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The Los Angeles Lakers obliterated the Memphis Grizzlies in an end-to-end domination as thorough as you'll ever see in a closeout game, eventually winning Game 6 by a final score of 125-85 on Friday night.In other words, they finally gave Dillon Brooks (a) 40 (point loss), which brings us to the first of our three takeaways from a truly enjoyable blowout...
Dillon Brooks is a clown
Brooks, who went into the series hoping to face the Lakers and LeBron James because it would "test us good" to "knock him out in the first round," found out the hard way that the first part of that was true: Playing against LeBron did indeed test Brooks and his front-running friends, an exam they failed miserably over six games, but none in a more spectacular fireball of ineptitude than Dillon the Villain.

Recently, a surprising name popped up in a Washingtonian editor's inbox.It was none other than America's biggest pop star, Taylor Swift.Even more unexpectedly, the email concerned working conditions for staffers on Capitol Hill.Obviously, we were curious to hear the singer's thoughts on this, so we decided to call her up.

Jets head coach Robert Saleh refused to admit that Aaron Rodgers had a wish list.Even though he obviously had one.The New York Jets have been hard at work assembling a new offense this offseason which includes veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers and... all of Rodgers' friends.Ever since Rodgers was first rumored to join the Jets, reports surfaced about Rodgers wanting his friends to join him in New York: Allen Lazard, Randall Cobb, Odell Beckham Jr., and Marcedes Lewis, as reported by ESPN's Dianna Russini.

Jalin Hyatt wants revenge after the Dallas Cowboys overlooked him, as the Tennessee Volunteers star now plays for the division rival New York Giants.The Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants will see firsthand if former Tennessee star wide receiver Jalin Hyatt can run routes or not.Despite winning the Biletnikoff during his final year in Knoxville, there are reasons why he, quarterback Hendon Hooker and fellow wide receiver Cedric Tillman were not first-round picks.

There will be something new in the N.F.L. next year: nothing.Among the usual array of 12s and 88s and 97s dotting the league's fields next season will be some humble 0s after the league on Monday voted to allow that number on jerseys for the first time in decades.At least one player, Jaguars wide receiver Calvin Ridley, has already said he plans to wear No. 0. Zero's big cousin, 00, remains barred for now.

She knew what she was in for: the talking over her, the bluster, the alternate version of history, the controversy.She was as prepared as possible.And she was dressed for the arena.When Kaitlan Collins interviewed Donald J. Trump in his first appearance on CNN since 2016, moderating the Republican town hall on Wednesday, she did so in a pristine white pantsuit, thus immediately joining a long line of women who have gone face to face with the former president in that symbolic armor.

Rui Hachimura's play for the Lakers this postseason has been pivotal in the team's success so far, even after Wednesday's Game 5 loss.Hachimura burst onto the scene in Game 1 to help the Lakers to a win and then repeated those performances moving forward.His evolution into a useful player in the postseason is not a coincidence, though.

Image Credit...Raphaelle Macaron I was born in Tijuana and spent much of my boyhood in a neighborhood colonia, in TJ-speak called Independencia.There was an ersatz European-style castle at one end of our street, a tamed bear living at the bottom of the hill, a madman next door who regularly got drunk and shot his pistola at the moon, and a yard with bananas and a tall old pomegranate tree.

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Tonight sees the Golden Knights vs Panthers NHL clash in the Stanley Cup Final.Taking place at the T-Mobile Arena from 8pm ET, it's the fifth game in this year's elimination tournament to decide the winner of the NHL post-season trophy.

On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets ... won a baseball game.That's it.They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won.That shouldn't be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover farce of opening night in Pittsburgh, it felt like quite something indeed.

I have received a letter from the privileges committee making it clear much to my amazement that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of parliament.They have still not produced a shred of evidence that I knowingly or recklessly misled the Commons.They know perfectly well that when I spoke in the Commons I was saying what I believed sincerely to be true and what I had been briefed to say, like any other minister.

Former Prime Minster Boris Johnson has announced that he is standing down as an MP, with immediate effect.It comes after he received a report from the MP-led Privileges Committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties at Downing Street.Here is his statement in full:

I have received a letter from the Privileges Committee making it clear - much to my amazement - that they are determined to use the proceedings against me to drive me out of Parliament.

