Howard Bryant

While Black baseball players fear that speaking out would be a career death sentence, a new Players Alliance is mobilizing. And players are coming to terms with the lack of support for Bruce Maxwell, the only MLB player to take a knee.

The pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and the summer of protest and racial reckoning have combined to bring an end to the police-as-hero narrative sold to the public for the past 20 years -- largely through sports.

MLB had good intentions, but altering record books is the wrong approach. The historical record of the Negro Leagues was born from baseball’s racism, and the effects of that racism cannot be retrofitted.

Over the course of his 86 years, America asked Henry Aaron to do everything right. And he did. He was an unquestioned immortal of the game.

Like restaurants, schools and the culture at large, tennis in a pandemic world remains uncertain -- even as the return to Wimbledon is a welcomed event.

The film “King Richard” did not feel like an escape from the real-life, decadelong conflict occurring outside of the theater, but rather an extension of it.

As the Australian Open draws nearer, we still don’t know if Novak Djokovic will defend his title or be deported. Here’s the latest in the No. 1 ranked men’s player’s visa status and how we got to this point.

A new breed of personnel now runs baseball, bent on treating it as a Fortune 500 company rather than as a sport.

Former All-Star pitcher Dave Stewart is leading a group seeking to obtain a franchise in Nashville that would be the first majority minority-owned team in MLB history.

Life in post-hypocrisy America creates a newfound understanding of what “home” really means.

There are no superlatives, no metrics, no numbers, no generational or era comparisons that can account for a life lived, especially one as furiously pronounced and independent as Bill Russell’s.

Serena Williams cannot be separated from the decade that has shaped and reshaped American life. And that explains why the environment on the US Open grounds felt so intense, so personal.