The rise, fall and rise again of Jim Harbaugh shows how quickly college coaches go from hot to not

The rise, fall and rise again of Jim Harbaugh shows how quickly college coaches go from hot to not

When Jim Harbaugh took a pay cut from Michigan after the 2020 season, getting another chance to be an NFL head coach seemed like a long shot for him. If Nick Saban had retired after the 2022 season it’s doubtful Kalen DeBoer would have been his replacement at Alabama. And few college football fans would…

Review: A Japanese Take on Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ Is a Rare Showcase

Review: A Japanese Take on Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ Is a Rare Showcase

For better or worse, Ravel’s “Boléro,” with its churning swell of sound, has stirred the imagination of artists over time, among them the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the ice dancing team of Torvill and Dean. It even found a seductive partner, Bo Derek — along with her cornrows — in the Blake Edwards movie “10.”…

Just 58 single-team players among 273 in Hall of Fame after addition of Todd Helton and Joe Mauer

Just 58 single-team players among 273 in Hall of Fame after addition of Todd Helton and Joe Mauer

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Todd Helton and Joe Mauer will become just the sixth pair of players inducted together into the Hall of Fame after spending their big league careers with one organization. “A lot of things had to go right,” Helton said Thursday during a news conference in the Hall’s plaque gallery alongside Mauer and…

What to Watch This Weekend: Something Hot

What to Watch This Weekend: Something Hot

Documentaries about niche subcultures abound: dog dancing, science fairs, yo-yos. Few if any include as much on-screen vomiting as the Hulu series “Superhot: The Spicy World of Pepper People,” but then, few cover quite as much ground. “Pepper” follows the overlapping pursuits of a handful of pepper enthusiasts, whose interests lie in the hottest of…

FTC opens inquiry into Big Tech’s partnerships with leading AI startups

FTC opens inquiry into Big Tech’s partnerships with leading AI startups

U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them. The action targets Amazon, Google and Microsoft and their sway over the generative AI boom that’s fueled demand for chatbots such as ChatGPT, and…

The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes calls this season perhaps the most challenging of his career

The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes calls this season perhaps the most challenging of his career

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Patrick Mahomes was willing to admit Thursday that this season has been perhaps the most challenging of his career. His statistics were down across the board. The Chiefs lost six games, including five in an eight-week stretch midway through the season. He had several very visible sideline blowups, his pent-up anger…

Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum’s New Education Center

Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum’s New Education Center

It could easily be an alien civilization: Its citizens have no gender, no organized religion, no formal government. They inhabit a lush ecosystem of candy-colored vegetation, where plants can grow infinitely tall. Residents travel on driverless, ring-shaped buses that hover in the atmosphere. A single year lasts more than two centuries. Yet as extraterrestrial as…

Formula One new team name mocked as the worst in series history

Formula One new team name mocked as the worst in series history

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jenson Button, so entrenched in his preparation for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, seemed to miss the news that Red Bull’s junior Formula One team had been rebranded. After climbing off the timing stand Friday at Daytona International Speedway, he was asked his thoughts on the team known as AlphaTauri the…

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