PARIS — One of them focuses on numbers, hoping they will produce the validation he has always craved. Another one has come to play on the court that turns him into an apotheosis of his sport, and to protect this place as his personal kingdom. The third yearns for whatever there is left, and prepares […]

Here’s what you need to know: 73’ Pulisic comes close!!! He and Havertz took off at the City defense, and the German fed the American. But Ederson charged out to close the distance, and while Pulisic got off a shot, it rolled across the yawning goalmouth and wide. 66’ Pulisic is up next to the […]

When Sedona Prince arrived in San Antonio in March for her first N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament, she was grateful just to be playing again after a long recovery from an injury. But then Prince, who was a redshirt sophomore at the University of Oregon last season, noticed something that troubled her: striking differences between the […]

Alex Ferguson could, when the mood took him, be gracious in defeat. Often, that was when he was at his most ruminative, his most considered, his most obliging in his praise of an opponent. In all his years at Manchester United, though, he was never quite so effusive as he was deep inside Wembley Stadium […]

As a child, Rafael Nadal hit with two hands from both sides until he was told to choose one side so he would have a single-handed forehand. Although the boy did most things right-handed, he instinctively started playing tennis as a lefty. With his talent and his tenacity, Nadal likely would have been an all-time […]

The unruly fan behavior is not limited to the N.B.A. Baseball stadiums have hosted a number of fights between fans since beginning its season this spring. Samuel R. Sommers, an associate professor of psychology at Tufts University and an expert on the psychology of fans, said that sports bring people together in both unifying and […]

The shadows are drawing in across Europe. Inter Milan must shed millions of dollars from its salary bill. One or more of its brightest lights will have to be sold. Antonio Conte, the coach who only a few weeks ago ended the club’s decade-long wait for an Italian championship, does not intend to stick around […]

“For the playbooks, because the situation of Covid is very fluid, we are accessing different knowledge and we will update the playbooks based on science,” Muto said, adding that test events were building out the information available to Olympic organizers. “There are many different sporting events happening, and we are learning from that and assessing […]

The Islanders and their fans have a second chance to say farewell to Nassau Coliseum. They thought they had said goodbye in 2015, but after playing in Brooklyn full time, then part time, the team returned to its Long Island roots after an arena renovation, culminating in this year’s playoffs. Before they move next season […]

The first steps of Catarina Macario’s path toward professional soccer are easy to pick out, even in the grainy videotapes of her playing the sport as a girl. She doesn’t scissor over the ball so much as dance over it. She darts past defenders or lobs the ball over them. She leaves goalkeepers flat-footed. Even […]