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A drive so impressive, he passed the chequered flag twice. This was a sublime, flawless performance from Sebastian Vettel, a lights-to-flag domination that even an early flag mix-up could not spoil. An impressive getaway set the tone after his fine…
2:06 Captain Kyle Coetzer and centurion Calum MacLeod join Ian Ward and Nasser Hussain to discuss Scotland's victory over England. With a sound of the bugle – no, not bugle, bagpipes – Scotland cricket enjoyed its zenith in the Edinburgh…
For nearly three seasons, the Showtime drama “Billions” has been structured as a classic cat-and-mouse tale, a story of attack and defense between the impossibly powerful U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and his nemesis, the impossibly powerful hedge-fund billionaire…
Before the first Air Jordan was released, in 1985, N.B.A. players generally wore bland shoes in black or white with perhaps a splash of color. The league’s idea—shoe color was in the rule book—was to emphasize team unity over individual…
Pop quiz, SpongeBob. Which of the following took place at the seventy-second annual Tony Awards? a) The legendary Glenda Jackson, after a three-decade absence from Broadway, accepted a Tony for her role in “Three Tall Women” and was immediately followed…
For their latest cover story, staffers at The Economist threw away their customary high-brow diplo-speak in favor of a terse lecture on how destabilizing and unhelpful the American president’s view of the world is. Trump, the paper opined, was lording over…
