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NBA
Much Ado About A Worthless Pick In An Awful Draft
280
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Chris Thompson
June 28, 2024
MLB
The Padres And Nationals Manufactured A Thrilling Summertime Rivalry Out Of Nothing At All
118
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Chris Thompson
June 26, 2024
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NBA
Kristaps Porzingis Rained Hellfire On The Hapless Mavericks
168
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Chris Thompson
June 7, 2024
NBA
Behold The Defector NBA Finals Mega-Preview
143
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Patrick Redford
,
Giri Nathan
,
Tom Ley
,
Albert Burneko
,
Chris Thompson
,
Luis Paez-Pumar
, and
Ray Ratto
June 6, 2024
MLB
MLB Makes A Convenient Example Of Several Gambling Bozos
248
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Chris Thompson
June 4, 2024
MLB
The White Sox Are Ready To Kick Someone’s Ass, Just Not At Baseball
224
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Chris Thompson
June 3, 2024
NBA
Anoint Yourself, Dammit!
73
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Chris Thompson
May 24, 2024
Defector At The Movies
Please Do Not Strive For Documentary Realism In A Movie (Spoiler Alert) Where A Huge Worm Bursts Out Of A Man’s Eye-Socket
104
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Chris Thompson
May 23, 2024
NBA
The Silly Pacers Handed It To The Celtics, Over And Over Again
130
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Chris Thompson
May 22, 2024
NBA
The Timberwolves Have Not Yet Surprised Themselves
91
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Chris Thompson
May 20, 2024
MLB
Absolute Skenes
93
Comments
Chris Thompson
May 17, 2024
Elder Wisdom
How To Make (Or Possibly Not To Make) A Vegetable Garden
80
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Chris Thompson
May 17, 2024
NBA
That Was Violence!
122
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Chris Thompson
May 17, 2024
MLB
The Sucky Cardinals Are Headed Into Unfamiliar But Well-Charted Waters
119
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Chris Thompson
May 13, 2024
MLB
Please Give Us James Wood Now, Before Joey Gallo’s Shoulder Un-Kerplodes
51
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Chris Thompson
May 10, 2024
MLB
Please Give Us Paul Skenes Now, Before His Elbow Kerplodes
97
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Chris Thompson
May 7, 2024
NBA
The Scrappy Knicks Finally Sent The 76ers To The Grave
195
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Chris Thompson
May 3, 2024
MLB
Days Of Simmering Red-Assedness Lead To Sudden Basebrawl
90
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Chris Thompson
May 1, 2024
NFL
Bears’ New Stadium Proposal Includes A Lifetime Of Public Debt
207
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Chris Thompson
April 28, 2024
MLB
Hold Off On Judging The Floundering Astros, Or Judge Away!
54
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Chris Thompson
April 28, 2024
NBA
Joel Embiid Is Persevering, For Good And Ill
190
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Chris Thompson
April 26, 2024
NFL
Bears Owners Roll Out Grotesque Stadium Plan With History’s Creepiest Launch Ceremony
223
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Chris Thompson
April 25, 2024
MLB
The Wandering Athletics Right-Size Their Operation To A Rinky-Dink Minor-League Park In Sacramento
237
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Chris Thompson
April 4, 2024
Science
Fusion Researchers Set New Record For Ignoring My Wish To Be Consumed By The Heat Of Seven Suns
105
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Chris Thompson
April 3, 2024
MLB
A New Season Finds The Oakland Athletics In The Same Dumb Limbo
181
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Chris Thompson
April 1, 2024
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