Sports

Make Room Tennis, Pickleball and Squash. Here Comes Padel.

I first learned about padel last summer, when my partner sent me a photo from a small court during a…

An Overlooked Championship Team’s Final Stop: The White House

The all-Black Tennessee A&I basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but…

Is Soccer’s Model Club Actually … Real Madrid?

The club is strutting into a future different from the one envisioned by its president, Florentino Pérez. But its prospects…

How European Soccer Made Peace With Fasting During Ramadan

In competitions like the Premier League, Muslim pros who once faced pressure to avoid daily fasts during the monthlong holiday…

The Caitlin Clark Show Rolls On

One way to view the meteoric growth of women’s college basketball is through the career arc of its current protagonist:…

You Can Bet on Caitlin Clark Making Threes. The N.C.A.A. Isn’t Happy.

Americans will wager $2.7 billion on the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments this year, raising concerns about what happens to sports when…

Shohei Ohtani’s Arrival Brings Hope and Nostalgia Home to Little Tokyo

For a Los Angeles community contending with gentrification in its historic center and an aging population of cultural standard-bearers, Ohtani’s…

How Worlds Collided for Swifties Who Were Already Football Fans

The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance has brought together two of the internet’s most engaged fan bases. What happens when you’re…

How S.M.U., Once the Rogue of College Sports, Got Back to the Big Time

It wasn’t just a gold Pontiac Trans Am with a painted bird on the hood. It was the car that…

Shohei Ohtani Is Home and Focused on Baseball. Dodgers Fans Are Relieved.

Los Angeles finally got a close look at baseball’s megastar on Thursday as a gambling situation involving his former interpreter…

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