Now’s not exactly the happiest time to be a football fan. Coming hard on the heels of a season in which we learned that every hit is setting players on the road to memory loss and emotional instability, we have … Continue reading
Let’s face it: The Buffalo Bills are weird. They’ve had an odd history on the field, with those four close-but-not-quite Super Bowl appearances, and two AFL championships the only titles to show for 54 years of competition. And they play … Continue reading
It was “artificial intelligence history,” wrote CBSNews.com 6/9/14. We had crossed, according to New York Daily News columnist Harry Siegel 6/10/14, “the latest line we’d drawn separating man from machine.” The news that a supercomputer in England had, for the … Continue reading
When the Phoenix Mercury and the Minnesota Lynx open their western division finals playoff series tonight, the two best Women’s National Basketball Association teams will know what to expect. Close to the action, several thousand screaming fans of all ages, … Continue reading
Next March 2, public education will change. That’s when New Jersey, along with eight other states plus the District of Columbia, is due to flip the switch on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exams—a new … Continue reading
There’s still a lot of baseball left to be played, but if things continue as they are now, this could shape up to be a historic season. That’s because if the schedule ended today, neither the New York Yankees nor … Continue reading
One of the weirder sidebars to the A’s big trade for 40 percent of the Cubs’ starting rotation has been what it meant for Tommy Milone. One of Oakland’s hottest incumbent starters going into the trade, Milone found himself bumped … Continue reading
After a week of bitter wrangling, A’s owner Lew Wolff and Oakland city officials finally agreed on a new lease last week, after Wolff threatened to move the team if he didn’t get one. The A’s are now committed to … Continue reading
When the College Board announced on March 5 that it would be revising several elements of its SAT tests, including entirely scrapping the essay section—effectively reversing course on the biggest change in the last half century in the college placement … Continue reading
Friday was supposed to be a big day in Oakland. That’s when the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Joint Powers Authority, the city-county agency that runs the home of the A’s and Raiders, was set to vote on a new lease to … Continue reading