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Boxing Veterans Think Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul Is an ‘Insult to Fighters’ Robert Silverman © Provided by The Daily Beast Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Among YouTube influencers and to his legion of fans, Logan Paul is something of an institution, his fame undimmed no matter how many tasteless viral stunts he pulls. But at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn, the cartoonish, blond bohunk might as well not exist. To them, he’s a tomato can. The venerable institution serves as a touchstone to the sport’s glory days and the oldest temple ...

Barstool Sports easily spreads, promotes problematic ideologies Kaitlyn Liu is a junior majoring in English Despite "humourous" content, Barstool Sports still has strong sexist, racist undercurrents March 8, 2021 As an upperclassman at Binghamton University, I’ve seen my fair share of @binghamtonbarstool posts. The Instagram page is filled with videos of college students getting drunk or breaking things, and at times, these videos are admittedly funny. What isn’t funny is how often Barstool Sports repeatedly crosses the line from humor over to racism, sexism, homophobia or other dis...

President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency — getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing off...

President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency — getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing off...

David Cronenberg's Scanners has way more to offer than just an exploding head Contributed by Shared Share This Page The majority of David Cronenberg's body horrors are defined by that one indelible scene — the one that might just scar more squeamish viewers for life. Think of The Brood's finale, for example, in which Nola tears open her womb before licking the afterbirth off the mutant she's just spawned. Or when Max decides to store his handgun in his stomach's cavernous orifice in Videodrome. And who can forget that slightly less extreme but still wince-inducing moment whe...