2025-12-16 05:05:50
The present-day Lakers-Suns rivalry seems to spring from profound mutual disgust. This is best glimpsed in microcosm, via the "rivalry" between LeBron James and Dillon Brooks, two hammy fellows who love to pout and push each other around. Over the course of Sunday's Lakers victory, the duo reheated a beef that dates back to at least the 2023 postseason. "I poke bears," Brooks, then on the Grizzlies, said at the time. He also called James "old."
Since that juncture, he's only gotten older, and both players have changed in role. James continued his steady, graceful descent out of the league's elite. Brooks, one of the best defensive wings of his era, has been promoted to an aesthetically brutal but decently effective iso scorer, as he soaks up usage for a shorthanded Phoenix team. Some things never change, though: Put them on a court together and these two personalities will always clash in a range of strange, tedious, and funny ways. "He likes people that bow down," Brooks said earlier this month. "I don't bow down." Yesterday's game was enough to produce a 10-minute beef video, for those who want to relieve every cheap shot, mean-mug, and campy flop. Or you can just cut to the possession that reveals the pure duality of Brooks and possibly determined the outcome of the game.
2025-12-16 03:30:05
Here's a one-play summary of the Cleveland Cavaliers season: On Sunday, Halfway through the second quarter, with his team trailing the piece-of-shit Charlotte Hornets, Darius Garland navigated not so much around but rather into a Jarrett Allen screen, smacked into his teammate, fell over, and gave up a pick-six layup.
2025-12-16 02:56:16
Saturday afternoon, a man barged into a lecture hall on the campus of Brown University in Providence, and fired an assault weapon at the 60 or so students assembled there. Eleven people were shot, and two died. The attacker left the hall and is presently at large. Rhode Island police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have not identified a suspect. "Obviously we have a murderer out there," Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General of Rhode Island, said Sunday, conceding that law enforcement has "no way of knowing" whether the shooter is still in town, or is even in the state.
Providence police described for media what authorities had gathered immediately after the shooting, in terms of concrete information about the shooter. "All we have," explained Timothy O'Hara of the Providence Police Department, at a press conference Saturday night, "is a suspect that is a male, dressed in black." Authorities said that a dearth of surveillance footage has made it hard to determine even how the attacker entered the building, let alone to develop a profile of the suspect. Sometime overnight, police received a tip and developed what they described as a "person of interest." FBI director Kash Patel said law enforcement used cell-phone information to track the person to a hotel room in the town of Coventry, R.I. That person was taken into police custody around 3:45 a.m.
2025-12-16 02:29:39
Last Wednesday, newly minted CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss dropped the big news. As she walked through the CBS newsroom, Weiss looked into the camera, mechanically moved her hands around, and gave it to us straight: "I just sat down for an hour with Erika Kirk, and we talked about everything."
Given that Weiss was speaking in the tone of voice usually reserved for correspondents reporting from a war zone, someone who was not familiar with Erika Kirk may have concluded that something really important had just happened. Those who are more familiar with Kirk, however, immediately knew what was up. Charlie Kirk's widow, who has been overexposed while awkwardly attempting to establish herself as a public figure in the wake of her husband's assassination, had found yet another friendly platform at Weiss's version of CBS News, which is starting to implement its newsroom chief's vacuousness on an institutional level.
2025-12-16 02:16:36
The Cincinnati Bengals are cheap. There is a good chance you already know this, as it is a longstanding issue. When Takeo Spikes joined the team in 1998, the team gave players used jockstraps. As of a few years back, the organization had just six full-time scouts. “There’s a lot of overkill in scouting across the league,” one scout said. In 2022, players brought their own microwaves into the team facility to reheat their lunches. In 2024, the Bengals received an F-minus grade for food in ESPN’s anonymous player survey. The stuff the team served to the professional athletes they employed was so wretched that they got a grade that doesn’t exist.
Which brings us to Sunday’s game against the Ravens, a contest Baltimore won, 24-0. Pregame, The Athletic’s Paul Dehner noticed something very Bengals about the stadium. About two hours before kickoff, he posted, the entire lower level was still covered in ice and snow.
2025-12-16 01:44:43
You know who got obliterated yesterday? Well, not Philip Rivers. Eat that with a pointed stick, you morbid ghouls.
We expect that the number and conditions of the many casualties from this most recent knives-and-cleavers mosh pit of a football Sunday shall be covered in the other squalid little corners of America's Preeminent Web Site, and so we won't be hypothetically dancing on any metaphorical graves or literal ACLs. All we know is that the one guy everyone knew was MLTGHAK (Most Likely To Get His Ass Killed) out there barely spiked his blood pressure in his first game in 1,800 days. Indeed, Rivers, at the age of half-dead (44), was the one quarterback out there on the Lumen Field turf in Seattle to lead his team to an actual American touchdown. His Indianapolis Colts did not win, but the literal grandfather they'd summoned off his riding mower earlier that week was not harmed in the effort, and looked more or less like himself, for whatever that may have been worth. Rivers was very politely sacked only once and finished his day with a better passer rating than the following people:
