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Fancy a chance to claim the Rose Bowl? Get really good at carrying stones. At a traditional Scottish Highland Games, fit athletes engage in rigorous pursuits like caber-tossing, hammer-throwing and [...]

Ukraine said it was defending territory behind the eastern frontline town. Its capture would be Russia’s most significant territorial advance in Ukraine in more than six months. The Ukrainian military [...]

The quarterback led U.S.C. to 11 wins, the Trojans' best season since 2017. When coach Lincoln Riley bolted from the University of Oklahoma after last season, and his star freshman [...]

What an ending. Your favorite N.B.A. team has just clinched a championship. The superstar, drenched in sweat, fulfilled his hero’s journey. The players are exhausted, but jubilant. Some of them [...]

It's a decidedly American tradition, even if it can be a buzz-kill. What an ending. Your favorite N.B.A. team has just clinched a championship. The superstar, drenched in sweat, fulfilled [...]

Swiatek was drawn into a tight match with Karolina Muchova, and emerged with her third singles championship at Roland Garros in four years. Iga Swiatek is once more the queen [...]

Both the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat believe they have been disrespected and are using that as motivation as they compete for a championship. The Denver Nuggets' mascot, Rocky, [...]

Both the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat believe they have been disrespected and are using that as motivation as they compete for a championship. The Denver Nuggets’ mascot, Rocky, [...]

An ultramarathoner was disqualified after covering part of a course in a friend's car. She said it was a ''miscommunication.'' A rival had a different word: cheating. Almost any endurance [...]

So personalized that they include the signatures of every player in a Masters Tournament field, the trophies shipped to winners are deeply cherished but barely known. AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Last [...]

Soccer prefers to recognize collective triumphs ahead of personal milestones as the true measure of success. But glory comes in many forms. The record had, it turned out, been playing [...]

The quarterback led U.S.C. to 11 wins, the Trojans’ best season since 2017. When coach Lincoln Riley bolted from the University of Oklahoma after last season, and his star freshman [...]

Can the Lightning win a third straight championship? Will the Maple Leafs finally win a round? How far can the Rangers go? Will the Panthers' success in the regular season [...]

Max Verstappen knew his chances of beating Lewis Hamilton for the Formula 1 championship were slim. But he is ready to accept the trophy despite protests by Mercedes. Just like [...]

The defending champion started the U.S. Open with a solid 6-4, 6-1 win over Marie Bouzkova, a hard-hitting Czech. Feeling good about herself is the next challenge. Naomi Osaka was [...]

The University of Connecticut led the way in shutting down its program in deference to coronavirus precautions. Most of the Huskies' peers lacked the courage to do the same. Who [...]

''Trophy,'' an extraordinary documentary from Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, is filled with astonishing sights. An American hunter welling up over the body of the lion he has just shot; [...]

Edmonton captain Connor McDavid won his first Hart Trophy as the N.H.L.'s most valuable player. McDavid's victory capped a break through sophomore season for the 20-year-old center, who won the [...]

Sidney Crosby, the Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid and Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky are finalists for the N.H.L.'s Hart Trophy, given annually to the league's most valuable player. [...]

For a pittance, the Jets address a major need by adding Flacco, the Super Bowl 47 most valuable player. The Jets are hoping that their most prominent addition this off-season [...]

Since 1999, winners of college football's top award have been prohibited from selling their hardware. At least 11 Heismans from older winners have been sold in the last 20 years. [...]

Fifteen months ago, Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson began his college career in the least award-worthy way possible. On the first play of the Cardinals' 2015 season opener, against Auburn, Jackson [...]

The race for the Heisman Trophy is one of college football's most engaging contests. Take a large pool of contestants, throw them into the rollicking up-and-down of the three-month regular [...]

This is a story of Game 7 of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals told through the metaphorical eyes of the World Series trophy. [...]

