The new schedule purposely keeps the national TV showdowns separate from the back-to-backs.

We’ve all seen a pitcher when he’s zeroed in: His mechanics are clean, his curveball is dropping off the table and he’s painting the edge of the zone. But just as often, a hurler can lose command, and we see pitches that normally look sharp getting hammered into the stands. These streaks are confounding; for no apparent reason, a journeyman can look like a Hall of Famer, or a Cy Young winner can look like an ordinary junkballer.

Summer spending across English Premier League football clubs has been jaw-dropping.

ong before he flipped his bat, Jose Bautista was known around baseball as a demonstrative player. Major-league umpires had exchanged enough words and glances with him to form their opinions, and Darren O’Day already knew from experience that Bautista wouldn’t hesitate to enjoy a well-timed homer. With two home-run titles and six all-star appearances before he got his first taste of the playoffs, Bautista was a bona fide superstar. But his style of play rankled some observers and the volume of overt criticism surged when...

Los Angeles is set to announce it will host the Olympic Games in 2028, meaning Paris will stage the 2024 edition.

One drunken mistake can change your life forever. Just ask Toronto Blue Jays fan Ken Pagan

A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.

You’ve gotta have the hat. The hat’s the key. My son, Gunnar, is only 2½ years old, but he already loves baseball. And when we play ball around the house, well, it just being the two of us, you might imagine that rules-wise it’s pretty lax. And that’s true, to an extent. For starters, we barely even have enough players to field two teams — just me on the mound (it’s a thin rotation), and then Gunnar at bat. But no matter how ragtag our games are, there’s always one thing that he insists on...

After a six-year hiatus, Hank Williams Jr. is returning to Monday Night Football this NFL season, again asking America, “Are you ready for some football?” But basic math shows the country singer should be asking us more about our appetite for some commercials.

During this series of articles that have comprised my FanGraphs Residency, I have updated my analysis of the free-agent market that I last researched over three years ago. The vast majority of my new findings have suggested that teams have gotten smarter about spending in line with true player talent, all the while spending roughly the same share of league revenue as they were spending before.

Watch your back, Usain Bolt — there’s a new 100-meter dash superstar and she looks unstoppable. Meet 101-year-old Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins, who on Saturday became the oldest female athlete to ever compete in the USA Track and Field Outdoors Masters Championships. Not only that, but by running the 100 meters in 40.12 seconds, she shaved more than six seconds off the current certified world record for women aged 100 or older.

No one can resist nature's call, but for athletes, knowing when to let 
it flow can be the difference between victory and defeat.

Fox and FS1 for its package of 15 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races this season averaged 4.9 million viewers

Major league baseball has a long but little-known history of rebels, reformers, and radicals.

NFL is opting out from Twitter live stream and selects Amazon for its "Thursday Night Football" game live-stream this fall. Who's going to watch?

For two players at distinct points in their careers, the path to the lucrative WTA Tour begins in small towns on the humbling Pro Circuit.

Channel 9 uncovered allegations of hidden cameras and secret peeping inside a former NASCAR driver’s home.

Gene Haas isn’t ready to reveal his 2018 Monster Energy Cup lineup — yet.

When race fans attend the I Love New York 355 at Watkins Glen in August, they'll be greeted with multiple billboards and signage promoting the state's tourism brand.

They are just blasting their way into the 12th century....remarkable.

        STUART, VA (July 26, 2017) – Wood Brothers Racing, the oldest active NASCAR team and one of the winningest teams in series history, and veteran driver Paul Menard, will join forces for the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENSC) season, the two parties announced today. The new partnership will see …

Each year in the United States, players of sports and recreational activities receive between 2.5 and 4 million concussions. How dangerous are all those concussions? The answer is complicated and lies in how the brain responds when something strikes it. Clifford Robbins explains the science behind concussions.

Patric Hornqvist used to be a Nashville Predator. In Game 6 on Sunday night, he was the one who crushed their Stanley Cup dreams and handed the Pittsburgh Penguins their second straight Stanley Cup championship.

The Hockey Hall of Fame revealed its newest class Monday after the 18-member selection committee completed its voting process. The 2017 class features Teemu Selanne, Mark Recchi, Dave Andreychuk and Paul Kariya. Each player received at least 75 percent of the vote to earn induction.

He played for Ravens, Packers, and Broncos in his brief career as an NFL tight end.

In an era of analysts and HD broadcasts, audiences don’t see the players as larger-than-life characters anymore.

Giants pitcher Johnny Cueto seems to have so much fun hitting and running the bases, you might think he would not want to play in the American League, which has the designated hitter. You would be wrong. In a surprising answer to that question, ahead of the Giants’ visit to Kansas City, Cueto said Saturday that he wants to finish his career in the American League.

The former Patriots tight end, serving a life sentence for murder, committed suicide in prison Wedneday morning, the Department of Correction said.

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The 23-year-old two-handed bowler rolls 12 strikes in 86.9 seconds

For reasons of history and culture, Polish climbers are among the world’s most audacious. This winter, a group will attempt K2, the world’s most dangerous mountain.

On July 25th, 1956, Roberto Clemente did a terrible, wonderful thing. In his sophomore year with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Clemente came to bat with the bases loaded, nobody out, and his team trailing the Chicago Cubs 8-5 in the bottom of the ninth at Forbes Field. He faced pitcher Jim Brosnan.

Nature’s Bakery will serve as the primary sponsor in four races this year split between Clint Bowyer and Danica Patrick.

Josh Donaldson finally returned to the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup Friday after missing over a month due to a calf strain, and there was a new look to his attire. As Donaldson stepped up to the plate for his first at-bat since April 13, fans noticed the All-Star third baseman was sporting a face shield on his batting helmet, a choice he partially attributed to an unfortunate incident last August when he was struck by a pitch from Kansas City Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera.

From 2001 to 2011, Albert Pujols was one of the greatest hitters baseball has ever seen. Pujols burst onto the MLB scene with 37 homers and a 1.013 OPS as a rookie in 2001. Even with that insane production, people were skeptical he could keep it up. He had never landed on any top-40 prospect lists, and here he was quickly becoming as good of a hitter as anyone in the league (well, behind Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Luis Gonzalez in that absurd 2001).