Younger audiences, raised on video games and YouTube, have grown increasingly disinterested in sports. The time is now to make soccer games shorter.

A proposed resolution would increase the precision of NFL stadium clocks by a few ticks. Will teams bend that time to their will?

The clock has stopped after all first downs in college football games since 1968 and is restarted after the ball is positioned and whistled to be ready for play.

In hockey, penalties are served on game time; if the game clock stops, so does the penalty clock. But in football, sometimes the game clock stops and then the play clock starts up again.

Twice during the first half of the Hoosiers' game at Northwestern did the clock stop. Here's why the referees had a timing malfunction, and how devices work.

I regularly saw one hour games last over three hours; but stopping the clock guaranteed the full 60 minutes of game-time for the paying spectators. In the dim and distant past, my father was an ...

Before each game, Copley inputs the names of each official and the crew members in charge of controlling the shot clock and scoreboard. The machine logs every time someone starts or stops the clock.

Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock is the greatest innovation the sport has had in generations.