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Originally published as “Philippe Petit: Slow Dancing on the High Wire” in the October, 1986 issue of New York Woman, this feature appears here with permission from the author.Read more...

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How long will LeBron James still be able to dunk? How many old people can dunk? How many people have died while dunking? My friends, this is but one subject in this week’s Deadcast.Read more...

Martina Hingis announced her retirement today, after 23 years of professional tennis that began, ridiculously, with her winning major titles and hitting world No. 1 by age 16. She was the sort of prodigy wholly absent from the modern game, obsolete due to the increased physical demands of the sport. A contemporary of…Read more...

The Lakers overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Wizards 102-99 in overtime last night. Little thanks to Lonzo Ball, who missed all five of his three-point attempts for the second game in a row, and scored in the single digits for the third time in four games. It’s early in the season, but this string…Read more...

Here is a brief clip of Washington defensive line coach Jim Tomsula firing up his players before Sunday’s game against the Eagles. He looks at his linemen and yells, “Everybody play naked! Butt-ass naked! Everybody play butt-ass naked!”

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Rick Pitino couldn’t believe his good fortune. For months, high school basketball star Brian Bowen had been pursued by the sorts of programs that would ordinarily pursue such a talent—Texas, Arizona, Michigan State. Then, in early June, the lanky, 6-foot-7 small forward suddenly and unexpectedly committed to…Read more...

Blues goalie Jake Allen was doing just fine through the first half of last night’s game against Calgary, holding down the fort while his team took a 3-1 lead. But just when you think you’re safe, that’s when some devious frozen water will turn you into a fool. While trying to play the puck behind his net in the second…Read more...

A passage from Anne Frank’s diary was read over the loudspeakers in Italian soccer stadiums and moments of silence were held before yesterday’s Serie A matches as a stand against recent incidents of anti-Semitism by Lazio FC supporters, but some fans turned their back and sang the Italian national anthem as protest.Read more...

News just broke that the New York Yankees, a team that well exceeded expectations this season and made it to Game 7 of the ALCS, have fired manager Joe Girardi. Based on a statement Girardi gave to WFAN, this does not appear to be a mutual parting.

The following video, filmed during yesterday’s Tottenham-West Ham League Cup match, depicts one Spurs fan in attendance whipping out his schlong in the middle of the stands, peeing into a cup, and handing that cup of pee to a fellow Tottenham fan, who then flings it across the stands towards the visiting team’s fan…Read more...

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Of all the ways the Dodgers demonstrated their invulnerability through the first nine games of the postseason, perhaps none was more disheartening to their opponents than the strength of the bullpen. Last night, the Astros found some heart.

Super Mario Odyssey comes out tomorrow (and it’s great!), so here’s a friendly reminder that if you have Amazon Prime, you can preorder it for $12 off (discount shown at checkout).

Game 2 was delirious. It made me feel drunk and insane, even though I was barely either. In the 7-6, 11-inning Astros win to tie the series, enough weird shit happened for an entire postseason. Where do you start?Read more...

When it comes to finding the right pair of shoes that won’t hurt your feet after an hour but are still pretty okay looking, Rockport should be on your radar. Amazon has four styles (with a couple colors each) on sale right now that, if you’re in need of some new kicks, you should take advantage of. They’re all priced…Read more...

For the first 17 innings of this World Series, the Dodgers had looked nearly impenetrable, with their flaws few and far between. But tonight was a night where nothing in baseball was certain.Read more...

A heart-stopping World Series classic took a slight delay in the heat of the 10th inning when an idiot not-quite on the field wearing Dodgers gear decided that, after back-to-back Astros home runs, it was the perfect time to hop into the visitors’ bullpen.Read more...

The Rockets were losing for all of the final 18 minutes of their game against Philadelphia tonight, but after the clock hit zeros, Houston was celebrating the win. That’s because, on the game’s last possession, Eric Gordon sidestepped Joel Embiid’s upright arm and delivered a tricky corner three to seal a Rockets’…Read more...

If there’s been anything wrong with the Dodgers’ otherwise near-flawless season so far, it’s only that Vin Scully hasn’t been in the booth to call it. While the legendary announcer is hopefully enjoying his long-deserved retirement, the crowd at Dodger Stadium was understandably thrilled to see him back for a pre-game…Read more...

Earlier this week, actress Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that former president George H.W. Bush had sexually assaulted her. “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” she wrote. “He told me a dirty joke. And then, all the while being photographed,…Read more...

Josh Smith, the guy who even three years ago was a withered hand choking to death any offense’s hopes of spacing and scoring, was last (un)seen touring with Maccabi Haifa this NBA preseason, following a stint with the Sichuan Blue Whales in China. He was reportedly looking for an NBA comeback, and it looks like he’s…Read more...

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People on the internet have been eating some kind of spicy chip and recording their reactions, and I don’t really care to find out more about why this is happening, but no additional information is necessary to watch this unfortunate news anchor barf after trying the snack.Read more...

