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Clay Travis: inside the Maga permadad’s world of sports betting, trans panic and more sports betting
When Maga media blowhard Clay Travis offered $2m to Colin Kaepernick last week to appear on the daily talkshow he hosts with former CIA analyst Buck Sexton, it represented the culmination of a years-long obsession on the right with the onetime NFL star. In Travis’s telling of history, Kaepernick taking a knee during the 2016 NFL season was the event that catalyzed professional sports into the era of “woke” excess from which, he claims, it has been struggling to recover ever since.
Fowl Play
BEFORE THERE ARE PLAYERS on the pitch and fans in the stands, there is the matter of the burger. Will it be smashed, or a tavern-style slab? Bread-wise, should we expect a potato roll straight out of the plastic or some kind of neo-bun made from shokupan or brioche? Will the ubiquitous butcher Pat LaFrieda make an appearance on the menu? And where does this burger stand on onions: raw, caramelized, or none at all? For now, we don’t know.
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open? Original
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open? The price of cocktails and food have become an annual talking point at the US Open. Photograph: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images The first thing you notice while sitting in the upper tiers of Arthur Ashe Stadium is the noise.
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open?
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open?
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open?
The first thing you notice while sitting in the upper tiers of Arthur Ashe Stadium is the noise. A persistent exterior hum filters up from ground level, fed by the massive ventilation and cooling units that sit outside the stadium, the clack of the Long Island Rail Road to the north, and the forklifts receiving goods from the refrigerator trucks that keep the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center flush with its essential supplies of Evian, champagne, and premium IPA.
From Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play
From Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play
From Showtime to Insurance Time: How the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play
Aaron Timms For years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers. Through Showtime in the 1980s and the dominance of the Shaq-Kobe years, the Lakers became the benchmark for a league and a sport intent on global conquest: charismatic, ambitious, and flashy, a sporting-cultural amalgam in which athleticism and celebrity held equal rank.
Trump’s dismal Patriot Games were the Hunger Games ordered off Temu
US president Donald Trump attended the Patriot Games final on Tuesday at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio.
Trump’s dismal Patriot Games were the Hunger Games ordered off Temu
Follow Trump’s dismal Patriot Games were the Hunger Games ordered off Temu Fri, August 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM EDT US president Donald Trump attended the Patriot Games final on Tuesday at Spire Academy in Geneva, Ohio.Photograph: Kylie Cooper/Reuters Culturally, it's been a tough few months for Donald Trump. The UFC night he held at the White House for his birthday got lost amid the froth and excitement of the World Cup. The Great American State Fair on the Washington DC National Mall was a dud.
El evangelio según Anthony Bourdain
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. En una temporada reciente de La granja de Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson —personalidad de la televisión británica y neorrural— compra un pub en la campiña de Inglaterra.
The Gospel According to Anthony Bourdain Original
In a recent season of “Clarkson’s Farm,” the British TV personality and back-to-the-lander Jeremy Clarkson buys a pub in rural England. Under Clarkson’s shambling yet enthusiastic guidance, the battered old boozer emerges with a new name (the Farmer’s Dog) and a menu of thoughtfully updated British classics made from seasonal, locally sourced ingredients: Lancashire hotpot, gammon steak with bubble and squeak, and pressed ham with piccalilli.
Fox’s US World Cup summer: wild mispronunciations, Corden’s sad beers and Lowe’s excellence
Goodbye, then, to Fox, to its band of upbeat Brits and grown men dressed in suits and sneakers. Goodbye to constant cutaways to Gianni Infantino in the stands, his eyebrows a mournful tipi, his nude head sprinkling under the summer sun. Goodbye to Landon Donovan and his special gift for announcing every celebrity sighting (“And there’s Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz”) as if delivering the results of a colonoscopy.
