Some people are fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. This 2026 ...

Until a month ago, everything was going great for David Ellison and his plan to control American cultural production. He’d ...

You may think you’ve experienced joy before, but you had previously never seen a mascot version of a 99-year-old woman with a cane dancing and cartwheeling around a baseball field in Springfield, Ill.

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

All Gianni Infantino needed was patience. Memory for scandal is short, even in a sport as massive as soccer, and whatever controversies the FIFA president willingly courted during the 2026 World Cup ...

Maybe we’ve been viewing Harrison Bader all wrong. Not that he hasn’t behaved like a Thanksgiving ham in a batting helmet, but he may have spurred his soon-to-be former employers to accept their ...

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie ...

It’s 2:00 p.m. on a Tuesday, just one week from election day, and Abdul El-Sayed’s Detroit office is standing room only. The ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers got Tarik Skubal, damn them. Damn them for having money; damn them for being too damn good; damn them ...

If Shohei Ohtani doesn’t return to the pitcher’s mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, they’ve got themselves a hell ...

Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2026 ...

Who is ruining baseball? For me, for today, it’s the Washington Nationals. Games played by my home team make up a solid 90 ...