Owen Lewis
@owensports.bsky.social
Contributing writer for Defector, bylines at The Guardian, n+1, The Second Serve, Texas Monthly, The Athletic, others. Say hi/reach out for work: owentennis11@gmail.com https://defector.com/author/owen-lewis
I interviewed @mattfutterman.bsky.social about his new tennis book, The Cruelest Game, which is as thorough an account of the sport's bleak qualities as I've read: defector.com/the-cruelest...
'The Cruelest Game' Examines Tennis As Torture | Defector
Professional tennis has a way of breeding misery. It begins with the dream of reaching the No. 1 ranking, but almost everybody falls short. Those who find the promised land feel puzzlingly empty once ...
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If guys are struggling to put away Jodar in baby form they are going to be so cooked in a few years
Everything I wrote about Russell Westbrook was the most Free Darko shit of my life (complimentary). I just don't know a way to write about him beyond being like "He is a monster of want, and the inexorable expediter of his own destruction—and transcendence." Some of that's me, but most of it's him.
Great magazine writers, please keep profiling Jeremy Strong once a decade until the end of time www.gq.com/story/jeremy...
Can Jeremy Strong Make Us Root for Mark Zuckerberg?
With now infamous artistic commitment, the actor made us love ‘Succession’’s biggest failson—and earned a place in the prestige TV firmament. ‘The Social Reckoning’ offers an even bigger challenge.
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Washington Post Opinions hiring a Barstool alum and a Hillsdale College alum is perfect to me. Surely Justin and Thomas will Make It Make Sense (and help them finally achieve their dream of breaking 500 views on YouTube).
I interviewed @mattfutterman.bsky.social about his new tennis book, The Cruelest Game, which is as thorough an account of the sport's bleak qualities as I've read: defector.com/the-cruelest...
'The Cruelest Game' Examines Tennis As Torture | Defector
Professional tennis has a way of breeding misery. It begins with the dream of reaching the No. 1 ranking, but almost everybody falls short. Those who find the promised land feel puzzlingly empty once ...
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With the power of AI, information can pour straight through your skull and onto the ground without ever slowing:
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing | Defector
Reading. What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. When you read a book, the stuff in the book goes into your mind, and your mind…
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Police were killing people in the streets and have killed more people every year since, and what some are mad about after all these years and police funding still taking up large parts of city budgets, is that they had to use someone’s preferred pronouns. Beyond parody how much of a joke this is.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agofinally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant
Was talking with a writer friend today about how freelancers can appear to be thriving from the list of great publications in their bio and the 2-3 things they put out every week, and in reality they're not only making ~$30k/year but writing so much that they don't really have a route to making more
This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d agoAxios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
While wearing an orange wig and a big red foam nose, Fabrizio Romano insists he's not a clown:
While Wearing An Orange Wig And A Big Red Foam Nose, Fabrizio Romano Insists He's Not A Clown | Defector
If you are a soccer fan of any real commitment, then surely you’ve seen last week’s news that Real Madrid officially landed Ivorian winger (and former Florida high school student!) Yan Diomandé,…
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When crypto first got big I spent one full year looking for a plain language explanation of why it was valuable and finally concluded it did not exist. With AI the closest thing I’ve found is “it will automate all work” which is both fantastical and predatory. Anyhow this is your pension money.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4d agoWall Street giants partner with Nvidia on $500bn AI financing deal ft.trib.al/ag1oJ9j
Clearly this is wrong based on the Bluesky drama of the day but I was under the impression that most of us were here so that we didn't have to think about the Nazi site
I’ll tell you why really aggravates me about this Sophie Cunningham shit. In my line of work, the profile is all but dead. We used to do them at GQ all the time, back when the magazine was great and EIC Jim Nelson let us paint the subject warts and all… www.gq.com/story/duck-d...
Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Gives Drew Magary a Tour of West Monroe
The stars of A&E's Duck Dynasty, reality TV's most popular show, drop knowledge on Drew Magary.
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Schedule an exhibition between Sabalenka and Swiatek and pay both of them however much is necessary for them to treat it like a major final. Trying to will them to meet in official tournaments is taking years off my life
Demi Vollering treats her bike like it's a blunt force weapon, the Sabalenka of cycling
Tennis TV debuting the "show the moment right after a point ends but not the point itself" strategy in their highlights, intriguing www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNiA...
Cameron Norrie UPSETS Alex de Minaur 🤯 | Montreal 2026 Match Highlights
YouTube video by Tennis TV
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New ‘Ted Lasso’ Season Aims To Teach Viewers About Shapes, Colors https://theonion.com/new-ted-lasso-season-aims-to-teach-viewers-about-shapes-colors/
good blog defector.com/the-mystery-...
The Mystery Of Google's Fixation On "The Transwoman In The WNBA" | Defector
As anyone who has used Google might already know, when you conduct a search on the site, it will suggest more searches of potential interest under a “People also ask” heading. The makeup of these “peo...
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In tennis, it can be pleasant to play under the flag of an underrepresented country with a large diaspora. Essentially, you have a network of sleeper cells who can be activated all over the world defector.com/alex-eala-is...
Alex Eala Is Catching The WTA's Best Off Guard | Defector
In tennis, it can be pleasant to play under the flag of an underrepresented country with a large diaspora. Essentially, you have a network of sleeper cells who can be activated all over the world. The...
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We're just going to keep doing 2020 again until all the wrong stuff is true: defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death,…
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on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
Good story here -- I've been thinking lately that any discussion about whether AI insights or LLMs are helpful with writing/research in any way misses the point, because even if they are, to use them contributes to the downfall of the whole profession. www.theringer.com/2026/08/04/t...
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It
For years now, Google has been tweaking its search formula to prop up AI and bury actual links. Now it’s rounding into its final form—and changing the internet forever.
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The right has created their perfect trans athlete: defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
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"Same thing's gonna happen to us, it's just taking longer." www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEos...
The Leftovers: Jill, Adam, and Scott bury the dog
YouTube video by We're Still Here
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"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states
The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.
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I would like to talk about the last game of that Fritz-Jodar final but I am still haunted by Tennis Channel running a commercial for a pickleball video podcast a few minutes ago