Sports
The big game is about more than winner and losers; it can shape our culture and society. We explain how.
The IOC says most athletes will have their shots. What about the rest of the world?
A pending NCAA rule would allow athletes to profit from their personal brands.
It’s a narrow win for the athletes, but it could foreshadow a much bigger victory.
It all comes down to fluff.
Osaka’s experience at the French Open should spark an overdue reckoning in tennis.
After an 18-month hiatus, concerts, festivals, sports, and other big events are expected to return to their pre-pandemic glory.
Human rights groups say China’s treatment of the Uyghur people disqualifies the country from hosting the Winter Olympics next year.
Anti-trans bills, women’s sports, and the misguided pursuit of an even playing field.
Why soccer fans thought the European Super League super sucked.
Corporate America is starting to push back on Republican voter suppression efforts.
It’s the GOP’s latest attempt to force trans people into hiding.
Sports leagues enjoy some exemptions from antitrust laws, but do they apply to player compensation?
The NFL loves TV and TV loves the NFL.
How do you hype up a crowd when there’s no crowd?
Despite the pandemic, the NCAA will allow a limited number of spectators for both men’s and women’s tournaments.
But with just months to go and only now getting started, Japan is racing against time.
The sport that peaked in the 1990s in the US could desperately use a makeover — and not just at the Olympic level.
Masks, distancing, testing, and proximity sensors: The NFL’s Covid-19 playbook, explained.
The typically edgy artist went for a lower-key, Covid-19-safe performance.
In 2021, aside from a few ads here and there, companies will remain silent on hot-button issues.
The company has a long history of obstructing climate policies.
For now, yes. But the how is a lot less certain.
Tag went from childhood game to competitive spectacle. This is how.
Last week’s wildcat strike showed the power of striking for social movements.
“If you know the system is vulnerable, then you can interrupt it,” says High Flying Bird screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Steven Soderbergh’s unusual sports drama is a story of Black athlete empowerment.
NBA players held an unprecedented protest over racial injustice.
The Bucks refused to play in the middle of the NBA playoffs to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.
Many sports leagues have come back to TV in the past month. Only one has gotten it mostly right.
The pandemic has threatened a multibillion-dollar business. But the cracks in the sport’s foundation have been visible for decades.
Hundreds of athletes are threatening to skip the upcoming season, unless economic and racial issues are addressed.
“If we’re able to bring sports back in the US, it’s going to be more difficult, more expensive, and more dangerous.”
Skateboarding stair sets, ledges, gaps, ditches, and pipes, mapped.
An NFL team changing its name does nothing to address the role of Indigenous people in the game’s legacy.
Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 US national anthem protest, explained.
“The football players are looking at this and going, ‘Wait a second, they need us at this point even more than we need them.’”
The NFL just issued a statement saying it was wrong to censure players who protested police violence.
The league hopes to create a “bubble” in Florida for players, coaches, and staff.