The president has anointed himself chair of next year’s lucrative sporting event, which was once entangled in the biggest sports bribe scandal in history. What could go wrong?

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has been spending billions on professional sports, buying up players, teams, and leagues worldwide. Is women’s tennis—with its storied history of fighting for equality and social justice—next?

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has changed the game by sinking its hooks into three U.S. sports franchises.

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.

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

A year of upheaval has pushed the sport to a crossroads.