Louisa Thomas

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  • Mar 23, 2026
    LeBron James began this N.B.A. season, his twenty-third, as a punch line. When it was announced, in October, that he would miss a number of early games because of sciatica, a cartoon...
  • Mar 2, 2026
    Two years ago, two very bad teams, the Detroit Pistons and the Brooklyn Nets, played a game that meant very little in the league’s over-all standings. To Cade Cunningham, it...
  • Feb 23, 2026
    Less than two minutes into overtime of the men’s gold-medal hockey game at the Milano Cortina Olympics, between the U.S.A. and Canada, the American Jack Hughes—a fresh...
  • Feb 17, 2026
    Four years ago, at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Alysa Liu, a U.S. figure skater, seemed happy. 
  • Feb 2, 2026
    Last Sunday, in the Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room, after the team’s loss to the Golden State Warriors, 111–85, the young star Anthony Edwards sat back in a...
  • Jan 26, 2026
    Last week, at the Australian Open, Amanda Anisimova sailed through much of her second-round match, against Kateřina Siniaková, displaying her superior power and accuracy. Few...
  • Jan 12, 2026
    Perhaps it was all part of a grand plan: The Pittsburgh Steelers’ dreadful 2–5 stretch in October and November. The failure to convert nine consecutive third downs in a...
  • Jan 8, 2026
    In late November, the Washington Spirit and Gotham F.C. met at PayPal Park, in San Jose, California, for the National Women’s Soccer League’s championship game. During a...