The Sports America | Sports in the United States
The paragraph after the result.
What We Cover
Our reporting concentrates on the sports Americans follow week to week, along with the business and technology stories that increasingly decide what those sports look like.
Professional Leagues
NFL, MLB, NBA and WNBA, including front-office and labour stories, not only results.
College Sport
Football and basketball, conference realignment, and the consequences of paying athletes.
Tennis and Soccer
The American players and clubs, and the international competitions that matter here.
The Business of Sport
Transfer and contract spending, broadcast rights, ownership and sponsorship.
Sport and Technology
Officiating systems, player tracking, streaming, and how they change the watching experience.
Who We Write For
We assume you watched the game, or read the box score, and came here for the part that was not obvious from either. Most of our pieces run eight to twelve minutes, because that's how long the argument takes.
How We Work
Every article is written and edited by a person, carries a byline, and is dated. We link to primary sources, including league filings, official statements, transfer records and court documents, rather than to other people's summaries of them. When we get something wrong, we correct it in public and say what changed.
Read Our Editorial StandardsIndependence
The Sports America is funded by advertising and sponsored content. Neither buys influence over our reporting. Commercial partners see their own material before it publishes; they never see, review or approve editorial coverage. Anything paid for is labelled as such at the top of the page.
Our Writers
The Sports America is produced by a small team of writers and editors who cover American sport full time. Each article carries the name of the person who wrote it and links to their page, where you can see what else they've covered and what they specialise in.
How We Choose What To Cover
We cannot cover everything, so we apply three tests. A story needs to pass at least two.
What We Do Not Do
Aggregation
We do not rewrite another outlet's reporting and publish it as ours. If someone else broke it, we say so and link to them.
Rumour Mills
Unsourced trade and transfer speculation is entertainment, not reporting, and we do not present it as the latter.
Engagement Bait
No deliberately inflammatory takes written to be argued with, and no headlines that promise something the article does not deliver.
Tipping
We are not a betting service and we do not sell picks.
Why Our Articles Are Long
A scoreline takes one sentence. Why a team is built the way it is, what a contract structure tells you about a front office, or how a rule change moves money around a league takes considerably more. We write to the length the argument needs. Where that is three paragraphs, we write three.
Corrections and Feedback
We would rather hear from you than be quietly wrong. If you spot an error, tell us and we will check it, fix it if you're right, and say publicly that we did. Our editorial standards explain exactly how corrections are handled and how quickly you can expect a reply.