Beyond different types of bets and odds, sports betting features plenty of lingo to learn. If you’re reading betting analysis on a matchup, you might see something like, “This season, the Chiefs are 5 ...

At the start of “Straight Up,” a young software coder sits in his therapist's office, talking about his irrational fears. Todd (played by writer, producer and director James Sweeney) says he chooses ...

Multihyphenate James Sweeney's feature debut 'Straight Up' is an amusingly prickly and personal ambi/asexual rom-com. By Keith Uhlich Todd (James Sweeney) is trapped in a box. Literally, if you ...

It's been a phenomenally entertaining start to the 2024 NFL season thus far but, in a very real way at the same time, it's also felt like each week has made it more difficult to make our NFL picks and ...

Theirs was a career beset by chaos and tragedy, as well as a sense that their recorded output never matched the potential of what they could have done. Often, through no fault of their own, Badfinger ...

With ostensibly just a month remaining in the regular season, we're starting to see plenty of chaos coming into Week 14. Last week was littered with road favorites that created what appeared to be a ...

With the College Football Playoffs drawing closer, which teams can avoid seeing their postseason fate come to an end in Week 12? There are plenty of ranked teams in play in Week 12 with a ton sitting ...

Paula Abdul presented a modernized version of her signature hit, “Straight Up,” on Wednesday’s Late Late Show, adding shadowy choreography and subtle electronic elements to the 1988 single. The former ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Paula Abdul grew ...