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Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe. Fuck you.Which top 5 draft pick is most likely to be a bust? |…

Ryo Cifra fell in love with K-pop 15 years ago, just a few years before Korean boy band BTS — the industry's most successful export to date — was formed in Seoul.After hearing an earworm called Fire by the girl group 2NE1, Cifra dug into…

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Virat Kohli has a wide fan following across the world. Thanks to his many feats for the Indian cricket team and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, he is often the center of attention. Wherever he…

Do you remember watching a curly-haired short kid on live television with a 'Power' bat facing the mighty Pakistan pace trio of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and backed by legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir? Perhaps no.Back in the…

Ontario is celebrating a profitable first year for its legalized sports betting market — but to hear two members of the Toronto Raptors talk about it, gambling's expansion comes with an ugly side.Speaking on Yahoo Sports Canada's Hustle…

Discussions about favorite artists and albums are generally innocuous, the kind of light conversation that provides insight into a person’s tastes without revealing too much. On Swarm, the delightfully off-kilter Prime Video horror series…

Illustration by Daniel Jurman for The Verge The world of online fandom has come out against recent strides in disruptive technology: crusading against crypto, for instance, and protesting the widespread scraping of art for use in…

The first T20I match between India and New Zealand took place in front of a capacity crowd at the JSCA Stadium in Ranchi, in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. While both sets of players in the match took to the ground, none received as…

Famous people will often stand by — or worse, dogwhistle — as armies of fans wage war on their behalf. Whether you’re a pop star or a tech bro, it’s part of the playbook. But when Everything Everywhere All At Once co-director Daniel Kwan…