There are several reasons to listen to consider Layne Norton a fitness and nutrition expert worth paying attention to. He has a PhD in nutritional science, so he’s not operating purely on vibes, as many fitness influencers tend to do. Then there are the lifts: last year, at 41 years old, Norton placed second in the North American Regional Powerlifting Championships, hitting insane numbers in the squat, bench, and deadlift. Though Norton has an impressive powerlifting career and is a founder of...
For the incoming WNBA class of 2024, Monday night’s draft was technically a new beginning—but it also felt a bit like a graduation party. This year, Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso, and more were instrumental in bringing more eyes to women’s college basketball than ever before, making their draft night a well-earned (and fashionable!) culmination of all the hard work they put in on campus. And for maybe the first time, the draft felt like a capital-E event—a tier-one sports-media...
Luka Doncic, a.k.a. the “Pravi MVP,” has a brand-new signature sneaker from Jordan Brand on the way—and it’s another slam dunk. The Luka 3, the third entry in Doncic’s standout performance shoe line, is arriving in July. The timing could hardly be better: the Mavericks superstar just wrapped a stellar regular season campaign that has only accelerated since the All-Star break, putting Dallas in playoff contention against the struggling Los Angeles Clippers. If ever there was a time to celebrate...
Few people on earth travel as often as professional athletes. With On the Road, the GQ Sports Travel Questionnaire, they’re weighing in on everything from room service to flying comfortably to their favorite chain restaurants. To be a modern NBA reporter is to be intimately familiar with life on the road, which means not just the radiant sunshine of LA and Miami but also less glamorous locales like Milwaukee and Denver. Malika Andrews, one of the faces of ESPN’s NBA coverage, has gone everywhere...
Over the weekend, in the wake of Conan O'Brien's internet-shattering Hot Ones appearance—in which he guzzled hot sauce directly out of the bottle and left the normally unflappable host Sean Evans stunned speechless for long stretches—the late-night legend was at the center of a well-deserved social media love-in. On X, fans eagerly posted dozens and dozens of O'Brien’s greatest hits: the Walker, Texas Ranger lever; the ever-psychotic WikiBear; the shootout sketch from his final days at NBC; and,...
While you may have enjoyed the samurai stylings of Hulu’s Shōgun—the plotting, the fighting, the politicking, the seppuku—would you believe it was actually based on a true story? Okay fine, the based-on-a-true-story of it all was probably clear all along (it’d be a pretty weird thing to make up), but the truth is that Shōgun, while fictional, has more real-life analogues than you probably even imagined. And that’s a good thing, because feudal Japan is a setting so rich that it feels like it has...
This year, the just-concluded women's college basketball season seemed to also double as a Caitlin Clark record-breaking exhibition. In a two-week span in mid-February, as she put the bow on a one-of-one college career, Clark toppled a series of never-to-be-busted records that left her standing alone as the most decorated scorer in college hoops history. And then, on Monday night at the WNBA Draft in Brooklyn, Caitlin Clark made history again—this time without even touching a ball. In hitting...
If you’re having a tough time securing your dream watch, you could always try becoming the best in the world at something. Scottie Scheffler, ranked number-one golfer on Earth, is a Rolex testimonee—which means he has access to just about any Rollie he pleases. This past weekend, the 27-year-old New Jersey native won the 2024 Masters at Augusta National, donning the iconic green jacket for the second time. And poking out from beneath the sleeve of said blazer was a most excellent watch: the...
These days, everything Ryan Gosling wears turns to menswear gold (or, in the case of Ken, maybe a light shade of spray-tan orange). The bomber jacket he wore in Drive is a now-infamous grail. The high-end running sunglasses he wore on a recent press blitz sold out faster than you can say “on your marks”. And his obsession with King & Tuckfield’s polos helped turn the brand into one of Hollywood’s premier knit whisperers. So when Gosling appeared in a promo video for last week’s episode of...
It's kinda wild to think that the Travis Scott x Jordan Jumpman Jack ‘University Red’ was first teased last summer, but after over 10 long months of waiting, we finally have an official release date. Unlike the ‘Sail’ version that surprise dropped during the Grammys in extremely limited numbers, this pair will actually get a wide public release—and, like most kicks with Travis Scott’s name on ’em, it has all the necessary attributes to become one of 2024’s hottest sneakers. While Scott has...
Welcome to the year of Jesse Eisenberg. In January, A Real Pain—the second movie Eisenberg has written and directed, following last year's When You Finish Saving the World—sold to Searchlight Pictures for a reported $10 million in a Sundance bidding war. (The dramedy, starring Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins traveling to Poland for a Holocaust tour, will get a plum theatrical release on October 18, during the thick of awards season.) This month, Eisenberg plays a full-fledged Bigfoot in...
It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in Paris, and Breanna Stewart has come down with food poisoning. The decorated New York Liberty power forward is in town to unveil her latest shoe, the Puma Stewie 3. A group of media have gathered on a basketball court in the 2nd arrondissement for the launch, but just minutes before Stewart is scheduled to arrive, we're informed she might not make it. The night before, we're told, she ate something that isn't sitting right with her. But much like Michael Jordan...