Sports fandom was a mistake

Halves and have nots Why the men have lacked quarters for 72 years

Basketball is played globally by all ages and the only place you won't find quarters is in men's college hoops.

How that path forked in 1954, with salutes to Dan McQuade and Howard Hobson.

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“Where’s the rest of the body?”

Nobel winning prose imo

Do me now

Sorry for your loss, many good memories of Oleg photos through the years

This is America, and this country was founded on the right that Americans can drink dogshit coffee peddled by a private equity firm because they have no palate but just love the branding!

Oh no

just stay off the sidewalks 🤪

Stolen valor imo

Carlos Mendoza, when asked who plays right field on opening day for the Mets

Textbook #malegaze scenario, feels like the misogyny is in the eye of the beholder!

A hand holding an unopened CD, with Ronald Reagan’s smiling face. The title is RONALD REAGAN’S GREATEST LAUGHS. Published by NewsMax, of course.

At the thrift store, anyone need anything?

President Reagan laughing and standing next to Tommy Lasorda. They’re both in hell now but this photo appears to have been taken in the White House

This one’s gotta be on there

Massive Emmys snub for Tracey Ullman imo

Timely!

The legendary St John’s basketball player?

#NEWEVE

I truly despise sports WAIT NEVERMIND

Somehow people manage to just tune car crashes out and factor them in as the cost of doing business

you'll never want (to watch) another (match)

Thank you Patrick Sparrow

is it PMS?

Well, the apology was contrite and plainly spoken. I have respect for the principal for taking the mistake head on (unless he used Copilot to write the apology email)

The Principal at Princeton Middle School, (aka PMS) just sent a message apologizing for an email he sent last week in which the automated Spanish language translation rendered "families at PMS" as "familias con síndrome premenstrual". Ludicrous.

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” painted above its door. And if you had decided to go in, there was a decent chance you’d know the pers…

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

Skater Jason, for example, would never have wanted to live anywhere but the busy city. But now he happily lives in the semi-suburbs nearby, in Pasadena. "It's a beautiful irony, you know what I mean?" he said. "I really dig it. I have a leaf blower."

I didn’t need to read this fine piece of reporting to know that Jason is a colossal asshole but this nugget sure helped:

MUBI squad assemble

I have a .319 career winning percentage in Rundle A, I’m the goddamned Rockies

in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

I will always think NBA Twitter peaked when Shaq would tweet out that he was at some random diner and like two dudes would just go say what's up