Sports
The big game is about more than winner and losers; it can shape our culture and society. We explain how.
Can MLB split the difference between humans and machines?
How a basketball league for “grannies” is reimagining aging.
The 2026 Olympics were great if you enjoyed figure skating, disco, and chaos agents.
Skimo enters the Winter Olympics at the most tragic time.
The athletes’ messy personal drama threatens to eclipse the sports in Milan and Cortina.
The duo is favored to win Olympic gold on Wednesday, amid increasingly dark allegations.
Maybe the right didn’t capture the culture as much as they thought.
The gold medal favorite is on track to make Olympic history in Milan. The scary part? He could still get even better.
All of the cultural Easter eggs you might have missed.
The sport feels unstoppable — yet also doomed.
The athletes, events and simmering geopolitical crises that we’re watching at this year’s competition.
The Super Bowl performer’s ties to a nascent independence movement are roiling Puerto Rican politics.
The biggest storyline at the 2026 Australian Open is Americans being asked about Trump.
It’s not just the smut. It’s about a deeper desire.
What Heated Rivalry and gay hockey smut can tell us about ourselves.
The Trump-FIFA connection, explained.
Trans advocates would face a difficult road in the sports cases, even if the Court weren’t dominated by Republicans.
Today’s sports gambling looks nothing like the sports betting of the past.
5 questions about the NBA’s seismic gambling indictments, answered.
The sports gambling reckoning is finally here.
The greatest grand slam in the world has become an etiquette nightmare — and it’s not alone.
Best wishes to the happy cultural phenomenon!
NFL dance squads and sorority rush dances have become the front lines of gender anxiety.
It’s so easy get addicted these days. The apps are counting on it.
We have a long way to go in understanding the brain injury implicated in the NYC shooting.
Christian Horner was fired after a year of bad performance, following allegations of sexual harassment.
From F1 influencers to Taylor Swift, WAGs are in a new golden age. So why do they feel so old-fashioned?
Why are we mad at the football coach’s girlfriend?
To defend democracy, the courts must rule in favor of a lawmaker who bullied a high school student.
The globalization of March Madness, explained.
MAGA still hated the Pulitzer Prize winner’s performance.
The Grammy winner’s NFL moment spotlighted his beef with a Drake and subsequent defamation lawsuit.
A tall Slavic man changed jobs. Why is the internet freaking out?
The Kansas City Chiefs were famously underdogs. Now they’re reviled.
Men’s sports have historically been much more popular than women’s. But that may be changing.
Sexual harassment claims involving hosts Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor have become a playground for misogynists online.
Students are regrouping in their long fight for labor rights.
Online sports betting is bad for sports — and for gamblers.
It wasn’t the easiest year, but 2024 was not without its bright spots.