Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Welcome back to college football, now bigger and weirder than ever. We only have nine conference championship games this year. There’s a 12-team College Football Playoff. Conferences stretch literally from coast to coast. And the size of the Football Bowl…

EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Hunter Parrish (Weeds), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems) and Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner) have wrapped in Toronto on Northbound, an indie road trip comedy from director William Scoular (Survival Box). Written by Ashlin Halfnight (The New Look), Northbound watches as an octogenarian rogue named Arthur (Dern) enlists his grandson Kevin (Parrish) to…

By Ken Rosenthal, Stephen J. Nesbitt and Zack Meisel With playoff odds below one percent, the Pittsburgh Pirates easily could justify shutting down their electrifying ace, right-hander Paul Skenes. This is Skenes’ first full professional season. He has thrown 125 1/3 innings between the majors and minors, nearly as many as he did a year…

Paramount It’s no secret that William Shatner’s co-stars from the original “Star Trek” weren’t very fond of him. Because he was at the top of the call-sheet, Shatner often considered himself the star of the show … and he behaved accordingly. There were instances of him reassigning other…

Follow live coverage of Leicester City vs Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League today Who is Cristiano Ronaldo? He’s a Champions League, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and European Championship winner. He’s a five-time Ballon d’Or winner. He’s the greatest international goalscorer in history. Scratch that and remove the caveat. He’s arguably the greatest…

Warner Bros. Look, I don’t want to start off the new week on the wrong foot or anything, but sometimes harsh truths must be told. Despite whatever actors might claim during junket interviews, these thespians don’t always (or even usually) sign on the dotted line of major blockbuster…

The WNBA is already full speed ahead into the second half of the season, and it is going to be a sprint to the finish. Regular-season action ends in exactly one month, with each team packing 12-14 games in the final stretch. As players re-acclimate to following the Olympic break and make one last push…

Oprah Winfrey today paid tribute to Phil Donahue, calling the late longtime daytime talk show host a “pioneer.” “There wouldn’t have been an Oprah Show without Phil Donahue being the first to prove that daytime talk and women watching should be taken seriously,” she posted on Instagram (see it below). “He was a pioneer. I’m…

Everyone knows you can’t be in two places at the same time. Those are the rules — the immutable rules of physics. Ah, but who knew you can play for two teams in the same baseball game? Those are also the rules — the wacky suspended-game rules of baseball. So next Monday, if all the…

EXCLUSIVE: As the anniversary of October 7 approaches, the first scripted series about the devastating attack has emerged. Fox Entertainment Studios and Israel‘s yes TV are co-producing One Day in October, a four-part anthology series which the pair are calling the “first scripted representation of the personal stories that emerged from Oct. 7.” Created by…