In his office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Sports, was feeling a wide range of emotions early yesterday evening in the hours after he learned that Roone Arledge, ...

It’s a common misconception that Civil War Union General Abner Doubleday invented the sport of baseball in 1839. A special commission created by baseball executive Albert Spalding determined in 1908 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Sixty years after it invented sports drinks, Gatorade is making a surprising pivot: It’s no longer focusing ...

Women from the northern village of Turucu in Ecuador play Anaco-skirted handball. Invented by women in the Indigenous Quichua community, where only men played a sport, the new women-only game lasts ...