Throughout the decade of the four-team College Football Playoff era, the Heisman Trophy race became increasingly predictable. The beginning of a new age for the sport could revitalize the season-long pursuit of football’s top honor, if Week 1 is any indicator. The most breathtaking individual performances from the first full Saturday of the 12-team Playoff…
Aug 24, 2024; Oakland, California, USA; Milwaukee Brewers infielder Willy Adames (27) bats against the Oakland Athletics during the eighth inning at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Robert Edwards-USA TODAY Sports Right-hander Frankie Montas will get an opportunity to take one last stroll down memory lane when he returns to the old Coliseum to face…
Aug 17, 2024; Oakland, California, USA; A fan of the Oakland Athletics holds up a sign during the eighth inning against the San Francisco Giants at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports When Major League Baseball began including interleague matchups in the regular season in 1997, the Bay Bridge Series between the…
Earlier this year, the actress Kristen Stewart appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in a pocket-covered black leather vest that looked like it had been swiped from a 1980s lesbian bar. Bare-chested, her hair cut into a squirrelly mullet, she wore only one other garment: a white jock strap into which her hand plunged…
Oprah Winfrey, una figura presente desde hace mucho tiempo en el debate nacional sobre las dietas y los prejuicios sobre el peso, dedicó el lunes un especial de una hora en horario estelar al auge de los medicamentos para adelgazar. Su objetivo, dijo, era “empezar a liberar el estigma, la vergüenza y el juicio” en…
Oprah Winfrey, a longtime figure in the national conversation about dieting and weight bias, devoted an hourlong prime-time special on Monday to the rise of weight loss drugs. Her goal, she said, was to “start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment” around weight and weight loss — starting with her own, she…
Product placement, one of the oldest tricks in advertisers’ toolbox, is getting an A.I. makeover. New technology has made it easier to insert digital, realistic-looking versions of soda cans and shampoo onto the tables and walls of videos on YouTube and TikTok. And a growing group of creators and advertisers is grabbing at the chance…
Photo: Getty Images Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out…
In all the words currently being written about the end of the Bill Belichick era in Boston — or, technically, the Boston suburbs — which reportedly finally came to a close on Jan. 11 after weeks of speculation, the end of the N.F.L. season and the Patriots’ dismal loss to the Jets, the one that…
