John Walters

From Stravinsky to Stalin and from Eraserhead to Radiohead, the pop culture cues kept right on coming in Episode Two

The four-episode "Gilmore Girls" revival is more jam-packed with pop culture arcana than an anthology of Dennis Miller rants.

Come December, some teams will be justifiably upset that they have been excluded from the four-team playoff, and that's OK.

Thursday night's match featured the two most charismatic coaches in the sport and arguably the top two programs, in a can't miss game that almost everybody missed.

To ensure a smooth transition of power, here are a few suggestions for who might replace Alec Baldwin as Trump (if our country still exists).

Don't blame the election, or the Cubs. The league's biggest problem is boring its fans to death.

Were the 2015 ESPYs a tipping point for cultural conservatism?

Did Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bündchen, cancel out each other's votes?

Eric Heins, one of the top cross-country coaches in the nation, is leaving his dream job so that his wife Kaci can chase hers.

In a game that is unlike any other that has ever been played, it might pay to mess with the opposition's heads.

Producing more than a dozen MVPs, the Arizona Fall League is baseball's under-the-radar-gun destination.

Two of country music's biggest stars went from a one-off award show gig to becoming one of the top Southern comedy duos.

The best time to board a plane is last (unless you are rich).

"You're never completely a failure until you blame someone else," Burnett said.

The Hail Mary is sport's answer to inexorable fate: knowing what is coming yet being powerless to stop it.

The locker room isn't a sanctum for misogyny. It's a sterile environment for changing clothes and avoiding eye contact with weird naked elderly men.

Though he didn't win the Heisman, the field is still wide open for Christian McCaffrey.

With four games on Friday between eight ballclubs stacked with talent, this is one hell of a postseason.

As four Heisman Trophy favorites compete in three showstopping games this weekend, we size up the lineups.

Though Fernandez's boat meant everything to him, friends warned him not to go out on the night of his fatal crash.

Blame UCLA if you owe a bookie your thumbs this week.

A boating accident early Sunday morning claimed the lives of Miami Marlins ace José Fernández and two friends.

There's a perfect Springsteen song for every stage of life.

A young girl's chess skills lifted herself out of the slums of Uganda, inspiring a journalist's award-winning piece and a major motion picture.

The author wonders if there are other American sports in which a significant racial demographic is under-represented and what strange arguments Howard Bryant might offer.

The University of Colorado athletic official's fake two-deep chart includes Bernie Sanders, Spinal Tap and Right Guard deoderant.

The first week saw Jack Del Rio and the Raiders roll the dice and win.

TGICFB: Five quick hits from college football last weekend.

Last September, two Pennsylvania high school football teams scored 197 points, set national records, and short-circuited everyone's brains.

With four games between ranked teams, college football boasts an unprecedented opening weekend.