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Everyone has theories about how champions emerge. As an awards voter, I can tell you they're nearly always wrong.

The fairness around PED testing has grown more opaque among high and lower-ranked players.

There's probably only one thing left he can do to save his job.

I met some of my closest friends through multiplayer games. Then a strange happening turned everyone (literally) speechless.

How Substack writer Max Read decides what to drop in the group chat, and what backlash he received after his eponymous post about the "Zynternet."

There's a nearly fatal flaw in The Agency, the American remake of Le Bureau des Légendes.

Beatles '64 mostly repackages old footage, but it also has some unseen gems.

So many weird things could still happen in this final week of the regular season.

What's so compelling about the portrait of masculinity put forth in Luca Guadagnino's films.

The research team that sought to cure infertility included one remarkable woman. Here's where the Netflix movie sticks to her story--and gets creative.