Best known for basketball success under John Calipari 30 years ago, UMass has won 26 football games in 13 years in the FBS. Can it change?
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The candid Mets legend reflects on his Cinderella career and indelible place in the pop-culture pantheon.
Despite hosting games in a temporary stadium with 35,000 fewer seats, Northwestern football is bringing in more revenue with premium packages.
Huff and Marshall had been heading for a divorce for months, but there were few hard feelings as both coach and program turned the page.
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Even a storied program like Florida State is susceptible to the volatile landscape of college football and the sport's new-age war chests.
They led a cycling revolution in a country where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.
'God's Quarterback' was the archetype American success story, but the triumphs everyone saw masked the inner turmoil no one knew about.
Tickets are almost entirely bought and sold (and resold) online. What is the difference between Ticketmaster, StubHub, SeatGeek and other brokers?
The following is a list of stadiums in the United States. They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list. The majority of these stadiums are used for American football, either in college football or the NFL. Most of the others are Major League Baseball ballparks or Major League Soccer stadiums.Rows shaded in yellow indicates stadium is home to an NFL, MLB, MLS, or NWSL franchise.
The long read: I was once Ireland’s No 1 player, and tried for years to climb the global ranks. But life at the bottom of the top can be brutal
Four major TV provider companies reported collective losses of roughly 1.35 million customers during their first fiscal quarters.
It might be America’s most-played sport. Now it’s quietly becoming a TV success story.
The game presents a social problem: How does one find comity among a group of jostling strangers?
Dealers offer car leases for 12 months in exchange for marketing on athletes' social media accounts.
People cannot fix loneliness by themselves, which is where sports and all their beauty come into play.
Sports business trivia abounds in this episode. Lev Akabas join the Sporticast sports podcast to talk Oakland A's, soccer valuations, and NFL sales.
The UC Board of Regents is considering a proposal for UCLA to begin annual payments of $10 million to subsidize Cal’s athletic department.
A secretive Madison Square Garden committee makes VIP ticket decisions based on their own inscrutable definition of celebrity level.
When Paris F.C. made its tickets free, it began an experiment into the connection between fans and teams, and posed a question about the value of big crowds to televised sports.
How has Texas A&M's approach changed under Mike Elko? Will Texas' move to the SEC help the Longhorns with in-state prospects?
More than half of the NCAA Tournament's top teams have used HD Intelligence services, as basketball's data revolution sweeps through the college game.
She overcame trust issues and chartered a yacht. Now Caitlin Clark is ready for March.
The Netflix series “Sunderland ’Til I Die” serves as a thesis both for fandom and for the inevitability of its disappointments.
The NFL's television contracts account for $12.4 billion, about 43% of all sports TV deals in the U.S.
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure
Even as networks cram more tech into their sports production, replay producers still play a critical, human role.
After the 2022 All-Star Game, Morant's misconduct became more frequent -- and dangerous. Since then, serious allegations have emerged. Lawsuits and subpoenas remain open. And a 24-year-old superstar's career is on the brink.
It was inevitable that the golf legend would be wooed away from the PGA Tour, writes Alan Shipnuck in an excerpt from his new book, LIV and Let Die. The question was who’d come along with him. “Everyone,” as one player puts it, “had a number."
Charting ESPN’s rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet.
High school athletes are free to monetize their name, image, and likeness rights in thirty states. Texas ain’t one of ’em.
Once the next big thing in American sports, Jai Alai has all but completely disappeared over the past 20 years. But in Miami, the game is still played for much smaller crowds and stakes.
The long read: A series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?
From Villa's weirdly disconnected midfield to Forest playing passes near their corner flags, here's what we can learn from analysing passing
Some coaching transitions do the unthinkable, like Sonny Dykes and TCU. Others flounder, like Scott Frost and Nebraska. How, and why?
Stolz, the 18-year-old from Wisconsin, won three gold medals at the speedskating world championships, finishing his turns in a way that seemed like something out of a storybook.
Erik Sowinski is a professional pacer, a talented runner who is in high demand on starting lines, and nowhere to be found at the finish.
When the top teams in Greece meet, the story lines, and the rivalries, regularly extend far beyond the soccer field.
Gary Hunt is an enigma. He trains with the intensity of a modern athlete, but relaxes like a sportsman of a bygone era. He is fiercely competitive but unbelievably laid-back. How did he become the greatest cliff diver of all time?
He won four Super Bowls and retired as the undisputed greatest. What came next was turning a legacy into a life.
Teams that can’t match England’s spending now face a choice: Accept that they can no longer compete for the best talent, or risk everything to try.
Eleven-year-old Victoria has her sights set on playing Little League with the boys. She goes through tryouts and is told to learn to cook…
Dave Bresnahan never made it past AA, but, thanks to a specially prepared potato, he holds a place in baseball lore
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YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan tells us the steaming giant is making a big bet on TVs, where it’s seeing the fastest growth.
Teams were once considered poor, unpredictable investments. Today they’re among the most coveted assets in the world. What changed?
Junior defensive lineman T.A. Cunningham has turned to the courts after his cross-country move to pursue NIL opportunities went awry.
Joe Mazzulla’s path to head coach of the Celtics was 15 years in the making, and it could have been seen coming from Morgantown, West Virginia.
