LOS ANGELES — Disney, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, the National Basketball Association and the National Football League are expanding deals to supply Snapchat with customized short-form content, underscoring the platform’s renewed momentum. Snap, which makes the ephemeral-messaging app, unveiled the multiyear deals on Thursday, along with a spate of original series and a breaking news feature called […] More
A handful of Europe’s top soccer leagues canceled their seasons because of the coronavirus pandemic. That left dozens of players celebrating championships won on formulas instead of on the field. More
The English soccer champion has vowed to overturn a two-year ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. But the results of a three-day hearing that ended Wednesday will have repercussions for the sport. More
Major League Soccer will return to the field in July with a monthlong, World Cup-style tournament in Florida that it hopes will be a prelude to a return to league play — and a traditional postseason — in the fall. M.L.S. announced plans for the Florida event, in which all 26 of its teams will […] More
LEEDS, England — The captains of England’s leading soccer clubs have informed the Premier League that players intend to demonstrate their support for the Black Lives Matter movement when the competition resumes play next week. The issue was raised on Tuesday during a regular conference call with the captains of all 20 Premier League clubs, […] More
A rule created after Megan Rapinoe took a knee may be rescinded as the federation, like the N.F.L. and FIFA, reconsiders its views on athletes who choose to peacefully protest. More
The N.F.L. has outlined the steps teams must take before players can return to training facilities, the latest attempt by the league to return to business as usual in an off-season that has largely been conducted virtually. Yet while the league claimed the protocols were created in cooperation with the N.F.L. Players Association, the union’s […] More
The players and coaches of Saarbrücken aren’t making the typical hopeful pregame predictions one might expect from heavy underdogs as they prepare to play Bayer Leverkusen in the German Cup on Tuesday. “If you are honest, we have no chance,” midfielder Tobias Jänicke told the German news media. “We lose 99 out of 100 games […] More
