Live baseball is more sublime and spiritually satisfying than any other sporting event—even when your team loses.

How many of us know real-world cheaters who have just plain gotten ahead, not despite their short-cutting but because of it?

Pope Francis urged athletes in many sports to fight against a throwaway culture that “treats men and women as products, to be used and then discarded.”

Sports memoirs tend to have a certain arc: the odyssey of the triumphant athlete. But every now and then, a retired athlete—like Jerry West, Abby Wambach and Gale Sayers—tells a more complicated story.

Where have you gone, Vin Scully? A nation turns its lonely ear to you.

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a football coach from Washington State who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.