For much of the season, the Patriots were considered a tier below the N.F.L.’s best teams. But now that they are in the Super Bowl, they are favored again.

Emiliano Sala wanted to say goodbye one final time.

New year, new Tiger Woods.

Formula E driver Antonio Felix Da Costa says the feelgood factor in the paddock has helped him out of the doldrums and back into form after a four-year winless drought.

French football club Paris Saint-Germain has been fined €100,000 ($114,000) for racially profiling youth players.

The defending United States Open champion will next face sixth-seeded Elina Svitolina, who ousted No. 17 Madison Keys. The No. 4 men’s seed, Alexander Zverev, was swept by No. 16 Milos Raonic.

The Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis is pressing for changes that would punish teams that he feels don’t take their responsibilities seriously.

British police searching for missing Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala say they are prioritizing their search based on the possibility that Sala and the other person on board the aircraft which lost contact on the English Channel have landed on water and made it onto the life raft which was on board the plane.

Long, in his sixth PGA Tour event after kicking around golf’s lesser tours for years, made a 14-foot birdie putt on the final hole to prevail.

A blown pass-interference call by the officials late in Los Angeles’s win over the Saints in the N.F.C. Championship left the Saints with a familiar sense of injustice.

With her round of 16 victory at the Australian Open, the indomitable Williams is one step closer to winning a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title.

The league had largely avoided fan furor over this season, but disputed calls in Sunday’s two thrilling conference championship games brought it right back.

Tsitsipas backed up his win over Roger Federer by beating Roberto Bautista Agut to reach the semifinals. Collins also advanced to her first major semifinal.

Four times, Serena Williams was only one point — a single point — from closing out a victory in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

For years, the website Football Leaks tormented the elites of world soccer. Now the Portuguese man behind it has been arrested, and his fate could hinge of Hungary’s definition of “whistle-blower.”

Williams was one point away from victory, but she appeared to injure her ankle before Pliskova reeled off six straight games to advance to the semifinals.

Serena Williams will have to wait for a record-tying 24th grand slam title -- and rematch with Naomi Osaka -- after she failed to capitalize on four match points in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

Naomi Osaka reached the Australian Open semifinals for the first time by stretching her Grand Slam winning streak to 12 matches.

As Collins, an unseeded 25-year-old, advanced to the semifinals in Melbourne, a cousin grabbed a flight to Australia while Collins’s parents planned for more late-night viewing in their Florida home.

Kevin-Prince Boateng signing for Barcelona in the January transfer window caught many people by surprise.