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By Evan Bleier If you are an umpire in Major League Baseball and fans know your name, that’s probably not a good thing. MLB umpires are like offensive linemen in the NFL: they’re large and important, but you only really notice them when they screw up. …

By Kirk Miller Prime Day begins tomorrow, but it looks like Amazon is already hosting several sales on TVs starting right now. The best one? We’re fans of The Frame from Samsung — which doubles as a digital art frame when you’re not streaming — and all…

By Kayla Kibbe From the secret to hitting the G-spot (pressing down on their stomach) to the most dangerous sex position (reverse cowgirl, allegedly), TikTok is home to a vast trove of (often dubious) sex advice. The latest sex hack to take over the pl…

By Paolo Sandoval Amazon’s famous Prime Day may be nearly upon us, but it’s actually Nike that has us stoked for some serious online shopping. The swoosh just announced their 3-day Ultimate Sale, aka a chance for you to grab Nike apparel, accessories a…

By Kirk Miller The good thing about Prime Day? Everyone else is throwing a sale too — and some retailers are starting a day earlier than Amazon (which, yes, already has some deals going, but we’re making a point here). First up: Best Buy, which just la…

By Evan Bleier After previously railing against the “duplicitous” players who spurned the PGA Tour to join up with Greg Norman and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, Rory McIlroy softened his stance last week and said that peace talks between the league…

By Logan Mahan We’re not ashamed to admit that sometimes we buy things solely for the look. Even we are susceptible to glossy Instagram advertisements and most direct-to-consumer brand aesthetics (and, yes, we know they all look the same!) But we can’t…

By Tobias Carroll Plenty of acclaimed writers have close ties to the world of music. Even in this realm, though, Haruki Murakami has engaged deeply with music across the bulk of his body of work. That his bibliography includes a novel titled Norwegian …

By Tobias Carroll If you’ve used a weed killer on your lawn, it’s very likely that the product you used contained glyphosate. Unfortunately, glyphosate has also been linked to a higher risk of developing cancer in a scientific study. Two years ago, Bay…

By Tobias Carroll Four years ago, a group of scientists discovered something interesting about amphibians — they can often viably reproduce across species lines in ways other types of animals cannot. There are a host of reasons for this, and, in the ca…