Bryan Graham

If baseball is a metaphor for America, then there's no better way to see how much society has changed than a look back at the World Series a century ago.  In 1914, the Boston Braves, who had rallied from last place in July to capture the National…

It's been seven years since Mark Waller, the NFL's international chief, said the league could establish a permanent London franchise by 2022. It sounds as barmy today as it did then. Yet the idea appears to gaining traction after Sunday's game…

In the high-stakes, cutthroat world of college football recruiting, top-flight programs must exploit any edge available to seize the upper hand. Leave it to Stanford to make the smartest pitch imaginable. According to ESPN recruiting analyst Tom…

The NFL is a national obsession, generating an estimated $9.5 billion in annual revenue. Last year, 34 of the 35 most-watched programs on TV were football games, one of the last vestiges of monoculture in a fragmenting media landscape. It's…

There's no shortage of reasons why the Kansas City Royals have become the darlings of this year's postseason. They're super fun to watch. They party with their fans. They're a small-market team that's managed to outlast the free-spending Angels,…

Jennifer Yu is like any other eighth-grader at Trailside Middle School in Ashburn, Virginia, with one major exception: Last month, the 12-year-old became the first American girl in more than a quarter-century to win a title at the World Youth Chess…

A high school football powerhouse in New Jersey canceled the remainder of its season Monday as police and prosecutors investigated a report of hazing within the program. Sayreville War Memorial High School, whose storied football program won state…

On Monday, Florida quarterback Treon Harris was suspended indefinitely from all team activities after being accused of sexual assault. The alleged incident took place in a campus residence hall at 3 a.m. on Sunday, hours after the freshman came off…

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when St. Louis Cardinals supporters took on the nominal title of Best Fans in Baseball, but there's no question it's made them a target of disdain among unaffiliated observers.  The Wall Street Journal named the…