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Owen Lewis
@owensports.bsky.social
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Contributing writer (and former intern) for Defector, bylines at The Guardian, The Second Serve, BoxingScene. Likely happy to write for you too: [email protected] https://defector.com/author/owen-lewis
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · Jan 27
I wrote about the Australian Open for @defector.bsky.social. defector.com/the-australi...
The Australian Open Is Happy And Hot | Defector
MELBOURNE – Envy sabotaged my plans for watching the first day of the 2025 Australian Open. I was going to take in Day One on a projector at Federation Square, a public area surrounded by angular buil...
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 1h
Thank GOD that didn't end on a walk
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 1h
If I'd had to watch J.P. Crawford strike out one more time I think what's left of my sanity would have snapped
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 1h
This is the equivalent of a tennis set in which one player is holding easily and the other is digging out of love-40 holes every game (translation: the Tigers have nine fucking lives goddamn)
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 16h
When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth.
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‘Do You Want a Player to Die?’ Tennis Feels the Heat Over Extreme Conditions
Sweltering temperatures in China have pushed the sport’s stars to the limit, leaving them cramping, throwing up on court and sweating through four pairs of sneakers
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Defector @defector.com · 12h
The protests against Israel–Premier Tech worked: defector.com/the-protests...
The Protests Against Israel–Premier Tech Worked | Defector
One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to its knees, the rest of the cycling world has picked up where Spanish…
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Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 15h
My favorite formulation of this one remains @tomscocca.bsky.social 's: hmmdaily.com/2018/10/16/n... so short, yet convincing
No Billionaires
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 15h
"Let the poison flower bloom."
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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 16h
I wrote about the defining cultural product of our era: Jimmy Fallon's Wordle TV show
Jimmy Fallon’s Wordle Show Just Makes Sense
But why is it a game show? There are so many better options.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 1d
I learned this week that The Internet Archive still has pages up from my favorite defunct tennis website, The Changeover, and have since spent several hours happily reading. Thanks to them!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d
Nearly 30 years ago, Brewster wrote: “Our goal is to help people answer hard questions.”

That vision still drives the Internet Archive in 2025: building a reliable memory for a digital age that forgets too quickly.

#Wayback1T
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Defector @defector.com · 1d
The pro tennis calendar is built for burnout: defector.com/the-pro-tenn...
The Pro Tennis Calendar Is Built For Burnout | Defector
The professional tennis calendar might make sense if this was still the slow-paced lawn game of the previous century. But it isn’t, and hasn’t been for a long time. Every passing week intensifies the…
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 1d
I loved this series when @sabs.bsky.social started it for us at Defector.com in March!!! defector.com/meet-the-civ...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Defector @defector.com · 2d
Bill Burr keeps cycling through excuses for doing the Riyadh Comedy Festival: defector.com/bill-burr-ke...
Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector
By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
"Members of the Human Rights Watch had tried to meet with the comedians on the lineup before the event but had no response."

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Bill Burr calls critics of Riyadh comedy festival ‘sanctimonious’ and ‘phoney’
Comedian defends appearance at controversial comedy festival, saying: ‘It felt right afterward. I vibed with them’
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
I'm picturing Medvedev somehow causing irreparable damage to the next hard court they meet on and blaming the tournament for the surface being "weak like clay"
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
Didn't quite get there! Best aggressive version of Medvedev I've seen in a while.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
Fitting that Medvedev had to revert to his Cincinnati 2019 pure rage mode of hitting two first serves to win that. Tien bears the unique honor of rattling Medvedev thoroughly enough to make him celebrate unironically at the end.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, that stretch was awful (and yet seemed possible as soon as Tien held for 1-3). Maybe after Beijing he knew he was on a clock before he cramped and got disproportionately upset when he wasn't ending rallies as quickly as he wanted to.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
It's fascinating how Medvedev is in hyper-aggressive mode (or was, pre-cramps) while Tien is just playing his regular game. I think Tien outlasting Medvedev twice in a row when that's supposed to be Medvedev's specialty broke his brain a bit, especially because Tien is so much younger.
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
Wild that Medvedev has now failed to close out a match before cramping horrifically against this guy twice in a row
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
Ridiculous. I was convinced Tien would take it right up until the end, and still think he'll come back to win the match. Medvedev has never played anyone who tested his love for suffering this much.
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 2d
I know they're not for everyone but these interminable Tien-Medvedev rallies are absolutely mesmerizing to me
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Owen Lewis @owensports.bsky.social · 4d
I wrote about Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who has been going through it in an endearingly mortal way for the last little while: www.thesecondserve.com/alejandro-da...
The Everyman - The Second Serve
Since Alex de Minaur saved three championship points to beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina in the final of the Citi Open, leaving Foki’s heart cracked and dripping over the court, the 26-year-old Spania...
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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d
A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d
Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."
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