Diana Moskovitz

Before he was stumbling over interview questions on national TV, before he was the guy who made North Carolina football worse, before you could bet on when he might be fired, Bill Belichick was one of the most respected men in football. It may feel like a lifetime ago, but six Super Bowl titles as…

Six news outlets—Defector Media, the Miami Herald, Scripps Media, CBS4 (WFOR-TV), NBC6 (WTVJ-TV), and Telemundo 51 (WSCV-TV)—all asked for permission to intervene in Tyreek Hill’s divorce case on Friday, making the request so they could argue in court that documents labeled confidential in the proceedings must be made public under Florida’s rigorous open-records laws. Specifically,…

I heard Marc Maron announce he was ending his podcast the way that I imagine he’d’ve wanted me to—while walking through my neighborhood in Los Angeles, through wired headphones, just a little too hopped up on caffeine. A younger version of Maron would have given an “Oh, come on!” to my caffeine source, a matcha […]

The saddest stories in local news are the ones where the body has been left to sit for a while. I worked in local news for the first decade of my journalism career, and that often meant writing about people who died. Sometimes people died after a long and glorious life; all too often, they […]

My life has always included cats. Even before owning a cat, I played with all the cats at the pet store inside the local mall and relentlessly begged my parents for one, who finally gave in somewhere in the early 1990s and let me adopt an orange tabby. As a young woman in my early […]

The New York Knicks defeated the Boston Celtics, 119-81, on Friday to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals and, as expected, New York City celebs filled in courtside to watch as one of the league’s most beloved (though far from winningest) franchises moved closer to that elusive first NBA championship in more than 50 years.…

The latest in the long line of futile congressional sports hearings happened Wednesday. You probably missed it, as most people did. I was one of about 1,000 people watching it, according to YouTube at the time. Since then, about 12,000 people—out of a country of more than 341 million—have watched, though of course there’s no […]

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Friday that it will be creating what it called a “Title IX Special Investigations Team” that would be dedicated to swiftly resolving complaints about trans female athletes in sports. It was the sort of announcement the Trump administration has made nearly every day since taking office months ago—high-flown, […]

Sedona Prince’s college basketball career ended quietly, and with a loss. The TCU center put up four points, an assist, and nine rebounds before fouling out in the fourth quarter of a 58-47 defeat in the Elite Eight against one-seed Texas. Prince didn’t shine much in the prior game, either, a TCU victory that mostly […]

It’s Monday night, and I check my local TV listings to see what women’s college basketball games are on. I make a note to catch all the big women’s college gymnastics meets coming up on Friday. I dutifully add all the dates for my local NWSL team’s games to my calendar. It seems and at […]

The news is all shit right now. Sure, there are more artful, creative, and writerly ways to say that, but time is precious and writing something like that would prove nothing more than ownership of a thesaurus. If you’re like me and millions of others, you are absorbing all this and wondering, “What can I […]

When we last checked in with Quad God, aka figure skater Ilia Malinin, he was busy winning the 2024 figure skating world championships while landing six quad jumps. Now Malinin is back, and this weekend he competed a free skate that has him attempting seven quads, plus a now-legal backflip. Look, there’s no need to […]

At first glance, a casual men’s basketball fan might think all is well in the Swamp. The Gators’ most recent game was a thorough, 30-point stomping of rival Georgia. The squad is 18-2, third in the SEC, and ranked in the top 10 in both the coaches and AP polls. After years without a deep […]

During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day and take a photo, then I’d scurry back inside. Against my better judgment, one time I took my […]

At one point in time, Rory Dames was mostly known as a longtime women’s soccer coach, leading the NWSL’s Chicago Red Stars for about a decade as well as overseeing Chicago-area youth powerhouse Eclipse. But more recently, he’s become known as a coach whom players repeatedly reported for emotional abuse and manipulation. Those reports by […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport released its detailed report Wednesday on why it ruled that third place in the women’s gymnastics floor competition at the Paris Olympics now belonged to Ana Barbosu of Romania—and not Jordan Chiles, who actually received the bronze medal at the event and stood on the podium. The 29-page document […]

First, a disclaimer: A whole lot of what follows won’t sound very logical if you mostly follow, well, the ball sports, and some of it may seem downright bizarre if you are unfamiliar with the type of fussily chaotic institutional dysfunction familiar to the International Olympic Committee. If you know the IOC and how it […]

He became so recognizable that on Saturday, the USA Gymnastics Twitter account posted a photo of Nedoroscik's glasses on the chalk stand before he competed, and the message was easy to understand: It was pommel horse time.

TOKYO AND LOS ANGELES — I should have bought the cheer bats. That’s what I kept telling myself. All around me, fans packed into the tiny plastic seats of Tokyo’s Meiji Jingu Stadium; somewhere below, a baseball game was happening. I had been prepared to watch Nippon Professional Baseball—unlike one of the Aussies a few […]

I really did intend to write something other than Oh dear Lord, Simone Biles is back and looking so good already, I can’t believe it. I wanted to tell you that Shilese Jones is (barring injury; knock on the surface of your choosing) a lock to make this summer’s Olympic team, a surprising sentence to […]