Kent Desormeaux, riding Summer Bird, crosses the finish line during the 141st Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
Summer Bird, ridden by Kent Desormeaux, won the 141st Belmont Stakes on Saturday, denying the jockey Calvin Borel a sweep of the Triple Crown.
Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit’s leading scorer, returned to the lineup with two assists, inspiring a 5-0 thrashing of the Penguins that gave the Red Wings a 3-2 series lead in the Stanley Cup finals.
Svetlana Kuznetsova made short work of the women’s final against her fellow Russian opponent, Dinara Safina.
If Roger Federer defeats Robin Soderling on Sunday, he will join the rarefied ranks of Grand Slam greats. Only five men have won all four major singles titles.
Matt Bettencourt, ranked 203rd and playing his first PGA Tour season, shot his second straight 68 and is tied for the lead with Mark Wilson, who shot 69, at nine-under-par 207.
Tee times for the famed Black golf course in Bethpage State Park on Long Island can be impossible to get. There is one way to ensure a spot: get to the parking lot and spend a night.
The Mets hit into 5 double plays, made costly base running errors, and starter John Maine allowed seven runs on six hits and two walks in a loss to the last-place Nationals.
Mariano Rivera gave up four runs in the ninth inning, failing to preserve a tie, and Randy Choate retired Robinson Cano for the final out of the game.
Kobe Bryant learned some of his basketball moves by playing soccer as a child in Italy.
Bill Pennington has a “horrible” day on the golf course. Bryan Jones reminds him that part of the greatness of golf is its inconsistency.
Doug Kanter, a freelance photographer, covered the Beijing Olympics for The New York Times last August. He revisited the competition sites this year and captured the changing scene.
The musician Wynton Marsalis joins the sports columnist William C. Rhoden to talk about the differences between the hardcourt and the bandstand.
Runners from the leading edge to the back of the pack share stories about their goals and motivations.
Sixty years after the company built the first ice-resurfacing machine, the Zamboni is still a model of form and function, as well as an object of enduring fascination.
Barton Silverman of The Times says that making par on the Black Course at Bethpage, where the U.S. Open will be played, is a lifetime achievement.
The suddenly shaky American men’s team had to scramble for a 2-1 victory against Honduras. Despite playing in a carefully chosen American city, the crowd favored the visitors.
Seth Lofton has been an amateur umpire 19 years, one of 100,000 across the United States.
The Clippers held a workout for Blake Griffin, the presumptive No. 1 pick in the draft, and invited members of the news media to watch. Griffin drew attention, but shot erratically.
The Rockets, 3-9 a season ago, are poised to make a run toward a MAC West title. The team breaks in a new coach, the former Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Tim Beckman.
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