it was always gonna take all of us

Friday Night Lights.

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Unrivaled starts their new season at 1PM on the Monday that everyone is back at work? Didn’t realize they’d hired Rob Manfred.

Holy shit this game.

Mike Chase justifying the call on T-Mac like he’s on the Washington Post editorial board.

lane kiffin’s alone in his bentley right now blasting marvin’s room so loud the windows are shaking

REBS BABY

The Cuckold Bridegroom, by Jan Havicksz, 1670, 📸 by Justin Ford

Game flipped on the missed facemask. What a bummer.

News: Venus Williams has gotten a Wild Card for the Australian Open Will be her first appearance since 2021. Did try and play it a few years ago and got injured in Auckland, hopefully can play it with full fitness this time. 📸 Australian Open

Tonight's result is a testament above all else to the visionary leadership of the commissioner and presidents of the Atlantic Coast Conference

Sneaking in my favorite albums of 2025.

a greiving nation recites his catchphrase in perfect unison

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I’m not sure the viewership numbers support this. The first installment of season five achieved the highest premiere week viewership of any English-language show on Netflix.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

It’s such a good movie if you just ignore the ending. Maddening.

It's unfortunate that our funniest president is also our Hitler

Hell ain’t hot enough.

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This is a great list. I will say to the quoted excerpt, however — there’s rarely been a better time than the present to insist on the importance of movies. We need communal spaces. We need public art. We need Black stories. And Queer stories. And things that bring joy.

ESPN using the Sunday Night Baseball home plate mics on Phillip Rivers pre-snap.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

“If Sweeney is actively trying to court conservative audiences, projects with these themes would not be the ones to pick.” She’s not courting any audiences with her projects — outside of Anyone But You, no one is watching her movies. There’s very little evidence she’s a *movie* star.

All the coaches with more Playoff wins than Lane Kiffin

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Would’ve loved to be in the room when Tulane installed the “form a seance in the offensive backfield” play.

That’ll play, Rebs.

It’s Matt Yglesias — he gets most things wrong.

The Holdovers really is the perfect Christmas movie.

Merry fucking Christmas.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Something the story doesn’t really touch on — Per the NCES, 27% of 8th grade students are below the basic reading level. Another 39% are below the proficient reading level. Kids are coming to HS unable to read.

Giving 35-year old Mike Yastrzemski a 3rd-year option after he was traded for cash considerations at the deadline. Sure.

After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

There’s one dude in the crowd on the vinyl recording of Karly Hartzman and MJ Lenderman Live at Third Man Records who yells a vigorous “Yeah!” each time he realizes which MJL song it’s about to be. Dudes rock.

*Because that team couldn’t beat SMU.

OMG

This is great. For instance, Hamnet is a soul-breakingly tragic movie, but there are a couple real moments of humor sprinkled in.

We all should

Gameday getting after Lane’s ass *now* is quite the 180. And copping to the Sexton/CAA conflict of interest.

Hamnet absolutely devastated me. I mean, just wept in the theater amongst many other people weeping in the theater. Heartbreaking, beautifully shot, extremely moving. Oscar bait? Perhaps. Great movie? Undoubtedly. Give Jessie Buckley that Oscar right damn now.

They gentrified dialysis?