In the winter, my television mostly stays off. The winter is when my brain is at its best. I am reading. I am writing. I am ...

Ketel Marte was 23 years old when his mother died in July 2017. He’d recently been summoned to the Arizona Diamondbacks from ...

Like many great Brazilian funk albums, pressing play on Halc DJ’s Bruxaria Não É Phonk is a little like fitting a jackhammer ...

It’s the hottest week of the year in New York City, but the Mets have been ice cold. Leaders of the NL East by five-and-a-half games less than two weeks ago, the boys from Queens now trail the ...

In the hours before Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, ESPN desk analyst Kendrick Perkins fielded a contrived gambling ...

Look at that image above. Really look at it. Now. And do not avert your eyes. Satan went to a lot of work to make this happen ...

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

Eagle-eyed trackheads following the Ostrava Golden Spike in Czechia might have noticed American hurdler Chris Robinson, an NCAA champion at Alabama, winning the 400 meters with some unorthodox form.

No soap operas, just crosswords. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Matthew Stock and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Matthew is a ...

Richard Jefferson’s exact words—so help me God—were “If Tyrese Haliburton was still playing, and it was a 15-point lead with ...

The base, corrupting, disenchanting influence of money has allegedly been right on the cusp of ruining everything good, noble ...

Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was saying this in ...