Henry D. Fetter

The NFL is more popular than baseball in all ways but one.… More »

A look back at the New York Times sports section on New Year's Day of 1912, 1937, 1962, and 1987… More »

For a long time, the only way to catch a hometeam pro-football game was to listen to it. Thank goodness those days have passed.… More »

St. Louis has long been the prototype of the successful small-market team… More »

Maris broke Ruth's home run record and Williams played his last game to near-empty stadiums… More »

Why we shouldn't pay attention to Boston and Tampa Bay's fight for second place… More »

Whose idea was it to have the outcome of the world soccer championship determined by penalty kicks in the case of a tie?… More »

Changes in the sport and society at large have made the "mid-summer classic" less and less relevant… More »

Rafael Nadal won his sixth title this weekend. The story of two fellow champions the Open would prefer to forget about.… More »

There are no men or women from the United States ranked in the top ten for singles, for the first time in four decades. Why this isn't as much of a nadir as it sounds like.… More »

Team owners are beholden to the players and to their own desire for profits. Where do the people who come to see the games fit in?… More »

The team's past host city and its current one can both see the upside in the MLB's seizing of its daily operations and finances… More »

The home run king's conviction and the conversation surrounding it reveals something special about the way people talk about baseball… More »

The Confederation of African Football has postponed a match that was scheduled to be played in the country later this month. But will the protest against the regime last?… More »

The sport continues to increase in popularity over baseball. Will it ever reach a saturation point?… More »

Legend has it the Kansas City Chiefs owner came up with it—but history suggests otherwise… More »

Football players had been graduating from the school with degrees in sociology, without taking actual classes in the department… More »

Things have changed since Cleveland Indians pitching great Bob Feller missed four seasons to serve in World War II… More »

Horse racing once drew huge live crowds. Now attendance is one third of what it was 20 years ago. What happened?… More »

As the U.S. Open wraps up this weekend, a look at a former powerhouse nation that has struggled in recent years… More »