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An evolving rulebook and new priorities have made big hits less prevalent. Hockey could be suffering.

West Palm Beach recruited one of the world’s leading architects to build a community unlike another.

What players think of the dunk, and the agony that can come with it, is ever changing.

Kenny Payne was meant to lead the men’s basketball program back to glory. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

Harrison was signed by Liverpool at 17 but died heartbroken at 46, on Christmas Day 2013.

The Ravens didn’t need to change. But with colorful language and an adaptive scheme, Todd Monken transformed the N.F.L. powerhouse anyway.

A shorter pitch clock and a new runner’s lane are among the tweaks that will take effect next year.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto hasn’t thrown a pitch in the majors yet, but he might be the best pitcher alive, our columnist writes.

The world has seen two very public sides of the superstar swimmer, our columnist writes.