Manchester City’s dominance is distorting football fandomAnd so, on May 14, 2024, modern Premier League football reached its logical next step: Tottenham Hotspur fans rooting against their team when facing Manchester City because they’d rather lose than have rivals Arsenal win the title.
A Grand Olympic Plan for the Seine. but First, the Tent Camps.With the Summer Games coming to Paris, migrants there face a new choice: Get on the bus or wait for the next police sweep.
Bay Area Grandma Swims to Mice-Infested Farallon IslandsThe 55-year-old swam 30 miles through shark-infested waters and a swarm of bats.
The Metamorphosis of Karl-Anthony TownsBy foregrounding Rudy Gobert and Anthony Edwards, the Minnesota Timberwolves made a massive bet on Towns’s willingness and ability to alter his game—and it paid off.
Can MLB save the starting pitcher? The search for solutions to baseball’s ‘existential crisis’Who’s pitching tonight? For 100 years, that wasn’t just a casual question. It was the question that defined baseball.
Jaden McDaniels Is Ready for ThisThe Minnesota Timberwolves’ defensive ace missed last year’s Nuggets series after he broke his hand punching a wall.
There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Post-Workout ProteinHeading out the door? Read this article on the Outside app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. One of the key articles of faith of modern sports nutrition is that your body can only use a certain amount of protein at a time. Opinions differ on what that amount is.
This Week’s ‘Sex Diary’: The Woman Meeting Her Date at a BathhouseEvery week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series. 8 a.m. I wake up feeling rested and healthy.
Canada’s polite TrumpismThe rise of an unusually tame right-wing populist reveals how Canadian democracy stays strong — and why the world should take notes from Ottawa.
Jamal Murray Looks Like He’s Back. Are the Nuggets, Too?Nikola Jokic can’t beat the Timberwolves by himself. For Denver to come back in this series, it needs this version of Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray has a flair for the dramatic.
American Aid Alone Won’t Save UkraineAfter months of delay, Congress’s passage of a nearly $61 billion U.S. aid bill to Ukraine has provided a vital lifeline to Kyiv. But the aid package alone will not solve Ukraine’s larger problems in its war with Russia.
Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an ‘army.’ The migrants tell another storyNEW YORK (AP) — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood.
Harrison Butker Is a Jerk, a Bigot, and a True Representative of the NFLIn a brief commencement speech, the Kansas City kicker managed to be racist, sexist, and homophobic. The NFL’s response is revealing. Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gives a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, on May 11.
The Three Biggest Takeaways From the ‘X-Men ’97’ Season 1 Finale‘X-Men ’97’ successfully built on the legacy of ‘X-Men: The Animated Series,’ setting up Season 2 while potentially laying the groundwork for future animated revivals Through the first few episodes of X-Men ’97, the revival appeared to be a worthy successor to X-Men: The Animated Series,
Watching the NFL This Season? You’ll Need at Least 5 Streaming ServicesKey Takeaways More NFL games are moving to streaming services, with multiple games exclusively on platforms like Peacock, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video. To stream all NFL games in the 2024-25 season, fans will need to subscribe to at least five services and spend hundreds of dollars.