Statesman, comedian and dealer of hard truths: how Kylian Mbappé became the king of this World Cup
Kylian Mbappé is already his country’s all-time leading scorer.Photograph: Image Photo Agency/Getty Images This has been the World Cup of characters, bold fashion statements, and bantz: we’ve had Thomas Tuchel rubber-banding around the England dressing room like a teen at his first all-ages rave, and Iván Barton booting Miguel Almirón from the field as if sentencing him to death.
World Cupcophony | Aaron Timms
DR Congo defensive midfielder Charles Pickel pronounces his name. More than it is an exhibition of football, the World Cup is a drama of understanding. At this year's installment of the Greatest Show on Earth™, FIFA has debuted a bewildering number of regulatory innovations.
psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
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Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
Freddy was following Germany’s World Cup campaign in the US. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images Farewell, then, Freddy – the fan whose face we never saw, the German we never heard speak German, the man forever behind the emoji, the World Cup’s Wizard of Oz. Farewell from X, at least. Shortly after Die Mannschaft’s World Cup elimination, the visiting German fan who became famous on social media through the tournament’s early weeks suddenly disappeared.
Every World Cup needs a cult hero: 2026 has given us touchline dreamboat Sebastián Beccacece
An underrated pleasure for spectators at every World Cup is observing the managers. If club football, an increasingly regimented domain of set pieces and systems, is all about structure, international soccer is much more a matter of style – and at this tournament, the theatrics of the sport's touchline strutters have been rich with emotion and figurative power. Didier Deschamps patrols his technical area with the watchful pride of an outer-arrondissement charcutier .
The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry V Lalas is the World Cup's most compelling battle
We all know someone like Alexi Lalas. He's the ranter whose rants never actually say anything, the life of the party at the party no one enjoys attending, the “big personality” who's always misjudging the size of the room. He's corporate America's idea of a fun guy, the type of workplace “character” whose business trip hangover never stops him from being first at the hotel breakfast buffet, hair wet, Untuckit shirt untucked.
At this year’s World Cup, make way for autocrats
Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has chronicled the breadth and depth of political and cultural life, serving as a critical, independent, and progressive voice.
At This Year’s World Cup, Make Way for Autocrats
World / June 17, 2026 At This Year’s World Cup, Make Way for Autocrats Sovereign wealth, private equity money, and a network of oily alliances between FIFA and the world’s most reprehensible regimes have transformed the sport forever. Ad Policy A member of the Otomi indigenous community in Mexico City holds a U.S. President Donald Trump latex mask during the “Anti-World Cup” rally on June 6, 2026, in Mexico City, Mexico.
New York’s era-defining title is a win for the believers
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Knicks in five and the NBA is alive: New York's era-defining title is a win for the believers
The New York Knicks had been here before. As Jalen Brunson and his band of not-so-merry men stood at the top of this year's NBA finals, they confronted not just the San Antonio Spurs, their foe on the court, but the very idea of what the Knicks themselves – as a team, as a franchise, as a symbol of New York City – could be. The team's run to last year's Eastern Conference finals was thrilling but had the aspect of an underdog romp, and ultimately ended in defeat.
Big Lalas Energy to ulcerative colitis meds: Fox is this World Cup’s very soul in the US
Katy Perry performed during Friday’s opening ceremony in Los Angeles. Photograph: Omar Vega/Getty Images The 2026 World Cup: a festival of football; a moment to revel in upsets, spectacular goals, stars made, and reputations ruined; a test of Didier Deschamps’s unshakable addiction to Adrien Rabiot.
Elon Musk’s Cyborg Turn Points to a Grim Future Original
It’s hard to think of a cohort of rich people in recent history as extravagantly exhibitionist as today’s tech billionaires. For the modal Silicon Valley oligarch, the life of easy luxury is not enough.
