March 31, 2023, 5:08 p.m. ET March 31, 2023, 5:08 p.m. ET Alexis Morris played at Baylor, Rutgers and Texas A&M before transferring to L.S.U.Credit…Mic Smith/FR2, via Associated Press Transfer athletes are everywhere at this Final Four. The splashiest move before this season came when Angel Reese left Maryland for Louisiana State. Reese has led […]

SEATTLE — Third-seeded Ohio State romped past second-seeded Connecticut to advance to the round of 8, grabbing hold of the game early and unceremoniously ending UConn’s long streak of reaching the final weekend of the N.C.A.A. women’s tournament. Ohio State won, 73-61, stopping the Huskies from reaching the round of 8 for the first time […]

Since it began almost two decades ago, Ali Krieger’s soccer career has taken her more places than she can remember: dozens of countries, three World Cups and at least two operating rooms. But this year her career will come to an end, she announced on Thursday, though not before a final challenge that will be […]

ALBANY, N.Y. — Like a lot of boys, Donovan Clingan competed in many activities while growing up in Bristol, Conn.: baseball, basketball, fishing and soccer. But when his mother, Stacey Porrini Clingan, died of breast cancer in March 2018 at age 42, Donovan, then 14, decided to channel his pain, passion and prodigious frame into […]

For much of its first-round game, No. 3 seed Xavier looked like it was sleepwalking against Kennesaw State, a No. 14 seed that was stopping nearly every Musketeer player. But control in this sport is relentlessly fluid, and Xavier took it with a furious rally to come back against the Owls, eventually holding them off […]

MIAMI — On April 23, 1939, Álex Carrasquel, a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators, was summoned from the bullpen in the fourth inning of a game to face Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees. He was the first Venezuelan-born player to appear in a Major League Baseball game and, since Carrasquel, 461 players born in […]

MIAMI — Impromptu dance parties broke out in the concourses. A player banged a drum in the dugout while countless fans did so in the stands. Flags waved from the seats and hung over the railings. The usually sparsely populated stadium was filled with people, roars and music. No strike was too small to celebrate. […]

Bud Grant, the stoic, strait-laced Hall of Fame coach who led the Minnesota Vikings for 18 years, building a team that went to four Super Bowls and was one of the best of the 1970s, died on Saturday at his home in Bloomington, Minn. He was 95. The Vikings announced Grant’s death. A genial man […]

LOS ANGELES — As J.R. Smith eased his golf cart around the fifth hole at El Caballero Country Club, he relayed a story about elementary school. He thought he would grow up to be a writer. His teachers gave him notebooks and, for inspiration, picture cards — say, a boy, a mountain and a scary […]

For the first time in six years, the top players in professional baseball — and some hard-charging amateurs — will be competing in the World Baseball Classic. If watching stars for the Cardinals and the Padres (and just about every other Major League Baseball team) compete in uniforms that say things like U.S.A. and Korea […]