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Shaquille O'Neal knows what you're thinking. You see him on the cover of this magazine--wearing a suit, looking dapper and professional--and as much as you like him, you're also groaning [...]

The article discusses the increasing presence of sports betting in American society and its impact on sports broadcasts and viewers. Following the legalization of sports betting in the United States, sportsbooks have been aggressively promoting their services to college students and the general public. The article highlights the addictive nature of gambling apps and the normalization of sports betting through telecasts. It also raises concerns about the potential increase in gambling addiction and the commodification of sports. [Extracted from the article]

THERE WAS A TIME when all you had to do to get a Super Bowl in your town was to be sunny and warm in late January. That's why the [...]

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 [...]

INDENTURED The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA By Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss Illustrated. 369 pp. Portfolio/Penguin. $30. The N.C.A.A., the nonprofit organization that once governed college [...]

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 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 [...]