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No further content today — regrets! Going to a tournament in the desert. No, not the one you’ve heard about; we’re talking about another one: big-league tennis at Indian Wells. Today is Quarterfinals Day, so, fittingly, as quarterfinalists ourselves in something else, we feel obligated to go. Last night, Jupiter & The Moon tried to get closer, and this is how the superzoom snapped it. Best wishes!

Wednesday!

Entering tonight’s second leg of their Champions League round-of-16 matchup, Porto held a slim 1-nil lead over your No. London Arse, who needed to win the second leg by at least a two-goal margin to guarantee advancing to the next round, the quarterfinals. A draw was not enough, and would end their run in the tournament. And then there was the third possibility: a one-goal Arsenal win after both the regulation 90 mins. & the 30 mins. of extra time had elapsed. That’s how it happened, this time, for host Arsenal at The Emirates, and it would take a penalty shootout to determine which team would go through to the quarters. Scrub on over to the 10:22 mark of the video lede here to see how it turned out…

Monday!

And today was the birthday bash for the youngsters at the world-famous celeb bowling alley called Pinz, right here in beautiful downtown Studio City. Eat ’em up!

Getting down to the business-end of the 2023-24 Premiership season now, and three teams remain alive in the title run-in. One of them is your No. London Arse, who today had an unexpectedly tense match against visiting Brentford. The Arse were in command for the entire first half, but a howler from ’keeper Aaron Ramsdale gifted Brentford an equalizer just before the break. Then the Gunners spent the first 40 mins. of the second half unleashing the full force of their vaunted offense, wave after wave, until, finally, the stubborn Brentford defense had no answer for Kai Havertz’s headed goal, which proved to the matchwinner, in the 85th min. So today’s video lede, the first 5 secs. actually, is dedicated to you, Kai Havertz, and the chant that has provided Gooners the world over with such unbridled joy. #COYG

Int’l. Women’s Day now, so this is your popular-music video lede here…

Many happy returns today to step-grandson, Mistah Leo Richard Mitchell, who hits the big 5 today! Five! Half a decade! Time is flying…

All true. Most of the time when someone shakes off this mortal coil, there’s a good mix of reaction: some wailing & rending of garments, some tearing out of hair; some celebrating & anticipating when the interment might be undertaken (!) so that dancing on the grave can begin straight away. But for this gentlemen, the late, great Larry Lederman, there’s only one proper course of reaction: sadness, and then smiling upon remembering all the chuckles & laughs his racecalls would give you. All over, the reaction to Mr. Lederman’s passing has been the same as the one that Richard Lewis’s death generated earlier this week. R.I.P. to the true GOAT announcer. Thank you for taking the mickey out of public-address commentating at the racetrack.

Another caning administered by your No. London Arse, this one resulting in a 6-nil flaying of host Sheffield United yesterday. The video lede here shows the Gunners’ third goal, registered just past the 15-min. mark and scored by Gabriel Martinelli, who was set-up on a cheeky no-look cutback by Jakub Kiwior. #COYG