"Both players shed their warm-up shirts. The crowd cheered. Thousands of phones were lifted into the air. Together, LeBron and...

Perhaps you've heard the oldest cliché in coach-speak. "It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the...

In perhaps the most American sports film, Rocky IV, the film's namesake hero must defy the odds to defeat a Soviet...

In Stephen King's seminal pandemic novel The Stand, the deteriorating US government faces a gruesome task. It must keep society running...

We all know one of them. They may not wear tin hats or crusador membership buttons, but there always seems...

In the excellent Hollywood film Project Hail Mary, humanity faces an urgent issue. For seemingly no reason, the Sun begins...

Science fiction writers, at their best, have at least a cautionary message about the future. Be it Skynet, unfriendly aliens,...

Tic-tac-toe. It's the first board game a child may learn and, candidly, a rather easy one. Yet professional basketball can...

During an incredibly humorous scene in the classic A Christmas Story, Ralphie daydreams of receiving an unusually strong grade from...

In Ray Bradbury's science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451, firefighters have an audacious goal: to burn books, rather than extinguish fires....