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Nov 24, 2025
During a typical game, Ethan Evans, the punter for the Los Angeles Rams, is synonymous with disappointment. All punters are. No fan cheers when their team’s punter jogs onto...
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Nov 17, 2025
On November 4th, Tom Brady revealed that his new dog, Junie, was a clone of his old dog Lua, a pit-bull mix who died in 2023. This felt unsurprising somehow, perhaps because Brady...
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Nov 11, 2025
It wasn’t exactly the shot that Giannis Antetokounmpo wanted, but, then, all he really wanted was the last shot.
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Oct 20, 2025
In the first game of the Wild Card Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, the Dodgers’ superstar Shohei Ohtani hit two home runs. Then, in game after...
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Oct 13, 2025
Last season, the Kansas City Chiefs made the Super Bowl, just as they had in 2024, and 2023, and 2021, and 2020. (It could have been five straight if they hadn’t blown an...
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Sep 8, 2025
Jalen Hurts, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, is a Super Bowl champion, the reigning Super Bowl M.V.P. He has played in two of the past three Super Bowls; in his first one, in...
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Sep 2, 2025
At the start of her first-round match in the U.S. Open, this past Tuesday, Coco Gauff—the winner of the U.S. Open two years ago, the reigning champion of the French Open, and...
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Aug 27, 2025
Edwin Díaz, the New York Mets’ All-Star closer, is no stranger to unusual injuries. A couple of years ago, he tore the patellar tendon in his right knee while jumping up...
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Aug 19, 2025
Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who his favorite players...
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Aug 4, 2025
Luka Dončić has three dogs: Hugo, Gia, and Viki. The trio have their own Instagram account, on which they’re shown lounging on an Alpine meadow in the mountains above the...
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Jul 31, 2025
It was not so long ago that Paige Bueckers represented the future of women’s basketball. In 2020, she was the top recruit in a class that included Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese,...
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Jul 21, 2025
Consider the Big Dumper. Scruffy, ruddy, built like a truck. Large mitts for hands, and a legendary derrière—a seat that assists in hours of squatting, a professional...
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Jul 15, 2025
In tennis, it is not enough to win; you have to keep winning. It is not even enough to be the greatest of all time; someone new is coming. In early June, at the French Open, Carlos...
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Jul 4, 2025
For years, many Grand Slam finals became, spontaneously, an event. When Rafael Nadal played Roger Federer, or Federer faced Novak Djokovic, or Djokovic took on Andy Murray, and the...
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Jun 16, 2025
When Tyrese Haliburton shoots, his right hand almost cups the side of the ball. His right elbow is akimbo. He uses odd footwork, jabbing almost randomly, and sometimes skips and hops...
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Jun 3, 2025
Kim Ng had big plans. For more than thirty years, ever since she was an intern for the Chicago White Sox, she had spent her summers working long hours. She eventually became an...
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May 22, 2025
Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took the title of his new...
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May 16, 2025
On a sunny day in late March, Michael Matteo, Jr., lounged on a grassy berm beyond the right-field fence at Clover Park, a minor-league stadium set amid the sprawling strip malls of...
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Apr 8, 2025
The New York Yankees have always liked size: big stars, big contracts, big games, big bodies. A short porch in right field, sure—but all the better for hitting big bombs. So...
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Feb 5, 2025
Sometimes, at the start of a relationship, you can see its end. When the Miami Heat acquired Jimmy Butler, in 2019, what did they expect would happen? “I like...
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Jan 16, 2025
Last year, Coco Gauff, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, hit four hundred and thirty double faults—by far the highest total on tour, sixty more than the player with the next...
Nov 24, 2025During a typical game, Ethan Evans, the punter for the Los Angeles Rams, is synonymous with disappointment. All punters are. No fan cheers when their team’s punter jogs onto...
Nov 17, 2025On November 4th, Tom Brady revealed that his new dog, Junie, was a clone of his old dog Lua, a pit-bull mix who died in 2023. This felt unsurprising somehow, perhaps because Brady...
Nov 11, 2025It wasn’t exactly the shot that Giannis Antetokounmpo wanted, but, then, all he really wanted was the last shot.
Oct 20, 2025In the first game of the Wild Card Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, the Dodgers’ superstar Shohei Ohtani hit two home runs. Then, in game after...
Oct 13, 2025Last season, the Kansas City Chiefs made the Super Bowl, just as they had in 2024, and 2023, and 2021, and 2020. (It could have been five straight if they hadn’t blown an...
Sep 8, 2025Jalen Hurts, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, is a Super Bowl champion, the reigning Super Bowl M.V.P. He has played in two of the past three Super Bowls; in his first one, in...
Sep 2, 2025At the start of her first-round match in the U.S. Open, this past Tuesday, Coco Gauff—the winner of the U.S. Open two years ago, the reigning champion of the French Open, and...
Aug 27, 2025Edwin Díaz, the New York Mets’ All-Star closer, is no stranger to unusual injuries. A couple of years ago, he tore the patellar tendon in his right knee while jumping up...
Aug 19, 2025Last year, after Carlos Alcaraz beat Miomir Kecmanović in the fourth round of the Australian Open, Jim Courier asked Alcaraz, in an on-court interview, who his favorite players...
Aug 4, 2025Luka Dončić has three dogs: Hugo, Gia, and Viki. The trio have their own Instagram account, on which they’re shown lounging on an Alpine meadow in the mountains above the...
Jul 31, 2025It was not so long ago that Paige Bueckers represented the future of women’s basketball. In 2020, she was the top recruit in a class that included Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese,...
Jul 21, 2025Consider the Big Dumper. Scruffy, ruddy, built like a truck. Large mitts for hands, and a legendary derrière—a seat that assists in hours of squatting, a professional...
Jul 15, 2025In tennis, it is not enough to win; you have to keep winning. It is not even enough to be the greatest of all time; someone new is coming. In early June, at the French Open, Carlos...
Jul 4, 2025For years, many Grand Slam finals became, spontaneously, an event. When Rafael Nadal played Roger Federer, or Federer faced Novak Djokovic, or Djokovic took on Andy Murray, and the...
Jun 16, 2025When Tyrese Haliburton shoots, his right hand almost cups the side of the ball. His right elbow is akimbo. He uses odd footwork, jabbing almost randomly, and sometimes skips and hops...
Jun 3, 2025Kim Ng had big plans. For more than thirty years, ever since she was an intern for the Chicago White Sox, she had spent her summers working long hours. She eventually became an...
May 22, 2025Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took the title of his new...
May 16, 2025On a sunny day in late March, Michael Matteo, Jr., lounged on a grassy berm beyond the right-field fence at Clover Park, a minor-league stadium set amid the sprawling strip malls of...
Apr 8, 2025The New York Yankees have always liked size: big stars, big contracts, big games, big bodies. A short porch in right field, sure—but all the better for hitting big bombs. So...
Feb 5, 2025Sometimes, at the start of a relationship, you can see its end. When the Miami Heat acquired Jimmy Butler, in 2019, what did they expect would happen? “I like...
Jan 16, 2025Last year, Coco Gauff, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, hit four hundred and thirty double faults—by far the highest total on tour, sixty more than the player with the next...