Andrew Kerth 
The Seattle Seahawks just sold for $9.612 billion — the most ever paid for an NFL franchise, obliterating the Washington Commanders’ $6.05 billion record by more than 50%, and nearly 50 times what the late Paul Allen paid for the same team in 1997. The buyer: the family of tech billionaire Vinod Khosla, the Sun … Read more
Saturday’s Wimbledon women’s final is a first in the sport’s history: Karolína Muchová vs. Linda Nosková, the first all-Czech Grand Slam final ever played, and the first Wimbledon final between two players from the same nation since Venus and Serena in 2009. It guarantees a first-time major champion, extends Wimbledon’s streak of new champions to … Read more
Three World Cup finals have gone all the way to penalty kicks, and between them they contain the most famous miss in soccer history, the strangest ending any final has produced, and the greatest save sequence ever performed with a trophy on the line. With the 2026 final at MetLife nine days away, and the … Read more
Scoring in a World Cup final is the rarest currency in soccer: 22 finals, roughly one every four years, and most of the greatest players ever never managed a single goal in one. Which is what makes the top of this list so absurd — two men have scored a hat-trick in a final, fifty-six … Read more
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé have met four times as opponents, and those four matches include a World Cup knockout classic, a Champions League hat-trick at the Camp Nou, and the greatest final ever played. In between, they spent two seasons as teammates in Paris, winning titles together while the soccer world wondered how the … Read more
When the White Sox make the first pick of the MLB Draft in Philadelphia tomorrow night, they’ll be cashing a ticket they won seven months ago, on a stage in the Winter Meetings ballroom, via ping-pong balls. The MLB Draft Lottery is baseball’s newest anti-tanking weapon, just four drafts old, and it works nothing like … Read more
Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner walk onto Centre Court today for a Wimbledon semifinal that doubles as the defining rivalry of tennis’s transition era: the 39-year-old chasing a record 25th Grand Slam title against the 24-year-old defending champion who owns something almost no one in history has owned, a winning head-to-head record against Novak Djokovic. … Read more
Jannik Sinner beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the 2026 Wimbledon semifinals on July 10, the latest and most emphatic chapter in the defining rivalry of tennis’s transition era: the 24-year-old defending champion dismantling the 39-year-old chasing a record 25th Grand Slam, while extending something almost no one in history has owned, a winning … Read more
Colorado has 58 named peaks that rise above 14,000 feet, more than any other state, and climbing them, one summit at a time, is the defining bucket list of Rocky Mountain hiking. They range from Mount Elbert, the 14,440-foot roof of the entire Rockies that a fit beginner can walk up in a day, to … Read more
The Golden Boot goes to the World Cup’s top scorer, but the Golden Ball goes to its best player, the tournament MVP, voted by media, and its history is a strange, wonderful list where legends sit next to heartbreak. Messi has won it twice, both times defined by finals against France; Zidane and Forlán won … Read more