Department Of Defense Backtracks After Deleting Jackie Robinson Article For “Woke DEI”

On Tuesday night, ESPN MLB writer Jeff Passan shared that an innocuous article on the Department of Defense website honoring MLB legend Jackie Robinson’s sporting and military career had been removed. Trying to access the old page redirected to a new, inoperative page with a URL that had “DEI” jammed into it. The Robinson article … Read more

What The Beads Can Tell You

A week after Doug Ford (our provincial version of Trump, in every sense of the word) handily won the premiership of Ontario for a third time in a row, and within days of the announcement that some fucking banker was taking over as the new prime minister of Canada, I was in the National Gallery of … Read more

Novak Djokovic’s Loose Players Union Files Huge Lawsuit Against Tennis Power Structure

Novak Djokovic’s players union has mounted its most significant challenge to the governing superstructure of tennis. On Tuesday, the Professional Tennis Players Association, along with one dozen named professional tennis players, filed a sweeping lawsuit in U.S., U.K., and E.U. courts against the four most powerful agencies in global tennis: the International Tennis Federation, which … Read more

Fans Everywhere Are Slobbering At The Chance To Try Devin The Dugong’s Algorithmically Generated Sandwich

Opening Day is just around the corner, and if you follow the local news, there’s a decent chance you’ve been treated to a sneak peek of your home team’s bold innovations in the ballpark concession space. There’s the Sluggerrr Dog in Kansas City—”chorizo topped with Manchego, tempura batter, Doritos Cool Ranch crust, and avocado aioli.” … Read more

Gun Assembly Required | Defector

I’m watching The Gorge, a made-for-Apple movie that isn’t very good but will do the job on a lazy weekend morning. The story here is that there’s a gorge. It’s a very deep gorge, and its contents are so potentially dangerous that all of the world’s superpowers have deemed it necessary to entrust 24-hour surveillance … Read more

Hmm, What About The Clippers?

Maybe you forgot about the Los Angeles Clippers. It’s cool. It happens to me all the time. I think I did not remember them even once between Christmas and, uh, Sunday. If you’d asked me Tuesday afternoon to place the Clippers in the Western Conference standings without looking, I would’ve said, “Anywhere between third and … Read more

Ex-NFL QB Rodney Peete robs foul ball from Dodgers’ Max Muncy in Tokyo Series

During Wednesday’s Dodgers-Cubs game at the Tokyo Dome, Los Angeles third baseman Max Muncy reached over the netting to try catching a foul ball, but it landed in the glove of a spectator instead. That fan? Former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete. Peete, whose son RJ is a clubhouse attendant for the Dodgers, coolly made the grab … Read more