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5 Things I Learned While Spending a Weekend by Myself With My Infant Daughter for the 1st Time
Last weekend I celebrated my first Father’s Day. It was a day of fun, food, rest, joy and, since the Cavs won (!), contentment. It was a great day. The weekend before, my wife was out of town on business, which meant I spent the entire weekend alone with my daughter for the first time.…
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10 Things You Can Say About LeBron if You Still Want to Hate Him but Have Run Out of Things to Say
So, after LeBron James returned to Cleveland and delivered a championship to a city that hasn’t seen one since the Paleolithic era, and did this while … beating the team that just completed the best regular season in NBA history; coming back from a 3-1 deficit (something that has never been done before in the…
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10 Possible Demographics for Steph Curry’s Ridiculously Ugly Curry 2 Low ‘Chef’ Sneakers
NBA MVP Stephen Curry should be on cloud nine right now. He’s leading a team favored to win the NBA Finals; he has a beautiful family, including a wife who’s definitely putting in that “dual income” work; and he reportedly inked a deal with Under Armour that’s worth nine figures. And, according to something I…
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On Those Too Stuck On ’90s Nostalgia to Appreciate Great NBA Basketball Today
There are few ironies as clear and demonstrative as the fact that Michael Jordan—a man who from 1985 to maybe 2005 was perhaps the coolest man on the planet (and is still able to sell millions of shoes from the residue of that status)—has somehow emerged as a proxy for what is decidedly uncool. Of…
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Dear White People: Here’s How to Interact With Your Black Co-Workers After They’ve Seen Roots
Hello, white people. Thanks for stopping by and reading! As many of you may already know, during the Memorial Day holiday, the History Channel began airing a four-part remake of Roots—the iconic miniseries tracing a black family’s history starting in West Africa, through American chattel slavery and up to the present day. As you can…
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Why People Have So Many Dumb Opinions About What Happened With Harambe the Gorilla, Explained
In your title you imply that many people have dumb opinions. Are you saying that people are generally stupid? I’m not saying that. I’m not not saying it. But I’m definitely not saying it. What I am saying is that none of us is immune to dumb opinions. Even the smartest and most aware of…
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Why Draymond Green Is and Isn’t a Dirty Player, Explained
Who is Draymond Green? Draymond Green is a do-everything utility man for the Golden State Warriors; the engine that steams their machine; the straw that stirs their coffee; the detergent that sparkles their dishes. He is their heart and soul, their guts and grit, their … Are you just going to speak in sportswriting clichés?…
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Why ‘Make America Great Again’ Is an Insult (and a Lie), Explained
Who is Krystal Lake? Krystal Lake is a 22-year-old New York City woman who recently received death threats after wearing a hat with the words “America was never great”—an obvious turn on Donald Trump’s “Make America great again” presidential campaign slogan. She’d also be my spirit animal if that position wasn’t already occupied by King…
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Here Is the Darth Becky Mount Rushmore
It’s been a few weeks since Beyoncé turned the entire Internet into a collection of underqualified Easy Rawlinses—theorizing, guessing, hypothesizing and attempting to deduce the identity of Becky With the Good Hair. (The verdict? Maybe it was Rachel Ray. Maybe it was a MacGuffin. And maybe it was just Beyoncé’s new way of saying Sasha…
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4 Beloved Contemporary Classics That Would Be Hated if They Came Out Today
I was late to the Love Jones train. Now, being late to things isn’t something that’s particularly uncommon with me. I think I was the last person on earth without a cellphone (didn’t get one until 2002), I started binge-watching Game of Thrones last spring, and I didn’t realize the Weeknd was just one person…
