The war in Iran is, for markets, a hot mess. It’s on, it’s off, it’s getting better, it’s getting worse and pretty much every asset class on the planet is getting bashed around with every new headline ...

There's often a common thread among the Oscar nominees who go on to win - and it's about a lot more than learning the lines. Rami Malek had singing and piano lessons and worked with a choreographer to ...

The players were not particularly well known outside the walls of a Markham warehouse. Some were among the best athletes in the sport, sages in their world of whacking a white ball just 40 millimetres ...

In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than Timothée Chalamet’s hotshot This article ...

Talk about a sore loser. For one player, a game of beer pong went terribly awry. The 19-year-old man was brought to the hospital with acute throat pain, difficulty swallowing and abnormal breathing ...

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...

Table tennis and film have a surprisingly entangled history. Both depended on the invention of celluloid – which not only became the substrate of film, but is also used to make ping pong balls.

When I watched the table-tennis matches in Marty Supreme, I flashed back to one of my own epic battles with Marty Reisman, the man who inspired the movie. It was the early 2000s, and we were on ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.