NBA people will tell you the toughest game to win in the playoffs is the close-out game,” explained Mike Breen, minutes ...

The other day, bemoaning the state of his WNBA fantasy team bench, my colleague Jasper mentioned that he’d just picked up a player he’d never heard of: someone named “K. Westbeld,” with no photo. This ...

When the nervous peloton began their long, slow ascent up out of the Adda River valley to Bormio to finish Stage 17 of the ...

Like brother Magary, I have been re-energized as a fan by this year’s NBA playoffs, although I do admit that watching Jayson ...

USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan has tried very hard to establish herself as the nation’s foremost Caitlin Clark ...

Donald Trump released yet another deranged statement on Tuesday, demanding that a transgender high school student be barred ...

Junior high is tough for everyone. Shifting friendships! Being stuck somewhere between childhood and adolescence! All those hormones! If you’re lucky, you don’t also have to manage a parent who thinks ...

The New York Knicks would scramble the length of the floor in desperation—frantic, wide-eyed, bolts rattling loose, spotting ...

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 ...

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

The Florida Panthers, as terrifying a hockey team as they are, have made a bit of a habit out of elongating their playoff ...

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, ...