Joe Bellino, an elusive halfback who was the first Navy player to win the Heisman Trophy but whose professional football career, delayed by four years of military service, fell short [...]

Major League Baseball staged a routine rehearsal of a World Series title celebration before a game had been played in Washington. Then social media erupted. WASHINGTON -- It was a [...]

In a United States Open women's doubles final between four top singles players on Sunday afternoon, Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens defeated Ashleigh Barty and Victoria Azarenka, 7-5, 7-5. The [...]

When I got the opportunity to take my sons on a six-week summer trip to Asia, I took leave of my common sense and did it. In the interest of [...]

The marquee auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art in New York next week are the first crunch moment of the year for the top end of the art market. [...]

Marcus Mariota took a deep breath, shook his lowered head and pursed his lips. His eyes welled up. He had just won the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first Hawaii native [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe banner still hangs defiantly inside the Carrier Dome, recognizing what many in lacrosse contend was the greatest college team ever. But since the N.C.A.A. vacated Syracuse's 1990 national [...]

Geraint Thomas, the champion of this year's Tour de France, is asking thieves to return the trophy he won after it was stolen this month from an exhibition in Birmingham, [...]

LONDON -- Sotheby's set the year's first benchmark price for trophy artworks at auction when Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting ''Femme au Béret et à la Robe Quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter)'' sold [...]

HANOVER, N.J. -- When the M.L.S. Cup playoffs begin on Wednesday, the talent-laden Eastern Conference will claim the spotlight with its confounding, shape-shifting ways -- and with several of its [...]

LONDON -- The Scottish government said it was reviewing its animal culling laws after a photograph of an American hunter posing with the carcass of a black-faced goat with magnificent [...]

Odubel Herrera hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the seventh inning, Cesar Hernandez hit a two-run homer and the host Philadelphia Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3, on Wednesday. [...]

He was the governor general of Canada 130 years ago. And in truth, he was something of a nonentity. Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley would long since have been lost to [...]

Blunt, bloody and stylish almost in spite of itself, ''Revenge'' is a synthesis of exploitation and feminism, which might strike you as antithetical ideas. The basic plot -- a woman [...]

LONDON -- Representatives of seven of the world's richest soccer teams, including Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid, visited FIFA on Wednesday for a private meeting aimed at winning the [...]

Joining Frances McDormand, Jordan Peele and Gary Oldman in accepting Academy Awards on Sunday night was someone more readily associated with other kinds of honors: Kobe Bryant. Bryant, who retired [...]

The men's basketball team at Yeshiva University overcame a bumpy start to its season to become champions for the first time, beating teams from its conference of small colleges in [...]

In the wake of Reggie Bush's decision to relinquish his 2005 Heisman Trophy, the trustees of the Heisman Trophy Trust announced Wednesday that there would be no 2005 recipient of [...]

The Trump administration will begin allowing hunters to bring into the United States ''trophy'' elephants killed in Zimbabwe, reversing a 2014 ban on a practice that has received intense scrutiny [...]

JERSEY CITY -- The biennial event is called the Presidents Cup, but until Sunday, the 13-year-old trophy had never been awarded to the winning team by a sitting President of [...]

Two years after Cecil the Lion was killed in a national park in Zimbabwe, sparking international outrage, his son Xanda was killed in a trophy hunt. The lion was shot [...]

Rashaan Salaam, a former running back who won the Heisman Trophy in 1994, was found dead on Monday in Colorado. He was 42. Mr. Salaam's body was discovered in a [...]

After Robert Griffin III signed his letter of intent to play at Baylor, Coach Art Briles told him that he would develop into a player worthy of the Heisman Trophy. [...]

Update: On Friday evening, President Trump tweeted that he would leave the ban in place, pending further review. Elephants are remarkably empathic and intelligent, even capable of self-awareness. And then [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump on Friday reversed the government's decision to start allowing hunters to import trophies of elephants that were killed in two African countries, pending a further review. [...]