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[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

beautifully worded. all very true. does not sound like the "old" (ie., younger) Bob Dylan at all. "old king from some vanished country"--striking metaphor.

[Eli Berkovits @BookOfEli_NFL]

The Spurs blew leads of 14, 14, 29, and 16 during their NBA Finals loss.

Matt Lafleur would be proud.

[Tim Bontemps @TimBontemps]

From the great @StatsWilliams:

To have 45 points in a close out Finals victory all-time:

Michael Jordan, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bob Pettit …

And, now, Jalen Brunson.

What a performance.

[David P. Samson @DavidPSamson]

The Knicks are champions. It’s all about soul.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

A strong argument could and should be made that every employer should be required to offer all employees stock in the same manner the CEO receives annual stock awards or options, warrants ,etc

Whatever percentage of salary/earnings the CEO gets in shares, so should every employee

[Justin Wills @itsjwills]

Sounds like tampering to me.

I’m old enough to remember when the league penalized Milwaukee for tampering with Giannis while he was on their team.

[MLB @MLB]

9 IP
27 batters faced
1 hit
0 runs
0 walks
15 strikeouts

Jacob Misiorowski just pitched one of the greatest games EVER

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

Smh got him looking like Tony in “Blue Chips.”

[paulpressey25 @paulpressey25]

Two words Bucks fans.

Greivis Vasquez

[Frank Madden @fmaddenNBA]

Maybe the most shocking thing about that first half was being reminded that the Knicks’ fourth string center was the Spurs’ starting point guard a little more than two years ago

[Julian Nicholas @JNicholasNYC]

the knicks city dancers should launch copies of the epstein files from the t-shirt cannons

[Mike Clemens @MikeClemensNFL]

Why isn’t this story on 60 Minutes? Or CBS? Oh. Right….

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

So, the takeaways here: A) The Spurs will need to do A LOT to come back. B) The Bucks Finals run was INSANE.

[Justin Wills @itsjwills]

Giannis is Milwaukee. Don’t let all that outside noise influence you @Giannis_An34.

Go win another one in Milwaukee. Stay true to that loyalty inside your DNA 🦌

[AB @AdamBilsky]

Omg @WISN12News I never tweet. Apparently, the last time I did was 9 months ago when you ruined an NFL game with excessive weather show-offery.

Gross. You’re ruining an NBA finals game with commentary on info ALL OF US CAN GET ON A FREE APP.

[DB @DDBilsky]

@fmaddenNBA @rcon14 No way that team wins 41

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Soon:

“I’m Scott Baio.”
“I’m Patricia Heaton.”
“I’m Kevin Sorbo.”
“I’m Roseanne Barr.”
“I’m Andrew Tate. Those stories, plus Tony Hinchcliffe, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

60 minutes is dead. What’s on now is just the remnants of a legendary news magazine. The Ellison’s can’t be reasoned with because they’re killing the show by design. So fuck em. NBC or ABC should hire the whole staff and re-create the show in the same timeslot with a new name.