I n In the final minutes of the fourth quarter, a seemingly insurmountable 13-point lead evaporates into a tense, one-possession battle. It’s crunch time at the 2019 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game. The “Home Team” faces humiliating collapse; a lockdown defender is necessary to preserve the victory.…

Paige Bueckers twirls a pencil in her hand and stares at the blank form. It's a Thursday night in February, and she's sitting with teammates at a post-practice pizza-and-pasta party in the Hopkins (Minn.) High School cafeteria. The form is for the team's forthcoming end-of-year banquet, and the…

Online dating is gross. Apps know this. Hinge tries to offer consolations, reminders that it knows we don’t want to be using it. Tinder’s #SwipeLife is an apologia, not suicidal, but not without remorse, either. And then there’s Bumble. Bumble’s tagline is “Date, meet, network better.” It smacks of…

I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was. And boy, it was horrendous. I

TOWARD THE END of Bam Adebayo 's freshman year at Northside High School in tiny Pinetown in eastern North Carolina, two teachers, a coach, and a mother gathered

Claire, Brad, and the gang have created not only a successful series but a devoted fandom. In Bon Appétit’s test kitchen , chef Claire Saffitz is opposite a five-person production crew, displaying five trays of frozen Bagel Bites. Not the packaged kind, but homemade ones she’s spent four days…

I n In 1993, a 28-year-old anchorman appeared on ESPN2. He had a high-top fade and a bottomless well of self-confidence. The latter was important. How else was Stuart Scott going to drag ESPN into the 21st century? Five years after his death from cancer, it’s easy to forget just how much of sports…

The kid is wearing a T-shirt reading “EAT MORE AVOCADO,” one of the designs for sale at this Venice Beach café at which he's a server, along with “WE SELL…

Stephen A. Smith shouldn’t be talking right now. It’s 6 A.M. the morning of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, and the biggest name at ESPN has come down with a sore throat that ambushed him in the middle of the previous night. As a result, Stephen A. isn’t gonna do his usual radio show today. He’s not gonna…

I spot the Tesla long before I see the strawberry-blonde ponytail of its driver. The car is a candy-apple-red Model 3 sedan that appears to have had part of its rear half deleted, so that it looks like a modish Chevy El Camino. Simone Giertz , the YouTuber behind the wheel, is meeting me under a…

The day Mike Posner was bit by a baby rattlesnake in eastern Colorado was the best one so far. He had been awake since 3 A.M. and had already walked 16 miles along a thin, two-lane highway with no shoulder when he felt a stab of pain and waited for the shh-shh-shh of confirmation. It was around noon…

Netflix/Ringer illustration Two very important things happened on April 23, 2019. One: Damian Lillard hit one of the most audacious shots in NBA postseason history , waving goodbye to the Oklahoma City Thunder as we knew them and unknowingly greasing the wheels on two of the most jaw-dropping trades…

A motley alliance decided a single trail could unite this divided city. A sixth-generation native sets out to walk it. In San Francisco’s aptly named Grandview Park, looking north to Golden Gate Park from the Crosstown Trail. Credit... Jason Henry for The New York Times I was feeling down on my…

House House/Panic Sometimes, all it takes to unite people is the shrill honking of a chaotic goose. Or rather, the catharsis of becoming a chaotic goose, if only virtually. That’s the most basic pleasure at the heart of Untitled Goose Game, a video game from Australian developer House House that…

ESPN Cover Story Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of resilience, you'll understand his

The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time The rhythms of American life changed in the 2010s. How everything from TV to Trump to Instagram messed with your head just enough that time feels like it melted. Pablo Delcan for BuzzFeed News The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time The rhythms of American life…

S tone Stone Cold Steve Austin is the biggest man I’ve ever seen in real life. Everything about the retired pro- wrestler screams huge . From where I’m sitting,

For treatment centers, addiction can be turned into a constant flow of revenue. Illustration by Brian Stauffer In February, 2017, I stepped off a plane in Tampa, drunk and dope-sick. I was twenty-four, and for the past eight years I had been shooting up heroin, cocaine, and all manner of pills:…

Culture Donald Trump 2016 election Conspiracy theories Trump Updated | This is a weird theory, but bear with me: Donald J. Trump is Andy Kaufman wearing a disguise. Forget the logistical obstacles. Ignore the temporal and practical impossibilities: that Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer in 1984, that…

