DALLAS — This is how you slay a negative perception. This is how you rebrand a franchise. This is how you deliver for your fan base. On Sunday night, the Mets signed Juan Soto to the largest contract in the history of professional sports — a 15-year, $765 million pact, according to sources briefed on…

So much of the first season of the 12-team College Football Playoff has been spent adjusting the definition of success and reassessing what, exactly, qualifies as a “big game.” For some schools and their coaches, just getting into the field made their year. For others, simply being there is not good enough. Not even close.…

“When I was watching that part of the first episode,” Christian Pulisic says, “I was like, wow, I’m really awkward, and everyone sees me as this boring guy who doesn’t want to show into his life. I hope people can see that there is some more to me.” Pulisic, the 26-year-old star of the United…

Fabio Capello didn’t stick around. The Calciopoli trial had not yet delivered a verdict but the writing was on the wall. A break clause in his contract with Juventus gave him a get-out and, on July 4, 2006, he exercised it. Capello was recognised as football’s leading coach at the time. He had won eight…

Even in defeat, Josh Allen has the NFL marveling over his unique ability to dominate a game. The Buffalo Bills superstar, MVP favorite and No. 1 quarterback in these rankings for a second straight week steamrolled the Los Angeles Rams defense Sunday, completing 22 of 37 passes for 342 yards and three touchdowns while leading…

North Carolina still needs a new football coach. Will its search end with a respected name from the college ranks, or a revered eight-time Super Bowl champion who has never coached college football? Finding someone to replace the program’s all-time winningest coach Mack Brown, who was fired in late November, has proven tougher than the…

To finish fifth and still stand on the Formula One podium made for an unusual end to George Russell’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. On the other side of the rostrum was Charles Leclerc, the Ferrari driver who had already been on the podium on Sunday evening after recovering from 19th on the grid to finish…

By Patrick Mooney, Will Sammon, Brendan Kuty and Ken Rosenthal Juan Soto laughed when a friend asked where he was going. It was early December and that question mystified Major League Baseball’s most valuable franchises, the ones lining up to guarantee the biggest player contract in the sport’s history. The coveted free agent was still…

Did the Chiefs just doink their way to a division title? Sort of. Did they strengthen their lead in the race for the AFC’s top seed? Absolutely. No matter how Matthew Wright’s 31-yard field goal found its way through the goal posts late Sunday night at Arrowhead, the Chiefs’ ridiculous stretch of success in one-score…

If you happened to be watching the Buffalo Bills-Los Angeles Rams game Sunday afternoon on Fox — a game that finished with 86 combined points, 902 total yards and more offense than the 1983-84 Edmonton Oilers — the last two minutes revealed the broadcasting potential of Tom Brady. The Rams led 44-35 with 1:35 left…