The 2025-26 UEFA Women’s Champions League is ringing in a new era of top-flight tournament football. The competition bids farewell to its traditional group stage and welcomes an 18-team league phase inspired by the men’s “Swiss model,” where teams will manage matches against six different teams, playing half the games at home and half away. […]
America Ferrera and Matthew McConaughey star in ‘The Lost Bus.’ (Apple TV+) Art imitated life in more ways than one in the new film The Lost Bus. The movie is inspired by the true events of the 2018 Camp Fire that devastated Paradise, California, but it also has a real-life connection for star Matthew McConaughey. The actor’s teenage […]
![Maxwell on opening act, hope for Silent Serenade Ensemble: ‘The goal is to get [people] closer to who they are’](https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2025-09-18/Getty_SilentSerenadeTour_51325.png "Maxwell on opening act, hope for Silent Serenade Ensemble: ‘The goal is to get [people] closer to who they are’")
Courtesy of Artist Maxwell has officially kicked off his Silent Serenade Ensemble, a limited experience offering reimagined arrangements of his songs backed by live percussion and a string quartet. He teams with opening act Yola for the trek and describes what made her a perfect fit for his show. “She is the epitome of genre blending, seamless genre blending. […]
In a matter of weeks, the career of Clayton Kershaw will be complete and the more distance we get from it, the more we’ll start looking back with fondness at getting to witness one of the greatest pitchers to ever set foot on a mound or, in excellent baseball parlance, toe the slab. No matter […]
The Indiana Pacers were in a spot like this 11 years ago, after Paul George’s nasty leg injury. The difference is that their franchise player is definitely out for the entire season this time. This gives the team clarity, at least: They’ll be as competitive as they can be without Tyrese Haliburton, and they’ll learn […]
Getty Images If there is one head coach that appears on the hot seat through two weeks of the 2025 NFL season, it’s Mike McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins. His 0-2 team has been out-scored by a total of 31 points to begin the year, as the defense has struggled to stop both the run […]
Getty Images Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar, a franchise great who helped his team secure two Stanley Cup trophies between 2012 and 2014, announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the 2025-26 NHL season. The upcoming season marks Kopitar’s 20th and final season as a player, and the announcement of his […]
Perhaps then, Marcus Rashford wasn’t the problem at Manchester United. Whatever the system, whatever the disciplinary issues, any team should be able to find space for a talent capable of bending a Champions League game like he did. Barcelona will be delighted that they did, a rummage around on the Old Trafford scrap heap, getting […]
AJ Lee is lacing up her wrestling boots for the first time in 10 years at WWE Wrestlepalooza. “Never say never” is a popular adage in professional wrestling. Even Lee, who seemed comfortable with retirement, eventually returned for a box office match with her husband, CM Punk. Although Lee returns to a familiar environment, her […]
Getty Images Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani are on a collision course, but their converging roads take parallel detours. Inoue and Nakatani will compete in separate bouts at “The Ring V: Night of the Samurai” on Dec. 27. Inoue defends his undisputed super bantamweight championship against David Picasso at Mohammed Abdo Arena in Riyadh, Saudi […]
