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Adults are ruining things again. Starting with next month's National Spelling Bee, competitors will have to know the definitions of words to advance to the final round. What the H-E-L-L (a place thought to be a realm of suffering and pain)? ...

Organizers of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday announced a major change to the format, adding multiple-choice vocabulary tests to the annual competition that crowns the English language's spelling champ.

In an effort to keep up with some of the larger issues in the media, every month Grantland Racial Issues Correspondent Andrew Ti will be rounding up some of the biggest questions to hit the Yo, Is This Racist? inbox. Ashton Kutcher and Jason Biggs...

Earlier today, we posted a blank cartoon and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by commenter BrushGoodDar. Please check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Monday for another cartoo...

I don't think there's a TV-watching soul in America who doesn't love the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It cuts across boundaries and appeals to the frightened child in all of us — that petrified little tyke who remembers the drama and heartbre...

The 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee may be over, but let Snigdha Nandipati and the other champion spellers inspire you to use a richer vocabulary. Don't convince yourself that the difficult words used in the competition are impractical. Here ar...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. Kevin Durant scored 22 points and Thabo Sefolosha nabbed six steals as the Thunder dealt the Spurs their first loss of the postseason, 102-82. "Tim's pr...

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

In the video clip above, ESPN NFL analysts and former Patriots Tedy Bruschi and Damien Woody were challenged to an impromptu spelling bee on NFL Live on Thursday, in the spirit of the Scripps National Spelling Bee airing on ESPN....

Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn't know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone.

BOOYAHHH!!! National Spelling Bee finals, THURSDAY NIGHT. Get ready to unfog your glasses again and again as some of the game's hottest parlance peddlers drop nasty transposed vowels and ludicrous lexicography all over your vacant monkey skull....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Every year since 1925, except during World War II (1943-1945), about 200-plus young spellers travel here on Memorial Day week to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since 1994, ESPN has been there to capture the memora...

McLEAN, Va. -- At 6 years old, Lori Anne Madison is the youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee. At a glance, she seems like a child that age: She talks at 100 mph and wears a T-shirt that says "Little Miss Sunshine" on it. B...

Earlier today, we posted a blank cartoon and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by user davidsleep. Thanks for participating. Check back tomorrow for another cartoon....

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Page 2 cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means, sh...

Fourteen-year-old Sukanya Roy of South Abington Township, Pa., won the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.