The Spokesman-Review

A Grip on Sports: From predictions to awards and everywhere else in-between, Pac-12 football media day tells us how close the season really is

A GRIP ON SPORTS • College football season hasn’t officially begun, but the hype for the 2019 season is in full trot. Today in Hollywood, the Pac-12 fires its opening salvos, with the conference once ...
The Spokesman-Review

Grip on Sports: When it comes to the M’s, whatever the fans want, the fans don’t get

A GRIP ON SPORTS • There was an awful old-time movie entitled “It Happens Every Spring.” It was so bad, it’s good, if you get my drift. It was also, ostensibly, about baseball, in the same way “Damn ...
Los Angeles Times

USC loses grip early, allows Oregon to pull away for blowout win

Through this harrowingly uneven season, as a torn ACL gave way to an unknown freshman quarterback, as a statement over Stanford turned to peril in Provo then unexpected ecstasy against Utah, as his ...
TheWrap

Disney Tightens Grip on 2019 Box Office as Other Franchises Struggle

With the 2019 box office approaching the halfway point, one thing is clear: It’s Disney’s world right now, and the rest of the film industry is just living in it. After grossing over $3 billion ...
The New York Times

Why Masahiro Tanaka changed the grip on his splitter and how that’s affected his signature pitch

Masahiro Tanaka developed his splitter in Japan in 2010, transitioning it from the forkball he threw in the first few years of his professional career. The splitter has since been Tanaka’s signature ...