Featured Stories

I've written a lot of stories over the past 25 years. Some of them are stinkers. But the stories below? They're the ones I like the best.

Grief, Loss and Learning to Cope

On handling the worst part of living.

I knew it when I walked in the room. She had no idea who I was.

“This is your grandson, Jeremy,” PawPaw said. He was sitting next to her hospital bed, his wood and bone cane nestled between his legs. He was leaning in her direction, the same way he’d been leaning her direction for sixty years.

My grandmother was having surgery for a broken hip the next morning. She’d fallen earlier in the week, and things were getting worse. They’d been getting worse for

Khabib Nurmagomedov Brought His Best vs. Conor McGregor; Then We Saw His Worst

Khabib Nurmagomedov beat Conor McGregor on Saturday night in the main event of UFC 229.

"He bludgeoned him" is probably a more accurate way to describe it. It went precisely how most of the sport's followers predicted it would go: If McGregor could not keep his back off the canvas, he was in big trouble. You know, like every other Khabib fight.

And it was like every other Khabib fight, right up to the part where it became unlike any other UFC fight in the history of the sport.

After three rou
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