The international swimming federation said transgender women who had experienced male puberty could not compete in women’s events.

Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green won four N.B.A. championship teams in eight years.

Tied for the tournament lead entering Sunday, Will Zalatoris will get another shot at his first major win after surviving a perilous third round.

Osaka has not played at Wimbledon since 2019.

It was a topsy-turvy second round on a vexing golf course as famed and anonymous players jockeyed up and down the leaderboard and turkeys paid a visit.

Tatum, the 24-year-old Boston Celtics forward, learned the hard way during the N.B.A. finals just how much it takes to be a championship-level leader.

Soccer’s showcase championship, the first edition with 48 teams, will visit 16 cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Golden State defeated the Boston Celtics, 103-90, in Game 6 of the N.B.A. finals. It’s the fourth championship for Stephen Curry.

The signings of Erling Haaland and Darwin Núñez were not mere summer coups for Manchester City and Liverpool. They could signal the start of a new tactical phase.

Ariarne Titmus of Australia has a perfectly good reason for missing a renewal of her rivalry with Katie Ledecky at the world championships: She didn’t feel like going.

Four N.B.A. championships. Two Most Valuable Player Awards. And yes, a finals M.V.P. Golden State’s Curry has nothing else to prove.

Nadal, hobbled by a foot injury while winning the French Open, said he would play in the grass-court tournament, which begins on June 27.

Sandy Alcantara and Pablo López of the Miami Marlins have been the N.L.’s best pitchers this season. They are motivated by the loss of a parent and bound by a sense of purpose.

“You think you’ve got him, but you don’t,” Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev said. “He just uses you as bait and as a screen. He’s very, very dangerous.”

It’s the fourth championship in eight seasons for Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.

PGA Tour loyalists golfed alongside tour defectors for the first time, and for Phil Mickelson, LIV Golf’s highest-paid star, it was business as usual down to his score.

Golden State’s Stephen Curry wore a T-shirt at Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals defending the culinary skills of his wife, Ayesha. It has to do with beef and Boston.

The human rights record of its funder, Saudi Arabia, may be the least of the new tour’s challenges when it comes to getting on American television.

One of the U.S.G.A.’s most cherished courses, the Country Club is tucked away in an exclusive neighborhood with little room for the demands of a modern major tournament.

Stephen Curry is one win away from his fourth N.B.A. championship. Boston is trying to come back from its second 3-2 deficit this postseason.

Luis Garcia and Phil Maton each recorded a three-strikeout inning on nine pitches. That they accomplished the feat against the same three Rangers batters added some absurdity.

Banned from representing their former country, a breakaway group of Cuban major leaguers is pushing to form its own team. Meet the Cubanos.

In any other cycle, the World Cup would be kicking off this month. But the choice of Qatar as host changed everything, just as the World Cup has changed Qatar.

Whitmore, a pitcher and outfielder for the Staten Island FerryHawks, is the first woman to play in a league partnered with Major League Baseball since 1994.

Other teams’ superstars kept getting traded, and the Celtics wanted in on the action. Boston (mostly) missed out, and is probably better off for it.

New York surrendered four consecutive games to the Lightning, who will attempt to defend their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships against the Colorado Avalanche.

The favorite at post time, Mo Donegal won by three lengths, becoming the third horse to win a Triple Crown race in 2022. The Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was sixth.

Julianne Grace “felt like a spectacle” when she lined up for her first New York Mini in 1975. Now she’s joined by her daughter and granddaughters.

Golden State desperately needed a win after losing two of the first three games in the N.B.A. finals. Curry’s 43 points on Friday got it done.

Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert assess the contenders for the 154th Belmont Stakes on Saturday.

Bold new project or crass money grab? Even golf’s best players can’t agree on the new Saudi-financed golf tour. Here’s what you need to know.

Sonny Leon became a big name in the sport when he steered Rich Strike to victory in the Kentucky Derby. But he says he’s happiest on small-time ovals.

The N.C.A.A. has restricted previous events in response to state lawmakers. It faces that test again in Oklahoma, where softball championships are a mainstay and a restrictive abortion ban recently became law.

A star striker is eager to move to Barcelona, and his club doesn’t seem to realize it might be its own fault that he wants to go.

The Golden State fashion plate has made a point of wearing looks from independent labels during his “tunnel walks.”

His outrageous fastball may never come back, but Noah Syndergaard is enjoying his new life with the Los Angeles Angels, on and off the field.

Chile’s soccer federation had argued Ecuador should be ejected from the tournament for using an ineligible player in qualifying. FIFA disagreed.

The Rangers’ first playoff loss at Madison Square Garden since the first round came at an inopportune time for the team, which will face elimination in Game 6 after taking a 2-0 series lead.

His passion is playing percussion at salsa clubs, but Charlie Montoyo also thrives at his day job: managing the Toronto Blue Jays.

New York has come back throughout the playoffs, and will have to again on Saturday in Tampa with the Lightning one win from a third consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Given the volume and seriousness of the allegations against the Cleveland Browns quarterback, our columnist wonders if an N.F.L. suspension is enough of a punishment.

Riddled with injuries — Pete Alonso’s is only the latest — the Mets still have the N.L.’s best record. They will face a spiraling Angels team that has been their polar opposite.

The PGA Tour commissioner said pros taking part in the new LIV Golf Series were now ineligible for his tour’s events, and he warned others thinking of joining that they would face the same discipline.

By promising top players multimillion-dollar paydays, the kingdom moved beyond investing in a sport and made a play to control one. Then the PGA Tour struck back.

The executive, Luis Silberwasser, will be responsible for crucial talks with the N.B.A. at a time when the value of live sports rights are soaring.

New revelations about Watson, who has been accused of sexual misconduct with women he hired for massages, have drawn only silence from the Browns but have left some of the team’s fans in anguish.

The Celtics lead the N.B.A. finals, two games to one, in a series that has been defined by size and rebounds more than finesse and flash.

Nadal extended his men’s singles record of 22 Grand Slam titles with a win in straight sets over Casper Ruud.