Peter Sellars on his Reagan-era staging of “Le Nozze di Figaro” (1988), why he chose the setting, and what Mozart was saying about money, class and power.

Some call Auburn’s Daniel Carlson the best kicker in college football. His grandfather, an Alabama alumnus, calls him Turncoat.

No. 3 Michigan faces No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday in a game emotionally similar to one in 1986 when Harbaugh was quarterback and Schembechler was coach.

In a major city that features M.L.B., N.H.L. and N.B.A. teams, the Canadian Football League’s championship game has barely created a ripple.

Taa, spoken by a few thousand people in Botswana and Namibia, is believed to have the largest sound inventory of any language in the world.

Shiffrin, a 21-year-old gold medalist in the slalom, is determined to prove herself as a champion in other events, as soon as she possibly can.

Her career began with stage musicals, but Ms. Henderson’s touchstone role as the perky matriarch of a 1970s blended family made her an enduring TV presence for decades.

As crisis has engulfed soccer on both sides of the Atlantic in recent months, there remains some common ground between the two nations.

Ezekiel Elliott ran for a pair of scores, and Dallas extended its franchise regular-season record for consecutive victories by beating Washington. Earlier, the Lions edged the Vikings.