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What a discussion we have for all of you. Topics! Include!
* Why the Clippers’ salary-cap cheating felt like a “victimless crime” only because they failed
* Wos argues the 2019–20 Clippers really were the NBA’s obvious championship favorite
* Was Steve Ballmer’s Clippers tenure actually a massive failure?
* Why today’s sports world increasingly operates on “what can I get away with?”
* Lane Kiffin and college football cheating
* The Patriots’ alleged optical-illusion field-goal trick: clever gamesmanship or just cheating?
* How media relationships — not necessarily money — can buy an NBA owner favorable coverage
* Nike’s collapse: Wos argues the company sacrificed its brand to please Wall Street
* Why Sydney Sweeney has cracked the code for selling sex in an increasingly sexless culture
* Why Sydney Sweeney can seemingly never reach the point of cultural overexposure
* The class politics behind the backlash to LeBron James’ Polymarket ad
* Wos’ friends thought the NBC broadcast was going to bring up Dianna Russini
* Sex, sports media and the fiction that reporters and athletes never become attracted to each other
* How much face has Mike Vrabel lost?
