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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 23: Joel Embiid #21 of the Philadelphia 76ers looks on during a timeout against the Milwaukee Bucks in the first half at the Wells Fargo Center on October 23, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Milwaukee Bucks v Philadelphia 76ers

Joel Embiid Shoves Author Of Weird Column About Him Shaming The Memory Of His Dead Brother

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Tom Ley

UFC 306 at Riyadh Season Noche UFC: Torres v Bahamondes

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Jeff Bezos Made Someone Else’s Business Decision

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Barry Petchesky

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TBS’s Score Bug Is Dreadful

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Drew Magary

Tom Brady looks on prior to the game at AT&amp;T Stadium on September 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas.

New Orleans Saints v Dallas Cowboys

Funbag

We Must Address The Tom Brady Crisis (The Crisis Being That He Stinks)

A splitscreen image. On the left, New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi. On the right, former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Media Meltdowns

Sending Horny Texts To RFK Jr. Is Not A Public Service

New York Magazine Suspends Olivia Nuzzi Over “Inappropriate Relationship” With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A man waves the Russian national flag as he arrives at the patriotic concert at the Red square in downtown Moscow ahead the Russia Day on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Dimwitted Right-Wing Influencers Accused Of Being Unwitting Russian Assets

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Bigots Need Their Useful Idiots

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Ray Ratto

Sideline reporter Pam Oliver interviews head coach Mike Vrabel of the Tennessee Titans at halftime against the San Francisco 49ers at Nissan Stadium on December 23, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee.

San Francisco 49ers v Tennessee Titans

The Scourge Of In-Game Coach Interviews Spreads To The NFL

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Albert Burneko

The New York Times building is seen on September 6, 2018 in New York. - A furious Donald Trump called September 5, 2018 for the unmasking of an anonymous senior official who wrote in the New York Times that top members of his administration were undermining the president to curb his "misguided impulses." Trump asked if the unsigned op-ed could be considered treasonous, assailed the newspaper for the "gutless" piece and questioned whether the senior official it was attributed to actually existed. "TREASON?" Trump posted in response to the article entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration," which claimed the president's own staff see him as a danger to the nation."Does the so-called 'Senior Administration Official' really exist, or is (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Why Did The New York Times Delete A Notorious Fraudster’s Election Take?

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Thom Brennaman Pitied Himself Back Into The Broadcast Booth

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US President Joe Biden speaks as he hosts a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (out of frame) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 10, 2024.

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Margin Of Error

What’s The Story With Joe Biden?

Donald Trump and Joe Biden, looking like a couple of brain-ruined old mummies during their presidential debate.

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Debate Losers

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David Roth

Al Michaels looks at an iPhone prior to the game between the Tennessee Titans and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau on November 17, 2022.

Tennessee Titans v Green Bay Packers

AI Is Now Advanced Enough To Blow Al Michaels’s Mind

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Soccer

Love Him Or Hate Him, Alexi Lalas Stinks At His Job

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Arts And Culture

Appalling Errors In Vulture’s Ranked List Of Muppets Movies, Ranked

Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever talks to the media before the game against the Washington Mystics at Capital One Arena on June 07, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Indiana Fever v Washington Mystics

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The Olympic Roster Is Not Just A Marketing Tool

Members of the Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) held a parade through Chinatown to protest against the Communist Party of China in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 19, 2023. The Communist Party of China has allegedly tried to wipe out Falun Gong with torture and violence because of their beliefs. Falun Gong is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline that brings together meditation, energy exercises and moral teachings as a means to cultivating the mind and body towards enlightenment. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)

Members Of The Falun Gong Protest Against The Communist Party Of China

Feds Accuse America’s Weirdest Media Company Of Being A Money-Laundering Front For The Falun Gong

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Alex Sujong Laughlin

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Music Apps Illustrations

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If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 21: Michael Jordan signed Sports Illustrated cover is on display during a press preview of The Olympic Collection at Sotheby's on July 21, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

Sotheby’s Auctions Rare Olympic & Sports Memorabilia

Sports Illustrated Owner Sues Former Publisher Over Bungled Leverage Play

Rose Lobelson, Communications Associate at Sotheby's, points to an image of the Sports Illustrated cover of Wilt Chamberlain in his 'Championship Clinching' 1972 NBA Final jersey, with bandaged-hands after he broke a hand, at Sotheby's Auction House in Beverly Hills, California, on August 1, 2023. The jersey is estimated at $4 million.

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Sports Illustrated May Yet Live

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Collision 2022 – Day Two

Jim Spanfeller Is A Third-Rate Parasite

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Samer Kalaf

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Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead

Start of the race 16 Charles Leclerc of Monaco, Scuderia Ferrari, SF-23 - Ferrari, action 04 Lando Norris of United Kingdom, Mclaren Formula 1 Team, MCL60 - Mercedes, action during the Formula 1 Lenovo United States Grand Prix of FIA Formula One World Championship from 19th to 22th of October, 2023 on the Circuit of the Americas, in Austin, Texas, United States of America. (Photo by Gongora/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Road & Track EIC Tries To Explain Why He Deleted An Article About Formula 1 Power Dynamics

In this photograph a group of townsfolk descend on a disciple after it was discovered that the ritual he participated in left a person dead during an Epoch Event in Toronto on August 6, 2011

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Fantasy Convention