It was about as close as an FA Cup-winning manager has come to a mic drop. In a room of journalists who had spent the previous few days reporting on his bosses’ plan to replace him, a bruised, embattled but belligerent Erik ten Hag defended his record as manager of …
Read More »Trump Media Stock Price Down 70% From March Peak
The stock price of the former president’s social media company has often moved in tandem with investor perception of his standing in the presidential race.
Read More »Frances Tiafoe into all-American U.S. Open semifinal against Taylor Fritz
NEW YORK — There are some nights when Frances Tiafoe turns Arthur Ashe Stadium into a rocking house party. His house. His music thumping from the loudspeakers. Nearly 24,000 friends, cousins, kings, queens, stars of the silver screen and hardwood, and of course an all-time tennis great or half a …
Read More »Biden Expected to Block U.S. Steel Takeover
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is expected to raise national security concerns about selling the iconic steel producer to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
Read More »How Tom Brady prepared for his Fox NFL broadcasting debut
When Tom Brady took his gap season between his final NFL game in early 2023 and his debut as Fox Sports’ $375 million analyst this Sunday, he studied NFL broadcasts like he was trying to figure out a defense as a quarterback. Known for his meticulousness, Brady would not only …
Read More »Las Vegas Places a Bet on a New Art Museum, With Help From L.A.
The city agreed to give land to a museum championed by the casino magnate Elaine Wynn, which will be a partnership with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Read More »The American family who swapped Texas for Tonga to chase a World Cup dream
What would inspire you to sell up your old life and move thousands of miles away to a small country you’d only previously spent two weeks in? For Maikeli Lomu, it was a Facebook post. He was taking a break from working on his laptop when he spotted the advert. …
Read More »Jim Riswold, Creator of ‘Bo Knows’ and Air Jordan Ads, Dies at 66
His work for Nike — particularly commercials starring Michael Jordan and Spike Lee — blurred the line between advertising and entertainment.
Read More »Lamar Jackson is authentically himself, and he’s not going to apologize for it
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson has little interest in talking about other quarterbacks, both past and present. He sidesteps the questions like he does with blitzing linebackers bursting through the A gap. Since he entered the NFL, reporters have tried to cajole Jackson to talk in-depth about his contemporaries, …
Read More »Noel Parmentel Jr., Essayist, Polemicist and Apostate, Dies at 98
A self-described “reactionary individualist,” he mentored Joan Didion and was credited with famously comparing Nixon to a used-car salesman.
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