It wasn’t because they were “woke,” of course. There’s a much simpler explanation.

The kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are remaking global culture.

A spate of documentaries produced by athletes and leagues are more interested in settling scores than in the game.

John Fisher, an heir to the Gap fortune, is being handed hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to screw over A’s fans by moving his team to Las Vegas.

The Saudis aren’t golf’s only problem. The Los Angeles Country Club shouldn’t even exist.

The lesson from the LIV Golf takeover of pro golf is that sportswashing works.

Agriculture is the big draw on the Colorado River. But as the crisis deepens, everyone’s doing what they can.

The Premier League needs to punish its most successful team if it wants to save itself from disrepute.

The English Premier League transformed itself into the predatory “Super League” that fans thought they had defeated.

With the help of the Supreme Court, the New Jersey governor paved the way for the sportsbook industry to drown us in an unrelenting onslaught of advertisements.

The former NFL player is embroiled in what may be Mississippi’s biggest corruption scandal ever: the misuse of welfare funds for ego projects that did nothing to help the state’s poor people.

The Qatar World Cup never should have happened. But there are signs that the world is finally waking up to the corrupt arrangements that brought it about.

This tournament has been chaotic, breathtaking, tragic, and wonderful. How do we make sense of it?

No, it is not going to win the World Cup (this year), but it is fun as hell.

As Saudi Arabia’s takeover of English soccer club Newcastle proves, the media is highly susceptible to sportswashing by corrupt regimes.

The clumsy kickoff of this ill-starred competitor of the PGA has been a window into a tawdriness that infects international sports.

Putin’s oligarchs didn’t force their way in. We begged them to come, Labourites and Tories alike.

The invasion of Ukraine shines a harsh light on the obscene greed that has guided decision-making for decades.

International sports’ most heralded competition is stuck on a trajectory that will force the games into the arms of corrupt nations.

Shams Charania and Adam Schefter showed why access journalism is a bankrupt and corrupt approach to newsgathering.