It’s been about a month since 16 people were killed by a suicide bomber at Maelbeek station in Brussels, and on Monday, the city’s transit agency announced the station was fully back in service. A tribute has been installed in the form of a memorial wall; already, it has filled up with notes of support from commuters. This is what happens when the…
Despite the rare deportations of Trump supporters that have bolstered our collective schadenfreude, for the most part, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have instilled fear and panic in immigrant communities. Last week in New York, ICE agents took the senseless terror to new heights, reportedly showing up at an elementary school in Maspeth, Queens, in search…
Part 7 of 14 See all › Issue 39: The OGOD Issue Next: My Kid Is Freaking Out About The Future—And So Am I At about the same moment I board a flight from Los Angeles to Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, a tropical cyclone is quietly forming over the southwestern Caribbean sea. My…
One of tennis’ perennial debates has ignited early at this year’s Australian Open, after Belarusian player Aryna Sabalenka was accused of grunting too loudly during her first-round loss to Australian Ash Barty. In the past, former world number one Martina Navratilova has gone so far as to suggest grunting is cheating. She argues it may…
Basketball is a pretty straightforward sport. You try to score more points than your opponent. Sure, there are pesky rules around dribbling; how long your team can hold the ball without shooting; how hard you have to foul someone for it to be considered flagrant; and under what circumstances one is allowed to enter the crowd and fight…
The first woman released from the Fulton County Jail on a hot afternoon had a wide smile as she was guided to a table set up at a small, shaded rest area near the entrance. She was greeted with hugs, given a brown bag lunch and bottled water, then invited to sit and eat while…
It’s almost Week 7 in the NFL and a few big-name starting quarterbacks have been benched due to poor play (Tom Savage, Brian Hoyer, Mike Glennon) or have gone down due to long-term injury (Ryan Tannehill, Aaron Rodgers). But no NFL team has signed free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick, so now he’s taking action. If NFL teams…
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: THIS GOAL HAS BEEN MET! BUT YOU CAN GIVE TO ANOTHER WORTHY CAUSE HERE. From December 14 through December 25, GOOD Sports will feature the worthiest school athletic programs in need of funding. Last year the softball team at Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy entered the Los Angeles city playoffs with its first…
In a time of rampant partisanship in Washington, D.C., there aren’t a lot of events left that bring together Republicans and Democrats alike. The annual congressional baseball game is one that still does. The game is a tradition that began back in 1909, when professional baseball player-turned-congressman, John Tener from Pennsylvania, organized the inaugural edition. With congressional…
It worked! For the first time in history, a rocket has been sent into space and returned to Earth for safe landing on a floating barge in the ocean. A floating barge — that’s also a robot! The launch took place at 4:43 pm EST, and after a two-and-a-half minute climb that sent the Falcon 9 hundreds…