Who says we don’t do requests? “Any chance of an Athletic article on the best United books to read over the summer to get us fans away from the toxic shite here on Twitter?” asked Kev_F. Consider it ...

Columbus Dispatch high school sports reporters Dave Purpura and Frank DiRenna wrap up the 2025 OHSAA football season.

1. Gary Harkness, the narrator of Don DeLillo’s wild, unwieldy and hilarious second novel, is a talented running back and self-described “exile” who bounces from one top-flight college football ...

Ah, football season — the time of year when Americans spend countless hours observing super-sized men pummel each other on the gridiron. But, hey, we all need something to do while we’re not watching ...

Two years ago, the sportswriter Joe Posnanski published “The Baseball 100,” in which he attempted to rank the game’s greatest players. Mr. Posnanski puts his encyclopedic knowledge on display again in ...

The funny thing about the analytics movement in football — which has largely been inspired by a similar movement in baseball — is that the race to tell the story has been almost as keenly contested as ...