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How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kaley Cuoco
For Kaley Cuoco, Sundays mean one thing: football.
Her fiancé Tom Pelphrey first made her a fan. “Because Tom is so obsessed with football, if I wasn’t going to join then I would be an outsider,” she says. “I needed to be included so I jumped in. And by the way, I’m so glad I did.”
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Now, she describes football season as “very iconic and sacred” in their house: “Every hour of it is taken very seriously.” The rest of the year, Sundays are reserved for decompressing with reality TV and true crime. “Instead of calling it trash [TV], I call it my ‘girl TV,’” she says. “I love ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ Andy Cohen, I watch all his [series]. I’m watching every season of ‘Love Is Blind.’”
The actress, whose dark comedy series “Based on a True Story” Season 2 streams on Peacock on Nov. 21, lives with Pelphrey, their daughter Matilda and a host of farm animals on a ranch outside Los Angeles. Here’s how she’d spend an ideal Sunday in L.A. when football is not in session.
This interview has been lightly edited and condensed for length and clarity.
8 a.m.: Wake up with the dogs
A normal wake-up for me is 7 a.m. because we have four dogs who will not let me sleep past 7. It’s not even my daughter, it’s our stupid dogs. But my dream Sunday is sleeping in at least until 8 a.m. and having my coffee by myself with no one bothering me. Having coffee in the morning is my favorite thing in the entire world, I look forward to it.
I am a half-and-half girl. By the way, with all the bad ingredients in all this s— now, half-and-half is actually one of the cleanest things you can eat. I’m just saying! Tom looks at me like, ‘I cannot believe that you put that in your coffee.’ I’m like, ‘Read the ingredients in your oat milk! You think you’re being all healthy, look at that s—.’ Mine is just milk and cream. Organic, simple, done.
9 a.m.: Quick workout sesh
If I have a little time for myself, I’ll go to my yoga class. I go to CorePower and I sweat my ass off. I am not the type of person that can work out in my house alone. So I’ve been going for years and years and years.
I love Pilates as well. And I ride my horses too. I do multiple riding lessons a week and I personal train. I get very bored … like this morning, I personal trained and tomorrow I’m going to have a riding lesson. I definitely like to switch it up. But I always go back to CorePower because I love it.
11 a.m.: Weekly manicure
Sunday is also my manicure day. That is one of my favorite things to do. I go to Helen’s Nails in the Valley and I love it. I always have my nails done and that’s always on Sunday.
Helen’s been my girl for 18 years. I’ve followed her to five locations. I don’t go to anyone else. I don’t even get my nails done when I’m working on set. I’m very loyal, OK? She is the best of the best. And it’s not even that I need it, I [just] enjoy that time. It’s like my gym.
For every job, I pick a nail color. And so depending on what the job is, I will stick with that one color for the entire thing. It also helps with continuity. For Season 1 of “Based on a True Story,” I purposely had a crimson blood red color. It just went with the theme. For “Harley Quinn,” I wasn’t on camera so I got to do whatever the hell I want. But I think if that Harley was [live action], there would be 10 different colors and it would all be chipped. Not perfectly done at all.
Noon: Take turns with Matilda
When Tom and I are on duty with Matilda, a long time ago we smartly [decided to] take turns. We find it pointless for both of us to be trying to watch Matilda, because then you just have two people who are exhausted.
I’ll go in the bedroom and get in my bed — I’m not kidding, it could be 2 in the afternoon — and I watch trash TV for two hours. And then we switch and I come out and play with Matilda and Tom goes and does what he does.
2 p.m.: Jump around at Sky Zone
Sky Zone is so brilliant because they can’t get hurt. She [Matilda] really can run into anything, run up the wall, fall into the pit and she’s laughing [the whole time]. And she loves to bounce, she thinks bouncing is so cool. So anything like that, she freaking loves it. And by the time she gets home, she’s so tired. We love it there.
3 p.m.: Erewhon run for dinner prep
I always feel like groceries just [get up and] leave. Everyone’s eating everything constantly. Sometimes we do delivery, but I think it’s weird, people picking out your food, so I do grocery shopping as well on Sundays.
I hate to admit the love I have for Erewhon. It’s completely overpriced. You go in, buy a $40 smoothie. I admit it is crazy. With that said, I’ve bought apparel there. Like, I have a real problem. I buy sweatshirts, I’ve got shopping bags. Tom’s like, “What are you doing?” I think they have the best food, the best ingredients. I love my shopping experience. Mr. Erewhon, wherever that person is, Mr. and Mrs. Erewhon? Brilliant. I don’t know how you did it.
5 p.m.: Dinner in front of the tube
I love cooking dinner. And I’ll make stuff for Matilda for the next day and prep some of her food. On Sunday when I have time, I’ll cook something that Tom will want. Usually he’ll put a steak on. And since I don’t eat meat, he’ll make the steak and then I’ll make the sides and we’ll sit and have dinner.
Tom’s very simple, like me. He wants meat and potatoes. I don’t want the meat, but I want very simple dishes. So we’re not very adventurous in our [eating habits] although now I see it in my daughter. She wants rice and beans and nothing else. I’m like, Oh, my God, I’ve created a monster.
