When the nervous peloton began their long, slow ascent up out of the Adda River valley to Bormio to finish Stage 17 of the ...

Like brother Magary, I have been re-energized as a fan by this year’s NBA playoffs, although I do admit that watching Jayson ...

Donald Trump released yet another deranged statement on Tuesday, demanding that a transgender high school student be barred ...

The other day, bemoaning the state of his WNBA fantasy team bench, my colleague Jasper mentioned that he’d just picked up a player he’d never heard of: someone named “K. Westbeld,” with no photo. This ...

Junior high is tough for everyone. Shifting friendships! Being stuck somewhere between childhood and adolescence! All those hormones! If you’re lucky, you don’t also have to manage a parent who thinks ...

The New York Knicks would scramble the length of the floor in desperation—frantic, wide-eyed, bolts rattling loose, spotting ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

It can be hard to tell when it is safe to officially declare a bad baseball team a historically bad one. You usually kind of ...

Knockout-tournament soccer is the best soccer because of how it amplifies the sport’s essence. The magic of the game lies in ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On Wednesday, President ...

Let us approach Shohei Ohtani as naively as possible, while admitting that in the case of Ohtani this decision can hardly be anything but a ruse. For the span of time that he has been on the Los ...

As a general rule, you do not want to know what sportswriters are eating. Assume that it’s happening at strange times and in ...