In 1986, Barbara Lowe Vollick won five games of ‘Jeopardy!’ in a row. Her episodes were then taken out of circulation. What followed was a nearly 40-year hunt for the missing tapes—and a quest to find out what really happened. | Continue reading
Baseball’s Pitch Clock Has Transformed Game Length—and Not Just in the Obvious Way. | Continue reading
Twitter Blue Checks Are No Longer a Status Symbol. They’re Political. | Continue reading
A half-century ago, Pink Floyd unleashed a classic that still lingers on the Billboard charts and in college dorms to this day. But what’s the legacy of the blockbuster album? What’s legacy, anyway? | Continue reading
How does this year’s holiday lineup stack up? Luka vs. LeBron doesn’t even crack the top three. We rank and preview the holiday matchups. | Continue reading
Widely regarded as the hardest quiz show on either side of the Atlantic, BBC Two’s sleeper hit has attracted a fan club of American trivia greats | Continue reading
Fatherhood, cancer, and what matters most | Continue reading
Just three movies into his directing career, Peele has become the rarest of Hollywood anomalies: a filmmaker whose byline alone puts asses in seats | Continue reading
They broke up. We don’t want to talk about it. We’re gonna try anyway. | Continue reading
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ isn’t the exception—he’s the rule. There’s long been anecdotal evidence that top-line actors and actresses are getting older. Now, The Ringer has the data to back it up. | Continue reading
The tale of a trash compactor from the future who’s desperate for connection isn’t just one of Pixar’s unlikeliest successes, but its most arresting and prescient | Continue reading
"We figured the best way to make the audience understand—and care—would be to connect his house to a relationship, and unfinished business," says director Pete Docter | Continue reading
Thanks to ‘Stranger Things,’ one of art pop’s most reclusive figures has almost inadvertently found herself with a top-10 charting hit. Is it a fluke or a sign of the times? | Continue reading
Phil has been skating around the edges for decades. But now, on the anniversary of his career-defining PGA Championship win and following a series of highly controversial remarks about, well, everything, Mickelson’s reputation hangs in the balance. Can Lefty make one more masterf … | Continue reading
For nearly all of its modern existence, the Great Dismal Swamp has been excluded from U.S. history. Now there’s a push to bring its significance to light—and it’s revealing what really goes into remembering the truths of our ancestors. | Continue reading
Starting this Sunday, three series centered on three infamous tech companies arrive to streaming services within three weeks of each other. It marks a new wave in television, and perhaps the end of another for startup culture. | Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago to this day, a man named Cloud began appearing on TV screens in Japan and helped popularize one of the most influential video games of all time | Continue reading
Three days, three Nashville restaurants, and three revelations about why we love what hurts | Continue reading
The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity. | Continue reading
The Baltimore Ravens kicker is already the most accurate kicker in NFL history, and now he wants to shatter the distance record. He can do it. Just let him tell you. | Continue reading
The next generation of consoles has further evolved a once-basic necessity to an immersive tool for physical connection. But do developers—and gamers—actually want that? | Continue reading
The ‘Jeopardy!’ host search is finally over. New reporting reveals that concerns about Richards and the show’s selection process remain. | Continue reading
You thought they were gone? You were wrong. | Continue reading
In 1980, the tumultuous filming and release of Michael Cimino’s ‘Heaven’s Gate’ changed Hollywood forever | Continue reading
Does skateboarding need the Olympics? Or does the Olympics need skateboarding? | Continue reading
For a small slice of time, being online was a thrilling mix of discovery, collaboration, creativity, and chaotic potential. Then Google Reader disappeared. | Continue reading
Why does an 8-year-old fall to the floor after the slightest contact from a sibling? For the same reason NBA players do. It’s all about gaining an advantage with the refs, er, mom and dad. | Continue reading
Three decades ago, James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Linda Hamilton joined forces again to make the biggest, baddest, most eye-popping sequel ever. Here’s the story of how the machines took over Hollywood. | Continue reading
How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think. Disc golfer Paul McBeth set a new standard by signing an eight-figure endorsement contract—and his deal might only be the beginning. | Continue reading
The horror master’s most prescient movie has nothing to do with serial killers or vampires—it’s about greed and propaganda. And it’s truer than ever. | Continue reading
A story of facing fear, confronting mortality, and turning to faith | Continue reading
In the wake of the dissolution of the Beatles, Paul and his wife Linda crafted a collection of songs that channeled their domestic bliss and Paul’s desire to create something unlike any of his work with the Fab Four. A half-century later, it remains a classic. | Continue reading
Twenty years after it aired, David Chase and Co. look back on one of the wildest, boldest, funniest episodes of ‘The Sopranos’ ever made | Continue reading
In a special episode of ‘Gamblers,’ we dive into the tale of Mike McCaskill, an amateur stock trader from Louisville who spent years swinging for the fences—and beat Wall Street in the GameStop saga for the ages | Continue reading
Mike McCaskill spent years scouring the stock market and betting on long shots. Then he found the opportunity that changed his life—and helped spark the mother of all short squeezes. | Continue reading
Games look better than ever, which makes assessing the visual differences between generations and consoles more difficult than ever. That’s where YouTube breakdowns by Digital Foundry, NX Gamer, and other experts come in. | Continue reading
The space agency’s next rover mission, Mars 2020, launched from Cape Canaveral on Thursday. How does the space agency ensure contaminants from our currently COVID-contaminated world don’t find their way to other planets? | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, an upstart animator named Mike Judge forever changed how we think about office culture, adulthood, red staplers, and Michael Bolton | Continue reading
From ‘The Room’ to ‘Eraserhead’ to ‘Rocky Horror,’ these are the best movies to ever inspire deep obsession | Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago, Terry Gilliam and the other outsider creators of ‘12 Monkeys’ gave humanity a warning about our pandemic-filled future, whether they meant to or not | Continue reading
Walter Tevis, the author of the book upon which the Netflix hit is based, spent his life gambling and drinking in pool halls before turning to chess. But once you know his story, it’s stunning that the book ever came out at all. | Continue reading
The cost of games had remained stable since 2005, when ‘Call of Duty 2’ set the standard price. Now, the latest installment of the series is setting a new mark at $69.99. What does it mean for an industry that’s increasingly moved toward subscription services? | Continue reading
Thirty years after "Ice Ice Baby," Robert Van Winkle is ready to talk about it all—his rise, his fall, and that infamous night on the balcony. And it may just change how you feel about him. | Continue reading
The Panenka has become passé. For years, it was the most popular method of provocative penalty craftsmanship. But players have found new ways of deceiving goalkeepers. | Continue reading
If it’s true that every great work of art ends one genre and founds another, then Goodfellas could be seen as the culmination of the tradition represented by The Godfather and as the vital link between the New Hollywood cinema of the ’70s and what we now think of as the golden ag … | Continue reading
The channel once known as a home for music videos and, later, reality television, has reinvented itself again by broadcasting a comedy clip show for hours each day. But...why? | Continue reading
In 2017, the Times dissolved its copy desk, possibly permitting more typos to slip through. Meet the anonymous lawyer who’s correcting the paper of record one untactful tweet at a time. | Continue reading