Sports & Fitness

With the FIFA Women’s World Cup deep underway, no matter what you call it — soccer in some places and fútbol in others — it’s perhaps the most culturally fluid sport in the world.

When Weini Kelati made the choice to board a plane and leave her home country of Eritrea to come to the United States, she had one goal in mind: to make it to the Olympics.

Swimmers gathered in November 2016 to make the trek from Jordan to Israel, across the Dead Sea, one of Earth’s saltiest bodies of water.

On the eve of the Women’s FIFA World Cup, a new set of shinguards has been unveiled as part of a “Guard Your Rights” campaign to draw attention to maternity in women’s football.

For Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, even though there’s been an uptick in the number of multicultural storytellers in movies, “the struggle continues.”

The Denver Nuggets this week won their first-ever NBA Championship in a basketball league that in recent decades has gone global. Teams of the National Basketball Association have regularly done exhibition game overseas, where they can measure their strengths by […]

A new feature documentary, “Stephen Curry: Underrated,” captures the coming-of-age story of NBA superstar Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors. The documentary depicts Curry’s emergence as an undersized player who dominated in college and who now reigns with his […]

To be able to live out a sports passion, to compete in front of thousands of fans, all while traveling around the world, perhaps a new country or team every nine months, and be fully immersed in the culture while […]