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Byline: Ken Belson and Brian Kaiser As fishing goes, the sturgeon spearing season on Black Lake may be the shortest in the country: Six fish long. Starting at 8 a.m. [...]

The president’s attendance at Sunday’s Super Bowl highlights how his connection to the league has veered from aspirational to openly antagonistic. During President Trump’s first term, his relationship with the [...]

As fishing goes, the sturgeon spearing season on Black Lake may be the shortest in the country: Six fish long. Starting at 8 a.m. on Feb. 1, about 500 fishers [...]

Branford Marsalis has traveled the world over, but one trip back to his hometown, New Orleans, still stands out. He was visiting from Los Angeles, where he was the bandleader [...]

Television commercial breaks are the bane of every N.F.L. fan. They interrupt a game already riddled with stoppages, bombard viewers with come-ons and force fans and players in the stadium [...]

Television commercial breaks are the bane of every N.F.L. fan. They interrupt a game already riddled with stoppages, bombard viewers with come-ons and force fans and players in the stadium [...]

The daughter of the Bears founder and football pioneer, George Halas, she witnessed much of N.F.L. history from a young age, then took the team's reins in 1983. Virginia Halas [...]

Branford Marsalis has traveled the world over, but one trip back to his hometown, New Orleans, still stands out. He was visiting from Los Angeles, where he was the bandleader [...]

Monday night's game in Arizona between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings is the first time the league has relocated a postseason game since 1936. Matthew Giachelli got [...]

Monday night’s game in Arizona between the Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings is the first time the league has relocated a postseason game since 1936. Matthew Giachelli got [...]

With the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions both Super Bowl contenders, fans north of the border are nervously hopeful a title drought could end. About a decade ago, Mike Smith [...]

With the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions both Super Bowl contenders, fans north of the border are nervously hopeful a title drought could end. About a decade ago, Mike Smith [...]

Byline: Ken Belson Connor Sports, in the tiny mill town of Amasa, Mich., is one of the leading makers of hardwood floors for top professional and college teams. Los Angeles [...]

Connor Sports, in the tiny mill town of Amasa, Mich., is one of the leading makers of hardwood floors for top professional and college teams. Los Angeles Clippers fans are [...]

Connor Sports, in the tiny mill town of Amasa, Mich., is one of the leading makers of hardwood floors for top professional and college teams. Los Angeles Clippers fans are [...]

Critics of using public money to build sports facilities dismissed the bond sale, but some of the team's devoted followers eagerly paid in. Bill Fitzgibbons grew up a Bills fan [...]

Critics of using public money to build sports facilities dismissed the bond sale, but some of the team’s devoted followers eagerly paid in. Bill Fitzgibbons grew up a Bills fan [...]

Byline: Tania Ganguli and Ken Belson A proposal to remake the area would please the owner of the city's N.B.A. and N.H.L. teams. But others, including classical musicians, aren't so [...]

Byline: Ken Belson The league is trying to ensure that sponsors, media partners and enthusiasm are in place before committing to playing a game in the country. Shane De Lappe [...]

The league is trying to ensure that sponsors, media partners and enthusiasm are in place before committing to playing a game in the country. Shane De Lappe and Stephen Murphy [...]

Byline: Ken Belson Under the expansionist leadership of its commissioner, the National Football League is growing richer and richer. So, too, is Mr. Goodell. As they met in the lobby [...]

Under the expansionist leadership of its commissioner, the National Football League is growing richer and richer. So, too, is Mr. Goodell. As they met in the lobby of the Omni [...]

A proposal to remake the area would please the owner of the city's N.B.A. and N.H.L. teams. But others, including classical musicians, aren't so thrilled. In late April, about 60 [...]

A leader of the Iranian-backed militia said its latest barrage was 'just the beginning,' and an Israeli military official said, 'Our strikes will intensify.' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel [...]

A leader of the Iranian-backed militia said its latest barrage was “just the beginning,” and an Israeli military official said, “Our strikes will intensify.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel [...]

