When Lionel Messi and the Argentinian Men’s National Team kick off their quest for World Cup glory against Algeria in Kansas City on Tuesday, Arrowhead Stadium will look a bit different than Chiefs fans recall. A total of 3,500 seats were removed to make space for a full-sized soccer pitch; the playing surface was resodded […]

[UPDATE: In one of the most surprising results in World Cup history, heavy underdog Cape Verde drew with tournament co-favorite Spain, 0-0, in their opening group-stage match on Monday.] George Altirs had a problem. He’d just launched a youth soccer program in northern New Jersey, and he had a precise vision for the uniforms—a specific […]

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs Saturday night to win the NBA Finals in five games and clinch the franchise’s first championship since 1973. Jalen Brunson was named Finals MVP and will be part of a Knicks squad next season that will be among the top title contenders. The losing Spurs were […]

The New York Knicks are NBA champions for the first time since 1973 after their squad of often-overlooked players beat Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 on Saturday night. If Jalen Brunson (who had 45 of the Knicks’ points in the clincher), Karl-Anthony Towns and the rest of the tight-knit group are curious […]

While the first major test of the World Cup’s transit system at its New York-New Jersey venue seems to have received a passing grade from most fans, bumper-to-bumper traffic forced hundreds of spectators and volunteers at the Brazil-Morocco group stage match to ditch cars and walk a mile or more in the 87-degree heat to […]

The U.S. Men’s National Team opened its World Cup with a bang on Friday night, beating Paraguay 4-1 in Los Angeles. The win is welcome news for almost everyone in the multibillion American soccer industry, a group whose expectations for this domestic World Cup appear to be riding heavily on the success of a USMNT […]

The University of Utah has finalized an agreement with private equity firm Otro Capital to create a new for-profit entity, Crimson Brand Partners, the school announced Friday morning. No financial details were revealed, but Otro is committing at least $100 million to the endeavor, according to someone familiar with the agreement. “When we met our […]

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently weighing Title IX challenges by objectors to the House v. NCAA settlement, has now been asked to review a lower-court ruling in a separate case raising Title IX claims over how a school provides NIL-related benefits to male and female athletes. On Thursday, a group […]

The All England Lawn Tennis Club announced a prize money pool of £64.2 million (approximately $86 million at the current exchange rate) for the 2026 Wimbledon Championships on Thursday. That represents a 20% increase over last year’s record purse. The new figure, however, does not meet the 16% of revenue share that the players have […]

Not even the professionals inside the New York Knicks press conference room could contain themselves as the clock neared 1 a.m. Thursday morning. Some clapped when Knicks head coach Mike Brown hailed reserve guard Jose Alvarado’s performance—8 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, all in the fourth quarter—during the largest comeback in NBA Finals history, […]

It’s all on the players now. While the FIFA 2026 World Cup was envisioned as a massive global celebration of the world’s most popular sport, with some happy dollars to be made all around, the games arrive in North America with surprisingly little buzz. Instead, there’s a surplus of annoying, droning noise. Yes, there are […]

Massachusetts governor Maura Healey announced Monday that her office had secured 1,104 World Cup tickets to distribute at no cost to young people across the state. Less than 24 hours later, New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill made a similar proclamation, declaring that more than 750 free tickets would be made available to local residents. The […]

Mercedes-Benz has ruled the 2026 Formula 1 season under the sport’s new relegations, with wins in each of the first six races. The brand is also crushing it off the track, with the highest profits in F1 history. On Sunday, Companies House posted the 2025 financial results for Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix. It showed operating profit […]

Alexander Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 on Sunday in the French Open final to win his first major title. He is the first player outside of an elite cohort of Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and the former Big Three—including Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal—to win a Grand Slam since Daniil […]

Prior to this year’s French Open, Poland’s Maja Chwalińska had won one Grand Slam match in her career, was ranked outside the top 100 and had 500-to-1 odds to win Roland Garros prior to the first round. On Thursday, the 24-year old upset No. 25 seed Diana Shnaider in the semifinal to reach the women’s […]

