How to watch sports when your team is slumpingIn the middle of July — only a month ago! — I wrote about how much fun it was to watch baseball, and in particular how much fun it was to watch the Philadelphia Phillies, the team of my youth and heart.
In Plain Sight, Republicans Are Still Trying to Undermine the ElectionThe protests on the first day of the Democratic convention did not live up to either fears or hopes that they would be a repeat of the chaos at the Chicago convention in 1968.
What Was Steve Kerr Doing at the DNC? More Than Meets the Eye.Steve Kerr is an excellent public speaker.
Self-proclaimed ‘sports dork’ Michael Felger of The Sports Hub feels like he ‘will do this forever’The hosts of those stations or shows gloating on the air about those ratings — sometimes entirely truthfully. John Dennis has been gone from WEEI eight years this month, and I still half expect to see him howling into the void about ratings in all caps on Twitter/X.
The decline of football speakThe new Premiership season kicked off this weekend and, with all the usual hype, will come novelties.
Different for GirlsAweek before the start of the Paris Olympics, Shoko Miyata, the 19-year-old captain of the Japanese women’s gymnastics team, was forced to withdraw from the competition by her national association.
The MOD City+ 3 Is the Most Practical Foldable E-Bike I've Ridden"Don't put the cart before the horse" is an idiom that MOD seemed to have taken very seriously when designing the MOD City+ 3. All of the basics that I expect from a foldable e-bike are there and done well.
Nate Silver Knows Who Will WinIt’s a gray and muggy Sunday afternoon, and Nate Silver had just a few hours earlier republished his widely followed election model. After months of Trump’s being ahead, Kamala Harris was his new front-runner with a 52.8 percent chance of victory.
A Universe in Ten SecondsA high-school writer I mentored a few years ago was the star sprinter for his school’s track team, and one day, out of curiosity, I asked about the sliver of time between a runner getting into the starting block and the starter’s pistol going off.
'You got "the man" with you': Looking back on Steve McNair's groundbreaking 1994 season at Alcorn StateWHEN ALCORN STATE quarterback Steve McNair and his teammates would walk from their dorms to Jack Spinks Stadium for home games, they'd always hear students and fans tailgating. They'd smell barbecue. On that walk, fans would clamor to get close to their heroes in purple and gold.
The Monumental Discovery That Changed How Humans See ThemselvesThe unearthing of dinosaur bones transformed Victorian society—and long-held notions about our place in the world. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.
Blinded by ideology: Inside boxing row that undermined IOC and tarnished OlympicsIt was a telephone call to Dr Emma Hilton, the developmental biologist whose work illuminates why sex matters in sport, that gave a first inkling as to the freight train hurtling down the tracks.
Tim Walz and the Lessons of High-School FootballAs Kamala Harris introduced Tim Walz as her running mate to the public for the first time, at a rally in Philadelphia last week, she ran through his titles: Governor, husband, dad.
Meet the Teen Boys Getting Perms“It used to take me up to an hour to do my hair,” says Charlie Weiss, 12. “It was really straight, so I had to keep messing with it. I’d look in the mirror and be like, Is this good? No, no it’s not. Is this better? It’s still not.
Goodbye to the A’sThe Athletics may leave Oakland, but their impact will remain. From his last A’s game at the Coliseum, one writer reflects on family, his native city, and a lifetime of fandom.