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Before one copy showed up on a bookstore shelf, Christine Brennan’s new book had women’s basketball abuzz. The longtime ...

After two full rounds of the 2025 Euros group stage, every title contender has some kind of weakness. Germany can’t stop anyone, Spain can’t stop any counter attack, and France is in the middle of a ...

Bill Ackman’s tennis game is not humiliating in itself. If it’s Ackman’s humiliation you seek, might I direct you to: his hammy and conspiratorial screeds on Twitter; his use of antisemitism as a ...

There was a good deal of weather around La Crosse, Wisconsin while I was there. We had several tornado sirens and a couple of touchdowns in neighboring counties. The street I was staying on flooded a ...

In almost all cases, if I am referring to someone as a Barf Man, the term is not meant to be taken literally. To me there is ...

Tadej Pogacar’s 100th win as a professional rider was a perfect synecdoche of the other 99, partially in how he won it and ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

The Fourth of July is always there to remind us that we aren’t the country we fancy ourselves being, but this year’s national ...