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Ed Willson has a jar filled with dirt sitting on his desk. For more than 40 years, Mr. Willson has been a fan of the minor league baseball team in [...]

Ed Willson has a jar filled with dirt sitting on his desk. For more than 40 years, Mr. Willson has been a fan of the minor league baseball team in [...]

Adrien Marlault, a Parisian businessman and avid runner, has stayed at hotels in the past when running marathons in Berlin, Rotterdam and Rome. But for this year's New York City [...]

The aftermath of a failed relationship: Rory McIlroy walks 18 holes; Caroline Wozniacki runs 26.2 miles. Wozniacki, the world's 13th-ranked female tennis player, was supposed to marry the golfer Rory [...]

The United States Olympic Committee announced Friday that it had narrowed its list of potential American cities to host the 2024 Summer Games to four finalists -- Boston, Los Angeles, [...]

When NBC Universal agreed to spend $7.75 billion on six Olympic Games through 2032, perhaps it was counting on the added value of having one of those Olympics staged in [...]

In a reversal, Competitor Group, the organizer of dozens of high-profile running events around the world, said it would immediately reinstate appearance fees for elite athletes. Race fees are a [...]

The New York City Marathon sponsor ING will end its decade-long relationship with the race and be replaced by Tata Consultancy Services, the Indian technology giant, race organizers said Wednesday. [...]

The sport of road running, from small-town 10-kilometer races to big-city marathons, has long supported its top athletes with appearance fees. Come run our race, and you will be paid [...]

Tulsa's long-shot pitch to host the 2024 Olympics may be in trouble. The Tulsa mayor, Dewey F. Bartlett Jr., withdrew his support this week of the plan to bring the [...]

TULSA, Okla. -- When Neil Mavis roams the wide, quiet streets here, he sees an 80,000-seat Olympic stadium blooming where a fleet of trucks sit in a parking lot. He [...]

When he woke up Friday, Zachary Yoshor, 17, a senior at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston and a star player on the school's basketball team, said he was [...]

On Tuesday morning, a gaggle of 15 wiry-haired Russell terriers scampered into Ring 2 at Piers 92/94 in Manhattan to make their Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show debut. Dozens of [...]

Nearly two months after it canceled the New York City Marathon in the days after Hurricane Sandy, New York Road Runners announced Thursday that runners who registered for the 2012 [...]

Jarmo Pitkanen, a 31-year-old from Denmark, is attempting this week to complete his third multiple-day endurance footrace. This one, the 132-mile Manaslu Mountain Trail Race, is taking him across the [...]

Some called it the shadow race. Others the underground marathon. Plenty of people did not know what to call it at all. But on what was scheduled to be Marathon [...]

When Sandra Unger heard that Roger Federer was headed to the practice courts at the United States Open, she immediately texted her sister Laurie McLeod, who was having lunch at [...]

LONDON -- For the cross-country portion of the eventing competition Monday, horses and riders will jump over a moon, a chess table, an unidentified planet, a tractor and baskets of [...]

For the last two years, Peggy Nugent, an engineer in Manhattan Beach, Calif., and her 28-year-old daughter have been planning a trip to the London Olympics. Nugent has a hat [...]

Saudi Arabia, a monarchy with severe restrictions on women in daily life, will allow female athletes to compete in the Olympics for the first time this summer if they qualify, [...]

The Romneys face a different sort of fierce competition this weekend: a horse co-owned by Ann Romney will compete for a berth at the London Olympic Games. In Gladstone, N.J., [...]

Some critics of this summer's Olympic Games in London have seized on the potential traffic nightmares and security concerns. Others have expressed outrage over the cost of the Games while [...]

The International Olympic Committee has rejected proposals from the Israeli government and two United States representatives to hold a moment of silence at this summer's London Games in memory of [...]

The 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, opened the floodgates for Olympic mascots by giving the world Schuss, a cartoon character that became known as the Skiing Sperm. All manner [...]

The Summer Olympics in London could be a watershed event for international sports as every participating nation is expected to field at least one female athlete, including three Muslim countries [...]

A Texas high school athletic association is facing pressure from the mayor of Houston and criticism from a former N.B.A. coach over its handling of an Orthodox Jewish day school [...]

The Robert M. Beren Academy, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston, won its regional championship to advance to the boys basketball state semifinals this weekend in Dallas. But the [...]

AIKEN, S.C. -- The horses' straw beds were ablaze, with the rest of the barn, when two men rushed in against the flames and black smoke to try to save [...]