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The World Cup. The Beijing Games. Baseball milestones. Swan songs in tennis. This year had a bit of everything for sports fans -- and here are some of our favorite [...]

Trying not to gloat, organizers of the 2024 Summer Games begin showing off the spectacle of the city while concerns about security and strikes mount. PARIS -- The message has [...]

Byline: Randal C. Archibold He wasn't going to achieve his dream of becoming a boxer by sparring with a light pole. He needed somebody to hit him. Wish granted. After [...]

A spicy rhythmic gymnastics finale. A 62-year-old medalist. A former prodigy with a gold. The Olympic magic was spread across sports. Olympic moments abound, whether widely noticed or barely. There [...]

The U.S. will make its 11th appearance in the final, playing Japan. TOKYO -- The U.S. women's basketball team has many advantages during the Olympic tournament, including a coterie of [...]

The winner goes to the gold medal game on Sunday. TOKYO -- Next up in the U.S. women's basketball team Olympic juggernaut: Serbia. At halftime of their semifinal match, the [...]

The U.S. will play France in the final on Saturday (Friday night in the U.S.). TOKYO -- Once again, the U.S. men's basketball team struggled in a first half against [...]

Breanna Stewart scored 23 points to lead the U.S. to a 79-55 rout of Australia in the women's basketball quarterfinals in Saitama, Japan, moving one step closer to the team's [...]

More than 100 years ago, one of the most popular spectator sports in the world was bicycle racing, and one of the most popular racers was a squat, strapping man [...]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Let's consider for a moment what could have been.A prizefight of a college football game, with the No. 1 ranked offense (Oklahoma) slugging it out with [...]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- The Alabama Crimson Tide moved closer to its third national championship in four seasons with a difficult but authoritative 45-34 win over Oklahoma on Saturday in [...]

Byline: RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD It's safe to say the attention of the soccer world was not focused on the seesawing battle at Mordovia Arena in Saransk, Russia, on Thursday as [...]

It's safe to say the attention of the soccer world was not focused on the seesawing battle at Mordovia Arena in Saransk, Russia, on Thursday as Panama fell to Tunisia, [...]

Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. It is far from clear what errors the Mexican national team might [...]

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- At an Olympics marked by a lackluster medal performance, the American team had been waiting for a flash of dominance, a sign that something actually was [...]

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea -- They are united here, at the Winter Games, at the bottom ranks of a sport considered among the most dangerous and daring, flopping belly first on [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Technically, it was a home game for the Oakland Raiders, though played thousands of miles south on the hallowed, soccer-entrenched ground of Estadio Azteca here. But by [...]

MEXICO CITY -- To wink at the New Orleans Saints' rise, they bellowed ''When the Saints Go Marching In,'' doing their best, if slightly accented, Louis Armstrong impersonation. Half-arguing, like [...]

Byline: RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD MEXICO CITY -- To wink at the New Orleans Saints' rise, they bellowed 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' doing their best, if slightly accented, Louis [...]

Manuel Antonio Noriega, the brash former dictator of Panama and sometime ally of the United States whose ties to drug trafficking led to his ouster in 1989 in what was [...]

Byline: RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD Manuel Antonio Noriega, the brash former dictator of Panama and sometime ally of the United States whose ties to drug trafficking led to his ouster in [...]

You know things are going pretty well when the big family argument is over whether to splash in the rain forest waterfall or loll around on the white-sand beach. You [...]

MEXICO CITY -- For half a century, as Fidel Castro transformed Cuba into a Communist state and sparred with the United States, his brother Raúl worked in his shadow, the [...]

Byline: VICTORIA BURNETT, RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD and FRANCES ROBLES MEXICO CITY -- For half a century, as Fidel Castro transformed Cuba into a Communist state and sparred with the United [...]

MONTERREY, Mexico -- Like many football-crazed boys, Luis Carranza grew up with a poster of Emmitt Smith, his hero, on his bedroom wall and vowed to emulate him. He took [...]

Byline: RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD MONTERREY, Mexico -- Like many football-crazed boys, Luis Carranza grew up with a poster of Emmitt Smith, his hero, on his bedroom wall and vowed to [...]

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. -- Crushed by exhaustion, you may dream of a competitor's head morphing into a Pokémon-like demon -- and then open your eyes and still see it. The next [...]