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 ...

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film ...

A Hall of Fame case does not get built in the same way, or out of the same things, as a legend. There are plenty of Hall of ...

Some people are fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. This 2025 ...

When scientists discover new prehistoric species, the fossils alone fail to conjure the creature in the flesh. It’s impossible to summon the entirety ancient shark from a single tooth, or some weird ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

Folks with fancy degrees will tell you that kleptomania is a mental illness, but I bet those doctors never watched a San Diego Padres game. On a couple of occasions already this month, Kelsey has ...

The Tour de France is over. I hope you enjoyed the racing and the 11 dispatches I was able to bring you from the race, on ...

Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins was released by the Raiders last week, which immediately scanned as just another instance of the franchise deploying its “trip over your own feet” philosophy of ...

I am sitting on a dock in the Wisconsin sun. About 15 feet away, Livi Pappadopoulos and Aini Anderson are walking on water. The first and (now) second-ranked women in logrolling are sharing a No. 3 ...

A 32-point, eight-rebound, seven-assist, four-steal, two-block performance is just the kind of thing you can expect from Napheesa Collier these days. She began the year favored to win MVP, and halfway ...