Major League Baseball wants you to believe in its fairy tale. It wants you to see the talented players at Tuesday’s All-Star Game — Shohei Ohtani, Bo Bichette, Ronald Acuña Jr. — and be mesmerized into forgetting. Among the many talents on parade will be a first-time selection: Oakland Athletics outfielder Brent Rooker, the team’s […]

Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, who went on medical leave last month as he and his organization faced outrage over a planned alliance with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is expected to return to his position on July 17. Although Monahan, the commissioner since 2017, did not detail his condition in a brief memo […]

Jimmy Cordero, a relief pitcher for the Yankees, has been suspended for the rest of the season for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy, the league and the team announced on Wednesday. Rob Manfred, the M.L.B. commissioner, said on Wednesday that after an investigation, Cordero had accepted a suspension for the rest of the […]

The Mets and the Yankees have the two largest payrolls in Major League Baseball, with more than $600 million in combined player salaries, according to Spotrac. Luxury tax bills, which will be finalized later this year, will push the combined number well over $700 million. For all of that money, the teams had a total […]

Yet a year later, the Pac-12 is still in first gear. The Pac-12, whose current agreement with ESPN and Fox expires after this season, found itself boxed out of several options when the Big 12 surprisingly locked in its media deal with Fox and ESPN last October, two months after the Big Ten announced its […]

The N.F.L. announced penalties on Thursday for four players who had violated the league’s gambling rules. Isaiah Rodgers, a cornerback who started nine games last season, and Rashod Berry, a reserve tight end, of the Indianapolis Colts and the free agent defensive tackle Demetrius Taylor, who played in one game last season for the Detroit […]

Golf’s big deal — a planned partnership between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund — is not how big deals are ordinarily done. There were almost no outside bankers or lawyers involved in negotiations that led to a five-page framework agreement, and only so much input from the PGA Tour board. The […]

Amen Thompson and his twin brother, Ausar, sat side by side amid a swirl of tourists at Carmine’s restaurant in Times Square on Monday around 8 p.m. They had flown into New York that morning for the N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, and now they were trying to decide what dishes to share with their […]

Jakob Ingebrigtsen was ready to become a Pac-Man when he stepped on the track in early June. Like the video game character that gobbles dots inside a maze, Ingebrigtsen, a Norwegian middle-distance runner, was focused on keeping up with the bright green flashes plotting his way along the inside of the track. The flashes, called […]

Alan Williams was the first person to brave the anchor desk, tucked away on a chilly set at the University of Southern California that was darkened, save for the spotlight on Williams in his black suit and blue-striped tie. Almost involuntarily, he lifted a hand from the desk’s shiny surface and nervously scratched his face. […]