Howard Bryant

Ron Washington is the owner of an unexpected second chance whose reputation cannot afford a third strike.

For a sport that captivates America, the NFL does nothing to distance itself from the anger and grievance that has become part of our identity.

Losing is an inevitability in sports. But that cannot -- and should not -- automatically mean a season was meaningless.

From breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record to influencing a generation of players like Kyrie Irving, the NBA’s new all-time scoring king has established himself as a singular entity known for his wealth, power and influence.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For today’s generation of Black athletes, their demand is simple: to be seen in full or not at all.

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.

After the ESPN premiere and the ABC encore and now as it heads to Netflix, “The Last Dance” still reverberates. The film shows us why, even in total victory, this larger-than-life superstar often looks so terribly small.

The inside story of how a long-awaited potential reconciliation between quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the NFL disintegrated into another chapter of distrust and acrimony -- and quite possibly the final one.

The lineage of the black activist athlete was lost in the time of O.J., Jordan and Tiger. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, “The Heritage,” Howard Bryant explains how that lineage was found again.

The movement started by Colin Kaepernick endures, but its supporters are more fragmented than ever. This is the inside story of how infighting splintered a group of players once unified in its pursuit of a cause bigger than themselves.