It’s unlikely that you spend much time thinking about the New Orleans Pelicans. However, as a New Orleans resident for whom ball is life, I am rather fixated on them. This team is far stranger than ...

Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story ...

Like its sludgy predecessor and by design, Game 2 of the WNBA Finals was played as if in the mud. Clean dribbling of the ball ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking about hockey, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, how to start dating, and more. Drew ...

A Weird Star is a classic place-setter in fiction. Put a Weird Star in the sky, even if it never has anything to do with the ...

The moment general manager Chris Ballard was given Fredo’s kiss by the Indianapolis Colts’ HR department Monday morning, the ...

When last we checked in with Devin Cooley, he was serving as the backup goaltender for one of the worst teams in the league—I mean, downright putrid, couldn’t-pay-me-to-watch bad. Not a lot has ...

On Oct. 9, the New York Times reported that UFC veteran Tim Kennedy was recovering in the Walter Reed National Military ...

College football had its first Blood Week of the season. This weekend saw losses for eight ranked teams, and even the teams ...

Jalen Hurts’s season is over. On Monday, Hurts’s agent, Nicole Lynn, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Eagles, released a statement about the quarterback’s health situation as it pertains to the ...

For eons, roly-polies have rightfully dominated the rolling space, at least in our imagination. The crustaceans’ astonishing ...

Call it a buzzer beating. The reigning WBC super welterweight champ and most interesting man in boxing, Sebastian Fundora, delivered as interesting a knockout as memory serves while retaining his ...