Jack Kruger was about to start a season with yet another minor league baseball team, the Salt Lake Bees, a Class AAA team in Utah, when his cellphone rang. Get on the first plane to Los Angeles, his manager said. The Angels, Salt Lake’s parent club, were promoting Kruger to the majors to replace a […]

JUPITER, Fla. — Monday is judgment day. At least, from one point of view. Major League Baseball’s regular season is scheduled to start March 31. But after making little progress toward a new labor deal with the players’ union, the league doubled down on its position with a threat last week, and that start date […]

Inside the windowless conference room of the Kyiv hotel where the soccer stars had gathered, the anxiety was growing by the minute. An aborted attempt to flee had been a disaster. And the sounds of war — mortar fire, rocket blasts, screeching warplanes — provided a near constant reminder of their precarious circumstances. By Saturday […]

Everton and Chelsea, for example, have significant financial ties to Russian oligarchs who were named by a British lawmaker this week as suitable targets for sanctions; or Manchester United, studiously quiet on its sponsorship deal with Aeroflot, the state-backed Russian airline, until suddenly dropping it Friday. Still, what do you expect, when the very bodies […]

European soccer’s governing body on Friday voted to move this season’s Champions League final, the showcase game on the continent’s sporting calendar, to Paris as punishment for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The game, on May 28, had been scheduled to be played in St. Petersburg, in a stadium built for 2018 World Cup and financed […]

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Nestled in the heart of South Beach, Flamingo Park has been a haven for handballers in South Florida since the 1970s. A half-mile from Miami Beach’s party scene, the quiet handball courts here have seen their share of world champions and are home to a consistent crew of players, most of […]

A group founded by the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick started this week to offer free secondary autopsies for families of people who died under “police-related” circumstances. A certified autopsy can be prohibitive, sometimes costing $5,000 or more, so those without means have had to rely on the official inquiry conducted by a medical examiner […]

The game that almost didn’t get to finish suddenly didn’t want to end. With 2 minutes 43 seconds remaining in the second half of the men’s basketball game between No. 11 Providence and Xavier on Wednesday night, officials halted play because of slippery conditions. Leaks from the ceiling at the arena in Providence, R.I., had […]

After Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, 16, pulled off a stunning win in an elite rapid chess tournament from his computer in India on Monday, there were no hands of fellow competitors to shake or snapping cameras to capture the moment. The man he had just defeated, the world champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, was tending to the […]

The N.F.L. and college football have crowned their champions, with the Los Angeles Rams and the University of Georgia winning titles. The Winter Olympics are in the rearview mirror. And the start of the Major League Baseball season is in flux because of a lockout. But the men’s college basketball season is just heating up, […]