ESPN staff was hit by another round of layoffs this week, which in some sense barely registers as news given that the network ...

There’s not a lot of NBA news happening right now, so we must welcome any sort of chaos we can find, even of the accidental ...

The city was question and answer in one,” Colson Whitehead writes early on in Cool Machine, the final novel of his Harlem ...

The San Francisco Giants are a rotten, poisoned, blighted organization. I offer to the jury, by way of evidence, the ...

I thought I would be miserable going to this game, watching two teams I hate (the Phillies and the Dodgers) ride high on ...

A day after the French Open ended in May, the website tennis.com shut down its editorial operation. The brand dates back to ...

This is the fourth MLB season with a pitch clock, so one might think that any beef around the rule change has long ago ...

While many of us can agree men are in trouble, few can agree on the exact cause. America has a masculinity crisis. Men are in trouble. The “masculinity crisis” is real. The male loneliness epidemic ...

After several years of lurking in the shadows, the specter of doping once again looms over the Tour de France. Though nobody ...

Credit to The Athletic for crafting the most haunting lede of 2026. Monday’s article about the Eagles head coach begins with ...

Just as every film is really about filmmaking, isn't every film also an adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey? The hero's journey. The antihero's journey. The road trip movie. The war movie. Movies set in ...

On Sunday, the Oklahoma City Thunder, Atlanta Hawks, and Dallas Mavericks completed a three-team trade that was depressing for at least two big reasons. The first reason: Just two years after being ...