Arguably the most gripping story of 2023 to date happened on the night of Jan. 2. Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field in Cincinnati, suffering cardiac arrest after making a tackle early in the Bills–Bengals Monday Night…
Monday night in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, the TCU Horned Frogs had about as much chance against the fired-up Georgia Bulldogs as an armadillo has against a steel-belted radial. I’d repeat the score here, but the children might still be…
Conservatives won a nice court victory last week. Just before Christmas it was reported that the soccer player Kiersten Hening won the first stage of a case against her former Virginia Tech coach, who allegedly benched her for refusing to…
I heard the news last Wednesday morning. My wife and I were doing our annual Christmas trip to Pittsburgh’s historic Strip District, a wonderfully authentic half-mile strip of ethnic grocers and markets and restaurants — Sunseri’s, Wholey’s, Pennsylvania Macaroni, Labad’s,…
Mitchell Miller is one of the top young hockey players in the country. He has played on two national junior-league teams in the United States Hockey League. He was drafted in the fourth round by the Arizona Coyotes in 2020 and accepted an athletic…
In a way, he was the personification of tennis. Year-round tan thanks to the Florida sunshine, a smile that went from sly to joyous, a frown that verged on a fit of temper before turning into the teacher’s patient nod…
Baseball’s playoff period is a perfect time to reflect on how that sport’s institutional missteps reflect those of American society and politics. One of the game’s most wonderful attributes used to be its ability to bring people together, regardless of…
To measure the degree of the national obsession, consider that Monday watercooler discussion fixates not on the 174 people who died at one of their football matches on Saturday but on the one quarterback who suffered a concussion during one…
It’s been all over the sports news — an obsession, one might call it — for the past week: New York Yankee Aaron Judge’s quest to break Roger Maris’s American League record of home runs in a single season. Part…
