Opinion

Teams know when a game is pacing behind. The weather looks shaky. The opponent doesn’t travel well. A star player is questionable. Pricing may be off, and the right fans haven’t been reached. There is still time to fix it, but most teams cannot move fast enough for it to matter.

In January, federal authorities indicted 26 individuals in a college basketball point-shaving conspiracy involving more than 39 athletes across 17 different teams. At least two defendants were also implicated in a separate NBA gambling case, suggesting that professional and collegiate betting miscon...

The NBA journeyman who plays for several teams over the course of his career has existed for decades, long before Dennis Schröder completed the rainbow of jersey colors. In recent years though, we’ve seen the multiteam career path, that was historically reserved for role players, become the norm for...

Norway’s approach to youth sports dominated the conversation during the Winter Olympics. And why not? When a country roughly the size of South Carolina leads the world in medals, for the second Winter Olympics in a row, it’s fair to assume the Norwegians might be doing a few things right.

College football is the second highest-rated TV programming in the U.S., behind only the NFL. A dozen schools’ games consistently produce NFL-like numbers at 4 million to 10 million-plus viewers. College football generates $3.9 billion in media rights, and … it is underperforming.

NFL fan shoos away NHL and NBA playoffs to watch the draft.

When MLS Commissioner Don Garber was tasked to run the league in 1999, it had 12 teams. Today, it sits at 30, and Garber has overseen every major advancement and change of the sport in North America. But Garber has more yesterdays than tomorrows as commissioner and the league will soon enter a new e...

Perhaps no time in the history of mankind have sports and politics been so entwined.

College athletics has entered the semi-professional era. Revenue sharing, NIL markets, and private capital have reshaped the landscape. The House settlement accelerated that transition and required a centralized enforcement agency capable of administering new obligations across conferences and campu...