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GENEVA — The United States and Russia agreed on Friday to keep diplomacy alive in their standoff over Ukraine, even as both sides continued...

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From the AP report on the game: ...the Indiana Pacers increased the pressure on Lakers coach Frank Vogel with a 111-104 victory over Los Ang...

Cases ave/day over 7 days: 735,652, 3.91x the number on Trump's last day in office. Cases ave/day of 7 days 1/20/21: 189,321. Hospitaliz...

 

AP for ESPN: Lowry missed the game for personal reasons. Herro entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols on Wednesday. ... Herro turns 2...

Oh my goodness.  'Unbelievable from the start,' Joel Embiid scores 50 points in 27 minutes as Philadelphia 76ers win

Wow. The "Heat" used a devastating 4th Q to pull out the 104-92 win without two of their top scorers and their best playmaker. At ...

11. That power is greatest which is not exercised. 10. Security systems produce insecurity. This is a sub-axiom of "Police create crime...

NBA referees have always reminded me of cops. The people who are attracted to both lines of work are attracted by the power it gives them, w...

We don't know what Jimmy was saying after the first technical. He was not facing either the ref who gave him the first one or the ref wh...

Here's Jimmy ejection.  Bullshit

Per Twitter, Jimmy was arguing an and-1 foul on himself and the refs T-d him up. Which didn't calm him down and then they T-d him up aga...

Jimmy Butler was just ejected...

Wait a minute, we don't have Herro either?

WFT, Kyle Lowry still out for "personal reasons."

Max scores in bunches I've noticed. Tonight he hit his second three with 10:36 in the 2Q, his third at 9:57, and his fourth at 9:12. Cre...

Donut started, agayne, and has 6 on 2/5 (same). The Composer has got the full symphony going tonight, 11, 4/4 (3/3).

Portlandia is in the Bus tonight and they're getting a decent banging, 36-28, 8:48 2Q.

 

Omicron is becoming OmiGONE! Heart balloon, please.

Twenty-six and a half years  after the fact the New York Times published excerpts from a book in an article titled “How Pat Riley Quit on t...

I don't know anything about professional football, okay? So on the following foundation of sand I opine the following: Watch out for the...

Yesterday the website aldaily, Arts & Letters Daily, curated an article on what Bernard-Henri Levy was up to these days. "I know hi...

Pilgrim’s Way is “an essay in recollection.” Memory is fallible. Over repeated readings I looked up the most humorous part of the book to me...

William Shirer left Germany (because of increasing censorship by the Nazis) in December 1940. It is for this reason that The Rise and Fall i...

Bam Bam is back back and Ira wrote late last week that he "believed" that Spo would recreat the starting lineup with Donut in it s...

  Grappling With Imperfect Science ...... the contagious Omicron variant is pushing the C.D.C. into uncharted territory. Because decisions m...

Just before I left to get something to eat three and a half hours ago I was on ESPN and saw that the San Francisco "49'er's...