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December 25, 2024Measured by sheer number of viewers, this might have been the most popular sports year in American history. More people watched the Super Bowl than ever before; the World Series had...
October 18, 2024On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place. The basketball part of the evening was not itself...
October 7, 2024‘The power of football is that it’s real,” writes Joe Posnanski in his book “Why We Love Football,” an intriguing, mostly inconsequential aside he uses...
July 2, 2024There are some celebrities who so seem to represent American masculinity — well, straight, white American masculinity, anyway — that they feel carved out of granite and...
June 26, 2024Last Thursday, my soccer-obsessed 10-year-old son and I sat in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and witnessed 70,000 people humming the Argentine national anthem together. This was...- March 28, 2024Pete Rose never goes away. He’s still here in body, of course, now 82, surely this very second signing everything in sight at a memorabilia show in a medium-size convention...
March 27, 2024“I’m very saddened and shocked that someone who I trusted has done this,” Shohei Ohtani said — through a translator, of course; Ohtani’s lack of comfort...
March 14, 2024Every once in a while, you read a line in a news story that is so plainly self-evident, so thuddingly obvious, that it takes you aback — as if you turned on the evening news to...
January 25, 2024How will we remember the 2023–24 NFL season? It’s possible that our primary association will be the Detroit Lions’ first-ever Super Bowl appearance (if they can...
