Rapinoe's World Cup has to be up there with the greatest all-time talk-and-back-it-up performances in sports history. Tangle with a President and win World Cup and MVP? A socially conscious athlete pilloried for patriotism? No one will *ever* be Ali, but there's Ali in Rapinoe.
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if you guys think there were no airports built in 1776 you have not been to LaGuardia
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This will be the first Warriors-Cavaliers NBA Finals since 2017, and only the fourth since 2015.
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There's a guy in this coffee shop sitting at a table, not on his phone, not on a laptop, just drinking coffee, like a psychopath.
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Olympic legend Katie Ledecky confronts her most grueling event: Dulles Airport.
Welcome home, Katie! 🎉
Katie Ledecky received a warm welcome as she arrived at Dulles Airport from the Paris Olympics. She told News4 “it hasn’t really sunk in” that she’s the most decorated American female Olympian.
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“It’s going to look weird if the NHL commissioner is sitting outside in the hedges.”
“Well...put a hockey net there.”
“A hockey net, in the hedges?”
“Yes.”
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Jeter: “I don’t want Gronk staying at my house, OK?”
Brady:
Gronk (wearing Jeter’s monogrammed bathrobe and Yankees flip flops): “What did he say?”
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THE ONLY DEBATE YOU NEED
CAT V. DOG:
SHOULD AMERICA RETURN TO WORK
For @WSJ: wsj.com/articles/stay-home-b…
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For Alcaraz, each of these Djokovic matches is like Jedi graduate school - every game, every set, every hour he spends with Novak he learns and separates himself from tennis's young generation. Invaluable education, impossible to replicate.
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we tend to overemphasize on-air yakkers but tv sports is often an art; this shot sequence (altuve rounding first, Chapman smiling ruefully, the silouette of streamers) is produced, framed and assmbled in real time and is masterful. the folks that do this are incredibly skilled.
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A great moment in “Apollo 11” is when NASA announces the heart rates of the astronauts during the launch.
Buzz Aldrin was...88 BPM.
A stone-cold American legend.
50 years ago today, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I launched into space on a mission of enormous importance. God bless the 400,000 Americans who helped us get to the moon and back. Together, we Americans can do anything! Never forget July 16, 1969! #Apollo50
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Remove plug, drain old oil, remove old filter, replace with new filter, eat some avocado toast, listen to some NPR. What's so complicated?
As one Trump voter said to me: "You media assholes are always telling us how to live, but you can't change a fucking oil filter." nitter.app/markopp1/status/868893…
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Steph Curry has entered the Roger Federer Zone, in which there's no such thing as a hostile crowd and it's a party wherever he goes, because it's beautiful to watch, and you're not sure if you'll ever see someone play like this again.
New column: wsj.com/articles/steph-curry…
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not sure how this is possible but ainge now has two third round picks in the 2020 NFL draft
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there are 200-plus people standing here,
watching the TV on some person's front deck.
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remember the 1st year of “the real world” on MTV: how quaint and weirdly earnest it was, and then in later seasons the casts figured out the way to get attention was to be loud & absurd and the show became unwatchable and toxic. I think about that all the time with social media.
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This Astros thing keeps getting bigger
DEVELOPING: The entire Russian government is resigning, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has announced kron4.com/news/world/russian…
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if LeBron blew his stack, threw a mouthpiece at a fan, and got ejected, you'd never be able to listen to sports radio for 30 years.
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"I respectfully disagree with your opinion." nitter.app/ruckin_/status/1001556…
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A decade ago, I spent time with the Jonas Brothers for a magazine story.
With a Jonas comeback underway, I went back to see them for the first time in years.
Now they drink and cuss and order caviar.
I enjoy this version of the Jonas Brothers.
harpersbazaar.com/culture/ar…
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Wait they just did this, without polling Ravens fans?
Baltimore removed several Confederate monuments overnight in an unannounced stealth move on.wsj.com/2fLiFB5
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What if Silicon Valley could create a news product that could be delivered once a day, full of verified reporting and storytelling and discussion. In an ideal scenario, you could go to the front door, or wander out to the driveway in your bathrobe, and there it would be.
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Stop treating sports owners like royalty and/or deities.
AND CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAMES!
“Mr. Kraft” and the Sports Owner God Complex
New column for the @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/mr-kraft-an…
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You won't tell your grandkids about Roger Federer's tennis trophies.
