We need to talk about Fermin Lopez. While everyone focuses on Lamine Yamal, Fermin has quietly become the most clutch midfielder in Europe. Two goals last night when the team was drowning?. He isn't just a 'squad player' anymore; he is the engine. His energy presses teams into mistakes and his finishing is elite for a midfielder. If Pedri is the brain, Fermin is the heart. He just saved Barcelona's European campaign.

Terry Pegula just destroyed whatever confidence Keon Coleman had left. Going on national TV and saying 'My GM didn't want to draft you, the coaches forced him' is astonishingly toxic leadership. You still have Coleman on the roster for two more years! How is he supposed to walk into that locker room knowing the owner and GM think he was a mistake? Pegula trying to 'protect' Brandon Beane by burying a 22-year-old player is cowardly. This franchise is a circus.

Mets fans are celebrating, but they just got fleeced. Giving up Jett Williams AND Brandon Sproat—two of your top 5 prospects—for one year of Freddy Peralta is insane. Peralta is a rental who is a free agent in 2027. If he gets injured or walks next year, you just torched your farm system for nothing. The Brewers do this every time: they trade their stars at peak value (Burnes, Hader) and rebuild instantly while the other team gets stuck with the bill. History is repeating itself.

Indiana—yes, Indiana—is the National Champion. This is the greatest story in the history of college sports. A program with 715 losses, a 'basketball school' that was the laughingstock of the Big Ten, just went 16-0 and beat Miami in Miami. Curt Cignetti deserves a statue built tomorrow. Fernando Mendoza winning the Heisman and then dunking on his hometown team that didn't offer him a scholarship is straight out of a movie. The 'Blue Blood' era is dead. Anything is possible.

Everyone is mocking Brooklyn, but read the statement. He claims they tried to force him to sign away the rights to his own name before his wedding. That is dark. That is 'Britney Spears Conservatorship' energy. David and Victoria have cultivated this image of the 'Perfect Family' for decades, but it sounds like they are running a corporation, not a home. If your parents tried to trademark your identity to sell perfume, you’d be angry too. He’s breaking the cycle.

The pressure on Alessandro Michele right now is astronomical. He was already under the microscope for his debut, but now? He has to carry the torch of the founder's death. His decision to show in Rome instead of Paris looks like a genius move in hindsight—a return to the roots. If he can channel this grief into his collection, we might see the greatest tribute show in history. But if he turns Valentino into 'Gucci 2.0,' the backlash will be unforgivable.

Can we appreciate that Starz is actually releasing this weekly instead of a binge drop?. It’s keeping the conversation alive for two months. If this dropped all at once on Netflix, we would have forgotten it in a weekend. Episode 8 just set up a massive finale, and the anticipation is actual fun. The 'Binge Model' is dead; long live the cliffhanger.

PolyBuzz has officially ruined itself. I used this app for a year because it was the only one that didn't constantly nag you for money. Now, you get a 'Take a Break' ad every 10 messages?. It’s unusable. They hooked us by being 'free and unlimited' and then pulled the rug as soon as they got popular. It’s the classic 'Enshittification' cycle of every tech startup. Uninstalling and moving to Janitor AI until they fix this.

Whether there is a secret episode or not, can we talk about how this season cost $480 million and still looked like a muddy CGI fest in the finale?. Netflix spent half a billion dollars for an ending that divided the entire fanbase. It proves that throwing money at a script doesn't fix pacing issues. The first season was great because it was small and mysterious; Season 5 was just 'Avengers: Endgame' but with worse lighting. Bigger isn't always better.

This outage is a wake-up call about how fragile our digital lives actually are. One glitch at one company took down connectivity for half the country, disrupted businesses, and left people stranded. We are moving towards a 'smart' everything—smart cars, smart homes, digital IDs—but our backbone is made of glass. We need more redundancy. If you don't have a backup SIM or a landline in 2026, you are one bad software update away from being completely isolated.

I love Ryan Hurst, but this is a slap in the face to Christopher Judge. Judge literally holds the Guinness World Record for his performance as Kratos. He is the voice and the motion capture. Hollywood needs to stop thinking they need 'face actors' for live-action adaptations when the voice actors are right there. Ryan Hurst was an amazing Thor, so let him be Thor! Swapping roles just feels like a gimmick. It’s going to be so distracting hearing 'Beta' from The Walking Dead trying to do the Kratos grunts.

We need to talk about the absolute robbery that is the new LEGO Pokémon line. I was ready to drop money on this, but $650 for the 'Kanto Starter' set is genuinely insulting. LEGO knows exactly what they are doing—they are weaponizing the nostalgia of 30-year-olds who grew up with Red/Blue version. They slapped an '18+' label on the box just to justify charging double the price per brick. It isn't about 'complex builds'; it is about exploiting a fanbase that has disposable income and can't say no. If we keep paying these scalper-level prices for retail sets, we are ruining the hobby for the next generation. A plastic Pikachu shouldn't cost as much as a PS5. We need to vote with our wallets and let this sit on the shelf.

We need to talk about Teyana Taylor. She completely stole the movie from Leo. Winning Best Supporting Actress was the bare minimum. Her transition from music/choreography to elite acting is insane. She played 'Perfidia' with so much rage and style. If she doesn't get the Oscar nomination, we riot.

Everyone calling Zootopia 2 'just a kids movie' needs to look at the numbers. It just passed Avengers: Endgame in China for a reason. The writers actually had the guts to tackle gentrification and segregation with the 'Reptile District' storyline. Most sequels play it safe, but showing Judy Hopps fight against discriminatory urban planning is exactly the kind of maturity Disney has been missing. It’s not just a cash grab; it’s a brilliant allegory for modern cities. That $1.59 billion is well earned.

Walking through CES 2026 must be exhausting. Everything is 'AI' this and 'AI' that. Samsung has an 'AI Turntable'? Why?. Do I need an algorithm to listen to vinyl records? The whole point of vinyl is that it's analog! Tech companies are just slapping the letters 'AI' on random objects to jack up the price. It’s the new 'Blockchain.' Wake me up when they invent something real.