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Try “Line of Duty” for British stuff that was popular a few years ago during its run if you haven’t.

Joe Root.

Joe Root is now the second highest runscorer in Tests thanks to another flawless century.

He is the Peter Pan of cricket who just gets better and better.

He is now closing on Sachin Tendulkar - surpass him and the record will surely be his forever.

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The Red Sox are 16-9 since the Devers trade. Are they a better team now than they were before dealing one of the best hitters in baseball? "I do know we're a different team." A look at what's gone into the Sox surge, and what does - and doesn't - relate to Devers: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/s...

I remember this year rewatching the 2013 AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and Ravens. Was striking just how much more physical even that was lol, compared to now.

Ironically this women’s final is actually a rare moment where both the men and women’s finals at the same Grand Slam are between the top 2 seeds in both.

But would recommend watching YouTube docs about stories like Raducanu US Open 2021 if you haven’t.

One thing that’s different about women’s tennis compared to the men is the higher variance and underdog surges in the women’s game. Men’s tennis traditionally dominated by “the Big 3”. Now Sinner and Alcarez.

Whereas women’s side, you get insane stories like Emma Raducanu US Open 2021.

There’s a divide in every sport between the men’s version and women’s version. Historic gap between the NBA and WNBA, between men and women’s soccer.

But I would say tennis actually does the best sport of “equalising” the two and giving parity to both. Grand Slams and ATP tournies center both.

Wasn’t counting 20th century, true about Clara. Shame they just don’t have companions carry over, wish Yaz had stayed

Oh yeah, true

It’s genuinely a great matchup. Knicks would have been too easy for OKC. People who only care about the big market aspect of these things should probably stop watching basketball. The actual game is what matters.

PSG’s historic moment should provoke serious questions over football’s future Paris Saint-Germain 5-0 Inter Milan: Luis Enrique’s team were excellent but their record-breaking victory was unsettling and exposed the two sides of sport

Qatar win the European Cup. An absurd sentence, but a farce of a match, that was an exhibition of superior power - in multiple senses

The record scoreline symbolised the scale of football's issues

You can be happy for Luis Enrique and concerned for this

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Really not a fan of how in wrestling “promo” means something negative. When the word is short for promote.

Apparently happens in Ligue 1 often

Especially when you consider that a big topic during the election was Vance and Trump endlessly talking about the Haitians in Ohio. The idea these voters didn’t hear that isn’t plausible, they just agreed and didn’t see it as a problem.

Column | Is baseball actually troubled — or is it as good as it has ever been? Major League Baseball’s on-field product might not be perfect, but it’s pretty darn good.

MLB’s on-field product might not be perfect, but it’s pretty darn good.

Read Thomas Boswell:

Speaks to the talent production in Paris, over many decades now. Most countries have a “golden generation” every so often. France and especially Paris since probably early 1990s it’s just endless production of elite talent, now PSG have finally created a system where they don’t leave Paris.

The TNT NBA guys don’t really ever do any real basketball analysis. CBS get the balance right with entertainment, but serious analysis and discussions too.

TV Seasons Have Gotten Shorter. That Doesn't Mean They're Better The trend toward short seasons of television is robbing us of some of the joys of watching our favorite shows, says TV critic Alan Sepinwall

While The Pitt is much more serialized than some of the other shows in the article, it's also doing 15 episodes. Poker Face this year jumped from 10 to 12. Longer seasons can be more uneven, but the payoff of the extra time with characters is enormous. Related:

Hospital Dramas! Crime Procedurals! Classic TV Is Back and Better Than Ever Hit shows like 'The Pitt' and 'Poker Face' are a nod to broadcast dramas and procedurals of the past — and audiences are loving it.

The return of Poker Face and the recent brilliant run of The Pitt inspired me to celebrate TV shows that just want to be (great) TV shows:

Jia Zhangke on the ‘Stargazing’ Mysteries of Caught by the Tides The director’s sprawling new film is as much about the present as it is about the past.

How did the great Jia Zhangke put together his masterpiece, CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, from 20+ years of footage? I talked to him about it: www.vulture.com/article/jia-...

??? Black Mirror depicts AI and tech advancements negatively in every episode

To Hell with Lightsabers — ‘Star Wars’ Doesn’t Need Them "Andor" is about regular people rising up against an evil government, no Jedi-wielded weapons required. That's a first for live-action "Star Wars."

I wrote about how Star Wars finally made a property without even one lightsaber and was all the better for it. (Seriously, this has never happened before unless you want to dive deep into 1980s cartoons or made for TV Ewok movies.) www.indiewire.com/features/com...

Why?

Ah thank you!!

Someone explain this joke for me please?

Six years away from the Champions League

Second season in a row in the competition that defines the biggest teams and careers, and reaching semis

If you don't see #Arsenal's progression is because you don't want to

Four really great games. There’s a huge amount of negativity about the current era of football (in terms of off-field stuff, much of it justified) but the technical/tactical level of the top-level matches is outstanding.

David Cronenberg was much more sanguine about A.I. than I expected

Pretending Real Madrid are some tactical genius side that have unlocked free-flowing football and not simply the best squad in world football papering over endless tactical cracks <<<<