It’s unlikely that you spend much time thinking about the New Orleans Pelicans. However, as a New Orleans resident for whom ball is life, I am rather fixated on them. This team is far stranger than ...

Like its sludgy predecessor and by design, Game 2 of the WNBA Finals was played as if in the mud. Clean dribbling of the ball ...

Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking about hockey, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, how to start dating, and more. Drew ...

A Weird Star is a classic place-setter in fiction. Put a Weird Star in the sky, even if it never has anything to do with the ...

College football had its first Blood Week of the season. This weekend saw losses for eight ranked teams, and even the teams ...

It’s funny, in hindsight, that the first two seasons of Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers tenure were considered disappointments. The ...

The moment general manager Chris Ballard was given Fredo’s kiss by the Indianapolis Colts’ HR department Monday morning, the ...

Another new album of old Eva Cassidy recordings, called Jazzed, is about to come out. Cassidy, a peerless D.C. songbird, died 30 years ago next month. Her supply of unheard material ran out long ago.

It’s time to solve our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano and Matthew Stock, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Enrique is a data scientist, crossword ...

When last we checked in with Devin Cooley, he was serving as the backup goaltender for one of the worst teams in the league—I mean, downright putrid, couldn’t-pay-me-to-watch bad. Not a lot has ...

For eons, roly-polies have rightfully dominated the rolling space, at least in our imagination. The crustaceans’ astonishing ...