Zach Kram

Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees were well on their way to a win in Game 5 of the World Series. Then came the fifth inning.

With about a week to go until the new season tips off, let’s take a broad survey of the league by analyzing one key number that helps explain every team’s situation, for better or for worse

In the MLB playoffs, hope springs eternal and chaos reigns supreme. Here are the reasons the favorites should worry and the underdogs can feel confident—and vice versa, of course.

Few frothy rumors. No impending superstar trades. The league’s transformation into a 12-month, transaction-fueled affair hit pause in 2024.

Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani aren’t the only players having outrageous years. With one month remaining in baseball’s regular season, it’s time to take stock of the races for MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year.

Spoiler-free answers to questions raised by the eighth and final episode of the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel’s second season, concerning Season 2 in review, the pacing of the series, and insights into Targaryen armies, Admiral Lohar, dragon excrement, and more

On the spellbinding penultimate episode of Season 2, the HBO series stops and smells the dragons, making the most of its budget and showing that sometimes a fantasy is all you need

If Season 1 of House of the Dragon was about the formation of the rift in the Targaryen royal family, then Season 2 is about the civil war that that split incited. But in addition to fire and blood and battle tactics, a delicious undercurrent runs through Season 2, which complicates the potentially simple narrative about two opposing factions: This season of television is also about how much both sides really have in common. In Episode 2, the main characters on both team black and team green suf…

As MLB’s regular season resumes after the All-Star break, it’s time to take stock of the compressed standings and forecast what’s to come

OK, fine, let’s talk about Daemon’s oedipal sex dream. I avoided it in my first blog about “Regent,” instead focusing on Rhaenyra’s statecraft shortcomings, but someone has to discuss mother-son incest in Westeros, and like Baelon the Brave—incidentally, Daemon’s father and Alyssa’s husband!—we’re courageous enough to pick up that mantle. Today’s House of the Dragon mailbag answers questions about that discomfiting dream, dragon odds and ends, and the value of the haunted castle of Harrenhal. To…