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Chris Thompson

Sports Leagues Have Stopped Even Pretending To Give A Shit

Interviews

A Medieval Historian Explains Why The Magna Carta Has Nothing To Do With COVID-19

Jayson Tatum and Daniel Theis look like crap in black Celtics alternate uniforms.

No More Black NBA Uniforms, Please

Alex Cora makes a stupid face as manager of the Boston Red Sox, back before he was fired for being a cheater.

Red Sox Rehire Alex Cora, HEY LOOK OVER THERE

A crowd of dorks chants "stop the vote" in front of an election station in Detroit.

Life's Rich Pageant

Look At These Dorks

Trent Brown of the Raiders chills on the sideline during a game against the Cardinals earlier this season.

Something Very Scary Is Happening With Trent Brown

Stories

The Flashlight Trick

A sideline view of Nebraska's Memorial Stadium, where the Defector Idiots hope to achieve ultimate glory in the sport of college football

This Is So Stupid

The Nebraska Cornhuskers Must Face Us On The Gridiron This Weekend

Baseball Should Kill The Baseball

Writer and podcaster Ben Reiter talks about the Astros.

Journalismism

Guy Who Was Completely Blind To Astros Cheating Scandal Now Has Podcast About All This Cheating Business

Daniel Jones of the Giants wipes out at the end of a long run.

Daniel Jones Fall Down Go Boom

The Great Outdoors

Now Is The Time To Befriend The Birds, By Feeding Them

A view of the asteroid Bennu, from the camera of OSIRIS-REx.

Science

An Earth Robot Is Taking Soil Samples On An Asteroid Tonight And By God You Will Know About It

Disgusting cockroaches cover a paper structure.

An Interview With The Professional Exterminator Who Defeated My Accursèd Roach Trunk

Adam Gase Ambles Onward, Unkillable

Maitreyi Anantharaman

From left, booze cookie-maker Molly Blakeley, disgraced Anchorage mayor Ethan Berkowitz, also disgraced TV reporter Maria Athens

Some Shit Is Going Down In Alaska, Man

Max Muncy of the Dodgers celebrates a grand slam in Game 3 of the NLCS.

The Dodgers Pounded The Braves Flat As A Pancake, And It Ruled

A Lakers fan celebrates in the streets of Los Angeles in front of many policemen.

I Am Glad This NBA Season Is Finally Over

Two random Knicks players, doing random basketball stuff, forgettably.

Can You Name 10 Non-Random Knicks Players? You Cannot

An old trunk that Chris Thompson inherited upon the death of his mother-in-law.

A True Homeowner Horror Story

A view of the brain of Waylon Smithers, from The Simpsons.

Underexplained Lists

Internal Organs, Ranked

Isaiah Thomas of the Washington Wizards reacts after being ejected during the first quarter against the Portland Trail Blazers at Capital One Arena on January 03, 2020 in Washington, DC.

Isaiah Thomas Is Pain-Free For The First Time In Three Years, For The Fourth Time In Three Years

Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up as he steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on October 1, 2020. - The US president announced in the small hours of October 2, 2020, that he and First Lady Melania Trump would be going into quarantine after they were both found to have contracted the novel coronavirus. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Politics

This Is Happening

Several Heat players ineffectually harass LeBron James.