The Atlanta Dream forced the first winner-take-all Game 7 in WNBA Finals history by beating the Golden State Valkyries 80-69 on the road Thursday, with Allisha Gray and Rhyne Howard combining for most of the damage. Tonight at Chase Center, 8 p.m. ET, the series finally ends — and it's a kind of ending the league has never had to stage before, because no WNBA Finals has ever gone the distance.
What makes it wilder is who's playing: the Valkyries didn't exist two seasons ago. Golden State's expansion franchise is one win from a title in just its second year on the court, going up against a Dream team that's been building toward this all year. Whoever wins becomes the answer to a trivia question that didn't exist a week ago, and nobody watching tonight actually knows which way this goes.
by DerekEpisodes 5 and 6 dropped this week with a twist nobody fully called: James Spader is back as Ultron, and he's talking about why he said yes to a character Marvel supposedly killed off for good. The series has two episodes left before its November 10 finale, and the Vision mystery everyone's been tracking just got a lot messier.
Swipe Right on the Devil reconstructs the 2017 murder of Sydney Loofe by a self-described warlock running a Tinder-adjacent coven, and it's exactly as unsettling as the premise promises — critics call it slow to start but genuinely disturbing once it gets to the coven. Three episodes, perfectly timed, and still the thing people are recommending each other this week.
by Diana LeeI Am What I Am landed Friday with Franklin pulling GloRilla and Karen Clark-Sheard onto a gospel record — a pairing that sounds like it shouldn't work on paper and mostly does. It's the kind of cross-generational flex that gets a gospel legend trending for a day in rooms that don't usually talk about gospel.
Coming Up Roses, the piano ballad off Kiss All the Time that's been a tour-setlist favorite since March, got its video this week — Styles taking a beginner's ballroom class with strangers, including a couple who got engaged at one of his shows. It's sent the song surging back onto TikTok months after release, proof a good video can still resurrect a deep cut.
by Boba FettA day after his death at 86, the tributes kept coming: William Shatner, Jonathan Frakes, and Wil Wheaton mourned their Starfleet captain, while Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, and James Marsden remembered him as Professor X. It's rare for a death to unite two separate fictional universes' casts in real-time grief, which says something about how much Stewart actually meant across both of them.
DC's body-horror origin story has pulled in $52.9 million worldwide against a $40 million budget, three weekends in — not a smash, but a clean, modest win for a mid-budget horror swing in a year when most comic movies need nine figures just to break even. Sometimes the story isn't the number, it's that the math actually worked.
by CakeyNike is reportedly weighing a Converse spinoff after the brand dragged on last quarter's sales — even as the simple canvas Chuck has a real cultural moment going and premium $250 reissues keep selling out. The irony: Gen Z never stopped wanting Converse. Nike's retail math just stopped matching the vibe.
Ten pairs celebrating 30 years of Space Jam start rolling out November 5 — five Air Jordan 11 colorways built around the Tune Squad and the Monstars, plus a Jordan First 1 and an Air Jordan 3. It's exactly the kind of nostalgia-coded, build-the-hype sneaker calendar moment worth clearing a browser tab for.
by ChubbyCredit Karma's latest breakdown of its 24.2 million members with student debt shows just 48% fully current, close to 10% delinquent, and 41% sitting in deferment — with Gen X, not Gen Z, actually struggling most as the big repayment overhaul bears down on 2027.
52% of Gen Z investors redirected money they'd planned to invest into sports betting over the past year, per Betterment's latest survey — a quarter of them call it a deliberate part of their financial strategy. The catch: Bank of America data shows the average bettor gets back less than 75 cents per dollar wagered, a brutal rate of return next to literally doing nothing.
Every walk-toward-camera costume reveal set to Róisín Murphy's "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" has been building toward today, and it's delivering — underwater versions, group versions, haunted-house versions, all stacking up on the actual day the trend was made for.
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Borrowed from Love Island's Corbin Mims — nicknamed CorbinGPT for his flat, unshakeable delivery — the "two fishes" audio is now the go-to sound for defending an opinion nobody asked you to defend, with total deadpan confidence. It's the internet rewarding conviction over correctness, which tracks.
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Anthropic filed its S-1 this week and is reportedly targeting a mid-November listing on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, with some reports floating a valuation near $2 trillion. The $80 billion loss against $16 billion in first-half revenue is still the number everyone keeps repeating, but the actual listing date just went from someday-soon to an actual week on the calendar.
Baseten, an AI infrastructure startup most people outside the industry have never heard of, raised roughly $2 billion this week at a valuation that more than doubled to $30 billion. It's the kind of number that would've been a top business story in any other year — this week it barely cracked the AI news cycle.
Rockstar dropped the official launch trailer showing off Vice City and protagonists Jason and Lucia, with the game still on track for November 19 after two prior delays. Review codes are reportedly already going out, embargo lifting November 18 — meaning the wait that's defined this console generation is genuinely, finally, almost over.
Monster Hunter Outlanders launched on iOS and Android this week, bringing the franchise's hunt-craft-upgrade loop to mobile without the usual watered-down free-to-play compromises. For a series built around multi-hour boss fights, getting it to feel right on a phone screen is its own small miracle.
by DerekDays after shipping Quenton Nelson to Seattle, Indianapolis traded DeForest Buckner back to San Francisco — the team that drafted him in 2016 — for a 2027 fourth-round pick. Two Pro Bowlers out the door in one week is the clearest signal yet about what kind of deadline the Colts are running.
No. 3 Georgia-No. 17 Florida and No. 6 Utah at Cincinnati headline a Saturday loaded with upset potential, with only Miami, UCLA, and Utah still unbeaten heading in. In a season that's already chewed through ranked teams weekly, nobody's treating tonight's games as the fun kind of scary.