Author: Jerry Leger

At least in our home, it began with dinosaurs and poop. Almost in passing over a bowl of cereal, my third-grader told me that he and his classmates had figured out how to use Gemini on their school-issued Chromebooks to create absurd pictures, usually by combining the two. He was aware that it wasn’t permitted in theory. He was also aware that no one was stopping them. The tool was sitting between a typing game and a math worksheet, unblocked. It’s a minor issue. Additionally, it’s precisely the kind of little thing that has transformed regular suburban school board meetings…

Moving in are the new freshmen. From Cambridge to Chapel Hill, you can see them dragging milk crates and bedding past the same old gates on quads. However, the numbers also indicate that something has changed if you look at the faces. Just 5% of the Class of 2029 identify as Black or African American, according to a report published earlier this month in Princeton’s student newspaper. That is a significant decline. To find a figure that low, you have to go back to 1968. The silence surrounding the figure seems louder than the figure itself, especially for a school…

The lack of grades isn’t the first thing you see when you enter one of these schools. The bulletin boards are the cause. Where you would typically expect a list of honor roll names, there are lengthy, narrative-style write-ups about students—paragraphs, not numbers—pinned. An evaluation for a senior is more akin to a recommendation letter than a report card. Almost instantly, it seems like something is being done differently here, and those who are doing it don’t care if the rest of the nation agrees. A tiny but increasing number of American high schools have been discreetly ceasing to assign…

When an injured athlete is instructed to remain motionless for ten weeks, a certain silence descends upon a college residence hall. Nassim Bickham was well aware of it. She fractured two vertebrae in her spine after landing on her head during a bar dismount that she had performed thousands of times as a freshman gymnast at Berkeley. Her body would recover. Since then, she has claimed that her thoughts took a lot longer, but no one seemed to notice. Universities and high schools have finally begun to take seriously the gap between the visible injury and the invisible one. It’s…

More and more small towns and suburbs around the nation are witnessing this Friday-afternoon scene: a line of girls wearing mouthguards and pulled-back hair stretching their hamstrings before practice, a strip of artificial turf behind a high school, and the late sun slanting low. Not a single helmet. Do not wear shoulder pads. Only cleats, hip-clipped flags, and a coach somewhere yelling about route trees. It’s a subtle revolution that’s easy to overlook if you’re not looking for it. It’s obvious that the NFL is searching. In order to expand the flag version of the sport, the league committed $32…

When the money starts to disappear, a certain silence descends upon a sports league. When the Saudi Public Investment Fund confirmed what people in private equity rooms had been speculating about for months last Thursday, you could feel it. By the end of 2026, PIF, the $900 billion sovereign wealth fund that effectively transformed LIV Golf from a Greg Norman pitch deck into a global disruptor, will be leaving. The project’s architect, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, has quietly left the board. This summer’s New Orleans event was postponed on Monday without a new date. And all of a sudden, LIV is shopping…

When the first parents arrived at Holy Trinity in the middle of April, the folding chairs were already arranged, and someone in the back was still fiddling with the school banner that kept falling off the wall. If you’ve seen enough of these things, you’ll notice this kind of detail. Even though Brevard County signing ceremonies usually follow a set format, with a long table, a row of hats from the selected schools, and a barely functional microphone, something about them always seems a little unplanned every spring. The Space Coast’s student-athletes traveled in remarkably broad directions this year. JaNay…

Like so many things these days, it began with a conference call. The Florida Board of Governors’ new Task Force on Intercollegiate Athletics began its first session on March 23, with the late winter light still hanging over the state. The tone was cautious and a little uneasy, as is typical of people who know they are stepping into something bigger than themselves. First to speak was Ken Jones, the chairman of the panel and the founder of Keyhole Partners. He didn’t sound hurried. He sounded as though he had been considering this for months already. Florida State University System…

Even though the video is short, you watch it twice. A man wearing a dark coat emerges from a hotel doorway, vanishes for a moment, and then reappears without it, both hands clutching what investigators believe to be a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun. He runs. Before the majority of the agents in the hallway have raised their heads, he passes the metal detector. Four seconds. That’s the whole window. Prosecutors now want the public and a potential jury to examine it frame by frame. Bio Data / Case InformationDetailsName of AccusedCole Tomas AllenAge31HometownTorrance, CaliforniaOccupationTutorDate of IncidentSaturday, prior to May 13, 2026LocationWashington…

When an actor passes away in the middle of his career, with projects still in the works and friends still anticipating his calls, a specific type of grief sets in. That exact weight has been carried since Patrick Muldoon’s death on April 19; even after the paperwork catches up, it doesn’t end neatly. His death certificate, recently made public, names myocardial infarction as the cause, with pulmonary embolism and hereditary coagulopathy listed as contributing conditions. It reads like a puzzle whose pieces only make sense in retrospect, as these documents always do in a clinical manner. Patrick Muldoon — Bio…