Baseball

The Canadian pop star sported oversized jeans and a Shane Bieber Blue Jays jersey at Dodgers Stadium.

Who Killed the Montreal Expos? is a new sports documentary that explores the downfall of a baseball team through a whodunit lens. Two of the filmmakers, plus Canadian baseball great Larry Walker, talk to GQ about the tragic end and enduring legacy of the Expos.

The greatest rivalry in sports is back this week—and the entire Northeast is about to go collectively insane.

The iconic father-son duo have seen and experienced the devastation, stress, and sometimes fatal effects of the disease. They don’t want you to be its next victim.

One requires dedication, skill, and a deep knowledge of the sport. The other is fantasy football.

Two years ago, the Chicago Cubs outfielder was a spindly kid from LA suffering a miserable introduction to the big leagues. Now he’s starting in the All-Star Game at 23. His secret? “Just simplifying f***ing everything.”

“Whenever someone wants me to sign a bobblehead, they want me to do it on the butt,” says Cal Raleigh, the breakout Seattle Mariners star with a world-class nickname and a knack for crushing monster dingers.

The diehard Chicago Cubs fan and host of the new documentary Going, Going, Gone: The Magic of the Home Run tells GQ why Shawon Dunston is forever his guy, whether he thinks Barry Bonds and A-Rod should be in the Hall of Fame, and the secret he learned about hitting an MLB home run.

Pope Leo XIV may reside at the Vatican now, but he will always be a Chicago guy.

At 22, Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes and LSU gymnast Livvy Dunne seem to have it all—wild success in their respective sports, movie-star good looks, big-ticket deals aplenty, and crackling chemistry. Now what? We went to visit them in Baton Rouge to find out.

When the Yankees traded for their new closer in December, he complied with the team’s anti-beard rules. But now that those rules have been reversed, he’s feeling himself again, and got New York its first W of the season.

The shortstop and devoted family man has the opportunity to cement his legacy (alongside the most thrilling Mets lineup in recent memory), and the hopes and dreams of every Mets fan riding on him. GQ visited Lindor in Florida to learn how he became the team’s savior—and how, despite the astronomical stakes, he stays so chill.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to blow out your elbow pitching nine innings of rec league ball. GQ caught up with the minds behind the indie film that perfectly captures both the easy pleasure of a long baseball game and the bittersweet passage of time.

Fifty-two years into his legendary career, the pillar of the sports media world is thrilled to be working in New York City again. “It’s the Yankees, what more can I tell you?”

Your favorite Bronx Bomber is now free to grow a “well-groomed beard.”