List of Sports articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 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.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 FIFA Probe Nabs its Biggest Fish: Former Honduran President
Rafael Callejas admits to taking bribes as FIFA probe continues.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama: If I Didn’t Attend Baseball Game in Cuba, the Terrorists Win
President Obama said the terrorists responsible for the Brussels attacks would win if he didn't attend a baseball game in Cuba.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. and Cuba Provide an Excuse to Watch Sports at Work
For the first time in 17 years, a Major League Baseball team plays a game in Cuba Tuesday.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 On the overwhelming moral superiority of the faculty of Northwestern University
Some 46 members of the faculty of Northwestern University are objecting to the selection of retired General and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry to lead a big new institute on foreign policy there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Leaks, Possums, and Asbestos: 6 State Residences That Aren’t as Fancy as You’d Think
A partial list of presidential palaces that are more disaster area than Xanadu.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bryce Harper Might Want to Start Brushing Up On His Spanish
Cuba wants the Washington Nationals to play a game in
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can FIFA’s New President Root Out Its Institutional Rot?
Gianni Infantino won FIFA's presidency by promising reforms. It remains to be seen if he can deliver.
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150827_0007 The Olympic Games You’ve Never Heard Of
For more than 20 years, athletes from around the world have been facing off in everything from badminton to butterfly stroke. The only rule of engagement: You must be the recipient of an organ transplant.
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Servicemen of Ukrainian volonteers battalion of Donbass unload ummunition from Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) in the village of Shirokine, Donetsk region on June 6, 2015. US President Barack Obama urged fellow leaders of the G7 to stand up to "Russian aggression in Ukraine" as he enjoyed a traditional Bavarian welcome ahead of their summit in Germany. AFP PHOTO/ ALEKSEY CHERNYSHEV (Photo credit should read ALEKSEY CHERNYSHEV/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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Aerial view of Tokyo city with Tokyo tower and Mount.Fuji, Japan at night. Are the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Trouble?
With an out-of-control budget, bumbling leadership, and embarrassing scandals, the city of the future is looking to the past for guidance.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can the Army hit the curveball?
The Army today is like a baseball hitter who thinks he is great but refuses to swing at curveballs, alleges Andrew Hill, a professor at the Army War College.
