F1's 2026 cars carry a new 768kg weight floor, and drivers must separately meet an 82kg minimum. The post-race scale checks both — and disqualifications follow when a car misses it.

There's no official rulebook for ranking Tour de France mountains — just a race director's formula, a stopwatch's worth of judgment, and a century of arguments over which climbs deserve the honor.

A Celtics investor refused to accept a 1979 salary cap unless the team could always keep Larry Bird. The exception the league carved out still runs free agency.

Beginning this postseason, NHL playoff rosters must fit under the salary cap for the first time ever, closing a loophole that helped build three of the last five Stanley Cup champions.

Void years make a contract look cheap on paper. The cap collects the difference later — sometimes all at once, and 2026's numbers show exactly how much.

Three players per MLS roster don't count against the salary cap the normal way, and allocation money decides how much they cost on paper.

A hard salary-cap line at $221,686,000 now decides which NBA contenders can fix their roster — and which ones just have to watch it break down.

General Allocation Money lets MLS teams work around the salary cap. Here's how the mechanism works and why some clubs have millions more of it.

Two-way contracts let NBA teams carry three extra players who split time with the G League for half the rookie minimum salary. Here's how the rules work, and why teams are still filling slots months into the offseason.

One media vote for All-NBA can be worth $40 million under the NBA's Rose Rule. Here's how the 30% max clause works, and the players whose fortunes it has already swung.

VAR is the review process; semi-automated offside technology is the tool that makes one part of it faster. Here's what actually changed since the Premier League and FIFA adopted camera-based offside tracking.

Sixteen cameras per stadium and a sensor-packed match ball now flag offsides before a human eye can. Here's what changed since 2022, and what the system still can't decide.

From March until Week 1, the NFL only counts a team's 51 richest contracts against the cap. Here's why, and what changes the moment the season starts.

A void year is a season that exists only in a spreadsheet. Teams add them to park signing-bonus money somewhere the salary cap cannot reach it yet.

Tennessee opens 2026 with $94.8 million in unused cap space; Dallas opens $56.1 million in the hole. The gap comes down to one often-misunderstood rule: carryover.

Her serve never broke and her nerve never wobbled. Osaka's win over the world No. 1 ended the longest tiebreak streak in Grand Slam history.

The reigning champions were pushed to the brink by the smallest nation ever to reach the knockout rounds before edging through in Miami.

Croatia were the better side in Toronto. A stoppage-time header and a chalked-off goal decided it the other way, and ended Luka Modric's World Cup.

Youri Tielemans converted a 120th-minute penalty to complete Belgium’s comeback from two goals down, booking a Round of 16 date with the United States in Seattle on Monday.

Two goals either side of a Bradley Barcola strike sent France through, and moved Mbappe past two Brazilian greats into the record books.