Vol. 1, No. 61
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Sports at American Courant covers American leagues, teams, and athletes on three layers: the play on the field, the business in the front office, and the intersection of athletics with money, media, regulation, and politics. We cover the four major U.S. men's leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL), the WNBA, college football and basketball, soccer in the U.S. and the major international tournaments that move U.S. interest, the Olympics, golf, tennis, and combat sports when news warrants.
We pay attention to the infrastructure of the sports economy — broadcast rights, sponsorship deals, expansion fights, NIL, salary caps, labor agreements, gambling regulation — and to the political dimensions of sports: stadium financing, host-city decisions, national-team eligibility disputes, and the foreign policy that shapes which countries play whom and where.
Where a sports story is really a business story, we cross-link to business and economy; where it's really a foreign-policy or international story (a FIFA decision, an Olympics host vote, an athlete sanctioned for political reasons), see world news; where it sits at the intersection of broadcast, streaming, and media business, see culture and media.
We cite primary sources — league press releases, court filings in labor and antitrust cases, broadcast-rights deal disclosures, NCAA and international federation announcements — and write about what actually happened in the game and what it actually means for the season, not the takes around either.
The U.S. men beat Australia 2-0 in Seattle without the injured Christian Pulisic, won Group D, and reached the World Cup knockout round — their first back-to-back World Cup wins since 1930.
Viral images of empty sections at World Cup matches have collided with FIFA's claims of record demand, turning the tournament's first week into a fight over what 'sold out' actually means.
Brazil, the five-time champion, was held to a 1-1 draw by Morocco at MetLife. Then Scotland beat Haiti to end a 36-year World Cup drought — and now sits alone atop Group C.
The U.S. fought to host soccer's biggest tournament as a showcase of openness. Then a travel ban and a visa backlog ensured much of the world can't get in to watch. Days from kickoff, the cost is America's.
San Antonio erased a 14-point deficit and tied it late. Then the ball hit Castle's back. New York leads 2-0, two wins from its first title since 1973.
A week before the World Cup opens on U.S. soil, FIFA's first use of dynamic pricing has pushed ticket costs to records and drawn a subpoena from two state attorneys general.
Russell Wilson walked away from football on Wednesday and landed on CBS's Sunday pregame show the same day — the latest star quarterback to turn fame into prime broadcast real estate.
The Spurs beat the defending-champion Thunder in Game 7 Saturday. Now they face the Knicks, who have won 11 straight playoff games by an average of 24 points.
Game 1 is Thursday in Oklahoma City. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander vs. Jalen Brunson, Daigneault vs. Thibodeau. A full breakdown of who wins and why.
The Thunder eliminated San Antonio in Game 6 on Thursday, setting up a Knicks-Thunder NBA Finals — New York's first since 1999, OKC's first since 2012.
Felix Rosenqvist's 0.0233-second pass at the Yard of Bricks delivered the closest Indy 500 in history and the race's biggest TV audience since 2008.
The New York Knicks closed out the Cleveland Cavaliers 130-93 on Monday night, completing a 4-0 sweep and ending a 27-year wait between Finals appearances.
NASCAR lost its most prolific winner Thursday. Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion with 234 career victories, died at 41 after a sudden illness.
Philadelphia's 109-100 road win in Game 7 ended the Celtics' title defense and sent the 76ers to a second-round matchup with the New York Knicks.
Jayson Tatum was ruled out roughly 90 minutes before tip-off due to left knee stiffness, leaving Jaylen Brown to carry Boston in a winner-take-all Game 7.
FIFA confirmed Iran's World Cup group games will be played on U.S. soil after Trump reversed his objections, with a potential Dallas showdown looming.
Through the first weekend of the 2026 NBA playoffs, four series are tied 1–1 and four are not. The four that aren't are the four anyone is willing to talk about.
