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Video Game of the Year by Jordan Minor — Your favorite video game history book but online.

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Me trying to shorten my way-too-long index:

Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny Good Guys Bad Guys Explosions The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny

Alt: Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny Good Guys Bad Guys Explosions The Ultimate Showdown Of Ultimate Destiny

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Everything about this person screams "Killed in the Battle of Geonosis."

Hot take: Some soccer fan billionaire eating a few million dollars a year to support local soccer coverage across America would have a much bigger impact on the future of the sport than subsidizing the salary of a fancy USMNT manager

Thank you @defector.com for publishing my epic on the history of football's hideout play (aka the sleeper play, aka the lurking along the sidelines play), a story that spans from the 1860s to the 2020s and involves my grandfather, Johnny Manziel, and Amos Alonzo Stagg defector.com/how-one-tric...

How One Trick Play Tells The History Of Football | Defector

When I called up my grandfather Irwin Miller last fall, I asked him if he felt his age. “Uh, no, probably 94,” he said, laughing as he shaved off three years. “The body feels 97, the head doesn’t, tha...

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Speaking of vacuous death cults blinded by the devotion they've oversold to the world: www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo named in new coach Jorge Jesus' first squad

Cristiano Ronaldo is named in the first squad selected by new Portugal coach Jorge Jesus for their upcoming Nations League games.

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The tragic irony of Annie Dillard dying is there is maybe no one I would rather hear distill the experience of whatever is waiting for us after death.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...

Looking for more Legend of Zelda? I wrote a book about how Zelda works as a franchise that's out next April. It's about what these games provide for players, how they do it, and how they answer the questions facing all franchises. Preorder it here or somewhere else! bookshop.org/p/books/lege... 

I wrote a book! It's out next April from Bloomsbury! It's called Legendary: The Many Lives of The Legend of Zelda! It's a cultural and personal history of Nintendo's greatest series! It talks about innovation, canon, joy and more! Preorder it here or somewhere else! bookshop.org/p/books/lege...

I wrote a book! It's out next April from Bloomsbury! It's called Legendary: The Many Lives of The Legend of Zelda! It's a cultural and personal history of Nintendo's greatest series! It talks about innovation, canon, joy and more! Preorder it here or somewhere else! bookshop.org/p/books/lege...

I hope Labaron Philon does a bit where he says, "Yeah?" every time someone calls LeBron's name.

I say this every time but I swear I have literally never seen Lautaro Martinez have a good game. I am his own personal jinx.

Well, at least I don't have to write about it.

Is Gio still playing?

We even underhit the touchback kickoff.

Feels like the coaching special sauce was aligning a squad of incredibly inconsistent players into all having pretty good days at the same time twice in a row.

Nine-year-old: So why is Balogun back? Me:

Elmo's Long Exasperated Sigh

ALT: Elmo's Long Exasperated Sigh

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Rafa Marquez would have scored by now.

Harry goes for the defender's face every single time there's a high ball.

It's cute how the rest of Norway remembered at the end to include Haaland in their "Defense!" huddle.

Rene Higuita and Carles Puyol in the same box is arguably too much hair.

Everyone but Messi on this Argentina team deserves to go home and we should just give him to CV for the rest of the tournament.

"Is he real?" - The five-year-old, pointing at Messi

Truly criminal that FIFA has managed to schedule this thing so that neither the US nor England were likely to play on July 4.

Is he trying to recruit LeBron to the Warriors?

Shot of John Terry celebrating is some reality TV-level ragebaiting production.

I think commercials would actually be preferable to hearing Livin' on a Prayer during these breaks.