Louisa Thomas

It could be worse for the Chicago White Sox, the worst baseball team in more than a century. No, really. It could be 1899. Jerry Reinsdorf, the stubborn, nearly nonagenarian owner of the White Sox, could be Frank Robison, the […]

Thursday night’s game between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills began in an ordinary way—pre-game chatter about the Bills’ dominance of the Dolphins in recent years, the coin flip, kickoff, touchback. Only a few years ago, that normalcy—new kickoff

So the N.F.L. blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it there was football. Then again, there was also football on Thursday. And on Friday, in Brazil, a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.

There are approximately twenty-three million tennis players in China and exactly one Olympic gold medallist in singles, Qinwen Zheng. She has a nickname, Queenwen, which either is a lazy play on her name or tells you something. I suspect it

“The history of power in professional sports can be summed up very quickly,” DeMaurice Smith, the former executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, told me recently. “Every sport up until this point is predicated on management and the owners

Paul Skenes seemed to arrive in the pros like Aphrodite rising from the sea: fully formed. The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted him last year with the No. 1 pick, shortly after he led Louisiana State University to a College World Series