Part 1: The Gloves Pure joy. The peal of wedding bells. The spring sonata of a songbird. And this. Elementary schoolchildren at play. Shohei Ohtani is listening to and watching them smile and shriek in the delight that only the innocence and wonder of youth allow. The world
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Sergiy Stakhovsky’s Turn to Serve
Michigan and Washington’s Success Defies Recruiting Logic
For the recruiting industry, the College Football Playoff championship game matchup of the Michigan Wolverines and Washington Huskies on Monday night represents a bit of a crisis. The Wolverines and Huskies shouldn’t be here. This doesn’t compute. The established formulas for projecting how good recruits will be—and how many of them
Why Fletcher Cox Keeps Coming Back
23 for ‘23: Nikola Jokić Is One of a Kind
Mikaela Shiffrin Was the People’s Champion in 2023
23 for ’23: Brittney Griner’s Journey Back to Normal
Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese Brought Championship-Level Trash Talk to 2023
Rockets’ Dillon Brooks Doesn’t Mind Being an NBA Villain
Call him a villain. Dillon Brooks doesn’t care. Say he’s arrogant, a bully, toxic to a team. He’s heard it, read it, doesn’t think much of it. “Everyone wants to hate on something,” says Brooks. Say he’s the reason for the Grizzlies’ first-round elimination from the playoffs last April, because early in
Tyson Fury Just Wants to Win. Period.
Since 2015, when Tyson Fury unseated Wladimir Klitschko as boxing’s top heavyweight, his career has been a roller coaster. He retired. He came back. He retired again. He experienced depression, shot up to 400 pounds and contemplated suicide. Mixed in, he reclaimed a piece of the heavyweight title, became an