There is only one possible silver lining to facing down a 31-point deficit in the fourth quarter of a football game, and that ...

This puzzle was constructed by Hannah Binney, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Hannah is a crossword constructor living in Cambridge, Mass. She began constructing in 2020, and she has had puzzles appear in ...

You can take your World Series and push it up your tush. The NFL delivers excitement similar to that of the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat extra-inning baseball the Blue Jays and Dodgers gave us last ...

To paraphrase the late, great Prodigy, there are wars going on outside no one is safe from. They are cultural, political, ...

On Oct. 19, American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was found dead in his Charlotte, N.C. home. He was a few weeks shy ...

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Evan Bouchard is the Oilers’ most important player. This does not mean they’d suffer the most if he were removed from the ...

There has always been a strong note of pranking to Terry Bradshaw’s work as a NFL studio analyst at Fox. Bradshaw’s role is ...

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Wednesday night in Los Angeles, it was finally the Blue Jays’ turn to benefit from a historic performance. They’d lost Game 2 ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

The last time the lasting historical footprint of a World Series was left by the losing team was the night of Carlton Fisk’s ...