The bicep-enabled young man with the microphone is Charlie, son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, a walk-on player at Northwestern. He is amusing. But let us take this opportunity to note that his teammate Nathan Taphorn’s unsolicited apology for failing to pass him the ball (Hall did grab the rebound, so no harm done) is good. Taphorn is right: Apologies don’t “make it OK” when you’ve done a bad thing, but they are “the right thing to do.”

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A good apology from an athlete, everyone
Tennis player Loïs Boisson, in 2021, about to whack tennis ball,
Person costumed as a bat or maybe a spider in the 2010 West Indian American Day parade in Brooklyn, NY.
Daguerrotype of young Maggie and Kate Fox, with hands in their laps and straight hair parted in the middle and curled under at the ends, both looking somberly at the viewer
Realistic cake in the shape of a dachshund tucked into bed.
Tennis player Loïs Boisson, in 2021, about to whack tennis ball,
Person costumed as a bat or maybe a spider in the 2010 West Indian American Day parade in Brooklyn, NY.
Daguerrotype of young Maggie and Kate Fox, with hands in their laps and straight hair parted in the middle and curled under at the ends, both looking somberly at the viewer
Realistic cake in the shape of a dachshund tucked into bed.

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