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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four hours before the final stage of the Tour de France begins, I walk the length of the last, newest climb on the race ...

Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This ...

Before this year’s rendition of the Belgian Grand Prix, it was all feeling a little bit 2021. The Circuit de ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...