Knockout-tournament soccer is the best soccer because of how it amplifies the sport’s essence. The magic of the game lies in the tension between unpredictability and mastery. On one foot, the game is ...

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As a general rule, you do not want to know what sportswriters are eating. Assume that it’s happening at strange times and in ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. On Wednesday, President ...

The most embarrassing of athletic debates is over: As of midnight last night, camogie players are free to sport the bottoms of their choosing. At an emergency meeting of the Camogie Association held ...

Impossible brand cycle: 30 years between the 1966 debut of the original CBS television series created by Bruce Geller to the ...

On April 7, the New Yorker and Time ran nearly identical stories that might be better described as press releases for the ...