List of Sports articles
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GettyImages-475102106 FIFA: Blatter and Other Top Officials ‘Awarded’ Themselves $80 Million
FIFA officials awarded themselves tens of millions of dollars after U.S. indictments last May.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 24: OLYMPISCHE SPIELE SYDNEY 2000, Sydney; OLYMPISCHE SYMBOLE; FAHNE (Photo by Bongarts/Getty Images) Meet the 10 Athletes Who Will Compete on the First-Ever Refugee Olympic Team
The Olympics will host its first-ever refugee team this year.
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GettyImages-149445637 First U.S. Athlete Scratches Rio Olympics Over Zika Concerns
The U.S. cyclist is concerned about transmitting the virus to his pregnant wife.
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GettyImages-465626804 Trump, Who Promises To Win At Everything, Just Lost a Golf Tournament to Mexico
The PGA is moving a marquee event from a Trump course in Florida to Mexico.
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GettyImages-535939694 Stanley Cup Hockey Is Even Better in Punjabi
The CBC is broadcasting Stanley Cup games in Punjabi.
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GettyImages-532096436 Can China Buy Its Way Into Becoming the World’s Next Soccer Powerhouse?
Breaking transfer records is one thing. Fielding a quality team is another.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - OCTOBER 15: Teens sit on a new sign reading 'Cidade Olimpica' (Olympic City) in the historic port district on October 15, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games games, the port district is undergoing a controversial multibillion dollar urban renewal program although some projects have been delayed in the midst of Brazil's recession. Many parts of the port district retain descendants of African slaves along with Afro-Brazilian historical locations including the area where samba music is thought to have been born in Rio. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Senator to WHO: Take Another Look at Whether The Olympics Is Such a Great Idea
Senator Jeanne Shaheen is calling for an evaluation of the potential public health risks posed by the Olympics.
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GettyImages-485906162 Putin Tells Washington ‘Nyet’ On New Doping Probe
Putin's spokesperson says Russian athletes out of U.S. law enforcement's reach.
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GettyImages-509819182 Fight Against Zika Virus Headed Toward Political Deadlock
The Senate and the House are hundreds of millions of dollars apart on anti-Zika funding.
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Athletes compete during the Ibero American Athletics Championships men's 5000 meters final race, a test event for Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 16, 2016. / AFP / YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) Anti-Zika Condoms Unlikely To Stop the Olympian Spread of Zika
A condom company announced that it will provide anti-Zika condoms to Australian Olympic athletes.
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BRASILIA, BRAZIL - MAY 03: Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil, lights the Olympic torch with Brazilian Olympic Committee Carlos Nuzman (L) and first torch bearer, volleyball player Fabiana Claudino at the Palacio do Planalto on May 3, 2016 in Brasilia, Brazil. The Olympic torch will pass through 329 cities from all states from the north to the south of Brazil, until arriving in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, to lit the cauldron. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images) Impeach the Rio Olympics, Argues Scientist
Previous government efforts to control the Zika virus have failed in Brazil, and the Olympics will help spread it globally.
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Trumpcopa Argentine TV Uses Donald Trump to Troll U.S. Soccer
Forget the ‘hand of God’ — Argentines are now using the small-handed Republican front-runner to score a preemptive victory against American fütbol fans.
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Abidjan, IVORY COAST: Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza heads the ball as he attends a students training sessions at the ASEC Mimosas Academy in Abidjan 226 February 2007. Nkurunziza arrived in the Ivocy Coast the previous day on a three-day official visit. AFP PHOTO / KAMBOU SIA (Photo credit should read KAMBOU SIA/AFP/Getty Images) Burundi: Sepp Blatter Tried to ‘Bribe’ Our President to Step Down
The disgraced former football chief claims he was asked to intervene in Burundi's political crisis -- and did.
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GettyImages-517907790 NCAA Basketball Is Trying to Break Into the Chinese Market
For the first time, the NCAA will broadcast the Final Four in China and India.
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epa04751818 Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a gala ice hockey match between Russian amateur players and ice hockey stars during the Night Hockey league tournament in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Krasnodar region, Russia,16 May 2015. EPA/YEVGENY REYTOV Can Putin’s Professional Hockey League Challenge the NHL?
Russia’s KHL is trying to expand from Scandinavia to Beijing. But sanctions and distrust of Moscow is taking the luster off Putin’s pet project.
