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The NBA has never had more soap opera and rivalry. It's fantastic. IN JANUARY, Joel Embiid, the Philadelphia 76ers' seven-foot-tall, 23-year-old Twitter-fanatic man-child, pulled off one of those dunks that [...]

THE PHENOMENON: PRESSURE, THE YIPS, AND THE PITCH THAT CHANGED MY LIFE RICK ANKIEL AND TIM BROWN Public Affairs OFF SPEED: BASEBALL, PITCHING, & THE ART OF DECEPTION TERRY McDERMOTT [...]

In 2010, a couple years before the Brooklyn Nets first came into existence--with a shiny new building, a business plan built mostly around real estate, and Bruce Ratner (remember him?) [...]

IN CASE you don't remember the precise details of what the Silicon Alley dotcom boom-and-bust in the late nineties and early aughts was like, allow me to remind you, because [...]

The last time the New York Yankees didn't make the postseason, there was no postseason. It was 1994, the year a strike canceled the World Series. The Yankees' closer was [...]

Why was there so much less free-agent activity this year? Moneyball. KENNY WILLIAMS HAD a fruitful six-year Major League Baseball playing career as a journeyman before, at the age of [...]

Four years ago, my then-five-months-pregnant wife, in the family room of the new home we had just poured much of our life savings into buying, changed the diaper of a [...]

Just a few years ago, the NFL was an unassailable empire. Now, suddenly, it's the fall of Rome. A FEW WEEKENDS AGO, at a seersucker-in-November southern horse-racing event I attended [...]

Byline: will leitch on october 14, 2003, I sat in an Inwood apartment, listening to game six of the National League Championship Series between the Cubs and the Marlins on [...]

Byline: will leitch i was 12 years old when my beloved St. Louis football Cardinals, of Jim Hart and Dan Dierdorf and Roy Green and Big Red training camp in [...]

Byline: Will leitch if there's one enduringly destructive problem with New York City sports franchises, it's that every team is expected to win a championship, or at least chase after [...]

Byline: will leitch Over the last two innings of the Mets' tense, one-run standoff with the Dodgers in the elimination game of the Division Series, Mets fans felt The Fear. [...]

Byline: will leitch My friend Jason Fry is a best-selling author, a former Poynter fellow, and an award-winning journalist. But none of these things matter to him nearly as much [...]

Byline: will leitch You may have heard about the Great Baseball Hacking Scandal of 2015--the St. Louis Cardinals' front office breaking into the Houston Astros' computer system and getting busted [...]

Byline: will leitch sometimes it's easy to forget, as a sportswriter, that all this is supposed to be fun, a pleasant diversion from the miseries and indignities of daily life, [...]

Byline: will leitch when you write for a magazine, the minute you start praising a baseball team's season is the minute it loses six in a row and everything's exploding [...]

Byline: will leitch On the first day of his new job as commissioner of Major League Baseball--literally hours after he took over from Bud Selig, the man who had held [...]

Byline: will leitch the last time New York hosted an NBA All-Star Game was 1998, and it was one of the most memorable in league history. It was Michael Jordan's [...]

Byline: will leitch last month, the Sacramento Kings fired their coach, Mike Malone, after he'd spent only a year and a half on the job. This was a shocking move [...]

Byline: will leitch my past is littered with the bones of men who were foolish enough to think I was someone they could sleep on. Man, what a quote that [...]

WHEN YOU SIGN up for life as a sports fan, you are knowingly introducing darkness and moral complication into your life: To look clearly at the world of sports is [...]

Baseball asks the impossible of pitchers like Noah Syndergaard. Injury was inevitable. ONE OF THE MORE absurd, madcap musical chairs of recent Mets vintage--and, boy howdy, have there been plenty--was [...]

Byline: Will Leitch You know who has been the least fun person to write about over the last two months? Michael Sam. This is not because Sam, the defensive end [...]

Byline: Will Leitch Last October, Frontline ran its massive exposé of the NFL's secret history with concussions. The film was a devastating account--as thorough a fisking as any professional sports [...]

Byline: Will Leitch Last October, Frontline ran its massive exposé of the NFL's secret history with concussions. The film was a devastating account--as thorough a fisking as any professional sports [...]

Byline: Will Leitch At halftime of game two of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals in May, ESPN analyst Bill Simmons voiced a strange theory about why LeBron James, the best [...]

Byline: Will Leitch The funniest thing about the legacy of Moneyball, the 2003 Michael Lewis book and the 2011 Brad Pitt movie, is that it quickly became an ongoing leadership [...]

Byline: Will Leitch Shaquille O'Neal's eyes light up at being called 'the James Franco of sports.' 'James Franco!' Shaq ex-claims. 'That's good shit!' He looks around the conference room outside [...]

Byline: Will Leitch On a recent Monday night in Texas, the entire sports world stared at one man, Shabazz Napier, waiting to speak. They'd paid quite a bit for the [...]

Byline: Will Leitch Since 1996, the first year of their new, modern Jeter-era dynasty, the Yankees have only missed the playoffs twice. This would be something to be proud of [...]

Byline: Will Leitch if you're a passenger in a defective plane, the best you can hope for is the best pilot possible. Say what you will about the state of [...]

Byline: Will Leitch In sports, when you have a beloved local hero who has been with a franchise his entire career, it's impossible to imagine him wearing another uniform--until he [...]

Byline: Will Leitch We have A-Rod, and Rex Ryan, the memory of the Butt Fumble, and the ongoing slow-motion clusterphooey that is the Amway Mets, but in this town, even [...]

Byline: Will Leitch At what point during the Giants' season-opening six-game losing streak did you start thinking about 2014? Was it Week Three, when the Carolina Panthers wiped the floor [...]