Athletes

Despite a run of stability at the top of the game, women’s tennis is still open to surprise.

It used to be assumed that a gymnast’s peak came around sixteen years of age. So why will the Olympic team be stocked with women in their twenties?

At the upcoming N.B.A. draft, perhaps the biggest question is where a likely role player—whose dad is one of the greatest athletes of all time—will end up.

Four games between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks have mostly come down to talent and strategy. But the mind-set of the players matters, too.

Clark isn’t yet the best player the W.N.B.A. has ever seen. What can she learn from the player who is?

The team has dominated all season. Why does it have so many doubters?

In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.

The Minnesota Timberwolves make the least glamorous part of basketball seem fun.

For many fans, the real harbinger of spring is the beginning of baseball season.

For years, the Dallas Mavericks star was compared to James Harden, whose footsteps he seemed to follow. But Dončić plays with a different kind of freedom.

Films like Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” and last year’s “The Iron Claw” offer Zeitgeisty takes on masculinity. Do they signal a shift in the storied genre?

The podcast, co-hosted by J. J. Redick and LeBron James, combines analytical commentary with an insider’s perspective—and bypasses traditional media.

Talented and charismatic stars, including Caitlin Clark, JuJu Watkins, and Paige Bueckers, have made the games appointment viewing.

Even before the startling accusations made against Ohtani’s interpreter, the Dodgers star was seemingly at the center of civic life.

The N.C.A.A. star has dominated the courts this season, breaking the women’s scoring record, with a conviction that the future is hers and that it comes now.

The champion had overwhelmed nearly everyone she’d faced in the past two weeks. Saturday’s final, against Qinwen Zheng, was no different.

What a blood test taught me about testosterone, athleticism, and sex.

The San Antonio Spurs rookie, who stands seven feet four, with an eight-foot wingspan, is making other players look silly—when he isn’t looking silly himself.

This past season, he was baseball’s best hitter and, impossibly, its best pitcher, too. And then he got hurt.