Sports Prince Harry actually doesn’t know her It’s been almost two weeks since Just Andrew and Buckingham Palace announced that he can keep his titles but has agreed not to use them which… is that kinda like owning a car but promising not to drive it? You still own the f-cking car – it’s the most By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 12:43 pm
Sports Intro for October 30, 2025 Dear Gossips, According to the ratings report, an average of 14% of Canadians watched Game 3 of the World Series when the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays went 18 innings. For so many of us in Canada right now, supporting the Jays is a full-time job, LOL. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 10:05 am
Sports Romantic…or horny? There is a line from the film Moneyball that comes up a lot, duh, when we’re talking about baseball: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Moneyball is (in part) about using data to build a baseball team, relying on analytics to find unvalued and overlooked players by By Lainey • Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pm
Sports Intro for October 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, The New York Times/Athletic yesterday published an article about World Series viewership in Canada. The Toronto Blue Jays are setting records this post season. “In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 09:05 am
Sports JB is not at home The World Series starts tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays, with the better record, are hosting game one against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Fall Classic is a sports spectacle, so before the show, there’s going to be a show. But it’s now obvious that Major League Baseball By Lainey • Oct 24, 2025 11:34 am
Sports The Jays and the Stays You didn’t think I could go a whole day without mentioning the Toronto Blue Jays, did you? The World Series is starting in 24 hours, basically two blocks away from where I’m writing this post. My home team is in it - as the heavy underdogs, which is By Lainey • Oct 23, 2025 04:02 pm
Sports Intro for October 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The jokes about Drake and Kendrick Lamar started the minute the Jays won game 7 of the ALCS on Monday night. Drake, of course, is from Toronto and Kendrick is from LA and their feud has, at this point, become monoculture. If we’re talking about musicians and By Lainey • Oct 22, 2025 10:25 am
Sports Intro for October 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, You may have noticed that I did not specify that the Blue Jays were playing in game 7 of the ALCS yesterday. This is because I’m superstitious AF. And I was anxious AF. Apologies to my neighbour because there was so much nonsense shouted out of my By Lainey • Oct 21, 2025 10:01 am
Sports Intro for October 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, I live in a city, country really, that is baseball crazy right now. If we’re talking about baseball, though, there is one player who is bigger than any team, not just the crown jewel of his own sport but all sport. Like, how does anyone even describe By Lainey • Oct 20, 2025 10:07 am
Sports Lewis is back with a broken heart Lewis Hamilton is back at work, in Singapore with the rest of the F1 community, taking part in practice sessions ahead of the weekend after what’s been an incredibly rough week. Not sure how I’m going to write this post without crying, but we’re going to try! By Lainey • Oct 03, 2025 01:29 pm
Sports The Bad Bunny Super Bowl In December 2024, near the end of the 2024 NFL regular season, NPR published a piece by Alan Chazaro with the title: “Latinos are the fastest-growing fanbase in the NFL. What's the league's playbook?” The article is an excellent report on the NFL’s gradual internationalisation By Lainey • Sep 29, 2025 10:22 am
Sports Harry Styles: 2 out of 6 Stars Harry Styles made headlines this weekend – and not just in the usual spaces, like pop culture websites. Sports and athletics outlets are reporting on Harry Styles, because he ran the Berlin marathon in under three hours: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 13 seconds exactly, an excellent time for a non-professional and By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 11:20 am
Sports Travis Kelce: Engaged and Relaxed Kansas City and Los Angeles are playing the NFL opener in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday and Travis Kelce was swarmed by fans upon arrival. Pretty sure this isn’t the kind of football that Brazilians mob people over, lol. Let’s not pretend that this reaction is for an By Lainey • Sep 04, 2025 02:52 pm
Sports V takes over baseball Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers had a very obvious motive when they invited BTS’s V, aka Kim Taehyung, to throw out the first pitch at the game last night. There has always been a relationship between sports and entertainment. Sports is entertainment. Athletes, musicians, actors, models, By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 10:46 am
Sports Serena Williams talks weight loss and stigma The US Open starts on Sunday, and tennis GOAT Serena Williams is making headlines, but not for her sport. She told PEOPLE magazine that she used a GLP-1 drug to lose 31 pounds, and she is teaming up with telehealth company Ro to promote the weight loss drugs. I’ve By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 04:09 pm
Sports Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
