The Strange Case of Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers
Louisa Thomas on the N.B.A.’s investigation into Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers, which found that the team circumvented…
The Sporting Scene
admin Why Isn’t Everyone Talking About Olivia Miles?
Louisa Thomas on the basketball player Olivia Miles, of the Minnesota Lynx, and the debates and controversies surrounding the W.N.B.A.,…
The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense
Louisa Thomas on how the Boston Red Sox’s 2026 season has been both far better and far worse than the…
Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?
Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout…
The World Cup Is Not for Sale
Louisa Thomas on the FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s proposed plan to sell off the World Cup, which was scrapped after…
Take Me Out to the Brainball Game
Hundreds of neurosurgeons gathered in Central Park for inter-hospital softball. Who took home the skull-shaped trophy? Ben McGrath reports.
LeBron James: An Odyssey
Following the news that LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers, Louisa Thomas writes about the basketball star’s N.B.A.…
Method Beats Madness at the World Cup Final
Sam Knight writes about the 2026 World Cup final, in which Spain defeated Argentina to win the tournament a second…
How Worldy Is the World Cup?
With every tournament, the possibility of a genuine surprise is shrinking, Anthony Lane writes.
Rope-a-Dope
Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death? Zach Helfand reports.