This year’s NBA playoffs, which tip off on Saturday, are loaded with juicy narratives. The Golden State Warriors are going for a repeat, while Stephen Curry fights an injury. LeBron James is trying to make his eighth straight NBA Finals appearance, with his undermanned Cleveland Cavaliers. The top-seeded Houston Rockets, who hit more three-pointers than […]
The madness is upon us—not only of the March variety, but also the peculiar hysteria that besets the millions of Americans who pore over their tournament brackets. The tournament begins in earnest Thursday, after the 64 teams are cemented with the final two play-in games. It’s not too late to fill out a bracket. And […]
A cat said to have psychic powers has predicted the winner of the first game in the 2018 World Cup, set to kick off on June 14. Achilles, a deaf Russian cat that lives at the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, was given two plates of cat food to determine the opening match’s winner. One […]
Skaters from the Olympic Athletes of Russia and the U.S. took different kinds of risk — with dramatically different results. Some athletes come into an Olympic season playing it safe, hoping to hold on and not slip back to their rivals. While others see the once-in-four-year test as an opportunity to go for broke. All […]
Youth tennis clinics, like the one reigning U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens is holding for some two dozen children in Washington, D.C., on this stifling summer afternoon, tend to be lighthearted affairs known in the trade as a hit and giggle. Pro player lobs a few shots to the kiddies, waves to the cameras, signs […]
The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made history Friday when she paid an unprecedented visit to South Korea during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Kim Yo Jong, who is believed to be one of her brother’s most trusted aides, smiled and looked on as she attended the widely watched […]
Before you watch the 2018 Winter Olympics skaters throw it down on the ice, first, some adorable videos of them skating as little tykes. At seven years old, Olympic figure skater Nathan Chen was already performing on ice for rapt audiences. And not just performing: he was a junior champion already, with a program showcasing […]
Six goals, pitch invaders, controversial decisions and excitable world leaders: the final of one of the most open and exciting World Cup tournaments in years didn’t disappoint. France beat Croatia 4-2 to take their second trophy 20 years after they won their first, when the team’s current manager, Didier Deschamps, captained the side. It wasn’t […]
As expected, the United States women’s hockey team defeated Finland, with ease, on Monday afternoon at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic tournament semifinals in. The 5-0 win pushes the U.S. into the gold medal game. Let me speak for all Americans when I say … Whew. If Finland had upset the Americans — and a Finland […]
NFL quarterback-turned-commentator Tony Romo has stunned football fans all season with his Nostradamus-like play call predictions. And the former Dallas Cowboys star did not disappoint many fans who were tuning in to listen to his commentary alongside BFF Jim Nantz during Super Bowl 53 Sunday evening. Although the game stayed snoozy until well into the […]