Thousands entered Boise State’s arena on Monday night for the first day of the college basketball season. They arrived, I ...

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A little over three years ago, the greatest chess player of all time lost to a swaggering young American grandmaster, ...

For three decades now, the director Kelly Reichardt has been making films about American escape artists: drifters and ...

La Liga’s recent announcement that it was abandoning its long-in-the-works plan to hold a regular season match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami this December seemed to represent a victory of ...

At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome ...

This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next day was in another season, shorter and darker. The day after ...

The New Orleans Pelicans are 0-6 to start the season. Of those six losses, three have been by at least 30 points. No team in ...

Manchester City has five players who have scored exactly one goal this Premier League season: Matheus Nunes, Phil Foden, ...

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 ...

Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent longing for the sensory pleasures of the game. I mean ...