Caroline Wozniacki Is Getting Very Good at Comebacks
America likes to fancy itself the land of second chances. Show some humility. Work hard. A new you, or perhaps a better version of the...
Visualizing the Latest Wave of N.C.A.A. Conference Realignment
Air Force FalconsAkron ZipsAlabama Crimson TideAppalachian State MountaineersArizona WildcatsArizona State Sun DevilsArkansas RazorbacksArkansas State Red WolvesArmy Black KnightsAuburn TigersBall State CardinalsBaylor BearsBoise State BroncosBoston College...
Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87
Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87...
Why Are So Many Players Getting Sick at the U.S. Open?
Early in the second set of her second-round match on Thursday night, a ball bounced just past Ons Jabeur’s reach, and she lost the point,...
Gil Brandt, 91, Dies; Helped Make the Cowboys ‘America’s Team’
Gil Brandt, who in nearly 30 years as a scout and talent evaluator helped build the Dallas Cowboys into a National Football League powerhouse, died...
One Dead After Sports Riot. (It Was a Goat, and It Was Already Dead.)
Frequently, spectators are angry with the refereeing at a game. Once in a while, that anger spins out of control, and people are hurt. And...
Racehorse Deaths in Saratoga Renew Old Worries and Prompt Reforms
It has become an all-too-common scenario: a thoroughbred suffers a ghastly injury before a packed grandstand and a national television audience and has to be...
For the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the Multihulls Are Here
Call it a game of speed, tactics, underwater rocks and double the number of hulls. For the first time in its 43-year history, the Maxi...
Conferences Are Changing. The Sport Is, Too.
When the college football season kicks off in earnest this Labor Day weekend, it will be a test to keep an eye on the ball....
Even Racing Yachts Have Pit Crews
It takes a small army, not a navy, to keep Maxi yachts performing, race after race. More precisely, it takes an army corps of engineers....
Book Review: ‘Fly,’ by Mitchell S. Jackson
When I was growing up, there was a thing called “the ballplayer look.” It served two essential purposes: to show the world you were a...
Why Did They Stop Celebrating Walk-Off Wins at Home Plate?
Ray Knight scored one of the most famous runs in baseball history, jumping onto home plate and into a sea of gleeful Mets teammates to...
The Flying Nikka Can Indeed Fly
It was only a matter of time before someone on the Maxi circuit showed up with a full-foiling 60-foot yacht that can “fly” above the...
The One-Handed Backhand Is on the Way to Extinction
Behold the beautiful and beloved one-handed backhand, but do it quickly, because time is running short for tennis’s lustiest shot. Yes, the shot that made...