Sports

For the French political thinker Raymond Aron, sports fandom was one of the few things that defied modern atomization and isolation.

After his losses in the boxing rink, George Foreman evolved from being a wrathful Goliath to an intensely jovial servant to others.

The astronomical growth of sports gambling in the United States is a threat to young people, especially young men.

Ukrainian Olympians have endured two years of wartime hardships to prepare for the Paris games.

The proliferation of instant replay in sports stems from a greed for bureaucratic and technological control.

Hanif Abdurraqib's new book explores the meaning of basketball greatness.

Once more, the shadow of Pete Rose and his unforgivable sin hovers over another MLB season.

Declan Ryan's first full-length book of poetry is ambivalent about boxing and passionate about its honesty.

The “He Gets Us” advertising campaign recently featured during the Super Bowl is defective precisely because it fails to wound us.

Success at the pool table is fickle: every table is crosshatched by failures that every player must face head-on.

MLB’s new pitch clock highlights the deep patterns and contemplative rhythms of the sport. It has brought baseball back to itself.

Christian belief and sports alike remind us that we are embodied selves, not detached brains or pure spirits.

“Could we imagine a different sports revolution—one where professional sports come to be celebrated as a public good?”

America’s most popular sport is also by far its most violent.

It’s been 50 years since the deaths of Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. These two complex icons have been transformed into saints in the church of baseball.

By disregarding Qatar’s human rights abuses, FIFA has already robbed fans of the typical World Cup experience, causing us to question just what there is to root for.

Baseball is a sport enamored with numbers. But we should never allow analytics to strip baseball of its texture and particularity.

When President Biden and Pope Francis spoke of pitcher Satchel Paige, they invoked memories of resistance, resilience, and wisdom born of struggle.

Biles’s unwillingness to “power through” was a “no” to the sanctification of grit and the legacy of abuse faced by both U.S. gymnasts and Black women.

An interview with Harper’s Magazine editor and novelist Christopher Beha

Being a soccer genius set Diego Maradona on a pedestal above his community—and he paid a steep price for that distance.

A Showtime documentary uses baseball to highlight contemporary border issues. But béisbol has always been a migration narrative on its own terms.