Month: April 2025

Have you turned on ESPN recently? You might be surprised to find that the sports bros are abandoning GOAT debates and getting political. No one is more an example of this than ESPN personality and perhaps Presidential candidate, Stephen A. Smith. So what’s going on here? And what does the Fox Newsification of sports media tell us about our current political culture and future?

Brittany is joined by co-host of NPR’s Code Switch podcast, Gene Demby, and Senior Staff Writer at the Ringer, Joel Anderson. Together, they discuss how sports commentary is way more political than you might think and why its most viral star Stephen A. Smith would even entertain the idea of running for president in 2028.

Davis was jazz critic for The Village Voice and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He wrote many books on jazz, and won a Grammy for his liner notes for the reissue of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.

New Yorker writer Sarah Stillman found dozens of cases of people with mental illness arrested for minor crimes and of deprived medication and healthcare. They died from malnutrition and dehydration.

In Sinners, Ryan Coogler creates a bold original vision, and Michael B. Jordan is at the top of his game.

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Michael B. Jordan plays twins Smoke and Stack in a music-besotted, blood-drenched supernatural thriller, Sinners. And Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a remake of the groundbreaking 1993 rom-com, The Wedding Banquet.

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Don’t be fooled by Brett Goldstein’s grumpy exterior – he can’t resist a big, open-hearted story. He’s learned that it’s possible to love even the most annoying person if you look at them hard enough.

You are all magnetic and user-centric examples of how, when we benchmark blue-sky thinking, even in a pre-tax, low-hanging-fruit environment, we leverage actionable, best-of-breed streamlining, period.

If you love to dye Easter eggs, but don’t love the current egg prices, here are some alternatives.

A survey by the language learning site Preply found that more than half of Americans say they use subtitles because movie soundtracks are too hard to understand.

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Don’t be fooled by Brett Goldstein’s grumpy exterior – he can’t resist a big, open-hearted story. You see it in the TV shows he’s acted in and helped create, “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking.” He’s about to release a new HBO standup special called “The Second Best Night of Your Life.” He spoke with Rachel about what Pixar knows about the afterlife and about finding ways to love annoying people.

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