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Was This the Worst Penalty Award Ever in Soccer History?

Football very rarely goes to plan.AC Milan’s new strike force were supposed to quickly start scoring a lot of goals. Feyenoord selling their best player was supposed to mean their season was...

He Resigned as Ohio State’s Coach Amid Scandal. Now He Could Run for Governor.

If Jim Tressel runs for governor of Ohio, it will come up.And he might run. Tressel, 72, the former Ohio State football coach whose 2002 Buckeyes won a national championship, whose teams...

N.C.A.A. Recommends Adding Flag Football as Emerging Sport for Women

An NCAA committee recommended on Wednesday adding flag football to its emerging women’s sports program, a significant step toward it becoming an officially sponsored championship sport in all three divisions.The NCAA said...

M.L.B. Insiders Vote on the Biggest Moves of the Offseason

It seems like only yesterday that some of us were wielding our largest snow shovels to burrow a path from the front door back to what passes for winter civilization in those...

The N.F.L.’s Coaching Diversity Progress Has Stalled at One Position

Chris Beatty didn’t know the number was zero.Until the Chicago Bears promoted Thomas Brown to interim offensive coordinator on Nov. 12, the NFL didn’t have a single Black offensive coordinator. And after...

How U.S. Hockey Caught Canada

Few in the sport have experienced the rapid evolution of American hockey as up close and personally as Mike Modano.Growing up just outside Detroit, Modano was a minor hockey star. He spent...

The College Basketball Star Being Compared to Larry Bird

AUBURN, Ala. — Pastor Carl McKay goes back with the Broome family of Plant City, Fla. So far back, he was there for the earliest inklings of the Broome family.“I was picking...

After Years of Being Cheap, the Red Sox Made a Free-Agency Flex

Eureka! The Boston Red Sox found it.Found money. Found a right-handed hitter. Maybe even found their soul.Too dramatic? Perhaps. But the Red Sox’s agreement with free agent Alex Bregman — three years,...

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