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Back in 1993, Fox paid $1.58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years. It was a staggering deal that helped solidify the NFL’s...
Back in 1993, Fox paid $1.58 billion to air NFC football games for the next four years. It was a staggering deal that helped solidify the NFL’s...
Did you imagine being this exhausted as 2024 comes to a close? Heading into an election year like this one, I had imagined, once it was over, I’d...
Did you imagine being this exhausted as 2024 comes to a close? Heading into an election year like this one, I had imagined, once it was over, I’d...
Measured by sheer number of viewers, this might have been the most popular sports year in American history. More people watched the Super Bowl than...
With the 15-year, $765 million contract they’ve given to Juan Soto, the New York Mets have shaken up baseball — and really all of sports — for...
With the 15-year, $765 million contract they’ve given to Juan Soto, the New York Mets have shaken up baseball — and really all of sports — for...
When I moved to New York City in January 2000, the Yankees reigned so supreme that it felt like a rupture in the universe when they lost. And then...
If you haven’t yet come to terms with this month’s catastrophic election results, you may currently be using sports as an escape hatch. This,...
If you haven’t yet come to terms with this month’s catastrophic election results, you may currently be using sports as an escape hatch. This,...
Advertisement Supported by Guest Essay By Will Leitch Mr. Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine and the author of the novels “How...
Last week, it looked like a narcissistic, past-his-prime, science-denying, self-aggrandizing serial liar might finally get the public comeuppance...
Before Sunday, I had never run 26.2 miles in my life. Like many people preparing for their first marathon, I spent months training for the actual...
Before Sunday, I had never run 26.2 miles in my life. Like many people preparing for their first marathon, I spent months training for the actual...
For Yankees fans, one of the more charming story lines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...
For Yankees fans, one of the more charming story lines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...
For Yankees fans, one of the more charming storylines from this World Series was the emergence of a photo of current shortstop Anthony Volpe as an...
It is certainly understandable why no one would want to celebrate this particular anniversary, but 2024 marks 30 years since the 1994 strike...
It is certainly understandable why no one would want to celebrate this particular anniversary, but 2024 marks 30 years since the 1994 strike...
On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place. The basketball...
On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place. The basketball...
In 2008, LeBron James, then just 23 years old, still a year out from the first of his four MVP awards, did something highly unusual for a top-tier...
In 2008, LeBron James, then just 23 years old, still a year out from the first of his four MVP awards, did something highly unusual for a top-tier...
The NFL may be more popular, the NBA may be cooler, the WNBA (amazingly) may be driving the most exhausting culture-war conversations, but when it...
The NFL may be more popular, the NBA may be cooler, the WNBA (amazingly) may be driving the most exhausting culture-war conversations, but when it...
Maybe it’ll happen today, maybe tomorrow. But at some point this week, the Chicago White Sox will set the Major League Baseball record for most...
Maybe it’ll happen today, maybe tomorrow. But at some point this week, the Chicago White Sox will set the Major League Baseball record for most...
New York Mets fans are a lot. I say this out of total, entirely genuine respect. To be a devoted sports fan is to be irrationally, floating-to-the-...
New York Mets fans are a lot. I say this out of total, entirely genuine respect. To be a devoted sports fan is to be irrationally, floating-to-the-...
Athletes are, as a general rule, more confident and less neurotic than the rest of us. It’s part of the job requirement. If you go into a...
Athletes are, as a general rule, more confident and less neurotic than the rest of us. It’s part of the job requirement. If you go into a...
One of the glorious things about the 2023 NFL season — one of the primary reasons it set ratings records and was purely enjoyable in a mostly...
My initial pitch for this column was a 2024 NFL season preview that focused on whether various existential threats might cause near-term (or even...
My initial pitch for this column was a 2024 NFL season preview that focused on whether various existential threats might cause near-term (or even...
When I was in college in the ’90s, I once played the old EA Sports College Football video game for so many hours in a row that my roommates began...
When I was in college in the ‘90s, I once played the old EA Sports College Football video game for so many hours in a row that my roommates began...
One of the refrains you hear every Olympics is some variation of, “all of you loving [name of sport], let’s channel that fandom into watching...
It is such a relief to simply sit back and enjoy the Olympics. After years of having to grit our collective teeth through the Games, trying to...
It is wild that the Summer Olympics are starting Friday. In the middle of [looks around] all this, we’re supposed to all suddenly gather ‘round...