PHOTO USA Today Sports Images It’s not a full slate of college football, but the appetizer version is better than none. Something beats nothing after eight long months, and it’s time for Saturday college football. With only four games on the slate in Week 0, finding value takes a closer look, but it’s there. Here’s…
SMU’s Preston Stone (2) looks to throw the ball as Memphis’ CorMontae Hamilton (12) tries to block him during the game between Southern Methodist University and University of Memphis at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday, November 18, 2023. Football is back with Week 0 and the headliner for NFL personnel evaluators…
PHOTO USA Today Sports Images Exhibitions soon go extinct again until next August, with teams eyeing one last tuneup this week before the regular season kicks off on Sept. 5. While some clubs bring few, if any, burning questions to the preseason finale, others face notable issues. It likely won’t come as a surprise that…
PHOTO USA Today Sports Images The Hall of Fame game has come and gone, and the first full week of the preseason is all-inclusive. Football is back in full force. At least one NFL game will be played Thursday through Sunday. We walk you through the best bets to consider this week. Let’s dive in. …
The fall couture shows in Paris, which ended Thursday, were held earlier than the usual July dates to avoid clashing with preparations for the Olympic Games, but the season still offered some Parisian high jewelry houses a chance to shine brightly. Their presentations capped a series of glamorous events around Europe, as several houses continued…
If fashion is a storytelling business, it should follow that runway shows are narratives. Yet they can’t be. For starters, they lack a plot. True, designers can be relied upon to spiel about inspirations, travels or philosophies as a listener’s eyeballs roll back in his head. The truth is that most fashion shows are best…
Last week, Becky Hughes took over the newsletter because I was up to my eyeballs in spreadsheets filled with sandwiches. This week, all that beautiful organization came together in the form of our list of “57 Sandwiches That Define New York City,” a grand survey of all five boroughs through the lens of its most…
Wanting what we do not need (and what, in a biblical sense, is not ours) is at the core of luxury-goods consumption. And want, more than anything more evolved or cerebral, was the emotion stimulated by the men’s wear shows in Milan this season. Does the world require a linen field jacket with Breton stripes…
Charity Lawson earned a reputation of being a sweetheart after starring in the 20th season of “The Bachelorette,” which ended in August with her engagement to Dotun Olubeko, an integrative medicine specialist. Ms. Lawson, 28, seemingly always has a smile on her face. She knows what she likes and she does not put up with…
If anyone could make a baby pink suit look intimidating, it was Barbara Walters. The TV news anchor coolly lobbed questions at the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in a 1989 interview while sheathed shoulder to knee in pastel Chanel and pearls. Back then Ms. Walters, who died in 2022 at the age of 93,…
