Illinois men’s basketball has five players with Balkan heritage this season — the latest product of the Illini’s internationally focused recruiting operation.

PHILADELPHIA — Tanking, a scourge upon humankind, remains a sucker’s bet, a vessel for the weak-minded who won’t do the hard, challenging but ultimately rewarding work of building a team through elbow ...

Texas basketball coach Sean Miller has four international players on his first Longhorns team, and he thinks they can help the squad contend in a loaded SEC ...

Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on the Dodgers, Fox's World Series broadcast and Austin Reaves and the Lakers.

MILWAUKEE – Three days after one of his top players was a healthy scratch in an effort to preserve his long-term health, ...

The NBA is making a significant change to its officiating process in a bid to speed up replay reviews. Beginning Saturday, all NBA officials will begin ...

NBA referees will use headsets during games starting Saturday to allow them to communicate in real time with the NBA replay ...

The league announced Friday that starting with Saturday's games all officials will use headsets to communicate with the NBA ...

Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ kicks off its final season, ‘Pluribus’ is revealed on Apple, and ‘Landman’ returns to Paramount+ ...

Playing his first NBA game in nearly seven months, Coulibaly reminded everyone why Washington has high hopes for him.

Freddy Krueger, Darth Vader and Hans Gruber are all notorious villains, but their psychological impact was based in fiction; ...

LeBron James may be out due to sciatica, but Charles Barkley is not buying it. He thinks he knows what is really going on with the Los Angeles Lakers ...