Sports
The big game is about more than winner and losers; it can shape our culture and society. We explain how.
It’s opening day for the Cleveland Indians — and the last year with their controversial mascot.
A new study shows how sports leagues like the NFL fan the childhood obesity epidemic.
The case for paying college athletes, in podcast form.
Kara doesn’t know much about sportsball, so she asked an expert.
SB Nation Editor in Chief Elena Bergeron talks about brackets, streaming apps and paying players on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
“I had placed the company in an untenable position.”
All 67 games start streaming today. You can watch many of them for free.
Alleged payments to players uncovered by the FBI are overshadowing this year’s basketball tournament.
It’s the first time Facebook has had exclusive distribution rights to games from a major sports league.
Winning isn’t just about speed.
Amazon is starting to look more and more like a cable company.
TV viewership altogether is down since the last winter games.
Last year it spent almost as much as Disney on non-sports programming.
CBS Sports HQ won’t compete with CBS, which is the point.
But don’t get too excited just yet.
The network took its focus off human interest stories and put it back on the sports.
And the International Olympic Committee could reinstate Russia as soon as this week.
“OAR” stands for “Olympic Athlete from Russia.”
Reporters who attended are mum. So, surprisingly, is Twitter.
The Pyeongchang Olympics will come to an end on February 25.
The Olympic Committee might not consider the result as it weighs reinstating Russia at the closing ceremonies.
Why it feels like Evgenia Medvedeva was robbed.
23-year-old Omar Raja has built an Instagram powerhouse.
The spectacular impracticality of putting on the party could cause hosting bids to vanish altogether.
The best rivalry in women’s figure skating is between a jumping dynamo and a goth ballerina.
Medvedeva is a brilliant skater who also appears to be obsessed with death and dying.
Ice dance is about selling romance. Olympic gold medalists Virtue and Moir are brilliant marketers.
The secret sit-down was supposed to happen during the Olympics.
Russia’s efforts to improve its image at the Olympics are not going well.
Orwell said international sports spawned “orgies of hatred.” The Olympics prove him wrong.
Performance nutrition is now a critical part of athletes’ strategy to win.
The “Quad King,” explained.
The American figure skater is so good that he often wins even when he’s not at his best. But even Chen has limits.
The difference between figure skating’s six jumps.
It’s likely that the NFL will sign a multiyear deal.
White’s failure to address a sexual harassment lawsuit speaks to a larger Olympics issue.
Or, why Adam Rippon lost to Russian Elvis.
More than 40 black athletes are competing at the Winter Olympics. That’s a big deal.