Like most Oilers—or “Earlers,” as they were known as their star galloped his way to Rookie of the Year and two MVP…

In 1969 and 1970, two books were published that demystified two of the most hidebound American…

John Urschel spent three seasons as an offensive lineman for the Ravens. He’s also a candidate for a Ph.D. in…

Is a ballpark a place to watch baseball, a theme park, a microcosm of its city, or something else entirely? It’s an…

The following is excerpted from No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World, by Amos…

Let’s get this out of the way up top: Yes, I agree, you wouldn’t think a cultural history of Oklahoma City would…

To clear up any confusion, let’s get this out of the way: Merril Hoge and Peter Cummings, who co-authored a book …

Excerpted from Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football, now available from Dey Street Books,…

Those were good times, weren’t they? When that big ESPN report on a schism between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick,…

Excerpted from Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times, out today from Penguin Press.

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business is a children’s classic that was…

The Babar I remember from childhood was a jolly elephant who goes on adventures. Somehow that’s all I took with me…

Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia. He went to schools—Penn State, Delaware, Temple—that Philly kids go to. And,…

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book We Were Eight Years In Power is eight previously published Atlantic essays each preceded…

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we did some reading. Here are the best things we read this year.

It’s not hard to fracture the internet with a movie adaptation of a popular bad book. They’re made into movies all…

Last year the good folks at Penguin sent me out on a book tour to promote The Hike, and now they’re sending me back…

Jerry is really personable. I mean, you’ve got to like Jerry Jones. If you’re around him, you’ve got to like him,…

Functionally and historically, the sabermetric revolution in baseball is over. Analytics is not some outsider’s…

You may know Scott Adams as the white guy who draws Dilbert and also loves Donald Trump and has lots of, uh, interest…