Sports

The swimming pool is my secret world and safe haven away from shame and judgement. But it hasn’t come easy.

He was a hero, a man who broke a barrier, but everything that’s happened since he died has way more to do with us than him.

The NBA halftime show is a kind of Trojan horse—a secret, strange venue for performance art, hidden at the centre of one of our most mainstream entertainment juggernauts.

From fans to telegraph operators to a troupe of determined players from the Klondike, here's how Stanley Cup Fever spread across the country.

It’s hard to enjoy baseball if you don’t know what you’re looking for. And the box score teaches you how to do just that.

George Chuvalo lost both of his fights with Muhammad Ali, but went the distance in each match—just a few of the times, in boxing as in life, he was pushed to the brink.

On levels of fandom, the limits of myth in sports, and why someone would draw 185 portraits of Randy Johnson with no intention of ever selling them.

How a Yukon art project became a national phenomenon of sold-out shows, dream selves and subversive sexuality. 

The Mets are a long-running dramatic play that has little to do with winning baseball and everything to do with embodying pain. If they win, they'll experience something their fans rarely do: victory.