You'll tell them how it felt to watch Roger Federer play.
No one played the game more beautifully.
Roger at Retirement. New:
wsj.com/articles/roger-feder…
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I am very here for the NFL Pizza War
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Matt Patricia looks like a guy explaining how he survived 14 hours on the tarmac at LaGuardia.
Photo @LesBowen
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I think about this a lot, if we will get this NYC back.
#Robyn Afterparty at the E train station after the @robynkonichiwa show at MSG
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There's an insidious notion that some sports media are "rooting against sports to return." It's an absurd claim to make about a field already demolished by games shutting down. Reporters are looking at plans & asking fair questions. It's not "rooting against." It's reporting.
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Very odd transition but OK
New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution, stemming from a raid on a day spa in Florida. Here's how Kraft became a billionaire cnn.it/2EaxaqG
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Why did UCLA gymnast @katelyn_ohashi's floor routine become the viral video of 2019 so far?
A lot of reasons. She's great, the routine was great, the music's great, the world is on fire and we crave some good news.
But mostly: Joy.
For @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/a-must-see-…
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tom brady eats avocado ice cream, quinoa pancakes and hasn't tasted sugar since 2003
Teams concerned about Kaepernick's vegan diet tinyurl.com/n8u32nm
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“When should we open up America and get back to work?”
Debated by the only two opinions that matter:
CATS and DOGS
For @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/stay-home-b…
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Watching the Warriors win is like watching a rich person buy a vacation home.
I mean, I’m happy for them, I guess.
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its a good show. you don't know you need it until you watch it.
wsj.com/articles/the-importa…
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you let the bandana down and all of a sudden you look like you’re leading a creative writing workshop
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I wrote about my friend Tom, a lovely reporter and man, who died yesterday, at age 44.
I wish you'd all gotten to meet him.
wsj.com/articles/to-our-frie…
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To celebrate, Gregg Popovich has moved tomorrow's Spurs practice from 5:30 AM to 6:30 AM.
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55 dead at nursing home in my neighborhood. 30 dead at a nursing home in my hometown.
these are loved ones, spouses, parents, grandparents...and their loved ones can’t properly mourn.
let’s try to cool it on all the amateur epidemiology on here.
wsj.com/articles/new-york-ci…
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Seventeen years in, we have found the only topic everyone on Twitter agrees with: baseball All Stars should wear their usual uniforms.
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great sports moment: 21-year-old Biniam Girmay, from cycling-mad Eritrea, wins Gent-Wevelgem and becomes the first Black African to win a prestige cobblestoned classic.
just the beginning for a great rider
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Brian Daboll looks like he's selling Christmas trees.
Now that here is a Fraser fir
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Derek Jeter pacing around the The Players Tribune newsroom, smoking, looking over Durant's shoulder as he types. "Move the nut graf up."
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Celtics are a total pleasure under Stevens and will be stacked next year. Sixers are already stacked and might make the Finals. Knicks may want to reincorporate as a furniture store.
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until today didn't know how many hardcore chargers fans with graphic design backgrounds were on twitter
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small thing but I thought @royceyoung was tremendous on ESPN last night: measured, informed, exactly the right tone. a surreal story, optimally covered.
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I went to go see the one and only @chrissyteigen with a theory:
Chrissy Teigen is the Last Likable Person on the Internet
(Except to President Trump, who's blocked her.)
My Chrissy manifesto for @voguemagazine
vogue.com/article/chrissy-te…
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All I want is for a college basketball coach to say:
"I make $5 million per year. The NCAA will get $1 billion simply for TV rights to this year's March Madness. This "corruption" is merely what happens when you shut off a valve of a market economy."
I am not holding breath.
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genius idea alert: @vanmoof bikes had problem with shipping damage. So it put flat TVs on its boxes. Problem solved.
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wonder if Nevada does the old magazine writer deadline trick: if Friday afternoon is OK isn’t first first thing Monday also OK. Which basically gets you Tuesday.
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I spoke to LeBron James about the power of bicycles.
And it got *dorky.* Cannondale, Huffy, Mongoose, commuting, Critical Mass, whether or not he's tried clipless pedals, hybrids, spandex...
LeBron James: The Bicycle Interview. For @WSJ:
wsj.com/articles/the-lebron-…
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