The Las Vegas Raiders have been rocked by a mass exodus of front office leaders amid dire management blunders like overpaying taxes and underpaying certain employees for years. The latest upheaval came last week with the ouster of the team’s interim team president. That executive, Dan Ventrelle, responded by accusing the owner, Mark Davis, whose […]

Over the course of sports history there are some extreme statistical outliers. From Wilt Chamberlain, who averaged 48.5 minutes a game in the 1961-62 season (there are only 48 minutes in an N.B.A. game), to Wayne Gretzky, who had so many assists that he would be the N.H.L.’s career points leader even if he had […]

The flashy Los Angeles Rams will begin their journey to defend their Super Bowl championship against the Buffalo Bills, a team that offered one of the most memorable games in N.F.L. history the last time it played. Russell Wilson will start his career with the Denver Broncos by returning to his previous home of a […]

There will be no Triple Crown champion this year after the owner of the Kentucky Derby champion horse Rich Strike announced Thursday that his colt will skip the Preakness Stakes and run instead in the Belmont Stakes. Rick Dawson said Rich Strike came out of the Derby in fine shape but that he and the […]

As the Nets’ disappointing season reached its end after they were swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, Kyrie Irving made clear that he was committed to the Nets for the long term. But after a season in which Irving played only 29 of the 82 regular season […]

The PGA Tour has sternly refused to grant its membership the ability to play in the inaugural event of a rival Saudi-backed golf tour, which will make its debut next month outside London. The move, announced in a memo to tour members Tuesday night, was hardly a surprise — the PGA Tour is protecting its […]

A few days before last summer’s transfer window drew to a close, a handful of Manchester City’s most senior executives gathered in a conference room at the club’s sprawling campus to pick through what had gone right, and what had gone wrong, over the previous couple of months. Though City, the Premier League champion, had […]

Tom Brady will join Fox Sports as its lead N.F.L. analyst when his football career is over. Whenever that may be. Brady, the seemingly ageless superstar quarterback, is fully intending to suit up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this coming season at age 45. But whenever he does retire, the Fox job will be waiting […]

“The question of my return to work at the institute died a death,” he wrote in his memoir. In 1955, Mikhail Botvinnik, who was then world champion, recruited Mr. Averbakh to play training games with him. Over the next two years, the two played 25 games against each other — about the same length as […]

Commissioner Rob Manfred is well aware that his league’s baseballs are under scrutiny from players, fans and others, and while Major League Baseball is working to address various issues, his message on the subject has a central theme: consistency. Speaking with a group of sports editors at M.L.B.’s headquarters in Manhattan on Monday, Manfred discussed […]