With one week and only a few meaningful regular-season games left in the 2025 NFL regular season, it's the right time to summarize some seasonlong performances. MVPs and All-Pro lists will be debated ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

The 12-team College Football Playoff began on Friday, with Alabama traveling to Oklahoma and beating the Sooners 34-24 as a small underdog. Despite losing 13-10 to Indiana in the Big Ten championship ...

On Friday, the second year of the 12-team College Football Playoff format begins as a rematch between SEC foes takes center stage. No. 9 Alabama kicked off the 2025-26 CFP with a bang by coming back ...

I'm just as excited about the College Football Playoff as the next guy, but that doesn't mean I'm loading up my betting slip. Specifically, I'm staring at one game — a rematch — that I think will have ...

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one of the golden eras of college radio. I spent a significant ...

The contemporary era committee's recent induction of Jeff Kent into the Baseball Hall of Fame sparked some heated debate surrounding some of the other candidates on the ballot, most notably former New ...

This is Part II of GQ’s 2025 Watch Survey. To read Part I—in which our expert panel selected the brand of the year—click here. Welcome back to the 2025 Great GQ Watch Survey. In part one, our ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies the highest priority science objectives for the first human mission to Mars, and says searching ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...