The organizers of two street festivals planned for Toronto this weekend say they're monitoring the poor air quality stemming from wildfire smoke that's blanketed the city for the past several days.The chair of the Little Portugal Business Improvement Area (BIA) says they're still assessing the situation when it comes to the popular Dundas Street West street festival, Do West Fest.

The Wizards will welcome another pre-draft workout group on Wednesday.Once again, the group is made up of several smaller guards and two forwards.Antoine Davis, who finished second all-time in scoring in NCAA history, is probably the most noteworthy name if not necessarily the most intriguing draft prospect.

Ed Sheeran's much-awaited copyright-infringement trial started last week in Manhattan federal court.Sheeran stands accused of copying Marvin Gaye's legendary R&B song "Let's Get It On" in his 2014 hit "Thinking Out Loud."This lawsuit, filed by the heirs of the song's co-writer and composer Ed Townsend, claims Sheetan unlawfully employed the "heart" of Gaye's song - that is, "harmonic progressions" and "melodic and rhythmic elements."

Boston Red Sox fans are waiting on Rafael Devers' annual summertime surge.In fact, they've been waiting on it, as the Red Sox's franchise star has made a habit of going on insane hot streaks once the calendar turns to June the weather warms up a bit.The warning signs are just usually a bit more apparent than they have been in 2023, as the 26-year-old has undergone clear struggles in one specific aspect at the plate - something that opens everything up for him and the lineup.

Refreshes or updates are very much in vogue for Chicago restaurants.This goes beyond adding ramps to the spring menu.These changes are supposedly more dramatic with lots of construction - perhaps a move to a new location - and plenty of patience waiting for the city to approve permits.This is the stuff that young cooks dream of while attending culinary school.

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Historically if it was Baltimore, it usually meant strange things for the White Sox.Case in point, on this night the Sox had to catch a train to Boston after the game, and the Orioles agreed to end the contest at 10:20 p.m. regardless of the outcome.The Sox trailed, 3-0, going into the seventh inning - when they scored four runs.

A House panel advanced a 2024 budget bill that would block the ability to access the abortion drug via telehealth.House Republican lawmakers, including then-Representatives-elect Keith Self, Scott Perry, Andrew Clyde, and Rep. Andy Harris, the chair of the House Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Subcommittee, huddle in a conference room Thursday, January 5, 2023.Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images A Republican-led House panel has advanced a 2024 budget bill that includes riders to revoke key Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals regarding where patients are allowed to access abortion drug mifepristone, in a quiet move aimed at limiting abortion access nationwide.

Celtics He said "Hell no" when asked if Grant Williams was the answer, and threw Al Horford's celebration back at him.The Heat clearly have no fear of the Celtics.They're up 3-0 because they're playing with confidence and swagger.They believe in their head coach Erik Spoelstra.They are committed to giving maximum effort consistently.

Celtics "He doesn't make adjustments."The fallout from the 76ers' loss to the Celtics in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals was swift.Doc Rivers, Philadelphia's coach since 2020, was fired on Tuesday.Rivers, 61, led the 76ers to a .653winning percentage in three seasons, but couldn't get the team into the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Los Angeles Dodgers once again wore their City Connect uniform on Saturday, which marked the third time the blue "Los Dodgers" jerseys made it onto the field this season.Julio Urías started every game the Dodgers City Connect uniform has been worn this season."I think it's just a coincidence," Urías said through an interpreter.

Re A moment that changed me (10 May), Alison Hitchcock's letters to her friend Brian after he'd been diagnosed with cancer mirror my own experience.In 2016, I wrote to my cousin Shirley, 82, an English graduate who was in hospital, hoping that her daughter would read my letter out to her.Shirley recovered and began to reply.

The buzz this week around Bluesky, a new social media platform being called Twitter 2.0, has been intense.Prominent Twitter users such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and the model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen have joined.Thousands of others are begging for invitations to it.

Long before he helped create "Ted Lasso," a TV series about an American football coach and a fictional English soccer team named AFC Richmond, Brendan Hunt was a young actor working with an improv troupe in Amsterdam.And he had no use for soccer, which dominated Dutch culture."I didn't hate it," he says now. "It was something distant to me that I had only barely been exposed to, and I assumed that its absence in my life was probably for a good reason.