Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
By Episode 6, Greg Russo’s lectures have started pulling students into his personal logic—stories, grudges, half-arguments dressed up as teaching—and the faculty around him begins to push back as his influence grows harder to ignore. The tension now lives in the room: how far he can go before someone forces a boundary? Katie is operating […]
April 11, 2026
Boston rolls into St. Louis still trying to find innings that carry. Twelve games in, the Red Sox sit at 4-8, scoring 3.67 runs per night, with stretches where traffic builds and then disappears before it turns into anything. The Cardinals have been steadier at 7-5, and the split that matters tonight already shows up—at-bats […]
April 10, 2026
Camden Yards gets a clean, crisp April night for a game that sits in the middle of two different truths. Baltimore is back home at 6-6 after sweeping Chicago and has enough lineup thunder to look like the better club on first glance, while San Francisco arrives at 5-8 with a weaker record but a […]
April 10, 2026
Say what you will about the show as a cultural artifact, but one thing is certain: Euphoria has been sprinting toward sordid adulthood with a narrative speed and commitment for which few audiences were ready. Season 3, however, arrives after a lollygagging four-year gap. The show returns as something heavier, less contained—no longer a high […]
April 10, 2026
Kauffman Stadium doesn’t usually rush a game, but this one sets up to move quickly through its cleanest stretch. The Kansas City Royals return home at 5-7 after a flat series in Cleveland, while the Chicago White Sox arrive at 4-8 after getting swept in Baltimore. The weather is warm enough to keep the ball […]
April 9, 2026
The strangest part of the Hacks final season might also be the most deliciously on-brand. According to Deadline, what started sounding like one of those too-perfect internet jokes now has real reporting behind it: Hacks Season 5 reportedly folds The Amazing Race into its final-season story, with Phil Keoghan said to appear and a Deborah-adjacent […]
April 9, 2026
Now that Hacks has reached its fifth and final season, it’s no longer interested in the climb. Deborah Vance has already won—awards, leverage, relevance—and the show has spent the last few years quietly asking what that kind of success actually buys. Season 5 opens with the most Hacks-coded disruption imaginable: a wave of premature, wildly […]
April 9, 2026
Target Field in early April means low-40s at first pitch, dipping into the 30s, with heavy air that punishes lift and rewards pitchers who can control contact. That matters tonight because this series has already leaned toward tighter, lower-event baseball. The Detroit Tigers are 5–6 and have scored just five total runs across the first […]
April 8, 2026
The first two games of this series have already told you how thin the margin is—and how quickly it disappears for Oakland. The New York Yankees are 8–2 and have now won games in multiple scripts, including Tuesday’s 5–3 comeback after trailing 3–1. The Oakland Athletics, now 3–7, have been competitive enough to build leads […]
April 8, 2026
Monday belonged to Los Angeles—clean starting pitching, a couple of loud swings, a 6–2 win that felt controlled. Tuesday flipped hard in Atlanta’s direction, a 7–2 game with more traffic, more leverage, and a much clearer reminder that the Braves still have a deeper offensive floor even when the stars are not fully lit. So […]
April 8, 2026
There’s a different kind of pressure in games like this—two teams that haven’t separated themselves yet, trading blows in a series that’s already produced a 9–6 Washington win and a 7–6 St. Louis extra-inning response. The St. Louis Cardinals sit at 5–6 trying to stabilize after an uneven opening stretch, while the Washington Nationals, now […]
April 8, 2026