Ten years ago, home teams wore white uniforms for 97% of NBA playoff games, and alternate jerseys were rarely worn during the postseason. This year, only 32% of playoffs games have featured home teams in white—many fans have voiced a desire for that number go back up—as NBA team’s jersey choices have become more chaotic. The […]

Quinnipiac University, long at the center of gender-equity legal battles in collegiate athletics, now faces a new federal lawsuit over its decision to downgrade its women’s varsity rugby program to a club sport. In a class-action complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 23 rugby players—who either played for […]

The Knicks are naturally the center of attention in New York right now as they play in their first NBA Finals since 1999. But they aren’t the only Knickerbockers in the city. A byword for a certain kind of New Yorker for centuries, a “Knickerbocker” was originally adopted by Dutch colonial settlers near present-day Albany. […]

The patch on the upper left corner of New York Knicks jerseys during the NBA Finals instructs fans to “Experience Abu Dhabi.” It’s a high-profile example of what has become a relatively common sponsorship in global sports—sovereign funds encouraging fans to travel to places they might not have previously considered. Right now, however, is a […]

The WNBA is planning to have its biggest stars wear USA 250 patches during this year’s All-Star Game, according to multiple people familiar with the plans, joining a handful of other leagues committed to publicly commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States. The red, white and blue patches were unveiled earlier this year by […]

Ohio State University’s Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to approve a $100 million settlement with all but one of the current plaintiffs suing the university over allegations of sexual abuse by former OSU sports medicine and team doctor Richard Strauss. In a statement released by Ohio State on behalf of both the school and plaintiffs, […]

As the United States sinks deeper into division at home and abroad, the U.S. Senate convened Wednesday to safeguard a corner of the national edifice that—judged by the same economic forces driving the country’s fragmentation—some would say is doing comparably remarkable: college sports. At a moment when Congress may be near a historic low in […]

Late in a close game, it becomes tougher for NBA players to generate quality shots. League-wide effective field goal percentage this NBA season was 54.6%. In crunch time, defined as the last five minutes of a game when the score margin is five points or less, that efficiency fell to 50.1%. That’s when superstars come […]

As anybody who has stayed up night after night through the NBA postseason knows, the human body wasn’t built for the late hours of playoff basketball. Our circadian rhythm typically optimizes for peak performance in the late afternoon and early evening, and it’s not just mental acuity that varies by time of day. “It’s mainly […]

When the New York Knicks swept the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round of the playoffs in dominating fashion, fans debated whether the Knicks’ nine days off before the Conference Finals would cause rust to build or if the rest would give them an advantage. Sportico’s analysis determined that rust was not a significant factor, […]

Rival WNBA fans have had some common ground this season. Within their Reddit community, more than 100 fans have discussed the league’s updated app, tallying faults like being logged out repeatedly and game streams jumping back to the beginning or to live instead of skipping a few seconds in either direction. “The app is genuinely […]

If you’re a casual men’s tennis fan, there’s a decent chance you can’t name any of the players still in contention as the French Open hits its second week. Some of the sport’s biggest stars—including Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev and Ben Shelton—wilted in the searing heat during the first few rounds. Carlos Alcaraz […]

There will be a new men’s major champion at Roland Garros this year. Novak Djokovic lost in the third round 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 to Brazilian 19-year-old João Fonseca on Friday, sending the tennis Grand Slams into a state of rare unpredictability. One day earlier, No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner lost in a five-setter […]

Two full months into the MLB season, the American League only has four teams above .500, while the National League has 11. Those are the fewest and most teams from either league, respectively, to be above .500 as of May 28 since MLB expanded to 30 franchises in 1998. A number of slumping AL teams […]

Global soccer heavyweights Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain face off Saturday in the Champions League final in Budapest, Hungary. They are both chasing history, with Arsenal looking for its first top-tier European crown, and PSG eyeing back-to-back titles, something only Real Madrid has accomplished since the tournament was rebranded as Champions League in 1992. The game […]