2025-10-21 04:54:40
The Las Vegas Raiders played the Chiefs on Sunday, or at least appeared on the same field as the Chiefs on Sunday. They were certainly there, in their spiffy white uniforms, in Kansas City, but with Brock Bowers and Jakobi Meyers both injured and inactive, “played” may have been asking too much.
Vegas never entered the red zone. Only once did the offense cross midfield. On that occasion, they gazed longingly at the end zone from the Chiefs’ 46. In seven attempts, they did not convert a single third down. They totaled 95 yards—70 passing, 25 rushing—to Kansas City's 434. Vegas lost, 31-0.
2025-10-21 02:39:22
Perhaps it should not have been surprising that a matchup between the fourth- and sixth-place teams in the Premier League produced an absolute firecracker of a match. Perhaps Bournemouth and Crystal Palace are two really good and, maybe more importantly for the purposes of a neutral, really fun sides, and their Saturday showdown at Selhurst Park was just a perfect clash at a perfect time. Whatever the reasoning, the 3-3 classic was the best game of this young season—and yes, I am including all of the Liverpool last-minute nonsense, including the two matches against these very teams—and a thrilling look England's upper-midtable, a place where everyone is a tough out and no lead is safe.
2025-10-21 02:19:43
Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens, with the same time parameters as the professional-grade bakers competing on the show.
2025-10-21 01:51:50
The National Football League has a firings gap. Though still the worldwide leader in commercial interruptions and enormous American flags, the NFL has fallen shamefully behind its college cousin at the vital measure of in-season coach firings; that figure is currently eight, and Mike Norvell, Hugh Freeze, Bill Belichick, and Luke Fickell haven't gotten done yet. The Premier League has seen two guys fired by the same team in the past six weeks. THE SAME TEAM. Every week the NFL allows Brian Daboll to yell into a headset while loitering outside the brain tent is another week it falls further behind.
Before we begin assessing the dregs of the league and their chances of helping the league close this gap, we can eliminate the Tennessee Titans from our considerations. They, alone among their peers in the NFL’s dumpster tier, have taken the first tepid step toward self-realization by firing coach Brian Callahan while retaining football operations head Chad Brinker and general manager Mike Borgonzi. That's not the same as the simultaneously arcane and lyrical phrase of "blowing it up," but it is something. The Titans indirectly acknowledged that they may have aimed too low by sending interim coach Mike McCoy out for an 18-point loss to New England on Sunday; admitting the depth of the problem will necessarily take some time. But at least they have acknowledged what can’t be denied.
2025-10-21 01:17:42
After all the debate about fair application of Papaya Rules and which of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri is really McLaren's No. 1 driver, the answer, as it is turning out, is neither of them. One race is a fluke, two is coincidence, three is when you really start considering that the car and driver have real pace, and four is when you start taking the continued failures of the championship leader very, very seriously. On Sunday's United States Grand Prix, Red Bull's Max Verstappen turned what was a funny hypothetical into a real question: Can he actually win the Drivers' Championship this year?
Let's start with the math. After the Dutch GP on Aug. 31, the first race back from the F1 summer break, Verstappen was 104 points down from Piastri in the standings, and 75 points down from Norris. He has now won three out of the four races since then. The one race he did not win, the Singapore GP, he lost to George Russell in a Mercedes, but outplaced both McLarens. Over that span of four races, he has clawed back an eye-boggling 64 points, with 23 of those points gained during this weekend's race alone. That leaves him just 40 points down from the championship leader with five races to go, two of those sprint weekends.
2025-10-21 00:44:56
The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where you picked up credentials, which was long. This indicated that while there were few paying customers, every last promoter, relative, weed carrier, self-declared entourage member, and media vulture from Philly to New York had scammed themselves a free ticket. Right behind me in the credential line was Fat Joe. I mean, an exact dead ringer for Fat Joe. I only figured out it wasn’t Fat Joe by peering at him for a long time before I noticed that no one else was paying him any attention. He could easily find work as a Fat Joe celebrity impersonator, though.
There was another man in an ankle-length fur coat, Gucci loafers, and a thick platinum chain who kept setting off the metal detectors, over and over. The woman working security, who was young and pretty, looked at him with unmitigated disgust. Her lip curled involuntarily as he rifled his pockets. Since the whole reason a man would wear an outfit so ridiculous is to impress pretty women, the incident raised some philosophical questions. The futility of our pathetic collective determination to transcend one another, the pathetic wrong turns we take in our attempts to find love. For the man, the night was a performance. But for the woman, the night was just work.
