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Tip jar sweepstakes

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Am I A Bug To You?

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Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist’s Child Doesn’t Care About Sports Gambling

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Drew Magary

Fox Sports play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson before a college basketball game between the St. John's Red Storm and the Connecticut Huskies at Madison Square Garden on February 23, 2025 in New York City.

Connecticut v St. John’s

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At Last, Gus Johnson Meets An Octave He Cannot Defeat

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Stephen A. Smith playing solitaire on his phone during the NBA Finals

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Stephen A. Smith And Other ESPNers Partner With Obscenely Scuzzy Mobile Casino

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ESPN Will Not Let Failure Push It Out Of The Gambling Business

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Media Meltdowns

Good Thing Nobody In Charge Of A Newspaper Wanted To Make Olivia Reingold A Video Star

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Terry Bradshaw (left) and Howie Long (right) on the set of the Fox NFL Sunday broadcast. Cleatus the Robot is in the background. Bradshaw is telling a story about texting someone he thought was Andy Reid and getting offered a chance to buy some pigs.

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Terry Bradshaw: A Man I Believed To Be Andy Reid Recently Tried To Sell Me Pigs

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Family Watching Television At Home

Podcasts Are Not Television

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Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends

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Washington Post Editor Karen Attiah leads a discussion on Saudi hacking techniques at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019 on May 28, 2019 in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Julia Reinhart/Getty Images)

Oslo Freedom Forum 2019

Washington Post Opinion Columnist Fired For Social Media Posts On Charlie Kirk

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AI Aaron Rodgers in an incorrect Steelers hat, looking like shit

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Fox Sports Uses AI To Achieve The Impossible: Make Aaron Rodgers Look Deader Inside

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Don’t Let The Shills Tell You The Commercial-Free Service Should Have Commercials

Retired football player and Fox Sports analyst Tom Brady looks on prior to Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Super Bowl LIX: Kansas City Chiefs v Philadelphia Eagles

NFL Once Again Tweaks Rules To Make Tom Brady Look Better At His Job

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Life's Rich Pageant

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The Feds, Unlike Shams Charania, Have Not Cleared Malik Beasley’s Gambling Case

Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever looks on prior to the game against the Chicago Sky during the first half at the United Center on July 27, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement.

Indiana Fever v Chicago Sky

Wall Street Journal Calls For Congressional Investigation Into Caitlin Clark Getting Fouled

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Pat McAfee Declares Himself A “Girl Dad” In Apology To Harassed College Student

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An Anatomy Of The Doping Story That Has The Tour de France Press Room Buzzing

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New York Times Seeks Buyouts Before Imposing Layoffs

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The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn’t Get Scooped By A Bigot

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Kirsten Gillibrand Has A Racist Meltdown Over Zohran Mamdani On Public Radio

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Brandy Jensen

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New York Times Holds Annual DealBook Summit

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Call Her On Her Bullshit

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ESPN’s NBA Finals Coverage Was A Pretty Rough Watch

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Alex Shultz

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to press after voting on the nomination of Michael Duffey to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment on June 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senators returned to Capitol Hill on Monday after the Memorial Day Holiday recess.

Senators Return To Capitol Hill After Memorial Day Holiday Recess

Nobody Wants To Talk About John Fetterman And Buzz Bissinger’s Pricey Memoir Project

(L-R) U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) react during the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Delegates, politicians, and the Republican faithful are in Milwaukee for the annual convention, concluding with former President Donald Trump accepting his party's presidential nomination. The RNC takes place from July 15-18.

2024 Republican National Convention: Day 2

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