LOUISVILLE, May 3, 2026 — The Stretch Run That Nobody Saw Coming With a quarter mile to run in the 152nd Kentucky Derby, Golden Tempo was not in contention. He was not near the back of the pack. He was…
LOUISVILLE, May 2, 2026 — The Race That Stops the Country — and Why 2026 Is Different The Kentucky Derby is America’s oldest continuously held major sporting event — 152 consecutive runnings since 1875, interrupted only by the pandemic in…
NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 2026 — Tuesday’s NBA playoff triple-header was the best single night of basketball since the playoffs began. Three games, three distinct storylines — a dynasty in the making getting its first series win, a historic comeback…
NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 2026 — Monday night’s NBA playoff triple-header delivered exactly what the first round needed — a sweep, a potential upset of the season’s best team, and the greatest player in the world refusing to let his…
PITTSBURGH, April 24, 2026 — The Top Pick Nobody Argued With Fernando Mendoza walked to the podium in Pittsburgh on Thursday night as the consensus No. 1 player in this draft class and the clearest quarterback prospect to enter the…
PITTSBURGH, APRIL 22, 2026 — The NFL Draft is the league’s second-biggest event of the calendar year, and the 2026 edition — set in Pittsburgh, the city where football history lives in the steel girders — arrives with more than…
LOS ANGELES, APRIL 21, 2026 — Netflix has been declared dead, disrupted, and done at least three times in the past decade. Each time, it found a new gear. The Q1 2026 earnings report delivered last Thursday is the latest…
NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 2026 — The 2026 NBA Playoffs are the best scheduled sports event of the year, and after an opening weekend that delivered on nearly every front, the case is already being made that this postseason has…
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 2026 — Rory McIlroy conquered Augusta National for the second consecutive year on Sunday, winning the 2026 Masters Tournament in one of the most dramatic final rounds the storied course has ever produced — and cementing…
JUPITER ISLAND, FLORIDA, APRIL 2, 2026 Golf’s most iconic figure is stepping away from the sport — again. Tiger Woods, 50, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on March 27 after his black Land Rover rolled over…
INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 31, 2026 — This weekend in Indianapolis, March Madness will deliver something that has happened only once before in the tournament’s 88-year history: all four No. 1 seeds in the same Final Four. It happened last year for…
WASHINGTON, MARCH 30, 2026 — He was 0-for-4 from three-point range. His team trailed by 19 points. Duke had the ball with 10 seconds left, up two, needing only to keep it away from UConn to send the No. 1…