20somethings are the rocket fuel of the NYC Marathon's growth in finishers. "In total, 86% more men and 91% more women aged 18-29 finished the 2025 race compared to a decade ago in 2015." @levakabas.bsky.social www.sportico.com/leagues/othe...

CAN YOU HEAR THE DRUMS FERNANDO!!!!!!! open.spotify.com/track/4BM8yJ...

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games. www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

🍒 Portland's pre-professional women's soccer team that launches next May will be called the Cherry Bombs, named for a '70s punk song. www.oregonlive.com/sports/2025/...

✈️ Advice from Team USA's top doctor on where to sit on a plane and what to do -- including with the air nozzle -- to avoid catching an illness: www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

Precincts are reporting the highest turnout for the NYC mayoral election since the city was made up entirely of hat-wearing, hot-dog-eating middle-age men in overcoats

Susan Orlean of The New Yorker said she learned to write at a Portland (Ore.) alternative paper called @wweek.com. She‘s followed her editor’s advice ever since: www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Runners from the Minnesota Distance Elite training group were stars in today's New York City Marathon. Joel Reichow was the top USA finisher in the men's race, and Annie Frisbie was the second USA finisher in the women's race (5th overall) and Elena Hayday was 12th overall.

Joel Reichow, the top American male finisher in the NYC Marathon (6th overall), is 32 years old, grew up in White Bear Lake, Minn., and still works at a Minneapolis running store.

Few schools can boast as cool an instructor as Purdue: In 1935, Amelia Earhart was a visiting faculty member, an advisor in aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to female students.

🍺 Beerpocalypse in Madison, Wis.: As the Badgers football team slumps, alcohol sales at Camp Randall Stadium are down 19% through the first five games. www.jsonline.com/story/sports...

A true legend, running his first NYC Marathon on Sunday

A pro soccer coach used ChatGPT to pick a back-line formation. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...

When asked if WNBA players should go on strike as they negotiate a new CBA, a majority of Americans said yes. Every category backed the move, from men (56%) to WNBA fans (80%). "Rarely does a question provoke such consistent support." Seton Hall Poll: blogs.shu.edu/sportspoll/2...

Oh my god @hnalbandyan.bsky.social and the LA Times crew. Wonderful headline

USWNT coach Emma Hayes’ casual mentions of menopause are a highlight of her press conferences. She briefly and without shame normalizes something that billions of less-famous women also go through.

ATHLETIC FAMILY “Nora and Kay Conacher, twin sisters of Lionel Conacher, professional hockey star, are members of the K. and S. Nationals, champion girls‘ baseball team of Toronto.” — Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, June 3, 1927

One of the most spectator National Anthem performances was just done … in Canada. Oct. 24, 2025, Toronto v LA Dodgers World Series

💊 It turns out there *was* something suspicious about beating the marathon world record by two minutes. After claiming she accidentally took her maid's medication, Ruth Chepngetich received a three-year ban for doping. www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...

How Spanish sports daily Marca is covering the gambling allegations: “Earthquake in the NBA”

I know a lot of fans don't like the idea of the Women's Final Four being played in an NFL stadium (as it will be in 2028), but this is why it's a topic of discussion. The 2026 WFF in Phoenix is already sold out -- more than five months in advance.

🤔 What do you all think of these ideas for college sports’ biggest events? Presented by John Kosner and Ed Desser, former ESPN + NBA execs:

Landon Donovan would have been just fine going without hair. But good for him for addressing something that was really bugging him, and for being honest about it to normalize other people making changes that might make them feel more comfortable, too. www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...

A U.S. bid to co-host the 2031 Women’s World Cup is also an effort by U.S. Soccer to gain more control over the event and its legacy, after FIFA sidelined it in organizing the 2026 men’s World Cup. Smart story by @henrybushnell.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

2031 Women’s World Cup bid is front-page news in Jamaica and Costa Rica. These would be the first World Cup games either nation has hosted.