After laughing at a female reporter and skipping a conference entirely earlier this month, Cam Newton suddenly left today’s Q&A after he initially responded, “Next question,” to a question about big plays.Read more...

Here is a scenario that you have probably found yourself in recently: It’s 7:00 p.m., you’re finally home from work after a long day of whatever it is that you do all day at work, and you’re out of food. You don’t want to walk to the grocery store (ugh!), chop up and heat the foodstuffs you’ve purchased (gross!!!),…Read more...

We’ve already seen the impact of LaVar Ball’s tryhard dad-bluster in the way his son was treated on the court by Patrick Beverley, but it seemed unfair to draw too big an inference from that. That’s because Patrick Beverley is, if you want to be nice about it, a particularly feisty brand of point guard. Surely, the…Read more...

In a scathing letter of termination, Louisville interim president Gregory Postel wrote that since-fired athletic director Tom Jurich’s “willful misconduct” was the reason Louisville gave him the boot last week, claiming that in addition to setting up the university’s Adidas deal in the shadows, Jurich went about his…Read more...

Anyone with a True Gamer’s Heart knows the soul-shattering frustration of getting owned. It is only through sheer force of luck that what happened to North Carolina guard Joel Berry II hasn’t happened to us all. Berry, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2017 Final Four, was apparently playing video games with teammate…Read more...

On Saturday night, I went to a show from House of Glory, one of the local independent wrestling promotions in New York City. It was a really fun show until an accident in the semifinal match, when Chris Seaton of the New York Wrecking Krew tag team broke his femur in a freak accident; he landed wrong doing a moonsault…Read more...

What can you really learn from the very first few games of a player’s NBA career?Read more...

Sixers point guard Markelle Fultz has had one of the strangest starts to an NBA career in recent memory. Hopefully he’ll end up having a long and productive one, and these first two weeks will become something he can laugh about.

Typically selling for $175+, this fire pit features a deep bowl for bigger, but safer fires. Unlike more inexpensive steel fire pits, this one is made of cast iron and built to last. It weighs 60 pounds and will take a couple of extra days to ship, which gives you a little more time to get s’mores ingredients.Read more...

Great news for insane people and morons: Amazon has disrupted the lock! Now, you can choose to pay money to grant this giant faceless hell-corporation the ability to send strangers inside your locked home when you’re not there. Just like you always wanted.

I don’t know much about Indonesian soccer, not even enough to be properly impressed when Wikipedia describes 21-year-old Borneo FC forward Terens Puhiri as “The Next Boaz Solossa,” but what I do know is what fast looks like. And this guy sure is fast:Read more...

Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, creating a bit of a conundrum for the seasonally minded. Even if you’re going out to a party the weekend before, there’s still the day of, when sitting around and watching your regular sitcoms would feel, well… less than festive. And for those for whom navigating a crowd of drunken…Read more...

The National Park Service is considering implementing “peak season pricing” in 17 of the country’s most popular parks, proposing an increase to $70 per car. Currently, Yellowstone charges $30 per vehicle, or $50 for Yellowstone and Grand Teton.Read more...

The Cavs are and will remain a bit of a mess at the point guard position until Isaiah Thomas manages to return from his hip injury. One luxury they enjoy, however, is the ability to plug the best player in the world into any lineup hole and perform at an all-world level.

Calvin, no, that’s a basketball, you don’t hit a basketball with a baseball bat...oh.

I’m generally over hockey fights, both for their silliness and their safety concerns. So here’s a good reminder that for as right-thinking as I’d like to imagine myself, I’m entirely willing to drop all principles the second something cool happens.Read more...

I think I’ve sort of avoided writing about them, because it all seems too deeply weird to be real, let alone to be anything close to sustainable, but there’s really no other option but to acknowledge it now: The Vegas Golden Knights, by pure winning percentage if not quite by points, have the best record in the NHL.

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In the first quarter of tonight’s game against the Jazz, Blake Griffin offered up a dunk over Rudy Gobert that cannot really be fairly described as posterizing, simply because it was intense enough that it would really be kind of cruel to capture and preserve—you’d hang the poster up and everyone would be all, “Boy,…Read more...

With a 110-89 loss to the Celtics tonight, the Knicks dropped to 0-3. Here are some selected highlights.Read more...

The narrative of Clayton Kershaw’s inability to handle the postseason has always been bigger than it has been real. There have always been far too many other factors at play—namely, poor managerial decisions and a shaky bullpen behind him—for that idea to be true. (Not to mention a number of perfectly fine playoff…Read more...

The NHL clearly knew that they had a great game on their hands tonight, with two of its three biggest stars—Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby—going toe to toe in Pittsburgh. They even promoted it like a must-watch event!

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Puerto Rico is struggling to stay alive.Read more...

If you were diagramming the worst possible scenario (which, Arsenal being Arsenal, would double as the most probable forecast for their coming campaign) for the Gunners’ season this year, you would’ve had this year being one of woe.Read more...