Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won another title over the weekend while making a ton of money and looking damn good in the ring. So why is it so easy to feel sorry for him? The deserving Mexican legend got ...

This year, Kimi Antonelli got lucky. Antonelli drives the fastest car on the grid. He is young—very recently a teenager, even; he turned 20 in August—and that means, when faced with an entirely new ...

There are two recurring trans women named Carolina in Sloane Murphy’s short story collection Shut Up I Love You I’ll Call You Tomorrow. One’s nicknamed North, and the other’s nicknamed South, but ...

Everyone in Detroit has a responsibility to keep Haley Stevens away from the Gordie Howe Bridge today, because at the rate she’s going, she’ll burn that one, too. An outgoing House rep and failed ...

Every championship is different, though they’re all composed of the same emotional materials. A champion is supposed to have ...

It’s silly to pretend that some otherworldly deity is determining the fates of your favorite sports teams, but what else am I supposed to believe when Lamar Jackson, who had been sidelined with a ...

There is a sign outside the NHL league offices in New York and Toronto (yep, there are two of them) stolen from construction sites that reads: “(Number) Of Days Since The Last Trade Demand.” The ...

It’s not particularly surprising to look at the top of the table in the Premier League and see Arsenal and Manchester City. Aside from Liverpool’s 2024-25 title-winning campaign, those two sides have ...

Elisabetta Palagi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pisa, had sent her team of research students to Ethiopia to study geladas, monkeys whose hearts appear to gleam out of their chests.

The Detroit Lions became the first team this season to beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, but nobody on either team really wanted to talk about Detroit’s 19-15 win after it was over. All anyone ...

Our Monday crossword is the best, and don’t get it twisted. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Vik Shirvaikar, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Vik is a data scientist, weekend soccer referee, and ...

It’s wise to never expect too much from a clash between two NFC South teams. They tend to be a form of stultifying ...