These Are the 42 Best Sports Moments of 2021

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The Ringer’s 42 Favorite Sports Moments of 2021

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From the Giannis breakthrough to the Ohtani experience to the greatest incomplete pass in NFL history, here are the sports moments that defined our year.

[Here are our favorite sports moments of 2021.]

It’s Time to Accept That Millennials and Gen Z Are the Same Generation

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Though discourse in 2021 tried to deepen the distinctions, it’s clear that young people today are forged from the same digital monoculture.

[Justin Charity reflects on the similarities between millennials and Gen Z.]

Joan Didion and Eve Babitz Saw Two Essential Sides of California

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Babitz was Los Angeles’s defiant booster, while Didion gave fodder to naysayers’ suspicion—but the two late writers’ bodies of work beg to be taken in tandem.

[Alison Herman reflects on the careers of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, who recently died within days of each other.]

Remembering John Madden’s Incredible Career and Legendary Impact | The Bill Simmons Podcast

Bill Simmons is joined by Bryan Curtis to remember legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden.

Jim Harbaugh and Michigan Proved Everyone Wrong Once Again

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For years, Harbaugh’s Wolverines fell short of lofty preseason expectations. In 2021, they did the opposite—and are chasing a national championship as a result. What changed? And what does it tell us about the state of college football?

[Rodger Sherman on the transformation of Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines.]

The Subversive Playfulness of the The Matrix

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The Wachowski sisters tackle the most gigantic questions known to humanity—reality, identity, knowledge, causality, memory—with a spirit of play. They understand that while from one angle nothing matters more than these questions, from another angle they’re curiously insubstantial. They mean everything and nothing at all.

[Brian Phillips looks at the Matrix franchise.]
“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
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