Byline: Lauren Hirsch, Benjamin Mullin and Ken Belson His bid to buy Paramount pits one son of a billionaire against the son of another. When the media executive Edgar Bronfman [...]

His bid to buy Paramount pits one son of a billionaire against the son of another. When the media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. submitted his last-ditch bid on Monday to [...]

At a meeting next week, team owners are expected to approve rules that would allow private equity firms to invest in their franchises. For more than a century, National Football [...]

Byline: Ken Belson and Travis Dove In NASCAR, victory - and money - is often determined by seconds, one reason car racing teams are increasingly looking to hire former college [...]

A planned senior care facility next to the Pro Football Hall of Fame was trumpeted a decade ago. Today, no such place exists and the idea seems to have been [...]

The decision, five weeks after a jury awarded $4.7 billion in damages in an antitrust case, is a reprieve for the league. The $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football […]

Byline: Ken Belson Paris aims to be the most sustainable Olympic Games in history, but it was London over a decade ago that proved host cities didn't have to end [...]

Byline: Ken Belson In Orchard Park, N.Y., this past January, just as the tight end Travis Kelce caught a touchdown pass to help the Kansas City Chiefs take the lead [...]

Paris aims to be the most sustainable Olympic Games in history, but it was London over a decade ago that proved host cities didn't have to end up with empty [...]

In Orchard Park, N.Y., this past January, just as the tight end Travis Kelce caught a touchdown pass to help the Kansas City Chiefs take the lead in a playoff […]

In the N.F.L., being the chief executive of a publicly owned, nonprofit franchise is a singular job. Mark Murphy has been doing it for 17 years. On a sunny summer […]

In the N.F.L., being the chief executive of a publicly owned, nonprofit franchise is a singular job. Mark Murphy has been doing it for 17 years. On a sunny summer [...]

The case, which cut to the heart of the league's media strategy, centered on a subscription service that aired out-of-market games for roughly $300 a year. The N.F.L. must pay [...]

A class-action lawsuit over the cost of Sunday Ticket subscriptions underscored how valuable broadcast deals have been for the league's success. A pillar of the N.F.L.'s meteoric rise over the [...]

About 100 Israelis sued the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, saying it pays local employees in dollars that buoy the terrorist group. But the case faces high legal hurdles. [...]

Professional leagues are embracing smaller markets in their search for newer stadiums and arenas and the potential for more devoted fan bases. Sometimes, smaller is better. For decades, major sports [...]

Professional leagues are embracing smaller markets in their search for newer stadiums and arenas and the potential for more devoted fan bases. Sometimes, smaller is better. For decades, major sports [...]

Byline: Ken Belson When Michael Jordan and his right-hand man, Curtis Polk, bought a NASCAR team in 2020 with the driver Denny Hamlin, they were prepared to endure short-term losses. [...]

Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Program, said starvation is entrenched in northern Gaza and is ''moving its way south.'' The leader of the World Food Program said [...]

Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Program, said starvation is entrenched in northern Gaza and is “moving its way south.” The leader of the World Food Program said [...]

When Michael Jordan and his right-hand man, Curtis Polk, bought a NASCAR team in 2020 with the driver Denny Hamlin, they were prepared to endure short-term losses. Drivers, mechanics and [...]

When the N.F.L. took its college draft on the road a decade ago, its first stops were Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas, three of the league's biggest markets. The concept was [...]

Byline: Katherine Rosman and Ken Belson The N.F.L. great was supposed to be the Jets' savior. But since arriving in New York, he has spent more time voicing conspiracy theories [...]

The New England Patriots owner said this week that he was “no longer comfortable supporting” Columbia University, his alma mater, which has been disrupted by protests. Protests at Columbia University [...]

The N.F.L. great was supposed to be the Jets' savior. But since arriving in New York, he has spent more time voicing conspiracy theories than playing quarterback. Aaron Rodgers, perhaps [...]