This past Friday, Christine Brennan asked to speak with an editor at Defector. The USA Today columnist’s request was somewhat expected, since Giri Nathan had written about her in an article published ...

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One of Monk’s most Monk-like episodes in all of Monk occurs in Season 2, Episode 7: “Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect.” Adrian Monk, Tony Shalhoub’s impersonation of Eeyore if the donkey had severe O...

Why does San Francisco feel so weird during this tech boom while Oakland is more or less still Oakland?

History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.  Hosted by Patrick Redfo...

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History Podcast · Updated Weekly · Only If You Get Caught is about how we can better understand sports and culture by appreciating the ways humans cheat in ways big and small.  Hosted by Patrick Redfo...

It’s being shouted from all corners: The U.S. Open has become an overcrowded, overpriced circus awash in influencers, aspirational influencers, corporate stooges, drunken buffoons, brand activations, ...

FLUSHING, N.Y. — As we waited for Alexandra Eala to walk into Louis Armstrong Stadium for the most anticipated first-round match of the tournament, the crowd whooping as a victorious 40-year-old Gael ...

HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…

PHILADELPHIA — The Benjamin Franklin Parkway was designed in 1917 by French architect Jacques Gréber in the European style of boulevard, specifically inspired by the Champs-Élysées, which means it is…

Because my twenty-nine-year-old sister-in-law is still living on my couch.

Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · August 25 · 1h 17m

It’s August, you know the drill: Frances Tiafoe’s tennis season is just getting started. North American hard court summer is his wake-up. I once asked him if he could figure out how to bottle up the…

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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Is right here: 5 pieces of new content from the Rough Notes extended universe.

When the Seattle SuperSonics drafted Russell Westbrook fourth overall in 2008, around six weeks before they officially became the Oklahoma City Thunder, the league had no idea what to do with such an ...

It’s hard to imagine now—like imagining an era when man did not know the sun was huge, hot, and bright—but there was a time when we did not yet understand Russell Westbrook as a basketball player. Slo...

SAN FRANCISCO — Charli XCX had a cold. You could only tell after five songs and one costume change, when the backup dancers and full backing band briefly disappeared so she could perform “Track 10,” t...

Podcast Episode · Nothing But Respect · August 10 · 1h 19m

After inflaming a culture war and causing her teammates and colleagues to be bombarded with hypothetical questions for weeks due to her transphobic comments published in a national media outlet,…

ESPN reporter Lindsey Thiry found herself accosted by an alarmingly big bug at Los Angeles Rams camp Thursday. She was preparing for a live report when the flying creature suddenly dive-bombed in.…

As LaMelo Ball gets settled in with the Minnesota Timberwolves, a clip of what appears to be his Charlotte residence has been circulating, due to the interior design choices therein. When I asked the…

ALPE D’HUEZ, France — Roughly halfway up the final climb of Stage 19, and roughly five hours before the riders hit the base, our car indulged the thick snarl of besotted fans who wanted to do the wave...

VOIRON, France — Last week, my colleague Jonny Long from Escape Collective (EC) remarked that he speaks to more old people at the Tour de France than he does the whole rest of the year. It’s true, and...

ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Exactly 84 minutes after Jonas Vingegaard spiked his right collarbone into a curb and limped into an ambulance and out of the Tour de France, the assembled press watched him ...

CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE, France — Roughly 15 minutes after driving past the start line, Harry Talbot decides it’s time to pull over next to a field of droopy sunflowers. He scouted the route of Stage 11 of t...