The older Jim Souhan gets, the more he values everyday decency in sports figures. So he begins 2026 with a remembrance of ...

Soccer's rise in the United States took another step forward as the sport is reportedly now the third most popular sport in ...

I’d like to offer up my five favorite stories from 2025 that hopefully fulfilled my intentions to, in the words of Pulitzer ...

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Sports are a universal language. As some Times readers may know, I have autism. As I mentioned in a column earlier this year, it makes communicating harder and I can have difficulty even composing ...

A soccer midfielder who survived cardiac arrest. A basketball player's dramatic weight loss journey. A baseball pitcher tossing the final strikeout at state with everything on the line. I've had the ...