### Clue: Regularly helped break top stories in field events (9)
### Answer: ATHLETICS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: field events
 {H,L,E(**1st, 3rd, and 5th letters of** (regularly) "helped"} **contained in**(break) ATTICS(the parts of buildings directly under the roof;the top stories).
Answer: Not only field, but also track, events, I thought.