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President Lula has found a villain for Brazil's sour economic mood.
Police say a striker playing for Vasco, one of Brazil's most popular clubs, is linked to a drug-trafficking gang. The player says he just knew people.
Alison dos Santos ran 45.80 seconds in Zurich, ending a 28-year drought and claiming a category of mark Brazil had never owned.
Half the quarterfinalists in both the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana are Brazilian. The gap that produced them is financial, legal, and by now self-sustaining.
Dozens of former athletes are running for office in 2026. Their appeal to political parties has everything to do with the country's complicated system for electing the lower house of Congress.
Rio de Janeiro marked 10 years since it hosted the Olympics. This week, we looked at what the Games left behind.
Gabriel Bortoleto has scored 10 of the 12 points Audi has taken in its debut season as a Formula 1 works team.
A discount negotiated in 2020 cost Brazil's biggest broadcaster the one thing it can't buy back: habit
A proposed buyout of Vasco has become the first real test of whether Brazil's new financial-fair-play rules can police family ties, not just balance sheets.
The 2026 World Cup was supposed to crown Brazil's most prolific scorer. Instead, it delivered a quiet, ill-tempered exit.
A round-of-16 date with the only team Brazil has never beaten reopens the country's oldest football argument: whether a title counts less if it isn't earned with flair
In the 1990s, the Brazilian legend Zico helped build Japanese football from the ground up. Now Japan is all that stands between Brazil and the World Cup's round of 16.
Brazil has spent five years coaxing private capital into its chronically indebted football clubs. Now, it is writing the fine print.
Brazil get their 2026 World Cup campaign underway tonight against Morocco. But will this be another stressful tournament opener? And where does the country’s debut tension come from?
With the World Cup less than a week away, we look back at memorable ads surrounding the tournament, and how they mirror the nation’s optimism (or pessimism) about Brazil.
Designed via a newspaper competition, Brazil’s yellow national football team shirt is a global icon. Here’s the history behind the world-famous garment.
Neymar’s selection for Brazil’s World Cup squad came as something of a shock. But the national team has a long history of contested call-up decisions.
Is Samir Xaud the best CBF president in decades? And if so, what does that say about the recent history of Brazil’s football governing body?
Congressional aides describe how betting companies used a years-long regulatory gray area to get Brazil “addicted” to gambling — and its sponsorship money.
The foundations of Brazil’s top football clubs offer broad insight into how the sport developed in the country over generations.
Brazilian basketball legend Oscar Schmidt passed away last week, aged 68. His legacy in the sport goes beyond being “the best never to play in the NBA”
SailGP, the revolutionary high-tech high-speed sailing competition held its first ever event in Rio last weekend, with a Brazilian Olympic medalist in action.
The Fla-Flu derby between Flamengo and Fluminense is well-known worldwide, but it isn’t even the fiercest rivalry in Rio de Janeiro, nevermind Brazil
Criticism of Brazil’s new kits uncovers a deeper question of the national football team’s brand marketing ahead of the 2026 World Cup
Perhaps without realizing it, millions of Brazilian kids have played cricket, and the sport’s Olympic status is giving it increased visibility.
