The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Oman, has been ...

Give the Sacramento Kings an incentive, and they will find a way to flee from it. The operators of basketball’s least functional franchise spent the part of the season in which they were deluded ...

March Madness means it’s time to get invested in random schools from places you’ve never been, and after the bracket reveals on Sunday, I’d like to offer a potential rooting interest: the Saint Louis ...

Make yourself at home and solve our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Dan Zarin and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Dan is a crossword constructor and freelance writer based in Portland, ...

It must have been surreal and thrilling for Fernando Alonso to find himself in a points position moments after the start of the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix. That Aston Martin he’s driving is a worthless ...

Team USA had an uninspiring showing during pool play at this year’s World Baseball Classic, and thanks to manager Mark DeRosa’s struggles with math, needed a little bit of luck to make it to the ...

It is difficult to be a conscientious viewer of Formula 1, a sport which occurs in discrete windows, not all that frequently, and on tracks with their own variable characteristics that can skew ...

The World Baseball Classic plays it fast and loose with nationality, even by the standards of ordinary sporting events.

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It’s Monday morning and I’m ready for the start of NFL free agency. The window to sign players doesn’t officially open for ...

There’s a type of unearned pride that comes with watching your buddies do well, but it carries some anxiety with it. Of ...

In what could very well go down as the biggest upset of the season, San Antonio Spur and intermittent blogger Luke Kornet ...