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Select portions of the college football world were outraged—big shock there—by Miami quarterback Cam Ward's decision to play ...

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When F.C. Barcelona acquired Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig back in August, it did so despite clearly not being anywhere close to ...

It’s easy to hate Blake Lively. She’s beautiful. She’s tall. Her hair is so lush. Her skin is so smooth. She’s married to a ...

Played live, the songs are groovy and expressive; the vibe among the performers is that they're having the best time ever.

The Sacramento Kings played and lost what threatens to be the last meaningful basketball game of their season on Thursday night. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that it may also have been the ...

Netflix viewer statistics are notorious lies. Not just in the Nielsen “we’re doing a lot of extrapolating” sense, nor even ...

Basketball fans and league officials who were wringing their hands about the NFL encroaching on Christmas woke up on ...

Do you realize that this is the 12th year we’ve run this series? Time really flies when you don’t have something lodged up ...