Prosecutors revealed new details of alleged bribes paid to FIFA executive committee members to gain their votes for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup

Both the sports world and the civil rights movement have lost an icon. Hall of Famer and former Washington Redskins football player Bobby Mitchell died Sunday. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports how he is remembered.

Hall of Famer Al Kaline, longtime star for the Detroit Tigers, dies at 85, family friend tells AP

The NFL draft will be conducted in a virtual format, with team personnel working from their homes

Following on the heels of The Masters, organizers of the British Open announced Monday the tournament, one of golf’s four major tourneys, would also be cancelled in 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bobby Mitchell, the speedy Hall of Famer who became the Washington Redskins’ first black player, has died

Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey has died at 73 from what his family described as complications from the new coronavirus

A hacker posted a racial slur hundreds of times in an online fan video chat Friday with a black New York Rangers prospect.

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant has been posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame according to an official announcement by the organization on Saturday. Bryant played 20 seasons in the NBA, all with the Los Angeles Lakers. Over those 20 years, he was an 18-time NBA All-Star, the 2007 NBA MVP, a two-time NBA Fin...

A unique Hall of Fame class will be announced Saturday in a unique way. Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett are all expected to be officially announced as part of the 2020 class of enshrinees by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which typically reveals its annual selections at college basketball’s Final Four. This year, with spor...

The WNBA has postponed the start of its season because of the coronavirus pandemic

Residents of Friendship Heights sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” on what would have been the Washington Nationals’ home opener.

Washington Nationals’ first baseman Ryan Zimmerman was supposed to be at Nationals Park on Thursday for its opening day. But as the coronavirus pandemic virtually locked down D.C., he was home with his family practicing social distancing. “It’s like I’m retired but I can’t leave the house,” he said with a laugh in a recent intervi...