Celebrity cameos in "the greatest social experiment on television" was always going to be lame but they might have been able to salvage it by at least picking cool celebrities

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a group of people are dancing on a stage and the words go west are on the screen Alt: A GIF of the Village People performing "Go West" on a stage.

Some professional news... I'm delighted to be @cangeo.bsky.social's new (part-time*) Western Canada Editor! Coverage area: MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NWT. I'll have more detailed pitch guidelines once I get settled in, but in the meantime, I'm at holland@canadiangeographic.ca if you'd like to get in touch.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

The mainstream knock on LeBron is his Finals record when almost every loss can be attributed to his team being thin or the other team being historically amazing! (2011 the obvious exception.) It makes no sense.

As someone who has followed individual sports much longer than I've followed basketball it has been completely fascinating (negative connotation) to see how intent so many basketball people are on talking about it as if it's an individual sport

Nobody will be unsure of which evil unusable social media app you're talking about I promise

Have noticed more and more good media people beginning to call Twitter "X" lately and I hope it stops immediately, we must not be defeated by the dumb new version of everything

The antilinearity of concussion recovery is maddening. You feel mentally itchy, agitated with the state of your addled brain. You are in pain, though it flickers up in different ways and at different intensities, depending on the day, the hour. You will try to grasp for a word to express the sensation, only for the grasping itself to exacerbate your pain. You can feel the physical effort of thinking. It's like lying down with a thick slab of rock on your chest that you cannot squirm out from under. Any movement only heightens the sensation of being pressed, as does any increase in heart rate or aerobic activity. You just have to lie there.

Victor Wembanyama has a concussion. I wrote about that means: painful uncertainty defector.com/the-scariest...

LeBron James is 41. And he’s somehow still carrying his team in the playoffs The Lakers star would have been expecting to play a supporting role as he burrows into his 40s. But injuries means he has assumed a familiar role

I wrote about LeBron James: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

Me before this season: yeah the season seems a little long, I'll just tune in for the playoffs

Me after this game: the NBA is an injury factory, the 82-game season is a crime, games should be half as long, the court should be surrounded by padding

As a part-time basketball writer I want to be very careful not to overreact here: in the wake of Wemby's injury I think the Wolves and Nuggets should be allowed to finish their series before the rest of the playoffs are canceled so we can all mourn together

What I Found Sorting Through 1,200 T-Shirts My Son Left Behind | Defector I took the D-shirt challenge, knowing it would be an emotional rollercoaster through weepy terrain. There was some sun overhead though, and some smiles to cut through the cold reality that I had to…

What I found sorting through 1,200 T-shirts my son left behind: defector.com/what-i-found...

If the Wolves can get this to seven games and make it easier on the Spurs in round 2 I'll suggest Wemby give up his DPOY as thanks

Not sure I've belly laughed at sports like this since Djokovic beat Berrettini at the 2021 French Open

I like the Knicks but they are not a serious team and this has seemed pretty clear since the Pacers (who, I will admit, I like more) series last year

Good point, I think Alcaraz said something similar about how it felt more like his home tournament than Madrid. Maybe it would've been best to skip Monte-Carlo in that case -- I just can't believe he thought he could play everything when he's gotten hurt in almost every clay season of his career.

I don't think it was a good strategy at all. He hasn't been able to play a full clay season in years; I'm not sure how planning to play every tournament possible was ever going to work out.

I know my logic is flawed here because the specific injury was not necessarily predictable but this was worse decision-making from Alcaraz than all his bad shot selections over the years combined

Door A: skip small tournament in your home country in which you got hurt last year, play larger tournament in your home country, go into important title defenses rested and healthy

Door B: play small tournament, get hurt again, maybe have to sit out everything else

Tough choice!

The Block, As Remembered By The Guy Who Called It And The Guy Who Let It Be | Defector Monty McCutchen remembers the play unfolding in front of him. With just under two minutes left in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, the game tied at 89, Golden State’s Andre Iguodala grabbed a rebound…

The block, as remembered by the guy who called it and the guy who let it be: defector.com/the-block-as...

The second s stands for "super disapproved of"

I did the pulled rib muscle thing reaching too far for something while lying down on my side a couple years ago, washed at 22

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

LeBron James is 41. And he’s somehow still carrying his team in the playoffs The Lakers star would have been expecting to play a supporting role as he burrows into his 40s. But injuries means he has assumed a familiar role

I wrote about LeBron James: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

This is a very unpleasant-looking machine, unpleasant performance, unpleasant video; fortunately a real athlete on a bicycle is beautiful to look at, and could beat the machine easily

A 'politically homeless' man (in the Oval Office behind Donald Trump)

Steve Kerr, Draymond Green, and Steph Curry share a few moments together

That Draymond ejection seconds after the hug with Steve Kerr and Curry is too perfect lol

Zohran Mamdani: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."