"Narco," a dance hit by Australian musician Timmy Trumpet and the Dutch DJ duo Blasterjaxx, is the walk-on music for star relief pitcher Edwin Díaz.
Anytime you order nachos at a sporting event, there’s a good chance they came from a molten-cheese empire in San Antonio, Texas.
Espionage on the sideline and in the coaches' booth is increasing in college football, but does all that effort make a difference on the field?
Camden Yards, which opened 30 years ago this summer, is revered for its design and downtown location. But its influence—along with its lessons—extends beyond architecture.
The legendary Dodgers broadcaster, who died Tuesday at age 94, was a modern Socrates, only more revered. He was simultaneously a giant and our best friend.
R&D leaders can boost productivity by using advanced analytics to create stronger, faster engineering teams.
Taking the kids to a baseball game, a movie, or Disneyland is a bigger financial commitment than it used to be for middle-class families.
"For your fans, what’s important to them?” said West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons of scheduling rivals after realignment.
Football in Russia was booming after the 2018 World Cup - now, thanks to the invasion of Ukraine, it promises to keep on shrinking
Saudi-backed LIV Golf shows how 'sportswashing' can backfire.
Participants in the Tennessee race must negotiate extreme temperatures, wild terrain and more than 50,000 feet of accumulated ascent
Amazon and Apple TV are betting big on live sports streaming, and Netflix may be next.
Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn't make it? The internet certainly
Erriyon Knighton, just out of high school, has already lowered Bolt’s world junior record in the 200 meters. “It’s almost like he’s a pogo stick,” Knighton’s coach said.
The former Super Bowl champion has always had a way with words. It has turned him into a trusted adviser to N.F.L. and college football players who want to use their “wittys to get up out that siti.”
Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams’ line
The N.H.L.’s least valuable franchise, and its 26-season headache, won’t have a home as of June 30 after the City of Glendale said it would end their agreement.
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Celebrating the greatest hockey movie of all time—and one the best “malaise days” Seventies films ever.
He’s the greatest marathoner in history, a national hero in Kenya, and an icon for runners around the world. But despite his fame and wealth, Eliud Kipchoge chooses to live the most basic lifestyle. Cathal Dennehy travels to the highlands of Kenya for an inside look at his training camp and to meet a champion with a quiet, complex personality
James A. Garfield High School in Seattle is a place where you can feel the history thrum throughout the hallways. Quincy Jones and Jimi Hendrix were students here. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke …
In 2002, Kobe Bryant's surprise arrival at Harlem's legendary court caused a stir. This is the oral history of what happened when the Lakers great put his streetball cred on the line.
‘He was just out there drilling long threes in his shades and hitting cutters. It was really incredible.’
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.
Valdosta might be a 24-time state football champ, but lately its program has been rocked by a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former coach, the hiring of controversial coach Rush Propst and a secret recording that alleged cheating by SEC powers.
Indiana is set to host a Big Dance unlike any other, evoking the madness—from buzzer beaters to bourbon-soaked basketball—of the state's fabled high school tournament.
Iga Swiatek of Poland came out of nowhere to win the French Open in October. A sports psychologist was with her all the way.
How did an executive in one of the league's smallest markets steal millions of dollars -- and get away with it for years?
For many female wrestlers, the toughest challenge is finding opponents.
In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.
From "advanced stats" to "Woj bomb," here are the verbs, adjectives, nouns, and phrases you need to understand basketball in 2019-20
It’s more than just ticket sales. Rich Luker, a social psychologist, studies fandom and why, for example, someone might get a tattoo of their favorite team.
Alabama comes into the 2019 season riding a streak of five straight seasons with at least 12 wins. The last time the Tide failed to hit that mark was 2013, when they lost their No...
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Fox Sports is certainly betting on it. And it just might have the stars to make it work.
How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet
As the son of African immigrants, Antetokounmpo was unwelcome in Athens. Then he showed promise as a basketball star.
Over the past 20 years, Gregg Popovich has sliced an exclusive culinary trail across America -- all for a singular purpose. This is the story of his legendary team dinners, and how they have served as a pillar of the Spurs' decadeslong dynasty.
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Why the world was wrong about the "worst Olympian ever."
A football route tree consists of a single straight line with other lines branching off it, depicting the various possible routes. Here is what a basic football route tree looks like.
In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond
Any idiot can get married. Any idiot can be a father. An NBA title? That’s work. That’s worth crying over.
You didn’t think this was one of those fairytales where the kid gets some pep talk, and everything changes right? It REALLY isn’t that.
The Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes joined forces with investors from Shanghai and planned to cash in on buying and selling athletes, documents show.
Unlikely comrades Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner play overseas for the money. As it turns out, they also simplify their lives.
Courtney Dauwalter specializes in extremely long races. But her success in winning them has opened a debate about how men’s innate strength advantages apply to endurance sports.
On the football field, one team went from six to eleven. Another went from eleven to six. And both faced challenges they didn’t expect.
Dudes like me ain’t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I’m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven’t told anybody.
A long-dormant police investigation gives the case new life.
Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
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Sammy Gelfand is the numbers guy behind the Golden State Warriors’ success. Some pretty good players help, too.
On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.
A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.
“The reason women-only billiards tournaments exist is not because the players can’t beat men. It’s because they can.”
The great unbundling is upon us, thanks to an aggressive rise in the secondary market. So why do fans still shell out for their annual fees?