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Which Countries Define the Winter Olympics?
You may only watch these sports once every four years, but the medal table follows familiar patterns — from Norway’s cross-country machine to America’s…
 • Brendan Farrell and Neil Paine
The Future (of Skateboarding) Is Female
A wave of teenage girl phenoms — led by Rayssa Leal and Chloe Covell — is reshaping competitive skateboarding and pushing the sport’s age-curve sharply…
 • Neil Paine
Tony Hawk, EA Skate and the Zombie Afterlife of Skateboarding Video Games
How the history of skating games shows us what happens when counterculture gets consumed and reanimated by corporations.
 • Neil Paine
Q&A: How Data Golf Became the Go-To Site for Modern Golf Analytics
Co-founder Matt Courchene explains how he and his brother built one of the sport's most impressive — and influential — data-driven websites.
 • Neil Paine
Tiger Woods Reached the Apex of Golf Greatness — And That Was Just One of His Peaks
The data shows how Tiger shattered golf’s ceiling again and again across three decades.
 • Neil Paine
Scottie Scheffler Has Delivered One of Golf’s Great Seasons — and It's Not Over Yet
After winning the British Open, Scheffler’s 2025 campaign joins the ranks of the greatest in modern golf history — with more accolades still in reach.
 • Neil Paine
Scottie Scheffler Is Still Hunting Tiger's Prime
Scheffler leads the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained at a rate we haven’t seen since peak Tiger Woods — and his 2025 major record could nearly be as dominant.
 • Neil Paine
Tiger at Pebble Is Still Untouchable
Twenty-five years later, Tiger Woods’ 2000 U.S. Open remains the most dominant major performance ever — and I have a new metric, ELDRICK, to prove it.
 • Neil Paine
Rory McIlroy’s Career Grand Slam Was Hard-Earned — And a Very Long Time Coming
It wasn't easy... but maybe that was fitting, at the tournament that has beguiled McIlroy most.
 • Neil Paine
Anthony Kim Is Back. How Good Could He Have Been?
At age 38, the reclusive Kim is finally set to play again for the first time since 2012.
 • Neil Paine
Is the Big Three of Men’s Tennis Losing Its Grip for Good?
Maybe, with Novak Djokovic going down in Australia — but we've seen a dip before.
 • Neil Paine
What Would Happen If Men’s Tennis Grand Slams Were Best-of-3?
Want to introduce some chaos into a competition that’s often too predictable? This oughta do it.
 • Neil Paine
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