On BaseballImageSeattle’s Edgar Martinez has been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and his closest competitors can all agree on one thing: He sure could hit.CreditCreditStephen Dunn/Getty ImagesThe years go by, the players retire, and if you knew them a bit, you remember little snapshots of their clubhouse routines.Mariano Rivera carefully signing baseballs —…
The night before the Commonwealth Games netball final, English and Australian commentators went out for dinner. The conversation was all about how the world’s No 1 side, Australia, would secure the gold medal – after all England had never made a major final before. The only question was, by how many points? The following day…
I hoard items in video games. I hoard them to the point where I have no other space in my inventory or my storage. The idea of tossing away some animal skins or even “beastkin blood” frightens me. What if I need it later? Should I buy it off another player or be forced to…
binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105641676 story Amazon is Working on Game Streaming Service, Report Says (geekwire.com) 57 Posted by msmash on Thursday January 10, 2019 @05:01PM from the up-next dept. Amazon is looking to get into game streaming, joining its tech titan contemporaries Microsoft and Google, according to a report from The Information.…
After a long wait filled with leaks, reveals, preorder stress, and hands-on events, the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch day has finally arrived around the world, including launch events at retailers like Walmart, GameStop, Best Buy, and Target.Nintendo’s next console looks like a worthy successor to the original Switch, and it has a lot of games…
After the massive flop that was the Wii U, consumers had every reason to believe the original Switch, released in 2017, would be yet another Nintendo gimmick that would push people to buy a PlayStation or Xbox instead. But the original $300 Switch’s handheld/console design, with its detachable Joy-Con controllers, proved to be a major…
Players (and officials) still cling to the pregame rituals they think will bring them success on the field. ImageCreditDaniel SulzbergIn the N.F.L., where the wait between most games is a long, charged week, tales of eccentric pregame rituals in the final jittery moments before kickoff have become a fabled part of the sport’s lore.If, for…
ImageJulian Edelman and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots celebrated their 13-3 victory over the Rams in Super Bowl LIII.CreditDoug Mills/The New York TimesIn the Year of Offense, the N.F.L.’s championship game didn’t have much. A dreary Super Bowl that featured a combined 14 punts ended with a sixth title for Tom Brady and…
1. Once every few weeks, one of us reporters who covers the Toronto Maple Leafs would pester Auston Matthews for an update or comment on his contract extension status, and he always took it in stride. Sure, his answers stuck close to the cliché — focus on hockey, let my agent handle that — but…
Fallout 4 may use the same engine as Skyrim, but that engine has changed drastically over the years.Screenshot: Fallout 4This morning, news headlines and YouTube videos across the internet declared that Bethesda will not change engines for the upcoming games Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI, setting off a wave of outrage that’s become oh-so-common…
It’s the inevitable truth of college football season that September seems a distant memory by the time the bowl matchups are set, but at the same time, the season seems to have gone by all too quickly. There’s a reason for this paradox.In three short months, college football packs in more action, drama, heroics and…
Anaheim DucksRecord: 21-21-9, 51 points, fifth place in PacificMVP: John Gibson– The goalie is the biggest reason why the Ducks are still competing for a Stanley Cup Playoff berth despite a 12-game losing streak (0-8-4) from Dec. 18 to Jan. 15. He has a 17-16-8 record, 2.74 goals-against average and .919 save percentage for a…
CLOSE SportsPulse: In a battle of generations, the young gun Patrick Mahomes takes on the G.O.A.T. Tom Brady for the AFC title. NFL insider Lorenzo Reyes breaks down who has the edge and who will come out on top. USA TODAYWith just four teams left in the NFL playoffs facing off in their respective conference…