*“Worst case,” “median” and “best case” picks represent the player’s 5th, 50th and 95th percentile picks in ESPN’s draft projection model. Source: ESPN Stats & Information Group There are many ...

Earlier this month at Staples Center, the Memphis Grizzlies were leading the Los Angeles Clippers by two points with a minute remaining in the game. The Clippers had the ball and needed a bucket.

A vaccine for COVID-19 has entered Phase 1 of clinical trials in Seattle. How was it made? And how likely is it that this vaccine, or any others, will work against the new coronavirus? Science ...

Chuck Jones, the classic Warner Bros. animator, used to say that we are all defined by our disciplines: When anything is possible, the things we don’t do are just as important as the things we do.

Sources: Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, U.S. Senate However, the GOP may have one big advantage in 2022: a Republican-leaning national environment. As we saw in 2018 (and 2014, and ...

If our NBA model could talk, here’s what it might say about the NBA Finals: Bleep, bleep, bloop. Based on their accomplishments over the past few seasons, the Golden State Warriors are better than the ...

Former President Donald Trump’s year just got even busier. All of this means that by the end of the summer, Trump could be a defendant in four different criminal cases in four different courtrooms.

Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have used play-action on 31.5 percent of their plays so far this season. So what’s going on? There’s a host of possible explanations for the offensive explosion ...

It’s easy to look around right now and conclude that popular public opinion has turned against scientists. Twitter hashtags have urged the president to fire Anthony Fauci. A widely shared video ...

UPDATE (Jan. 16, 2:24 p.m.): Kentucky last week became the first state, with the Trump administration’s blessing, to take Medicaid benefits away from people who are working-age and not-disabled but ...

Good luck to Houston in matching the Big Three-era Atlanta Braves, who ranked among MLB’s top-five teams for a staggering 1,154 consecutive gamedays: The Astros would need to almost double their ...

Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...