Louisa Thomas

Gaël Monfils made his first appearance at the French Open twenty years ago. He was eighteen years old, and one of the most promising players of his generation. The previous year, he had won three out of the four junior […]

Bill Belichick, one of the winningest coaches in N.F.L. history, and currently the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took the title of his new book, “The Art of Winning,” from “The Art of

On Wednesday, the day after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game One of their second-round playoff series, Chris Finch, the Timberwolves coach, shared some thoughts with reporters about the Warriors’ style of play during the post-season.

It was not enough to beat a man—not enough to bait Rudy Gobert in the closing seconds of a playoff game, while down by two, and step back into a game-winning three shot high over his long, outstretched arm. Luka

JuJu Watkins is not perfect. Occasionally, near the end of a bruising game, the bun she wears—a little black beehive atop her head—appears to be slightly off-center. As a guard for U.S.C., she scores a lot, but she also shoots

Shortly after Mirra Andreeva defeated Clara Tauson to win the Dubai Tennis Championships—a tournament that sits one rung below the four Grand Slams—she balanced the large metal trophy she had been given against her hips and took part in the

In mid-February, before the first meeting between Team Canada and Team U.S.A. in the 4 Nations Face-Off, an N.H.L. midseason exhibition tournament featuring the best players from the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Finland, in Montreal, Matthew and Brady Tkachuk,

Racism has ended! Have you heard? Or maybe ending racism has ended. On Tuesday, it was reported that the N.F.L. would switch one of the slogans stencilled on the edge of the end zone during Super Bowl LIX from “END

There have been worse trades than the one that sent Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis, along with Max Christie and a future first-round draft pick. Here’s one: in 1919,

On Thursday, J. J. Redick, the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, was asked about the N.B.A.’s decline in ratings, a topic that has led to hand-wringing in basketball circles. Ratings of N.B.A. games on ESPN were down twenty-eight per