U.S. Soccer announces a joint bid to host the 2031 Women’s World Cup with Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica. They are the only bidders. USSF prez Cindy Cone says the event will be equal in every way to men’s WC. Here is USWNT legend Abby Wambach watching the intro video:

“This is important to the Clippers.” How a $48M endorsement deal between a bank and Kawhi Leonard, a Clippers player who's not on social media, landed the team under NBA investigation. by Robert O'Connell and Harriet Ryan: www.wsj.com/business/bal...

The Southeastern Conference is eating itself alive. “It’s much more like the NFL now,” Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

Walmart decided to give its workers a raise. Wall Street hated the move and sent Walmart stock tumbling. A decade later, Walmart's business is surging and it's become a Harvard Business School case study on the power of investing in labor. www.wsj.com/business/ret...

Every Saturday, a suburban dad in Atlanta who never played competitive football watches the best college coaches in America pause at critical moments of games and seek advice from a book he wrote. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

IAPE salutes and supports the more than 30 members of the Pentagon press corps—including current IAPE members at The Wall Street Journal and former members working for other media outlets—who turned in their press credentials yesterday. 1/4 www.wsj.com/business/med...

It’s the era for the thick athletes to dominate.

Interesting letter to the editor in response to my story about super spikes' role in the elite American middle-distance running resurgence. Another factor, a sports-med doc says: Athletes are finally taking in more calories. www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

Truly delightful news: Since Portland, Ore., schools banned cellphones in class last January, book checkouts from school libraries have jumped 15%, via @wweek.com: www.wweek.com/news/schools...

TBT 1935, when the Southern Conference voted to end its ban on broadcasting "foot ball games" on the radio. At the time, the league included Duke, UNC, Maryland, Clemson, NC State, Virginia Tech, Washington & Lee, South Carolina, Virginia and VMI. Sunday Star, Washington DC, Dec. 15, 1935.

It started with a cold pitch. Esther Wallace, a former Division-I basketball player turned designer, saw it was easy to buy merchandise for NBA stars but much harder to find a jersey for WNBA players. Her brand, Playa Society, could help fill that gap, she said. #WNBA www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

Population 593,149. Smaller than Memphis!

Today, Conner Mantz shattered the American record for the marathon. His unusual path to greatness: taking two years off from training for an LDS mission and gaining 30 pounds. When he came back, he lost the weight and got faster than ever. www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...

Paige Bueckers at OU-Texas and Sabrina Ionescu on Gameday, the first woman to make multiple appearances as guest picker, Via @brennagreene.bsky.social

Vegas’s success is a result in part of visionary investment. A $1M salary for a coach when that was unheard of. A $40M training facility when no other W team had one. All before Caitlin Clark joined the league. The result: three titles in four years.

Is the era of the omnipotent college football coach ending? Oklahoma’s new GM is equal in rank to coach Brent Venables and has an NFL-style staff to scout and sign players. So far under the new setup, the No. 6 Sooners are 5-0. www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

In the player-pay era, no school is embracing the NFL model more than Oklahoma. “What better place than a higher-education institution to say, ‘Let’s be honest. Let’s look at the facts and then let’s meet what’s in front of us.'" www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

This is supposed to be the WNBA's most important moment. So why is it such a mess? Jason Gay writes: www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

might not be exclusive to athletes @realbachscore.bsky.social seems like a solid candidate

The early years of the Michigan-Wisconsin series were marked by catastrophic collapses of the stadiums they played in. In the Ann Arbor game, players actually helped rescue people from the wreckage. Chicago (1902) and Ann Arbor (1905)

🏈 💍 In honor of Saturday's Miami-Florida State game, I call your attention to the most "That escalated quickly" anecdote in the history of the @nytimes.com Vows section: www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/f...

The thinking used to be that middle-distance runners should be as light as possible. But ‘super spikes’ might be giving an edge to bigger runners—like Americans. www.wsj.com/sports/super...

Big news in women's college basketball: The NCAA announces that the 2028 Women's Final Four will move to Lucas Oil Stadium from Gainbridge Fieldhouse. This follows a string of WFF sellouts at NBA-sized arenas and skyrocketing resale prices for tickets.