Now Maxx Crosby doesn’t have to write one of those treacly letters to Las Vegas Raiders fans thanking them for their love and ...

It’s Monday morning and I’m ready for the start of NFL free agency. The window to sign players doesn’t officially open for another two days, but Monday represents the start of the league’s open ...

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. And yet there is no timeline long enough that could have prepared me for Bam Adebayo scoring 83 points in an honest-to-goodness ...

A little over three months from today, on June 13, the Boston metropolitan area is set to host the first of its seven 2026 World Cup matches, a group-stage clash between Scotland and Haiti. Despite ...

The crack of the bat. The smell of the grass. Hasty, scrawled attempts to understand and calculate a run-quotient formula. The romance of baseball is rarely felt as keenly as when it requires math.

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 ...

Part of the charm of the World Baseball Classic is that it takes your favorite athletes and places them in different arrangements. It answers fantastical questions: What if all the members of the Los ...

In what could very well go down as the biggest upset of the season, San Antonio Spur and intermittent blogger Luke Kornet somehow has successfully blocked the Atlanta Hawks’ attempt to honor an iconic ...

If your workplace has Slack, you know that it is designed to make remote office communications easier and more convivial, which is all well and good as long as you don’t actually use it. The wise ...

Jayson Tatum played his second game of the season Sunday, after having set what seems like an all-time record for the fastest ...

On a Sunday full of get-a-load-of-this, it was going to be hard to beat this: Oh, and there were 15 goals in that game, too.

Following the Iran women’s national soccer team’s third group-stage match of the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup, five members of the ...