Only two teams have ever lost three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals, and they were both under special and antediluvian ...

The Panthers are the reason your favorite team stinks. Not because they’ve ruined all those other teams’ records, though they have, but because Florida has successfully built what every front office ...

I guess you could read that headline as some sort of condemnation of the Oilers’ brass—that we’re at Game 6 of the Stanley ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

The San Francisco Giants are about to test the notion that one team’s misalignment is another team’s salvation. In fact, they ...

You’re a streetcar operator. If you need more specifics, let’s say it’s fin de siècle Vienna and you’ve got a jaunty cap. Oh ...

At some point this season, Shohei Ohtani pitching and hitting will once again become ordinary, and only when he does something truly extraordinary will it be worth writing about. We are not yet at ...

The Club World Cup kicked off over the weekend in the United States, and it’s been a wild ride so far, in the most derogatory way possible. It’s not so much about the games themselves, which have been ...

There was a sequence in the fourth quarter of Game 5 Monday night where I very nearly chewed through my shirt collar. I should not have had it in my mouth to begin with, but there I was, nibbling on ...

The first big trade of the NBA offseason arrived yesterday, and it was one that no one saw coming: Memphis Grizzlies shooting ...

A romantic comedy often opens with a scene where the protagonist demonstrates that she’s not like other girls. In Legally ...

McClain Delaney, House representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district, did not get off to a hot start in her ...