Just days before the presidential election, the death of a gray squirrel named Peanut has become a somewhat inexplicable ...

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 ...

Joe Few, son of Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few, has fond memories of hanging out courtside as a kid and asking his dad to put the walk-ons into the game. “Don’t ever do that again,” he ...

Why does Brian Daboll hate the Irish?  Among the many failed decisions the soon-to-be-former Giants head coach made on what ...

For many reasons, the São Paulo Grand Prix is my favorite weekend of any in Formula 1. The track is the best, or at least my ...

We want to get this out of the way now so that we won’t have to revisit it when everyone else weighs in with their turgid and superficial analyses of what is wrong with the new NBA season. Put simply, ...

Since their inception, food competition shows have seen very little real innovation. Most entries into the genre are variations on a theme, the stakes artificially raised through less time allotted, ...

The hurdle only gained the Eagles five more yards, on a drive that ended with a field goal. But it was one of the weirder ...

The NFL is becoming weirder with every week. If you doubt that, let us present Saquon Barkley’s airborne rear end as the ...

All the issues that arise from the Ballon d’Or stem from misaligned expectations. Even after almost 70 years of footballers ...

Hours after the Philadelphia 76ers lost at home to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night, news broke that Sixers star Joel ...

The first five or so games of an NBA season can only give you so much quantitative data about how the next 77 or so will ...