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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 [...]

Byline: Mary Pilon Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. eight-time All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist, remains in a Russian jail, nearly 200 days after she was arrested on Feb. 17 for [...]

John Donaldson died in obscurity, his statistics devalued because he played before baseball was integrated. Most baseball fans have probably never heard of John Donaldson, a hard-throwing pitcher who drew [...]

Byline: Mary Pilon What Frederick Trump's death, in 1918, tells us about the costs of mismanaging a pandemic. In May 1918, a German immigrant businessman, husband and father of three [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox .] In New York, a city where anyone can be anything, Devin Person is [...]

Last summer, it was the ''end of the 'World' '' in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Ore. I shared the sentiment: Skate World, the roller skating rink of my youth, after [...]

Byline: MARY PILON The Games. A Global History of the Olympics. By David Goldblatt. Illustrated. 516 pages. W.W. Norton & Company. $29.95. In the late 19th century, Pierre de Coubertin, [...]

With the Mandarin language skills of a buffalo, I began chatting with my taxi driver in Shanghai, a polite man with plenty of questions about the United States. It was [...]

Byline: MARY PILON For generations, the story of Monopoly's Depression-era origins delighted fans almost as much as the board game itself. The tale, repeated for decades and often tucked into [...]

For generations, the story of Monopoly's Depression-era origins delighted fans almost as much as the board game itself. The tale, repeated for decades and often tucked into the game's box [...]

Byline: MARY PILON NEWARK -- The cold rain had been pouring for several hours by the time the Olympian Tim Morehouse exited a cab in front of Vailsburg Elementary School. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEWARK -- The cold rain had been pouring for several hours by the time the Olympian Tim Morehouse exited a cab in front of North Star Academy's Vailsburg elementary [...]

A leading manufacturer of lacrosse helmets, Cascade Lacrosse, announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with a safety organization on the modification of a popular helmet that was recently [...]

Lacrosse is among the nation's fastest-growing youth sports, especially among boys whose parents are looking for a safer alternative to football. But the sport found itself in the continuing conversation [...]

Amid controversy around potential conflicts of interest, two United States Tennis Association board members will be replaced effective in January 2015, the organization confirmed Monday. The members, whose terms conclude [...]

Byline: LYNN ZINSER and MARY PILON New York -- Wilson Kipsang of Kenya surged ahead of Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia as they raced through Central Park to top a strong [...]

Another show of Kenyan dominance in distance running came down to a two-woman race Sunday at the New York City Marathon. In cold and windy conditions, Mary Keitany, 32, edged [...]

Late in her final push through Central Park in the women's wheelchair race at the New York City Marathon on Sunday, Tatyana McFadden felt her herself begin to tip. She [...]

A cloud was cast over the great tradition of Kenyan distance running Friday when Rita Jeptoo, winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons the past two years, tested positive for [...]

This year's New York City Marathon on Sunday could be the largest road race ever staged, with about 50,000 runners registered. It may also be the most monitored race ever, [...]

New York City Marathon runners fast and slow made their way through the Javits Center on Thursday to collect bibs and energy bar samples while gazing longingly at pricey spandex [...]

Some people work full time as lawyers. Some are Olympic marathon contenders. Some are fluent in Norwegian as a second language. Annie Bersagel, a 31-year-old American who will compete among [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Adrien Marlault, a Parisian businessman and avid runner, has stayed at hotels in the past when running marathons in Berlin, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Rome. But for this [...]

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 [...]

A 16-year-old from Long Island died Wednesday after an on-field collision, becoming the third high school football player nationally to die in a week. Tom Cutinella died shortly after crashing [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA new policy adopted by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pa., which requires that boys on its school wrestling teams forfeit matches against female opponents, comes at a [...]

On a recent afternoon at the CrossFit gym in Long Island City, Queens, 3-year-old Ella Reznik bounded toward an array of hoops and candy-colored bouncy balls, her ponytail and her [...]

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania has adopted a policy requiring boys on its school wrestling teams to forfeit matches against female opponents, school officials said Tuesday. The [...]

A judge ruled against a senior tennis team with Orthodox Jewish members in its case against the United States Tennis Association. The team, which had qualified for the U.S.T.A. Eastern [...]

A senior tennis team with Orthodox Jewish members is suing the United States Tennis Association over its refusal to change a tournament schedule to accommodate the players' observance of the [...]

At 9 years old, J. C. Roddick, the nephew of Andy Roddick, was forging a path of his own in tennis. After years of showing promise in lessons at home [...]

Byline: MARY PILON Before the women's singles semifinals on Friday, at Arthur Ashe Stadium, two Grand Slam champions were to be crowned at the United States Open. But most fans [...]

On Friday, before the women's singles semifinals at Arthur Ashe Stadium, two Grand Slam champions will be crowned at the United States Open. But most fans will have no idea [...]

With the doldrums of American tennis on display at the United States Open, Patrick McEnroe will leave his job as head of player development for the United States Tennis Association, [...]

On a recent weeknight in Greenwich Village, amid the circus of New York University dive bars, comedy-show hecklers and the drummers of Washington Square Park, there was a different sort [...]

''He's really tall!'' ''Wow. That's him!'' ''He's even cuter in person.'' The Elvis of tennis, Roger Federer, had entered the practice courts. It would have been just another United States [...]