Celebrities are human beings, sure, but they don’t move through life like the rest of us do. They will feel sadness and pain ...

It seems safe to say, at this point, that the retrospectively rather quaint debate over whether Trumpism, as a political ...

Wednesday night’s 9-5 loss to the Phillies was their fourth in a row. Their .163 winning percentage is the worst in baseball.

Hockey’s longstanding fetish for self-effacement got its best material reward in years on Wednesday night, thanks to an ...

The Earned Time Act was approved by the New York State Corrections Committee, a small but meaningful step in the proposed law ...

I don’t know what I expected from a European final between the 16th- and 17th-placed teams in the Premier League, but it wasn’t that. Maybe I was fooled by the stature of Tottenham Hotspur and ...

I made a fateful decision ahead of the Eastern Conference Finals. I think it was Sunday. The night before, the New York Knicks had finished off the defending champion Boston Celtics. The Indiana ...

The rule is simple and straightforward, and it rarely proves anything but true: Judgments made after Game 1 of any series ...

There was a sequence in the first quarter of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals where the Oklahoma City Thunder used a ...

Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill.

Thank god my Amtrak was only 20 minutes late. I arrived in Rochester on Friday afternoon ahead of a top-secret non-Defector ...

With the NBA conference finals matchups set, the most interesting narrative question of these playoffs has been answered.