After a rousing victory in the 2021 SEC Championship Game on Saturday night, the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide once again jumped to the top of the pack in becoming the No. 1 seed in ...

From Brady and the Bucs to the Tokyo Olympics, it was a year to remember. As athletes returned to the playing field and fans returned to the stands, there was some level of normalcy in the sports ...

The sports world had to fight and claw through the coronavirus pandemic to get the 2021 championships played out. All the major team sports in the U.S. managed to fulfill their goals of having ...

Sports provided countless compelling storylines throughout 2021, so you're forgiven for forgetting some of them. Tom Brady won his seventh Super Bowl. Jon Gruden resigned in disgrace. Giannis ...

A shockwave sliced through the Ariake Gymnastics Center early in the women’s team competition at the Tokyo Olympics. Simone Biles, who was favored to equal or top the five gymnastics medals she won at ...

Most of them happened off the courts and playing fields, when the competitions were over and the athletes were at their most human. By The New York Times We asked our reporters to write about the most ...

Steph Chambers, one of Getty Images' talented sports photographers, tells PEOPLE the stories behind some of the most captivating photographs captured of athletes in 2021 — from the golf course to the ...

It was a year that saw the sports world return to normal. Sort of. Vaccines arrived. “Bubbles” popped. Fans returned. Stadiums swelled. Oh, sure, the widespread wearing of masks became a fabric of the ...

— The Rams execute rare quarterback-for-quarterback trade and acquire Matthew Stafford from Detroit in exchange for Jared Goff, two first-round picks and more. UCLA gymnast Nia Dennis is a viral ...

The fans came back, and even if their money was no good at arenas and stadiums, their credit cards and payment apps certainly were. Though the sports we watch brought with them a façade of “back to ...

A lot has happened in the sports world in 2021. After sports came to a complete halt in 2020 amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 represented the year that leagues attempted to find a ...

The coronavirus pandemic still had an impact, but players and leagues had their moments. By Joe Drape Leave it to a couple of old guys to remind us that sports can not only be a thing of beauty but ...