athletes

How concern about injuries is changing sports.

Despite captivating the nation with their athleticism every March, collegiate basktball players remain an exploited labor force for the profit of the NCAA.

Tsökahovi Tewanima held an American record in running for decades, but his training at the infamous Carlisle school kept him from his ancestral Hopi lands

Two former anti-doping professionals think the fight against performance-enhancing drugs is doing more harm than good.

The early years of a future basketball icon.

Richard Staff interviews four former Brooklyn Dodgers players, who, despite the team's move to Los Angeles, still identify with their Brooklyn roots.

A Hungarian immigrant first brought the soccer style field kick to the NFL.

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.

“You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”

A wrestler, a Sunday school teacher, and a mystery man walk into a studio.

On the mismatched sporting advice of Clair Bee and John R. Tunis.

Babe Ruth's final days revealed his mortality, and made more history, when he encountered a future U.S. president.

Major League Soccer – which starts the 2023 season on Feb. 25 – is deemed the most diverse league in the US. Its predecessor, the NASL, led the way.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

The controversy between players and owners frequently brought baseball into the federal courts between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries.

MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.

Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states help explain the Whiteness of winter sports.

One of the most audacious examples of product placement at the Olympics was staged by John Carlos and Tommie Smith.