Category: Sports

Pep bands follow their schools’ teams around the country, providing the soundtrack to games on their instruments. SEATTLE — Ten feet from the basketball players looking to advance their teams to the women’s Final Four stood another group of nervous students. They were huddled in the underbelly of Climate Pledge Arena some 30 minutes before […]

In Seattle, there was enough black and gold in the arena to turn it into Iowa-by-the-sea. (And enough Sue Bird jerseys to serve as a reminder of who has been the building’s regular resident.) In Greenville, S.C., the vocal crowds were overwhelmingly clad in red — as if unbeaten South Carolina, the reigning champion, needed […]

Having grown up watching Atlanta dominate baseball, stars from the area like Matt Olson, Michael Harris II and Collin McHugh were eager to continue that tradition. NORTH PORT, Fla. — The day after Atlanta acquired him in a March 2022 trade, and before he had even played a game for the Braves, Matt Olson knew […]

The decision by PointsBet and University of Colorado Boulder came as the industry released guidelines meant to limit how sports betting is marketed on campus. With lawmakers and educators pressuring gambling companies and universities over deals they have made to promote sports betting on campuses, one of the most noteworthy and heavily criticized partnerships was […]

China poured billions into its bid to become a major player in the world’s most popular sport. A decade later, it has little to show for that investment. It takes only a glance at the news coverage from those days less than a decade ago, when China’s soccer success seemed only a matter of determination […]

Aces around the majors are ready to go, with the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole facing Logan Webb of the Giants and the Mets’ Max Scherzer facing Sandy Alcantara of the Marlins. Optimism abounds on opening day. Just about every team — sorry, Oakland and Washington — starts the year believing the playoffs are in its future, […]

Renard has vast experience in Africa and led Saudi Arabia at last year’s World Cup. But he has never coached a women’s team. PARIS — Hervé Renard, a French coach with vast experience in international soccer but none leading a women’s team, was set to be hired to lead a France squad that will be […]

Matheus Gustavo arrived for his second day of work at a hat shop in Rio de Janeiro wearing a black New York Yankees cap. His new job, for the most part, was selling Yankees hats. On the displays around him, about three out of four caps promoted that baseball team in the Bronx. Yet Mr. […]

The slow collapse of regional sports networks that broadcast baseball, basketball and hockey games has implications for viewers and for the sports themselves. The system of regional sports network television channels — which televise most Major League Baseball, N.B.A. and N.H.L. games and pay billions of dollars to teams each season — is slowly collapsing, […]

International Olympic officials on Tuesday delayed a final decision on whether to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate at the Paris Summer Games next year, pushing uncertainty about their eligibility into a crucial period of Olympic qualifiers and doing little to ease the objections of dozens of governing bodies that want the countries […]