CHICAGO — White Sox fans booing? It happens almost every game on the South Side. White Sox fans chanting “Sell the team!”? It’s like their version of “How ya doing?” But White Sox fans booing the White Sox for winning a game? Well, that is a little unusual, even for this wacky franchise. But that’s…

Start with the shoes. Before Michael Jordan had ever played in an official NBA game, his sneakers generated conversation and controversy. Jordan wore a pair of primarily black Nikes with a red swoosh during his first preseason games. The Chicago Bulls, worried about the shoes’ glitz, had reservations about him doing it again. The NBA…

Chloe Primerano had a choice to make. Less than two years after making the switch from boys to girls hockey, Primerano was already one of the sport’s best young players, leading her team in scoring and winning Canadian Female Prep High School MVP in her 10th grade debut season. And after her international debut at…

With the Pittsburgh Pirates out of playoff contention, first baseman Rowdy Tellez was playing for an opportunity to receive a $200,000 bonus based on plate appearances. He entered Tuesday with 421 plate appearances, four away from earning that additional bonus. For Tellez, the chance was dashed. With five games left in the regular season, the…

BOSTON — Missing out on the Finals MVP award and getting benched in the Olympics must have been challenging for Jayson Tatum to handle. Still, he said Tuesday morning, Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla loved to see the All-NBA forward gifted potential sources of motivation. “Joe was probably the happiest person in the world that…

NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu’s final pass of the New York Liberty’s 91-82 Game 2 victory over the Atlanta Dream was to no one in particular. In fact, it was less of a chest pass, and more of a celebratory spike — an emphatic bounce of the basketball around midcourt after a 36-point, nine-assist masterclass…

Football shirts were once an item of clothing for a) players to wear at work, and b) fans to sport on the terraces in solidarity with the lads out on the pitch. Now, what must seem abruptly to the uninitiated, they have become the uniform for British music festivals and a source of inspiration for…

By Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentille and Shayna Goldman The fifth annual NHL Player Tiers are here and we’ve upped the ante. This year we’ve cooked up a list of the top 150 players in the league separated into five groups: the MVP cornerstones, the franchise pillars, the All-Star candidates, the bona fide stars and the elite support. That’s one…

CINCINNATI — Actions speak louder than words, right? Well, if you went to sleep after “Monday Night Football” with your ears ringing, blame Jayden Daniels. The Washington Commanders rookie quarterback uncorked a scintillating, sensational and spectacular road performance in his prime-time debut. Daniels outdueled his fellow LSU Heisman Trophy winner, Joe Burrow, with a near-flawless…

By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Well then, we’ve made it — through 25 weeks of power rankings, through ups and downs and surprises and…