The Reds have locked in arguably the deepest back row in Australia after inking a long-term deal with exciting no.8 Harry Wilson. The Junior Wallabies star, who was named Queensland Premier Rugby’s Alec Evans Medallist as player of the year earlier this month despite playing just seven games due to his Australian U20 commitments, has […]
Super Rugby coach Robert du Preez, who calls his media critics “cockroaches”, has quit the underperforming Durban-based Sharks a year before his contract expired, the South African side said on Wednesday. The Sharks, stacked with Springboks players, won only seven of 16 regular season matches this year before suffering a 25-point quarter-final hiding from the […]
The Waratahs are determined to end their rollercoaster run of 2019 results but they’ll have to break a decade-long drought to do that in their two weeks on tour. NSW have not been able to string together consecutive wins this season, sitting with a 5-5 record after 11 rounds. While they have been able to […]
Just as he was graduating from high school, in 1990, Chris Moore had a fanciful idea. He had noticed increasing numbers of so-called sport kites arcing through the skies above his home town of Lenexa, Kansas, outside Kansas City, Missouri. A traditional kite is tethered to its operator by a single line, and is more […]
In an era flush with white-guy hitmakers who couldn’t dance—Huey Lewis and Robert Palmer and Rick Astley and Daryl Hall and John Oates—Eddie Money really couldn’t dance. The singer of late-seventies and eighties soft-rock mainstays like “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise,” who died on Friday, at the age of seventy, was a […]
Donald Trump keeps winning. He is waging war against government and expertise—two of the constant targets of his campaign rage—and both American and international institutions are the losers. Consider two recent, unrelated events: the Supreme Court order that cleared the way for extreme restrictions on the right to seek asylum, and the appointment of a […]
Almost exactly halfway through “Country Music,” Ken Burns’s new series—which premières on Sunday, on PBS, and consists of eight two-hour installments that are, somehow, still not enough—viewers get the chance to linger, for a few moments, over the time that Willie Nelson wrote a hit for Patsy Cline. It was 1961; Nelson had thought to […]
On September 1st, Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 behemoth, having skipped Barbados and cut just west of the Lesser Antilles, the chain of islands in the Eastern Caribbean that, two years ago, was hit by Hurricane Irma, another Category Five storm. Dorian then veered north, passing between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, before heading […]
I have perfect pitch. Not many people have perfect pitch, but I do, and I will tell you about it within five minutes of meeting you. Not many people even know what “perfect pitch” is. They think it just means that I can sing really well—like, hit all the notes. But, no, that is not […]
Click:vanilla prepaid card balance Twenty-two years ago, Texas Monthly, the venerable “national magazine of Texas,” published a ranking of the state’s fifty best barbecue joints. The magazine had named the state’s best barbecue before, but the Top Fifty was an extraordinary feat of carnivorousness—a massive inventory of smoked meat, involving hundreds of meals and uncountable […]