Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

The Hawks are in the Eastern Conference finals, hoping to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since ... they played in St. Louis.

The Nets’ stars didn’t win a championship for Brooklyn, but they’re going to try to win one for America.

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott won “the Good Guy Award” from the local chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association because of his consistency in making himself available to the media in 2020, despite the personal and collective woes the team’s 6-10 campaign.

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games.

In late April, when Derek Chauvin was found guilty on charges of murder in the death of George Floyd, the moment, for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, reinforced a theme that is at the center of his documentary "Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America": Protest matters.

Vanessa Bryant remembered her late husband Kobe Bryant as “the best girl dad” in a sweet post on Father’s Day.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and stalled runner Allyson Felix’s preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — which she planned as her fifth and last — she had to find new ways to squeeze in her workouts.

The first conscious thought that J.A. Happ can remember after it happened was: Hmm, is that blood pouring out of my ear? Or is it something worse?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — There may never be a more critical six-week respite between the end of NFL minicamps and the start of most training camps in late July than this year. It could be the difference between a competitive advantage or disadvantage for every NFL team based on one simple choice: unvaccinated players deciding whether or not to get COVID-19 shots. This issue had remained somewhat ...

With each cellphone chime, the day got a little crazier.

There’s a simple question every Niners player — nay, every professional athlete — has to ask themselves these days: Do they want to play?

Professional baseball is changing.

Where is Tom Brady when Le'Veon Bell really needs him?

The late baseball legend Oscar Charleston is in good company.