Louisa Thomas

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

Some people take up bridge when they retire. Then again, Bill Belichick was never the retiring type. After he left his job as head coach of the New England Patriots, in January, a position that he had held for twenty-four

On November 23rd, the University of Massachusetts football team played the University of Georgia. It was expected to be less of a game than a slaughter: Georgia was favored by bookmakers to win the game by more than seven touchdowns.

On November 10th, after the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive end Nick Bosa sacked Baker Mayfield during the 49ers’ game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, another defensive lineman, Leonard Floyd, came over to Bosa and gently butted helmets. Then Floyd bent

Rafael Nadal is afraid of the dark. He has an intense fear of storms. He is afraid of animals, including dogs. (“I doubt their intentions,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Rafa.”) He doesn’t like to swim in deep water, even