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Albert Burneko

Birdfector

Some Tips For Having A Successful Birdbath

Colorado Avalanche score against Tampa Bay Lightning, Game 2 Stanley Cup Final

All Seven Goals In Colorado’s Blowout Game 2 Win, Graded

Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber hoist the Larry O'Brien NBA championship trophy

Get The Owner Out Of My Face

Arts And Culture

Novelist’s Plagiarism Defense Is A Truly Mind-Blowing Document

Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins (Golden State Warriors) wrestle Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics) for the ball

What’s Up With Jayson Tatum?

Chefector

Let’s Make Cacio e Pepe

Stephen Curry shoots against Al Horford and Robert Williams in Game 2 of the NBA Finals

The Warriors Warriored All Over The Celtics

A bunch of old-timey basketball players from an Olympics in the black-and-white era

A Sophisticated And Punctual Preview Of The 2022 NBA Finals, For Basketball Idiots

Let’s Sauté Some Rapini, Because I Forgot It’s Memorial Day Weekend

Politics

What It’s Like Here

Washington Commanders owners Daniel and Tanya Snyder

The Commanders Bought Some Land In Freaking Patagonia

Adama Traore of Barcelona, Alfonso Pedraza of Villarreal, both going to the ground in pursuit of the ball

Soccer

Thank God Barcelona’s Season Is Over

Let’s Cook Some Blue Crabs

Journalismism

Shams, Please, Go On Some Dates Man

Barry Petchesky

In this photograph taken on June 17, 2011 a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft of Susi Air prepares to take off at Jayapura airport in Papua province. An Indonesian aircraft with one Australian and one Slovak pilot on board crashed in the country's remote Papua region on September 9, 2011, a company spokesman said, with both men feared dead. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Life's Rich Pageant

Point/Counterpoint: Landing A Plane If You Had To

Won’t Somebody Think Of The Stupid Children?

Media Meltdowns

The Blog Of The Year Is This Deranged Book Excerpt

A pair of poached eggs, on toast, with chives

Let’s Poach Some Eggs, The Extremely Easy Thing To Do

Ja Morant lays in the game-winner for the Grizzlies against the Timberwolves

I’m So Glad The Grizzlies And Wolves Found Each Other

Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz tries to pass the ball while laid out on the floor against the Dallas Mavericks

The Utah Jazz Spent An Evening In Spirit Prison

Trae Young Had The Game 1 From Hell

A Richly Informative And In Fact Quite Punctual Preview Of The 2022 NBA Playoffs

Everyone Involved In Yanking Clayton Kershaw From His Perfect Game Must Go To Prison (Just For A Few Days)