Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a ...

Not a lot of owners would have let Mike Elias do what he has done with the Baltimore Orioles. This was true in a negative, ...

Names, the heroine of Cynthia Buchanan’s 1972 debut novel, Maiden, thinks to herself, “are so vital.” And with a name like ...

I know how the faint praise goes, but a lot of the important things Angel Reese does actually do show up in the box score.

Marc Edelman has spent much of the last two decades fighting to help college athletes get fairly compensated for their labor. A lawyer who is currently a tenured professor at Baruch College, Edelman ...

You might have heard by now of the scientist in Russia, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who died on Oct. 2 of an unknown illness. Shipilova worked in a lab at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute ...

The Tampa Bay Rays–New York Yankees ALDS matchup revealed some intriguing eccentricities of each team’s respective ballpark. For example, the Tropicana Field ground rules contain a section entitled ...

To hear powerhouse sports agent Drew Rosenhaus tell it, his client, the once-electric receiver Tyreek Hill, could sign with a ...

If you missed last week’s Thursday Night Football tilt between the Steelers and Browns, don’t grieve. The game itself was ...

The single discordant note in the otherwise effervescent National League Divisional Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and ...

If you listen to a certain subset of the media—not necessarily the sports media—the state of the WNBA is dire. A generational talent is being squandered. Weak leadership has failed a league on the ...

In the 1870s, as the research ship HMS Challenger passed through the Philippines during its circumnavigation of the Earth, it dredged up a sponge from the gray sludge 95 fathoms (nearly 600 feet) ...