Swimming
The Thirteen-Second Ledger: Max Barnes, SMU, and the Quiet Economy of College Swimming
0.45 Seconds and 9 Seconds: How to Read the Day-1 Seed Sheet at the Asian Games
1:21.12 — One Heat Time, Two Kinds of Swimming
Yu Zidi at 13: The Teenage Shoulder Behind Three Golds and One Unanswered Question
The Wrong Number in the Headline: Mert Taşbaşı's SMU Commitment and the NCAA's One-Way Valve
Zero Point Four Seconds and a New Ledger: Thirteen-Year-Old Yu Zidi at the 2026 Asian Games
Yu Zidi at 13: The Teenage Shoulder Behind Three Golds and One Unanswered QuestionIt was nearly two in the morning in Rangpur when the final of the women's 200...
The Wrong Number in the Headline: Mert Taşbaşı's SMU Commitment and the NCAA's One-Way ValveHook: One Name, Three Lanes, Three Verdicts Walk down the 2026 Turkish Nation...
Zero Point Four Seconds and a New Ledger: Thirteen-Year-Old Yu Zidi at the 2026 Asian GamesThe gallery rose in the final fifty metres. A Japanese gentleman who had not...
The Thirteen-Second Ledger: Max Barnes, SMU, and the Quiet Economy of College SwimmingOn a February evening in Mishawaka, Indiana, parents leaned forward over thei...
0.45 Seconds and 9 Seconds: How to Read the Day-1 Seed Sheet at the Asian GamesThe first thing I do when a start-list lands on my desk is write two numbers...
1:21.12 — One Heat Time, Two Kinds of SwimmingTwo numbers sat side by side on the heat sheet. One was 1:06.49. The other wa...