Owen Lewis

The Sad Generation - The Second Serve The despair is palpable for the charter members of the “SadGen”, Daniil Medvedev, Taylor Fritz, Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

The despair is palpable, says @owensports.bsky.social

www.thesecondserve.com/daniil-medve...

The duality of Defector

I’m still owed the settlement money for the book of mine Open AI plagiarized — the book I wrote while raising two babies

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

Excitement is ramping up

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Time for some tortured prose. At 1 p.m. ET today, the Defector Twitch stream will present the nominees for the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia

(art by @mattielubchansky.com)

an adorable little pua stuffed animal in a huge suitcase

this suitcase is pua approved

John Weaver: 1944 - 2025 — Caity Weaver We hate to tell you this: The world’s friendliest man has gone away.

I’m afraid I have to share very sad news about a very nice man: www.caity.info/blog-1-1/38p...

"He didn't write another word. He couldn't." (Kidding, you got this, and excited to read it!)

Read The Hike over Thanksgiving, pretty fucked up to be this good at fiction and nonfiction

LeBron James's Scoring Streak Tells The Story | Defector The passage of time remains undefeated: LeBron James’s double-digit scoring streak is over. James’s run of putting up 10 or more points in every game since Jan. 5, 2007—George W. Bush was the…

LeBron James's scoring streak tells the story: defector.com/lebron-james...

LeBron is pretty cool for ending his 10-point streak on a game-winning assist and then celebrating on his own.

Withdrawal Season - The Second Serve With the WTA and ATP seasons over, Owen Lewis lacks an adequate outlet for his attention.

I wrote about tennis's short offseason feeling long: www.thesecondserve.com/withdrawal-s...

it is essential that every unionized newsroom gets a ban on this kind of insidious bullshit written into their contract

It Is A Moral Imperative For The Rest Of The NBA To Improve The Clippers | Defector The Oklahoma City Thunder are 21-1 and the prohibitive favorite to repeat as NBA champions this year; they also might improve dramatically this offseason. That is because the Thunder own outright the ...

time to take a stand! defector.com/it-is-a-mora...

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The Clippers’ chaotic unravelling leaves Chris Paul as its most painful casualty A feelgood reunion was meant to ease Chris Paul into retirement. Instead it has exposed a franchise losing its grip on competence

My first attempt at basketblogging: www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...

USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

there is a CHANGEOVER on here, neat

STOP USING MAX RICHTER'S "ON THE NATURE OF DAYLIGHT" IN EVERYTHING - Cherwell Our favorite songs are fecund pleasures, increasing in affectivity and growing with us over time, like a reliable friendship. But, if you dilute the potency of a precious song through overuse, that is...

It's also funny how it's not a new argument that people should use the song less (cherwell.org/2020/04/27/s...), and if they'd listened then, we wouldn't have gotten it in The Last Of Us. There will continue to be great art worthy of the song.

I love that piece so much that I don't understand the claims of it being overused at all, it could elevate plenty of scenes that didn't use it. The Quality Of Mercy is its only equal, which remains deeply underrated outside The Leftovers fandom.

Haven't seen Hamnet but boy am I glad we're getting some On The Nature Of Daylight discourse

Suns Reporter Describes Death Threats And Moving His Family Out Of Phoenix After Charlie Kirk Tweets | Defector Gerald Bourguet, the PHNX Sports reporter who was fired for tweets that accurately laid out right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s beliefs, published a video Monday detailing the aftermath of his firing.…

Suns reporter describes death threats and moving his family out of Phoenix after Charlie Kirk tweets: defector.com/suns-reporte...

Suns Reporter Describes Death Threats And Moving His Family Out Of Phoenix After Charlie Kirk Tweets | Defector Gerald Bourguet, the PHNX Sports reporter who was fired for tweets that accurately laid out right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s beliefs, published a video Monday detailing the aftermath of his firing. ...

defector.com/suns-reporte...

Breaking: Serena Williams Is Preparing to Return to Tennis The 23-time major singles champion has filed paperwork that sets a 2026 comeback to professional tennis in motion.

Big breaking news at Bounces:

Serena Williams has applied for reinstatement to tennis, adding herself back into the tennis anti-doping program to set herself up for a comeback to competition in 2026.

Read all the details here:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/serena-wil...

Seems understood among everybody, even Republicans, that Democrats should be held to higher standards because they are generally better people.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

They are betting AI will replace us. Make them lose the bet.

I know the smart thing to do is tank but screw it, that Siakam game-winner gave me life