It’s been a shocker, hasn’t it? England’s latest humiliation down under will be remembered as their worst in recent times not only for its rapid nature, but also because this was supposed to be an opportunity to regain the Ashes…
If you would have seen Nora McInerny at her 35-year-old husband’s funeral, you might have thought she’d never looked better. That was the consensus “according to so many people,” she says, in part perhaps because she’d lost weight after barely…
The Washington Commanders looked like they were on the verge of delaying the Philadelphia Eagles’ winning the NFC East for at least one more day. Instead, quarterback Marcus Mariota went down on the first series of the second half, and…
In September 1996, nearly a decade before Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested, a professional artist made a criminal complaint to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that accused the financier of being involved in “child pornography.” Epstein survivor Maria Farmer has…
When the Arizona Cardinals take on the Atlanta Falcons Sunday at State Farm Stadium, they will face quarterback Kirk Cousins for the seventh time. Cousins is making his sixth start of the season for the Falcons and fifth straight since…
For much of my twenties, I travelled back and forth between urban Hong Kong and the New Territories, a hilly area where my university campus sat. On countless afternoons, just outside of a campus gate, I would board a bus…
Los Angeles Lakers guard Marcus Smart was fined $35,000 after flipping off the refs at halftime in Thursday’s 143–135 win over the Utah Jazz, according to the NBA’s communications department. Smart received a technical foul before the end of the…
Victims of Jeffrey Epstein and congressional lawmakers are condemning the Department of Justice for only partially releasing files related to the late convicted sex offender on Friday, the deadline set for the government to release all of its Epstein-related documents…
When the various components of the nutty Seattle two-point conversion are considered in light of the current rules, everything makes perfect sense. Making the outcome seem nonsensical (even though it wasn’t) had more to do with the delayed resolution of…
Christmas creep has been with us for a very long time—since the late 1800s, in fact. It has evolved from a late-Victorian habit of early shopping to a socialist attempt to tackle overtime and seasonal child labor, and finally to…