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America's professional basketball league said Wednesday that teams will have to play the National Anthem before games, after a Texas-based franchise stopped playing the song. "With NBA teams now in ...

The NBA's Dallas Mavericks are not playing the National Anthem before home games, breaking a tradition upheld by ...

Marty Schottenheimer’s NFL coaching career was as remarkable as it was flummoxing. There were 200 regular-season wins, the ...

Pedro Gomez, a longtime baseball correspondent for ESPN who covered more than 25 World Series, has died. He ...

TOKYO—It will be an Olympics like no other, the world’s largest mega-sports event being staged in the middle ...

PITTSBURGH—Grant Jackson, the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 1979 World Series for the “We Are Family” ...

A Florida official said Monday the state would be happy if the Olympic Games in Tokyo were relocated ...

TOKYO—There is "no Plan B" for the Tokyo Games, said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who reaffirmed ...

LAS VEGAS—Dick Button has always been the measuring stick for American men figure skaters. And no wonder, with ...

LAS VEGAS—Bradie Tennell is back on top of American figure skating. The 22-year-old Olympian, who had finished second ...

TOKYO—Japanese cabinet minister Taro Kono has said “anything can happen” in regard to the postponed Tokyo Olympics, raising ...

The New South Wales government will make it compulsory for all attendees to wear a mask at the ...

India have reportedly expressed concern about being forced into a hard quarantine on entry to Brisbane, claiming they'd ...

Mandatory mask restrictions are in place for many venues across Greater Sydney as New South Wales works to ...

Sports industry profits dropped by billions of dollars in 2020 across major leagues as the CCP virus pandemic ...

ARLINGTON, Texas—Mookie Betts came to the Dodgers to make a World Series difference. With a mad dash to ...

Australia's national rugby team, the Australian Wallabies, have decided not to kneel during the national anthem to support ...

Chinese state-run media CCTV announced on Oct. 9 that its sports channel will resume broadcasting NBA (National Basketball ...

TOKYO—Japan’s new prime minister said Saturday that he’s determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games next summer as ...

LOS ANGELES—Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles ...

NBA star LeBron James said late Tuesday that he has "zero comment" on the challenge from Los Angeles ...

College football teams part of the Big Ten Conference will begin playing in October, conference officials said Wednesday, ...

Public support for sports has plummeted in the United States over the past year, according to a new ...

Players on four NBA teams knelt during the national anthem on Friday despite it being the anniversary of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Bob Baffert endured the lowest of lows and highest of highs within minutes in the Kentucky Derby. ...

TUCSON, Ariz.—Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame coach who turned Arizona into a college basketball powerhouse, has died. ...

PAYERNE, Switzerland—A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared ...