Imagine you are running the New York City Marathon, trying like hell to hold onto the group setting a sub–three hour pace.

Joe Few, son of Gonzaga men’s basketball coach Mark Few, has fond memories of hanging out courtside as a kid and asking his dad to put the walk-ons into the game. “Don’t ever do that again,” he ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

We want to get this out of the way now so that we won’t have to revisit it when everyone else weighs in with their turgid and superficial analyses of what is wrong with the new NBA season. Put simply, ...

Just days before the presidential election, the death of a gray squirrel named Peanut has become a somewhat inexplicable ...

Since their inception, food competition shows have seen very little real innovation. Most entries into the genre are variations on a theme, the stakes artificially raised through less time allotted, ...