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The WNBA's Sophie Cunningham saga is a growing pain

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By Will Leitch Verified
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The WNBA and its fans are rapidly learning what happens when your sport becomes popular. As I've long argued , women's sports are poised to become an unquestionable growth industry, so it should not be surprising to see how the WNBA has been thrown into the ever-insatiable cultural maw. That's just what happens when more people start caring about it, when it shifts from being a niche item for obsessives to something with undeniable widespread appeal.
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A Parent’s Guide to Jackass

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By Will Leitch Verified, Tim Grierson Verified
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When Jackass premiered on MTV in 2000, it kicked off a moral panic about its effect on children; Then-Senator Joe Lieberman lobbied Viacom to cancel the series, thanks to kids injuring themselves attempting to copy the gang’s stunts. So it might seem strange that, as Johnny Knoxville and his gaggle of charming fools have gotten older, the Jackass movies have become something Gen-X parents delight in showing their own children. But it does make sense.
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Volume 6, Issue 36: I Saw the TV Glow

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By Will Leitch Verified
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Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. This week for The Washington Post, I wrote about John Oliver. (That’s a free link.) Here’s a key quote: Much of the show’s success owes to Oliver’s skill as a performer, but it also benefits from Oliver avoiding the old trick of scoring political points then retreating to “Hey, I’m just a comedian, don’t take this so seriously!” when called out on it.
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