a Celebration and a Rebound.
After nearly a decade training in San Diego, Saúl Álvarez opted to prepare for his next bout in Guadalajara, Mexico, where it will take place....
Who Is Having Fun?
Brice Samba was trying, as best he could, to share the crowning glory of his career with his wife. The goalkeeper’s road to stardom had...
Indian Olympians Persist in Demanding Arrest of Wrestling Chief
A group of India’s most accomplished wrestlers, who have accused the sport’s top official in the country of serial harassment and abuse of female wrestlers,...