This week: Good news for people who love bad news, historical accuracy, coaches mic’d up, the VR46 of women’s basketball, the owner of Beeso’s NBA team is a reprehensible scumbag, Franz Wagner’s time to shine, billionaires are bad, bad train analogies, RIP Tjarks, stoned shed convos, Late Night with Marco Tardelli, Todd Boehly disproves zero stereotypes, holidays from thinking, Royalist Ray, never go full AFL, a collection of failed openers, power ranKings and tweet of the night.

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