Aaron Timms
The Guardian
New York, NY, United States
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Denver and the improbable, inevitable Jokić are an NBA dynasty in-waiting
The Nuggets have the first championship in their 47-year history. With a young core and the world’s best player more titles beckon → Read More
Nikola Jokić is making the NBA finals a showcase of his inimitable brilliance
As the Nuggets tighten their grip on the NBA finals, the staggering performances conjured by their singular star are making a convincing claim for historical greatness → Read More
Fox’s Super Bowl expertly blended NFL pedigree with thoughtless patriotism
The league may want to pretend it has changed but TV coverage in the US reminded us that it remains in love with its own importance → Read More
Being Christian Pulisic: the pressure of life as US soccer’s chosen one
The midfielder looks liberated when he steps on to the field for his country. How he handles expectation will be crucial to his team’s chances at this World Cup → Read More
English football has commercialism of US sports without their egalitarianism
Despite legitimate anger at US-inspired initiatives like the failed European Super League, the creeping influence of America in football need not be universally bad → Read More
The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist: the Manti Te’o hoax revisited with sympathy
A new Netflix documentary paints a nuanced portrait of two young people at the center of a catfishing story that captivated America → Read More
The new Golden State Warriors: relentless, ruthless
The Warriors’ pandemic-era decline and the uncertainty that once surrounded their biggest stars are enough to make this title a genuine feelgood story → Read More
Shark: did the golfing gods really single out Greg Norman for misery?
A new ESPN documentary reassesses the career of the Australian, with particular attention paid to his famous meltdown at the 1996 Masters → Read More
I saw betting’s toxic sludge swamp Australian sport. Now it’s coming for America
As sports gambling becomes legal in more and more US states, I remember how it slowly took over the social lives of my friends back home → Read More
NBC paid $7.75bn for its Olympic rights ... and we got televisual vomit
US viewers have been able to see everything at any given moment while understanding fundamentally nothing about what’s going on → Read More
In a new documentary, Lance Armstrong shows plenty of rage but little regret
ESPN’s new film on the cyclist is a compelling study in the corruption of the male athletic ego → Read More
Michael Jordan's furious desire to conquer all still burns decades later
A superb new ESPN documentary series reminds us that everything in the NBA legend’s playing career was bent towards a single goal: winning → Read More
'I wake up and I'm a baby': an NFL star's journey into ayahuasca
The former Jets and Cardinals player says a series of hallucinogenic trips he took as part of a documentary helped him understand himself more deeply → Read More
How did the Golden State Warriors become the team no one likes?
The Warriors still want to be the newcomers, the radicals shaking up the sport. But they’re the establishment now → Read More
Drake's Toronto superfandom: annoying, ludicrous and completely understandable
The rapper has spent the last six weeks making the Raptors’ playoff run about him rather than the team, but celebrity fans are part of the NBA’s heritage → Read More
Maybe What We Need Is
Recent books by economists who hope to “save capitalism” dismiss popular ideas as “just politics.” But why assume the popular is the enemy of the good? → Read More
LeBron James arrives in LA with his greatness confirmed. What does he do now?
The spectacle of his late career will be as much about watching the emergence of LeBron the cultural figure as the twilight of LeBron the player → Read More
NBA 2018-19 predictions: Greek Freak to peak and Warriors to three-peat
How will LeBron James get on in California? Is Russell Westbrook in decline? Can anyone stop Golden State? Our writers have their say → Read More
Are super-nerds really ruining US sports?
Jayson Werth is the latest athlete to complain that data and analytics are taking the joy out of sports. Can numbers live alongside individual brilliance? → Read More
How football coaches became the vanguard of American conservatism
Coaches have long sacralized the gridiron as the fundament of America, extolling it alongside faith, family and the military as a setting stone of the social order → Read More