And we love TV, so we’ll watch some TV while we’re eating. We just started the Cate Blanchett show on Apple, “Disclaimer.” It’s Alfonso Cuarón’s show and he’s never done TV before. It’s fantastic. We did “Menendez Brothers” for the last few weeks. One of our special rooms in our house is a theater, so we love to watch movies down there. We watched “His Three Daughters” the other night, fantastic. We watched “Blink Twice,” we hadn’t seen that and loved it.
9 p.m.: Bedtime!
I used to go to bed very early. And I will be honest, if Tom’s gone, I will get in bed at 8:30 p.m. It’s not that I’m going to sleep, I want to get in bed with my dogs and watch my bad TV. That’s what I love to do. But that’s obviously not every single night. So then, when he’s here, I stay up later because he’s such a night owl and I hate that there’s all these hours I miss hanging out with him, so I try and stay up a little later. We’ll watch a movie and go to sleep closer to 11 p.m., but when I’m alone, I’m in bed before 9.
Students walk on the Stanford University campus on March 14, 2019, in Stanford, Calif.
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When Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University a few years ago, he joined the student newspaper, following the path of his journalist parents, Peter Baker, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and Susan Glasser, a writer for The New Yorker.
Through his reporting as a student journalist, he eventually broke a story about manipulated data in Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s neuroscience research that helped lead to the university president’s resignation.
Theo Baker’s book, How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University was released May 19. In it, Baker describes Stanford as a place where proximity to Silicon Valley gives rise to a parallel system of influence, recruitment and money, with investors looking to identify promising students almost as soon as they arrive on campus.
He told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep there was “a sort of Stanford inside Stanford,” where elite students are drawn into an “alternate reality” of excess and access to cut corners.
In the interview, he discusses how Stanford is not just a university but also a pipeline where status and power can matter as much as ideas.
We reached out to Stanford University for comment and have not heard back.
Listen to the interview by clicking play on the blue box above.
The scoreboard shows the results of the women’s singles final match between Iga Swiatek of Poland and Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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Fifteen points in tennis? Nice. Thirty, 40 — even better. Advantage — that sounds good. “Love” — that also must be great, right? Well, not quite.
As the French Open rolls on and Serena Williams has announced her return to the sport, maybe you’ve been paying a little more attention to tennis. The sport’s scoring system is notably distinct, and can sometimes be hard to grasp for newcomers. But even tennis aficionados might not know why, or how, “love” became the unmistakable callout for zero points. For this installment of NPR’s Word of the Week, we’re exploring how a word that signifies trailing behind got such a sweet name.
“Love” comes from the heart — or an egg?
It’s hard to pinpoint when the first tennis ball went over the net. Tennis is a derivative of lots of other sports, such as “jeu de paume,” a handball game played in France, said JT Buzanga, the collections manager at the International Tennis Hall of Fame museum.
But tennis became a patented, official sport in 1874, said Steve Flink, a journalist whose tennis coverage got him inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. It has retained its unique, mysterious scoring system ever since.
“By and large, the original system has held up almost entirely,” Flink said.
The use of “love” goes back to the late 18th century, said Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer. But it was used earlier than that in card games such as whist and bridge. Before the term made its way to tennis, the sport favored plain old “nothing,” or “nil,” he said.
Why love in the first place, though? Historians don’t really know for sure, but there are a few theories.
The French could have something to do with it. Some historians believe “love” derives from “l’oeuf,” which means “the egg” in French. Because eggs are shaped like zeros, terms such as “goose egg” and “duck’s egg” have been used in other contexts to mean zero, Sheidlower said.
It’s also possible English speakers mispronounced l’oeuf as “love.” But Sheidlower isn’t convinced that’s the answer.
“It’s the French equivalent of an English expression. But since that expression doesn’t appear in French, the French word wouldn’t have been used,” he said.
To be sure, France has had a lot of influence on tennis culture, Buzanga said. For example, “deuce” or a game tied at 40 points, comes from the French word for “two”: “deux.” But he prefers another prominent theory: that “love” comes from the idiom “for the love of the game.” Even if a player hasn’t scored, it doesn’t matter, because their heart is in it. It’s the theory Sheidlower said is the most plausible, because the idiom was used by the English before tennis was popularized.
Another variation of the “love of the game” theory is that the word could have come from the Dutch “lof,” or “honor” — or the Latin “amare,” meaning “to love,” Flink said.
But if tennis’ “love” doesn’t come from a French word, the theory at least has a French sensibility.
“I think the ‘for the love of the game’ is kind of romantic,” Buzanga said.
“Love” probably isn’t going anywhere
Tennis used to be a sport of leisure. The style of play has changed a lot over the years; players are more athletic and competitive, for instance, Flink said. But the rules of the sport are more steadfast, he said.
“There’s this incredible, enduring respect for tradition in tennis,” he said. “Changes are not made easily.”
There has been one major change in modern history: the tie-break. Matches can go on and on because players have to score two consecutive points to break a deuce, or by two games to break a tied set. But the onset of television meant matches would have to get shorter if the sport wanted to capture a larger audience, Flink said.
Change even came for “love.” An alternative sprouted up in the 1970s, and is still used today: “bagel,” named for its zero shape, Sheidlower said. Novices may say “zero,” and insiders will understand what they mean, but they “will needle them about it,” Flink said.
But “love” still prevails.
“People kind of like it,” Flink said. “It’s different. Why say zero when you can say love?”
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