Joel Embiid never envisioned becoming the Joel Embiid we’ve come to know.

Candace Parker, 35, who staved off Father Time to help the Chicago Sky win its first WNBA title, is AP's Female Athlete of the Year for a second time.

A few weeks back, veteran NHL referee Eric Furlatt took the ice at Climate Pledge Arena to work a game between the Kraken and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The NFL is reducing isolation time for players who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic.

Now that the matter of the fake vaccination card has been put to rest by the Buccaneers, there is really only one thing left to say:

The L.A. Angels' Shohei Ohtani's astonishing redefinition of modern baseball captured the world's attention in 2021. He is AP's male athlete of the year.

Beijing might have seemed like the best option at the time.

The COVID pandemic has wreaked havoc on everyone and everything, and there are no signs that things are getting much better. Sports are a microcosm of society, and as the number of positive tests increases in the wake of the new omicron variant and its rampant spread around the country, the sports teams are seeing the same type of spread. Every day brings a new list of players who are entering ...

The most impressive athletic moment of 2021 was when an athlete chose not to compete.

With a surge of COVID-19 cases threatening to disrupt the NFL season last week, the league discussed canceling games for the first time since the pandemic began.

First, the U.S. diplomats and a handful of allies said “no.” Now it’s the NHL. Some party this is shaping up to be.

Anthony Davis is injured and out for at least a month. Klay Thompson’s incredibly long recovery is not quite finished. Kyrie Irving is almost certainly not going to be ready to make his season debut.