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By the end of their season-ending 130-109 drubbing in game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, the New York Knicks looked a little like Wile...
Last week, I was in Los Angeles and stopped by 33 Taps in Silver Lake — the unofficial sports bar and gathering spot for New York Knicks fans in...
Tom Thibodeau is one of those guys who always seems to have a mustard stain on his tie. We’ve come to associate star NBA head coaches with a slick,...
Tom Thibodeau is one of those guys who always seems to have a mustard stain on his tie. We’ve come to associate star NBA head coaches with a slick,...
On March 15, 2020, in the hallowed pages of the New York Times , I published one of the dumbest things I’ve ever written. (And there are many...
On March 15, 2020, in the hallowed pages of the New York Times , I published one of the dumbest things I’ve ever written. (And there are many...
All-Star Games serve many purposes: rest for weary players, a central location for everyone involved with a league to gather in one place over a long...
All-Star Games serve many purposes: rest for weary players, a central location for everyone involved with a league to gather in one place over a long...
A few years ago, back when Twitter was a place where you could have debates with reasonable human beings, a discussion arose: Would any modern-day...
A few years ago, back when Twitter was a place where you could have debates with reasonable human beings, a discussion arose: Would any modern-day...
The most fun sports story I’ve ever covered for this magazine was, unquestionably, Jeremy Lin’s incredible fortnight back in 2012. (A headline...
The most fun sports story I’ve ever covered for this magazine was, unquestionably, Jeremy Lin’s incredible fortnight back in 2012. (A headline...
It is unlikely that the women’s college-basketball national championship game will get better TV ratings than the men’s version. But the fact that...
“I’m very saddened and shocked that someone who I trusted has done this,” Shohei Ohtani said — through a translator, of course; Ohtani’s...
“I’m very saddened and shocked that someone who I trusted has done this,” Shohei Ohtani said — through a translator, of course; Ohtani’s...
It’s difficult to choose a defining villain in the world of college athletics; there are just so many candidates deserving of the title. But if you...
It’s difficult to choose a defining villain in the world of college athletics; there are just so many candidates deserving of the title. But if you...
Every once in a while, you read a line in a news story that is so plainly self-evident, so thuddingly obvious, that it takes you aback — as if you...
On Saturday, LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 points. This is an incredible, almost mind-bending accomplishment. To...
On Saturday, LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 points. This is an incredible, almost mind-bending accomplishment. To...
Last Thursday morning, a nursing student named Laken Riley, a junior at the University of Georgia, went out for her morning jog in Athens. Riley was...
Last Thursday morning, a nursing student named Laken Riley, a junior at the University of Georgia, went out for her morning jog in Athens. Riley was...
On Saturday evening, the Twitter/X account of ESPN superstar NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski — the most plugged-in reporter in the sport, purveyor...
On Saturday evening, the Twitter/X account of ESPN superstar NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski — the most plugged-in reporter in the sport, purveyor...
The thing about truly special athletes — the ones we’ll be talking about for the rest of our lives, the ones our kids will ask us what it was like...
The thing about truly special athletes — the ones we’ll be talking about for the rest of our lives, the ones our kids will ask us what it was like...
So many great moments in sports history, moments that seem like destiny in retrospect, were impossible to foresee or even necessarily understand while...
The Super Bowl is by far the biggest national television event every year, which can almost make you forget that it’s also a traveling road show....
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that, in almost any field, from sports to politics to economics to media to parenthood, there are essentially...
How will we remember the 2023-24 NFL season? It’s possible that our primary association will be the Detroit Lions’ first-ever Super Bowl...
After the frigid opening weekend of the NFL playoffs — the highlight of which was the Dallas Cowboys suffered a stunning blowout loss to the Green...
On Monday night, the Michigan Wolverines defeated the Washington Huskies 34-13 to win their first college football national championship since 1997....
In any other context, we’d all be rooting for Michigan to win the college-football championship next week. They’ve got a lot going for them, after...
Nearly everything in sports in 2023 felt like it was about to end. It isn’t, of course: The Super Bowl is still happening next year, even if having...
It is perhaps telling that Google’s most frequently searched athlete of the year — actually, its most-searched person altogether —was not LeBron...
No matter how inured you are to the absurd money that’s thrown around sports, no matter how much you’d rather see the revenue sports generate...
At noon on Sunday, the College Football Playoff committee announced that the fourth spot in its four-team tournament, which begins on January 1, would...
Editor’s Note: Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, the founder of the late sports website Deadspin and the author of six...
The thing you need to remember about college football right now is that it’s all worth it — if you win. No matter what it takes, no matter how...
On November 7, 2016, the night before Election Day, Donald Trump, the surprise Republican nominee for U.S. president, spoke before an audience in...
The NBA season is now two weeks old, and, for a league that lives in constant anxiety that its regular season is going to be perceived as...
Reading the news, you might think that every college student in America spends their nights protesting foreign wars, obsessing over arcane linguistic...
Imagine if the fate of a Major League Baseball team was directly connected to an NFL team that played in the same city. In this scenario, if the New...
For years, a 28-year-old man named Moon has attended every home game of the Major League Soccer team LAFC and the National Women’s Soccer League...
For the last half-decade, the signature buzzphrase of the NBA, which begins a new season on Tuesday, has been player empowerment. Players realized a...
Traditionally speaking, athlete-celebrity romances fall into one of three categories. There are the somewhat problematic but mostly harmless couplings...
Baseball is a sport that exists to dissatisfy. As glorious as it can be (and, I’d argue, largely is), baseball is so rooted in tradition and...
Nearly a decade ago, I wrote a column for this magazine arguing that the offseason part of the NBA — free agency, trade rumors, the contract...
One of the central reasons college football is in such danger is that it has sacrificed so much of everything its fans love about it — tradition,...