it’s a little funny that Blanche is so stupid he accepts the premise and keeps referring to it as a “slush fund”

Chet Holmgren’s double OT: Held ball for a shot clock violation Missed open three Dunked into the sun Blocked like he’s a toddler

I still can't believe I just saw a 7'5 guy take a pull-up 30-foot game-tying three. This is what it must've been like to see a movie in color for the first time.

honestly Wemby shouldn’t be legal

That was the perfect OKC play: incredible play design, elite execution and SGA throwing himself to the ground for no reason

Caruso and Ayo with the best Bulls playoff performances in a decade

Harden went 2-10 from the field and was +31

This was perfect, Letterman forever

It’s a bit of a bummer that Wright Thompson is the only writer who gets the time and access to do these, but if there’s only gonna be one we’re lucky it’s him. www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

opening up microsoft teams every morning

This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

Very cool how the NBA sends you on a lil scavenger hunt every night, clicking through every streaming app trying to track down some playoff basketball.

“This is about as fun as it gets, man” couldn’t agree more, Pete!

If your phone rings, pick up. It’s probably Craig Counsell saying he needs you to get loose.

28 years ago today, Kerry Wood was so spectacular he elicited the only good call (“here comes the hook…”) of Chip Caray’s broadcasting career www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbIC...

ellolololololy de la cruz

“If I’m the King, I say let’s never go to Burger King” that ad isn’t reaching the demographic of 8-year-olds who live in my house

The Celtics play such an unwatchable brand of basketball they’ve got literally Reggie Miller saying they shoot too many threes

Called strike three. Rick Sutcliffe: “I’ll tell you what, I guarantee if that had been called a ball the catcher would have gone for a review.”

as a Chicagoan I never thought a weatherman could capture my heart like Skilling, but Templeton’s got the goods

the peak experience for any Bulls fan is seeing a player liberated from this joke franchise flourishing elsewhere

i'll see you in hell jerry reinsdorf

that’s what we refer to in the biz as A Good Win

the Ryan Rolison Game

Blake Treinen comes in and immediately gives up a moonshot. You absolutely love to see it.

Have observed an interesting thing about the Cubs: when they win every day I feel very good about the state of the franchise

@edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social looked at the rankings and realized it was my obligation to put BC one dollar ahead of the Hoyas in honor of my many fellow Eagles who were waitlisted by Georgetown

these Lakers uniforms look like they belong to an AAU team whose best player is committed to Wright State

Billy Donovan clearing the decks for the Reinsdorves to really stretch themselves and bring in GM Dave Corzine and Coach Kirk Hinrich

BIG HELPS sounds like an unreleased Deep Purple album

I do not share your surprise to learn Dansby has zero walkoff hits as a Cub, Boog

In thinking about what to do about the rogue Court, we maybe focus a bit too much on court packing yes or no, granted that's the most important. But some of the less sexy things can be done by more mundane statutory fixes. Congress could, and should, nuke the shadow docket.

Short...no, wait, verbatim JD Vance: “I think it’s very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.” www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/area...

The only sport that comes down to a player telling ten thousand people to move out of their seats

Keri Russell’s people spent longer negotiating with that old Tory lady in THE DIPLOMAT

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Dude when your wife wants to jump out of the plane because you’ve been talking to her about Western Civilization for three hours that’s not ”skydiving”

Lopez made the right business decision here, I would want zero problems with Jorge Soler

the 1992 version is peak One Shining Moment editing. You get the finger guns on shooting star, low-hanging fruit with Travis Best and the transition from Laettner’s stomp to dude wincing on the bench. A+ effort. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VohS...

a wistful Dan Hurley in the locker room, quietly chewing glass and muttering about the hidden hand of the Freemasons in referee circles

The skit here being that Brandon Woodruff has spent ten years throwing baseballs at his head.

UConn has gone to the line three times where the foul was just Too Disrespectful Block

Raftery understands at a deep level that genuine enthusiasm is in short supply and people need it

They don’t get to kill their people, that’s our job

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The political calculation is that as soon as Americans like something, the Trump Administration will seek to destroy it.

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

*jamming the Jeopardy buzzer* uh, what is…he’s one of the least strategic people on earth, powered by a brain that’s shutting off like the hallway lights on Lumon’s severed floor?