The challenge of creating impossible-angle chances discourages most players from attacking the back-of-the-net problem.

The unofficial ambassador of this season-opening series has been hard to miss.

The coach has reclaimed attention in a city that doesn’t offer it easily.

Three days after becoming a free agent, the four-time M.V.P. remains a quarterback without a team.

For more than 25 years, Gumbel provided calm in the most chaotic stretch of the sports calendar.

The Glazer family seems happy to use the part-owner Jim Ratcliffe as a fireguard, a columnist for The Athletic writes.

The ESPN college basketball broadcaster was emotional as he expressed how grateful he was to be back in the booth after nearly two years away.

Mirra Andreeva’s rise to the top of tennis looked inevitable. Its steepness has shocked the sport.

This year’s Carabao Cup final could see Europe’s most threatening striker come up against its strongest center-back.

Curry made his 4,000th career 3-pointer against the Sacramento Kings, one of the teams that didn’t pick him in the 2009 N.B.A. Draft.