Michael Weinreb

Getty Images/Ringer illustration In November 1957, two months after the New York Giants struck a deal to move the franchise to San Francisco, Willie Maysplaced an offer on a brand-new home. This house was on Miraloma Drive, in a placid section of the city adjacent to the upscale planned community of St. Francis Wood. A span of glass windows offered a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean. Mays and his wife, Marghuerite, made an all-cash offer.

Last December, after a professional golfer named Jon Rahm showed up on Fox News wearing a varsity jacket with the LIV Golf logo, a Reddit user going by the name Golfhood started a thread with the subject line: “I’m done with pro golf.” Golfhood claimed to be a former mini-tour player who had been working in the golf industry for nearly 15 years. The game, to Golfhood, was a way to break free of everyday life for a few hours, talk trash with friends, and eat hot dogs at the turn.

Thirty minutes into the first game of his major college coaching career, Deion Sanders paused at midfield for an interview. This was in early September, when Colorado led 17th-ranked TCU by a field goal, and when the season’s possibilities were still infinite. Those of us who are well versed in the tropes of college football know that the halftime interview is engineered for monotony: A coach hurriedly answers two anodyne questions, projects an air of authority, and trots to the locker room.