Jason Gay

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jason Gay

April 25, 2025 7:00 am ETThe character you don’t want to be at an NFL draft? The Awkward Slider. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jason Gay

Musician Charley Yang became a TikTok phenomenon with millions of followers. Nobody knew it was him. This was good, then bad. What if your music became wildly popular—but nobody knew it was yours? This was Charley Yang’s dilemma. A little more than four years ago, Yang—an aspiring if reluctant teenage songwriter from Massachusetts—started uploading music and videos to the internet under the lowercase pseudonym boywithuke. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jason Gay

Updated April 22, 2025 7:05 am ETI’m a rotten father. I haven’t bought my Little Leaguer a sliding mitt. For the unfamiliar: The sliding mitt is baseball’s strange yet omnipresent style accessory. It’s a long, padded glove designed to protect a base runner’s fingertips when sliding into a tag or the bag…all while looking ready to take a pot roast out of the oven. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Jason Gay

A historic Game 1 rout of Memphis underlines what everyone knew: Oklahoma City is stackedOne of the more obnoxious (but predictable) rituals that occurs whenever a sports team from a Midwest or medium-size city starts having success is the performative hand-wringing over what would happen if said sports team started reaching championships—i.e. would it repel casual viewers, sink TV ratings, be bad for the sport overall, and oh no, oh dear, blah, blah, blah.

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jason Gay

One of the more obnoxious (but predictable) rituals that occurs whenever a sports team from a Midwest or medium-size city starts having success is the performative hand-wringing over what would happen if said sports team started reaching championships—i.e. The groaning reeks, naturally, of coastal bias—the irritating notion that sporting events don’t mean much until coastal California or the Acela corridor is involved.