Tatjana Maria now on court in Newport, where the grass season continues. Streaming available all week long!

shoutout to Tatjana Maria and Shintaro Mochizuki however 🌱 defector.com/you-dont-hav...

no age at which I would rule out Novak Djokovic making the semifinals of Wimbledon. nothing but medical death

Been a long stride since I did @defector.com, spent a thrilling 8-hours at a doomed Aqueduct sacrificing a Game 5 Fort Greene barseat. Worth every last $132 dollar. Thanks: @toley.bsky.social @remas.bsky.social @davidhill.bsky.social & @davidjroth.bsky.social, why not? defector.com/a-final-day-...

Some neato personal news: I'm joining the folks at @defector.com (as a spreadsheet guy, not an editor; I haven't the constitution for blogging). It's going to be fun!

talking head mode: I’m in ACES, a new docuseries about every player who made it to No. 1 on the ATP. fun to see them riff about each other they sat down with every single No. 1, with one exception. guess who?

i have never seen either 'Omen' but this is an incredible essay

blistering take that I so far have gotten no one to agree with me on: Trae Young will play better on his current contract than De'Aaron Fox on his

imagine how many lamelo dimes rudy is going to catch with his solar plexus

what are the best instances of the art being smarter than the artist

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I have a piece in this weekend's Businessweek on SINCARAZ FATIGUE (I'm not there yet but plenty of people are) www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @bloomberg.com

congrats @owensports.bsky.social !!! itwa.org/owen-lewis-w...

I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...

Sat down for the coveted Defector Books interview with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social, who somehow in talking about The Cruelty of Nice Folks got me to talk cheese curds, Wolves players, and how the book looks at the legacy of moderate liberalism Minnesota gave to the country defector.com/justin-ellis...

PARADE FASHION HIGHLIGHTS 1) Clyde wearing a Super Mario Sunshine hoodie. What’s next, Bill Bradley in a Pikmin tie 2) Jerome “Junkyard Dog” Williams in attendance and wearing his own jersey 3) Hukporti in a “Belly” t-shirt

It's pub week for The Cruelty of Nice Folks! I started off writing a book about the death of George Floyd and the treatment of black life in Minneapolis. It took five years to bring this book into the world, and I never knew where it would take me. Let's talk about it:

my confession: "KNICKS IN 5" is a bizarre chant after the series is complete. it was aspirational before ... but it's over, we won! is it common for fans of championship teams to chant the number of games in the series

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current Wemby discourse will age like Freedom fries

“Man, I love that kid,” Lindsay Whalen said when I asked her about Olivia Miles. Had some fun writing about the Lynx rookie and the exciting state of PG play in the WNBA rn:

a surreal pleasure to cover an NBA Finals that ended in a Knicks win. took a few angles on it: KAT's calm, New Yorkers' anti-calm after the OG tip-in, the print media boom, a trip to San Antonio to witness fan lunacy and a Brunson classic

a dispatch from Game 5… they were Eddy Curry jersey at the Alamo [gift link] defector.com/the-circus-c...

blogged www.postingandtoasting.com/knicks-free-...

[whispers] there’s a whole new ending in the paperback version

This is a good reflection from @girinathan.bsky.social

calmly, in real time, reacting to the tip-in in the serge ibaka scarves debate voice, og, og, stop og

Only in a Giri column

wrote about a beautiful night observing my Knicks brethren after the Hand of God defector.com/one-euphoric...

Really good talk with @girinathan.bsky.social this week about watching Knicks games like a crazy person and sneaking food writing into tennis writing, with a bonus Jose Alvarado Prophecy from Giri. defector.com/guttural-fan...

remembering that i used phrase "HAND OF GOD" in a knicks post a few weeks ago. blogging is the lathe of heaven

the single best thing about nyc is that everyone is doing some different type of shit from one other but it's also nice if every 37 years ~everyone briefly cares about the same shit

46 glorious days of not having to point at this sign. but they need to get KAT and Mikal some touches, please move around fellas

mitchell robinson actually has the politics that are projected onto caitlin clark

not only this, I wrote about the strange feeling of mind-melding *with* the casuals. We all have the same dumb grin on and it has felt incredible defector.com/what-is-this...

- i'd like to find a way to trade even more picks for mikal bridges - kat fmvp will heal the world - every time og toasts wemby on a closeout is holy - i endorse cloning 4-6 landry shamets - brunson has been late-period ray felton for 7/8 quarters and still up 2-0 going home

i’m ready

@girinathan.bsky.social on an Andreeva vs. Chwalinska final. www.thesecondserve.com/andreeva-and...

It was a big time for ‘learn to code’ stuff, but guess what? Now coding is useless* and abstruse philosophy is front and center*. It’s called foresight sweetie *these claims are not true

if you told a philosophy major in 2013 that in a decade the newspaper would be closely tracking a group of eccentric utilitarians and and debating the nature of consciousness it would have been a real trip

good stuff as always from @girinathan.bsky.social defector.com/karl-anthony...

andre agassi has an unfiltered quality on tv that is bracing and fun but it also feels like he's always about 30 seconds riff away from ending his tv career

it was amazing to watch KAT outplay Wemby by overcoming his own worst tendencies. and to hear him describe the source of his calm defector.com/karl-anthony...

FLASHBACK: “Fourth round is nothing," Andreeva said. What 16-yr-old says that? "Maybe if I win a slam, I have to win three more matches, and it’s really tough to win seven matches in a row. I don’t think that I did something incredible. I have time to do it, I hope." defector.com/beware-the-f...

Karl-Anthony Cities. Karl-Anthony Metropolises

the ideal number of editors for a piece of writing is 2. strange things begin to happen at 3+. plastic surgeries to repair previous plastic surgeries, weird scar tissue in the syntax

Really late to the game on this one but I—someone who has almost never watched tennis and knows next-to-nothing about it—have finally started reading Changeover by @girinathan.bsky.social and it's fucking incredible and I think I love tennis now?

While I watch Wemby I'm going to be thinking about how Nathaniel photographs Wemby

not enjoying this at all but the silver lining is that I’ll no longer experience that jumpscare when the husband is shown

no. 1 seeds only permitted to exit Roland-Garros via some of the worst collapses in recent memory