Smack! Pop! Crack! Woosh! Thump! Ping! Thud! Zing! Thwack! Whomp! Bam! BOOM! These are the normal, old-hat sounds of baseball. But a new baseball sound just dropped, which is important and also good: ...

Well, they found a way to make Electronic Arts an even shittier company. In an move notable for its size, though certainly not its content, a group of investors—including Saudi Arabia’s Public ...

Of the five players made available to reporters at the Clippers’ media day Monday, Kawhi Leonard was the last one up. He slipped into a sweatsuit, sat down at the dais, and said, “I’m ready,” as Law ...

The Indiana Fever are one game away from the WNBA Finals. They were not supposed to get nearly this far, not with Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and several other key players watching from the ...

There’s never been a better ad for St. Paul than Kirill Kaprizov’s new contract. I think by this point in negotiations, most hockey observers assumed that the superstar winger would at least take a ...

Nick Sturm teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book Publishing the New York School: Small Press Communities and American Poetry is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. He is ...

For one more day, it is still September—a fine month, all told, but not the undisputed king of Baseball Months. And yet, because the MLB playoffs begin today, and because every bit of baseball played ...

When the Minnesota Lynx’s season ended, their head coach was in a hotel room and their best player left the court on wheels. That’s one explanation for their surprising semifinal loss to the Phoenix ...

Nobody other than maybe Warren Buffett has brought more prestige and cash to Omaha than Terence “Bud” Crawford of late. Bet the local cops wouldn’t pull their guns on Buffett.  After midnight on ...

After Matchday 6, there is only one remaining undefeated team in the Premier League. This was a likely result, as the last two teams without losses played each other (sure, it could’ve ended in a draw ...

To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the ...

If the New York Mets went out like chumps, then it can fairly be said that the Cincinnati Reds went in like chumps. These two outfits, plus maybe the Arizona Diamondbacks, entered into a revolving ...