It is difficult to pinpoint the moment when transactions became more important than games, but it is indisputably true that fans love the movement of players and money from locale to locale for the ...

On May 11, 2023, Ellerie Ulfers was pitching for Washburn High School against district rival Southwest in a varsity softball game in Minneapolis, Minn. The start time had been moved back 15 minutes, ...

And not just from whipping your head around to track another one of his throws sailing past the first baseman. I’ll be here ...

People are starving in Gaza. They are starving because the Israeli government is not allowing enough food to enter, and ...

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Gilbert Arenas has really gotta stay away from any card game that ain’t solitaire. The one-time Washington Wizards superstar, ...

This week, Luka Doncic took part in a time-honored tradition employed by many athletes before him: a news cycle about how ...

Perhaps you have given yourself over to Cucumber Season and are not paying attention to the dog days of the baseball season.

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I just read Leo Tolstoy’s 1870s novel Anna Karenina for the first time, and I am treating it like a real accomplishment. For basically all of my life, whenever I’ve heard reference to Tolstoy—OK, ...

I can still remember the sound of the dull thud, and the scream that came after. It was a tournament game, and our pitcher, Paul, was dealing. He always did, because he could throw 80 mph as a 13-year ...