The World Cup For Nobody Is Almost Here
travel news 1 hour ago 50 years of the TransAmerica Bike Trail—the ‘Appalachian Trail’ of biking National Geographic - Lisa Lucas • 1h Created for the 1976 Bicentennial, the 4,250-mile TransAmerica Trail has drawn cyclists every summer for 50 years. Its varied landscapes, distinct regions, and small-town charm make it one of America’s classic long-distance rides. The origin story of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail began on different … 1:16 4 hours ago FIFA Bans Vuvuzelas From World Cup Stadiums.
why Victor Wembanyama is unlike anyone basketball has ever seen
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The human in excelsis: why Victor Wembanyama is unlike anyone basketball has ever seen
Victor Wembanyama has taken the Spurs to within four wins of the title. Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP (Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP) The NBA season began with serious questions about Victor Wembanyama’s ability to last the distance in the playoffs. Could this brilliant ectomorph, a blend of rare height and even rarer skill, stand up to the rigors of a deep postseason run? Would his slim body snap under the intensity of professional basketball’s sternest tests?
Amazon Prime’s NBA playoff coverage was an alienating, strangely visionary experiment in anti-TV
Cade Cunningham and Donovan Mitchell compete for the ball during the Eastern Conference semi-finals. Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP (Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP) Game 7 in the NBA playoffs: a chance to kick back, enjoy the drama of a winner-takes-all shootout between basketball’s big beasts, and … switch over from your regular TV provider to Amazon Prime? The excitement drains from the occasion at the first touch of the remote.
Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy
Perhaps DeChambeau is sui generis, a maverick determined to sacrifice it all for clicks. Or perhaps he's a harbinger of a more meaningful shift in the relationship between athleticism and celebrity. Is organized sport disorganizing, splintering into something more personalized, ad hoc, and stunt-driven? He'll stay rich regardless, so we don't exactly need to hold the man in our prayers.
Bryson DeChambeau could give up golf for YouTube in his athletic prime. Is he right?
Bryson DeChambeau has forged a lucrative career thanks to his social media channels. Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP Golf: a feeder sport for aspiring YouTubers? When Bryson DeChambeau, faced with the expiry of his LIV Golf contract at the end of this year and the implosion, possibly even sooner, of the now Saudi-less LIV Golf, mused last week that he might give up life on tour to focus on his YouTube channel, most professional golf watchers scoffed.
Fernando Mendoza: LinkedIn lunatic, endearing goofball and a symbol of the NFL’s future
Fernando Mendoza led Indiana to the national title in January. Photograph: Mike Zarrilli/UPI/Shutterstock Ever since the NCAA changed its rules in 2021 to allow student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, institutional money has been circling college football, desperate for a way to turn top programs into money-making machines. These incursions have had limited success to date. Perhaps the private equity and venture capital vultures have been approaching things the wrong way.
Drone racing to drone strikes: have war and sport become indistinguishable?
The Drone Racing League became a scouting ground for the US air force to recruit new pilots.Photograph: Chris Graythen/Drone Racing League/Getty Images (Photograph: Chris Graythen/Drone Racing League/Getty Images) Among the more surprising continuities of 2026 has been the visual kinship between the Winter Olympics and the US’s illegal and unprovoked war in Iran.
From Run Nation to Power Slap: What is leading the dumbing down of sports?
A few weeks ago a clip went viral of a strange new contact sport emerging from the antipodes. Two burly men, one of them holding a football, sprint at each other on a kind of catwalk, waiting for the bloop-bloop-bloop of an electronic countdown before they launch into their runs. Neither wears any kind of padding or protective gear.
Clapping skis to the pulpy thrash of poles: the Winter Olympics are an ASMR wonderland
Choi Gaon lays down a landing on her way to Olympic gold. Photograph: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images The mountains always promise escape from the squalor of existence at sea level, if not a kind of purification. The fortifying ruggedness of the terrain, the apple-crisp air, the high-albedo dazzle of sunlit snow: at altitude, it seems, everything is thinned to its essence.
Bad Bunny and jingoism lite: was this the Super Bowl where woke roared back?
‘Sunday was all about evening up the ledger, about welcoming the sport’s non-Maga contingent back into the tent.’Photograph: Chris Torres/EPA (Photograph: Chris Torres/EPA) Roger Federer smiling wolfishly to the crowd: a return to woke?
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