Billy Gil '12 (right) and head football coach Butch Davis. Former student-athlete Billy Gil '12 is on the road to becoming a sports media celebrity. Sports By October 1, 2019 at 10:50am Billy Gil ’12 works on the most popular sports radio show in the United States, the Dan LeBatard Show with…

Untitled Goose Game, which has become a surprise hit, aims to make your day better by encouraging you to ruin someone else’s. A screenshot from Untitled Goose Game. Credit... House House MELBOURNE, Australia — Sometimes, when you’ve had a rough day, the best answer is to go home, play at being a…

Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of smart people set out with one mission: to make some silly movies. What followed was a true golden age of Hollywood comedy that

This story was originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, May 15, 2005 Fifty years ago this week, Palm Beach County met the man who would steer its future: John D . MacArthur . George Frost was a young engineer in the early 1960s when he and a Palm Beach County commissioner walked into…

Baker Mayfield slides his considerable barrel of a body into a brown leather booth at a steak house just outside Cleveland and announces that tonight he's just

BEREA, Ohio -- Growing up, Baker Mayfield admired Green Bay Packers legend Brett Favre from afar. But up close, he idolized the quarterback now backing him up on the Cleveland Browns. Long before he emerged into an NFL franchise quarterback, Mayfield was an undersized middle-schooler, dreaming one…

S porting a buzz cut, prison blues and a chin-strap beard, the slim 24-year-old Floridian Brandon Hatfield leans sideways in a rolling office chair inside the St. Johns County Jail. With a warm Southern drawl and a crooked smirk, he says, “I remember half of what happened … and half of what didn’t.”…

Welcome to 1999 Music Week , a celebration of one of the most interesting, vivid, varied music years ever. Join us as we count down the best singles and albums of the year , remember the days of scrubs and the girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch, and argue about which albums stood above the rest. W…

Last year I set out to build a simple piece of software to let my daughter practice her “sight words” as she began to learn how to read. This was nothing fancy, just a program that flashed words for her to memorise on the screen. I’m not an expert programmer by any means, but while this task wasn’t…

You'd think Sunset Boulevard would be hard to impress at this point. But judging by the people scrambling for their phones and mouthing expletives as we drove by, they'd apparently never seen a Rolls-Royce quite like Odell Beckham Jr.'s before. The color, for starters, is an orange that's somewhere…

How Jackass changed television and no one seemed to notice By The first strings of Jackass ' frenetic theme song only hint at the chaos and comedic destruction that's to come. Johnny Knoxville's sober warning that these stunts are performed by trained professionals and that you shouldn't try them at…

A DOZEN OR so kids line up to catch a pass from Baker Mayfield , and one of them is so gut-wrenchingly adorable, I briefly wonder if he's a plant. It's an absurd thought, but the whole scenario carries a whiff of predetermined charm. The visual of Mayfield playing football with hundreds of children…

It’s 7:20 p.m. when he rolls into Spicy Bite, one of the newest restaurants here in rural northwest New Mexico. Locals in Milan, a town of 3,321, have barely

In 2014, chef Davide Cerretini advertised a special that would forever change his fate: Anyone who left his restaurant a 1-star review on Yelp would get 25% off a pizza. See, his Bay Area-based Italian joint, Botto Bistro, was at a crossroads. Like many small businesses, it was enslaved to the whims…

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"POP WANTS TO talk to you." The server is speaking to a man named Jeremy Threat -- and from the tone in his voice, something is clearly amiss. Threat hustles…

Getty Images/ Instagram /Ringer illustration The teens were drinking something called “yee-yee juice.” In some of the videos, they call it “yeehaw juice,” which makes more intuitive sense, but there is nothing necessarily intuitive about a “yee” potion of any type that turns young people into…

You know what I remember? Back before he made basketball matter in Miami, catapulting the Heat from a regional team to an international one. Back before he became Michael Jordan in the 2006 Finals, carrying Shaquille O'Neal to a championship. Back before he put together the most interesting sports…

W hen the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you’d think it would sink in. You’d think you’d know there was more to the story. You’d think.…

On “Saturday Night Live” and in a series of movies, Hader’s comedic shape-shifting delighted audiences. On “Barry,” which he co-created, he plays a hit man desperately trying to get out of the game by starting a new career—as an actor. Photograph by Malerie Marder for The New Yorker Bill Hader’s…