Sports Archives

America’s absence from this year’s World Cup prompts us to look beyond ourselves.

Like many with power, the NFL owners are using their wealth and status to steamroll those in a weaker position.

The desperation to prove oneself and the inability to own mistakes are common among Mirai Nagasu’s much-discussed (and often maligned) Millennial peers.

Like Jim Carrey does in ‘Jim & Andy,’ we are scripting the reality given to us for a watching world. While perhaps this is unavoidable, we can aim to steward our task well and aim to be as authentic as is reasonable.

We can at least try to break our destructive judgments of public figures by remembering they are real human beings with feelings, minds, and agency of their own, and by leaving them a little room to surprise us.

There is a reason why many people are reluctant to forgive, let alone support, individuals and businesses that market their self-atonement.

Just as Lamar Odom could confess in his interview that he wanted to get high, Coach Freeze too can be honest about the current state of his heart.

Ronda Rousey lost again, but that doesn’t make her worthless.

T-ball, in many ways, is the portal into proverbial joy or into a life of overbearing demand.

Baseball is part of our collective human longing for meaning and transcendence.

Fernandez ’s talent made him a star—but what made him truly special was his role as a bridge between Cuban-Americans and the world around them.

Swimmer Lilly King claims to be the good American Olympian in the face of the Russian doping scandal, but the truth of the matter is more complicated.

Here’s what our writers are consuming this summer when they’re not writing.

The life of Pat Summit serves as a good reminder that God gives each of us work to do, and for many, it may seem utterly mundane.

Carrying on with business as usual when something has gone terribly wrong is only playing at goodness—a sour imitation of the real thing.

Confronted by the inexplicable, our reaction—strangely enough—is joy.