DURHAM, N.C. -- It was her last home softball game of the season, and Nicole Pyles, a sophomore at Durham Hillside High School in North Carolina, had just hit a double. Her hair, braided with beads ...

Sometimes it is bigger than sports. Those are six simple words, but yet six powerful words when one takes a step back and deciphers them. After all, in times of adversity and hardship, sports tend to ...

So the New York Yankees, at long last, have done away with their policy against facial hair. Perhaps Gerrit Cole wouldn’t have slept on covering first base in that same fateful fifth inning if he’d ...

Bald may be beautiful — but not so much with the Yankees anymore. The team’s stunning change to its decades-long facial-hair policy in which the organization will now allow “well-groomed beards” has ...

"In recent weeks, I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees — spanning several eras — to elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy, and I ...