Cinema tells us that when a batter steps into the box and the catcher proceeds to tell him which pitch is coming, the catcher ...

The continuing assault by university administrators upon elementary school teaching standards advanced another step this week ...

There was no way we were going to win this seagull. It was the second time I’d put a buck into the claw machine, attempting ...

My idle associations with dying—the smell of decay, the proverbial light going out, the coroner’s office, corpses in the ...

James Earl Jones, who died this week at 93, was one of the greats. Here are some of his roles we’ve been thinking about since ...

If you’re anything like me—a Millennial rapidly (though gracefully!!!) aging out of even the most generous definition of “youth,” who once prided yourself on being a music head but who lost the pulse ...

It wasn’t even a particularly crazy hit that did it. Tua Tagovailoa was scrambling, so committed to converting a fourth down that he never thought of sliding. Instead he lunged forward, his helmet ...

Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course ...

After this year's edition of the U.S. Open, it is worth wondering whether we've hit a dire turning point. The crowd is still ...

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On Monday, the Miami-Dade Police Department released body-cam footage of officers detaining Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill ...