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LIV Golf Built a $5 Billion Revolution. It Just Canceled the Season Finale.
The breakaway league is ending 2026 early, refunding Michigan tickets and preparing for life after Saudi funding — because even disruption eventually meets a budget meeting.
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Dallas Traded Micah Parsons. Now It Found Von Miller in the Texas Nostalgia Aisle.
The Cowboys need pass rush, Von Miller still has some, and Dallas has once again found a roster move with enough built-in history to become its own television event.
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Jordan Spieth Finished 19th and Still Got Eliminated. Golf Has Perfected the Spreadsheet.
Spieth played well enough to finish inside the top 20 in Memphis and still watched his season end because the FedEx Cup has finally turned golf into live actuarial television.
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ESPN Bought the Games. Apparently the Expertise Was Sold Separately.
The network is spending billions to own sports while trimming the people who can explain them, which is one way to discover that the hot take was the business model all along.
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Baseball Built It Again. Netflix Came With a Camera Crew.
MLB took Field of Dreams back to Iowa, Netflix brought global distribution, and Kyle Schwarber did the one thing no producer needed to script.
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Aaron Rodgers Gets the Packers Again. Naturally, It Counts for Absolutely Nothing.
Rodgers, Mike McCarthy and Green Bay are all back in the same football story Thursday night. The NFL has thoughtfully made it a preseason game.
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The Lakers Just Became a $12.5 Billion Flip. Even Los Angeles Might Find That Excessive.
Bob Iger and Josh Kushner are buying the Lakers from Mark Walter less than a year after his $10 billion takeover. Somewhere, franchise valuation has become the league’s hottest scorer.
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Tony Romo Spent Years Calling the Play Before It Happened. CBS Can’t Call This One Yet.
Romo made a fortune seeing football a few seconds early. Now CBS has reached the one situation its star analyst cannot predict.
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Seattle Won the Super Bowl and Immediately Invited Hard Knocks Into the Building
The defending champions are opening training camp to HBO cameras, because apparently winning the Super Bowl was not enough pressure for one summer.
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Tim Anderson Made Baseball Fun. Then Baseball Moved On Without Him.
A batting champion, bat-flipping All-Star and Field of Dreams hero is retiring at 33 — a reminder of just how quickly baseball can turn a star into a memory.
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Ben Simmons Is Coming Back. Yes, We’ve Heard This One Before.
Healthy, 30 and reportedly drawing NBA interest, basketball’s most complicated former superstar is attempting the one comeback nobody quite knows whether to believe.
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Don Nelson Spent 31 Years Coaching the NBA Until the NBA Started Looking Like Don Nelson
The league's great basketball eccentric has died at 86. The strange part isn't how weird Nellie Ball looked then. It's how normal it looks now.
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