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Patrick Redford

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Capital

Polymarket Apologizes For Taking Bets On American Pilots Downed Over Iran

Capital

Tech Media Propaganda Operation Makes It Official, Goes In-House At OpenAI

Food

Erewhon Is Not A Grocery Store

Podcasts

Critical New Jersey Hoops Survey, With Papo2oo4

March 31, 2026
NBA

The Wolves And Rockets Held An Incredible Meltdown-Off

March 26, 2026
Capital

Now That OpenAI Has Terminated Sora, How Will I Have This Blog Read To Me By An Uncanny Buxom Mike Wazowski?

Podcasts

Welcome To The Craziest Possible WNBA Offseason, With Maitreyi Anantharaman

March 24, 2026
NBA

Luka Doncic And Goga Bitadze Debate Whether They Threatened To Fuck Each Other’s Family Members In A Second Language

March 22, 2026
Cycling

Tadej Pogacar Takes One Beautiful Step Closer To Completing Cycling

March 22, 2026
NBA

I’m So Sorry To Tell You This But The Lakers Must Be Taken Seriously

Podcasts

Why The Thunder Have Been Cast As The NBA’s Villains, With Tyler Parker

March 19, 2026
Politics

Donald Trump Is Strangling Cuba To Death

NBA

The Sacramento Kings Can’t Even Lose On Purpose

March 16, 2026
Capital

Live Nation Gets To Keep Its Monopoly Thanks To Trump’s Department Of Justice

Podcasts

Associated “Association Update” Update, With Will Anderson Of Hotline TNT

March 11, 2026
Soccer

Boston’s World Cup Stakeholders Are Squabbling Over Money

NBA

Who Deserves To Win The NBA Draft Lottery?

Running

U.S. Half-Marathon Championships Thrown Into Chaos After Leaders Accidentally Led Off Course

Podcasts

New York Or Nowhere, With Will Menaker

Cycling

Cycling Prodigy Paul Seixas Accepts The Sport’s Defining Burden

Capital

Paramount Wins Hostile Takeover Bid For Warner Bros.

February 27, 2026
Podcasts

What Sort Of NBA Does Adam Silver Want To Build In Europe?

February 26, 2026
NBA

Jeffrey Epstein Appeared To Be A Big Joakim Noah Fan

February 26, 2026
Podcasts

Tank Me Later, With Ock Sportello And Sam Sheehan

February 25, 2026
Capital

Jeffrey Epstein And His Network Of Rich Freaks Were Obsessed With The Chiropractor

February 23, 2026
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