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FIFA's powerful president is remaking global soccer in his own image. Can the sport survive him?

San Antonio's Game Seven victory against Oklahoma City announced the arrival of the N.B.A.'s most remarkable new superstar in years, Victor Wembanyama.

Four years ago, her country went to war. Then she became a mother. She returned to tennis a different player.

The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot.

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseball's pitching development. But what does that kind of velocity do to the human arm?

Rooting for a hapless team for nearly two decades teaches you to find pleasures beyond victory.

A change in New York's post-season offense has made the team more precise, more urgent, and much harder to stop as it pushes toward the Eastern Conference Finals.