Ricochet's free and premium game offerings include foosball, table tennis, shuffleboard, billiards, bumper pool and steel-tip darts. Ricochet will open this month at Grand Place, a $105 million ...

Vonn tried and failed, badly. We should celebrate this. Not the outcome, but the attempt. Society needs more Lindsey Vonns, in every walk of life. People who aren’t afraid to do something that might ...

Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and video games ...

Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

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.

A few years ago, when Jewish actor Timothée Chalamet said his next project involved ping pong, people were perplexed. The star had already been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

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Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Cal graduate Lily Zhang gained fame in the table tennis world last month when she became the first woman to claim the No. 1 spot in the Major League Table Tennis official power rankings. But she ...