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

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 ...

The end of this clip is why Paul Maurice is the greatest coach of all time in any sport, in one specific category: lectern domination. The whole thing is worth a watch, as all his pressers are, ...

It’s time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week’s ...

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

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 ...

March, she has done so only in the privacy of her own home. She beamed when she met Ellie the Elephant at Liberty training ...

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

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

Impossible brand cycle: 30 years between the 1966 debut of the original CBS television series created by Bruce Geller to the ...

When Paul Maurice was hired out of retirement to heal the Florida Panthers’ multitude of competitive leprosies, he was called ...

The saddest stories in local news are the ones where the body has been left to sit for a while. I worked in local news for ...