The golf renaissance
Golf has never been weirder or better. As the season shifts into high gear with the Masters this month, the…
Does boxing still matter?
Quick — can you name boxing’s heavy-weight champion? If you’re like most readers, you drew a blank. If you’re a…
Is flag football the future of the game?
“Where does it stop?” Andy Reid was griping about the NFL’s new kickoff rule. This year, for the first time,…
Basketball is more popular, and soccer-like, than ever
Basketball is one of America’s best exports. Back in 1992, NBA rosters featured only twenty-three foreign-born players from eighteen nations.…
Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?
How good is Shohei Ohtani? “If he were a Yankee, he’d be Taylor Swift-famous,” a friend says. That might be…
The rise of the golf rebels
Golf wasn’t supposed to be this much fun. Now in its second season, LIV Golf keeps upping the stakes in…
Did Ernest Hemingway have CTE?
It was July 2, 1961. Ernest Hemingway was three weeks shy of his sixty-second birthday. He had been living comfortably…
Thirty years from Waco: what the fatal siege wrought
On a windy morning thirty years ago, the FBI staged a surprise attack on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.…
