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.
Florida comes in 17–6 and sitting alone in first place at 8–2 in the SEC, and this road stop is the exact kind of hold-serve game that keeps a league lead clean. Georgia is 17–6 too, but 5–5 in conference, and Stegeman is where the Bulldogs try to turn pace into pressure and pressure into […]
February 11, 2026
From the get-go, it’s seemed like Charli XCX has approached “Wuthering Heights” not as a branding assignment, but as an auteur companion piece—music that wants to speak back to the film. Her album, therefore, is a companion piece with long legs—an album that runs through the moors alongside the film as a second voice, more […]
February 11, 2026
Pittsburgh is stuck in the mud, and this spot is where the season can start to feel merciless. Duke walks into the Petersen Events Center at 21–1 and 10–0 in the ACC, still carrying the posture of a top seed. Pitt is 9–15, living game-to-game, hoping the home floor can cover for thin margins. The […]
February 10, 2026
Gonzaga’s season has been too good to let the Kennel feel jittery, but this is still a posture game. Washington State rolls in at 11–15 and 6–7 in the WCC, sitting in that one more slip and it’s over zone. Gonzaga is 23–two and 11–one in league, still chasing the top of the standings, and […]
February 10, 2026
Tuesday night in Salt Lake is a Big 12 reality check dressed as a road test. Houston Cougars rolls in at 21–2 and 9–1 in league, still policing the top of the table. Utah Utes sits 9–14 and 1–9, losing five straight and chasing air. The Huntsman Center can snarl, but desperation doesn’t cash tickets […]
February 10, 2026
Marquette walks into this one carrying a 9–15 record and a 4–9 Big East mark, and the urgency is no longer optional. Villanova sits 18–5 overall and 9–3 in league play, and the posture is clear. This is the kind of February night where the favorite expects to impose order early. The board says Villanova […]
February 10, 2026
USA mixed doubles curling has spent this Olympic season living on the knife-edge where one stone flips the whole story. Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse from Duluth arrived at Milano Cortina 2026 with real pedigree, but no cushion—this format doesn’t care about resumes, only survival. They played the round robin like a team that trusts […]
February 10, 2026
The Gatorade shower is the sport’s purest little prophecy—the moment the sideline stops pretending and admits the script is already written. You can feel it coming before it happens: the grin creep, the cooler inching closer, the assistants hovering like conspirators. Then it hits, and the coach takes the splash like a baptism, because winning […]
February 8, 2026
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A fan running onto the field is a Super Bowl side-ritual, a little burst of chaos baked into a game built on stoppages. The clock freezes, the stadium buzz turns into a point-and-laugh murmur, and everyone instantly knows what’s happening without seeing it. The broadcast goes monk-mode—tight shots, quick cuts, announcers talking around it—because the […]
February 8, 2026
At Canter’s Deli, Andy Samberg struts in as “Meal Diamond,” hijacks the room, and flips Sweet Caroline into a mayo-powered singalong. The hook is stupid-catchy—“So good, so good, so good”—and Elle Fanning’s cameo lands like a delighted jump-scare as the whole deli becomes his chorus. Watch the video below. Watch the Hellman’s Super Bowl 60 […]
February 8, 2026
In a lavish, black-tie castle feast directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (one of his two ads this Super Bowl; I see you, Yorgos), the table melts into melodrama as guests argue—dead serious—about who’s going to “eat the fees.” Then George Clooney strolls in like the calm in a storm and drops the clean thesis: Grubhub will […]
February 8, 2026