Alex Burns

It’s 10am and Morgan is fresh-as-a-daisy: she’s worked out, got her go-to oat milk vanilla latte to hand and has picked up a copy of the New York Times from the newsstand down the street. How come? Because she’s on its cover. ‘The Most Famous Women in Men’s Tennis’ it reads. ‘It’s so surreal, I still haven’t processed it yet,’

“I don’t know — can NiJa be the Caitlin Clark of softball? I kind of believe she can.”

You can just turn off your phone at 5pm and see what the fuck happens.

So let’s reflect on the tyranny of convenience, try more often to resist its stupefying power, and see what happens. We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest. The constellation of inconvenient choices may be all that stands between us and a life of total, e

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And so, on May 14, 2024, modern Premier League football reached its logical next step: Tottenham Hotspur fans rooting against their team when facing Manchester City because they’d rather lose than have rivals Arsenal win the title.

Yet the 62-year-old commissioner is poised to break the bank thanks to cunning planning. Silver has consistently orchestrated efforts to increase the media value of each property; for example, by breaking events like the All-Star Game and early playoff games into distinct, sellable parts, and creating bidding wars wherever possible. It also helps t... See more

Donald Glover does not dabble. He has maxed his stats in every category. Naturally, Bando Stone isn’t only an album but also a feature-length movie with a postapocalyptic sci-fi setup. (The first and only trailer to date didn’t reveal a release date, and the promotional website for Bando Stone only says it’s “coming soon to IMAX.”)

Meanwhile, over the past few months, the Cut has twice gone viral with articles about age gaps. In December, it published a reported article by Lila Shapiro interviewing multiple couples with significant age gaps. In March came a personal essay by Grazie Sophia Christie about her relationship with her husband, who’s 10 years older. On social media,... See more

Sport podcast listeners were 2.3x more likely to trust podcast adverts, compared to print and sports radio consumers, with sport podcast advertising second only to TikTok when it came to ad impressionability. This trust and engagement in turn could be influencing consumer behaviour in response to adverts, with sport podcast listeners 1.3x more like... See more