Andrew Kerth The Home Run Derby has killed the clock. After a decade of sprint-format chaos, hitters racing a timer, gasping between hacks, Monday night’s Derby at Citizens Bank Park debuts a completely new set of rules: every slugger gets a fixed number of swings, every swing counts whether it leaves the yard or not, and the … Read more
The 2026 T-Mobile Home Run Derby goes Monday, July 13 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, live on Netflix for the first time, with a brand-new swing-based format replacing the timer, and the eight-man field is filling up fast. Four sluggers are officially in: Junior Caminero, last year’s runner-up and the hottest hitter alive; Ben … Read more
Kylian Mbappé is playing this World Cup on the most cleverly structured contract in European football: a five-year Real Madrid deal (through June 2029) whose reported €31.25 million base salary is only the visible layer, sitting atop a signing bonus reported between €100-150 million amortized across the contract, performance incentives, and the negotiation’s real masterstroke, … Read more
Kylian Mbappé has scored 20 goals in 20 World Cup matches, a goal-per-game pace no player in the tournament’s 96-year history has sustained, and he is 27 years old and exactly one goal behind the all-time record after breaking the deadlock against Morocco in Thursday’s quarterfinal, minutes after Yassine Bounou had saved his penalty. The … Read more
Erling Haaland is playing this World Cup on the longest contract in Premier League history: a nine-and-a-half-year Manchester City deal signed in January 2025 that runs to June 2034, pays a reported £525,000 per week in base wages, and can swell toward £875,000 a week once his near-automatic goal bonuses kick in. Forbes ranks him … Read more
Erling Haaland has scored more than 350 senior goals for club and country, and he doesn’t turn 26 until the week of the World Cup final. The Manchester City striker is currently authoring the loudest chapter yet: seven goals at his first World Cup, tied with Messi and Mbappé for the Golden Boot lead, including … Read more
Jannik Sinner owns four Grand Slam titles, all won inside a two-year burst that made him world No. 1, the first Italian man ever to hold either distinction, and tomorrow he defends the most famous of them in a Wimbledon semifinal against the one opponent whose records dwarf everyone’s: Novak Djokovic, whom Sinner leads 6-5 … Read more
The run fits the career: two major titles (the 2023 US Open and 2025 French Open), double-digit tour titles including the WTA Finals, a former doubles No. 1 ranking, and a résumé that has been rewriting “youngest since” lists since she beat Venus Williams at this same tournament as a 15-year-old qualifier. The chart below … Read more
The 2026 Genesis Scottish Open is underway at The Renaissance Club (July 9-12), and the field is the strongest non-major gathering of the summer: world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 2 Rory McIlroy, No. 4 Matt Fitzpatrick, LIV stars Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton via the co-sanction, and a defending champion, Chris Gotterup, who arrives … Read more
Every July, the best golfers on earth do something they almost never do the week before a major: play a full tournament. The Masters, PGA, and U.S. Open all see stars rest, scout, and arrive early; The Open Championship alone gets the opposite, a stampede into the Genesis Scottish Open, where this week the world’s … Read more