Somewhere around 1,184 people lost their jobs on Sunday, and somehow it was one of the more normal days on the NFL calendar. That’s cutdown day for you: 32 teams trimming from 90 players to 53 inside a single afternoon, an entire industry’s worth of hopes getting filtered down to a roster sheet, and almost […]
By any reasonable definition, 2026 was a quiet year for Scottie Scheffler. He won three times. In 2024 he won nine. In 2025 he won six. And on Sunday he still walked off East Lake with his second FedEx Cup, ten million dollars, and sole possession of the PGA Tour’s career money list, passing a […]
The NFL put Josh Jacobs on the commissioner’s exempt list today, and the honest answer to how long he’s actually out is that nobody knows yet, including the league. There’s enough history here to make an educated guess, though, and the shape of it depends less on Jacobs than on a calendar. The basics: Jacobs […]
I had a rerun on in the background this morning: Seahawks at Bears, December 2, 2012, Soldier Field. Russell Wilson was still a rookie nobody fully believed in yet. Jay Cutler was still the guy Chicago argued about every single week. Seattle won in overtime, 23-17, on a Wilson-to-Sidney-Rice touchdown that ended up looking like […]
Start with the number that actually matters. Jonathan Kuminga is making $6.2 million a year from the Timberwolves. Three of his 2021 draft classmates, picked within a few spots of him, are making more than $44 million a year. That gap is most of the story here, and it is worth working through before getting […]
The Houston Astros currently lead the American League West with a record of 66-67. Read that again. A team with a losing record is sitting in first place, and by the time you finish this paragraph, that could flip again, because apparently that is how baseball intends to spend its final five weeks: undecided, everywhere, […]
Every breakup has a stage where you start checking your own furniture for microphones. Most people handle that stage by unfollowing the ex on Instagram and calling it a night. Ole Miss handled it by getting on its hands and knees and checking under the desks for actual recording devices, then bringing in the FBI […]
Quick premise: what if “rebuilding” in the Premier League just means swapping out the guy in the tracksuit and hoping nobody notices the actual problems are still there? Three of the league’s biggest clubs walked into the 2026-27 season with brand-new managers. Manchester City finally let go of a decade of Pep Guardiola. Liverpool fired […]
Here’s a fun exercise: go 16-0. Beat literally everyone. Become the first team since Yale — Yale! In 1894! Back when a “national championship” was mostly decided by which Ivy League newspaper editor liked you best — to run an entire season without a blemish. Win the whole thing. Do it as a program that, […]
Somewhere in Los Angeles this week, a family fight broke out over something worth more than the GDP of a small country, and the funniest part is that nobody can actually agree on whether it happened. That’s the state of the Lakers right now. (Not the roster, well, also the roster, we’ll get there, but […]
