I want both of these teams to win 😩

What’s it like to know this joy?

gift link if you wanna cry in the middle of a thursday share.inquirer.com/NOjBjO

So great but also, ESPN has had 15 years to get this going. Keep in mind it owned the rights to WNBA, NCAA women’s sports and all four Grand Slams at the height of Serena’s dominance. People pitched these shows. The network didn’t just find out about women’s sports.

Casey has left a long slime trail throughout his days in the worlds of music, video games, sports, and entertainment, proving that it’s not one really heinous act he’s guilty of, but many. This is a lifelong pattern of abuse. His abuse is intersectional.

watching the skimo semifinals and if I went to the olympics and I was classified as a "lucky loser" in order to progress to the next round, I would simple want to kms

OT goal for Switzerland to win the bronze medal in hockey!!! They were outshot 118 to 45, but outscored their opposition 4-3 and go home with a medal! WE LOVE A BRONZE MEDAL GAME, DON'T WE FOLKS

Thank you, Defector, for letting me rant about the women’s hockey broadcast! (Gift link) defector.com/all-i-want-i...

❗Speculation rising that US President Donald Trump will make a surprise appearance at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics if the US men’s hockey team—which is chockfull of Trump supporters—makes it to the gold-medal game on Sunday. By @lisarileyroche.bsky.social www.deseret.com/utah/2026/02...

TOO MUCH GOOD OLYMPICS TODAY

As always, I’m happy to talk with folks about my experience leaving Substack! Yes it was hard and annoying and there was an adjustment period. Yes it was worth it for many many reasons!

Unions are majority funded by the dues of the membership. Membership dues are connected to salaries. As such the WNBPA is not as well funded as some other unions & likely cannot afford a robust staff which would include a comms person. I do however think this is where affiliates could help #wnba

then there's the triple shot www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I pitched a story about this last year but no one picked it up 🤷🏻

The NBA keeps making the same offer over and over again to the WNBA players. The WNBA players keep asking for less. So far, this process has given the NBA $589 million. Who says doing nothing doesn't pay? wagesofwins.substack.com/p/how-much-m...

shot: chaser:

Underlying everything that's happening, even if the public isn't super aware of it, is that there aren't many journalists left. 75 percent fewer journalists now than 25 years ago, and newspapers, the bastion of American journalism, are in even worse shape. share.google/2KL2PkERkgnQ...

They have only one chance left (there are two races but none of the women qualified for the Mass Start so it is all down to Campbell Wright on Friday). He looked strong in the Men’s relay, so there definitely is a chance.

This is really stunning writing.

They added mixed curling in this Olympics. So the number of games went up 50%. Also I didn’t realize it, but each team plays every other team in the prelim round. There are no groups. So, fully agree. That’s too many games.

Extra extra! 🗞️ It’s @sarahspain.com and @byalexazzi.bsky.social in the @apnews.com! apnews.com/article/olym...

I have discovered the documentary about the U.S. biathlon program’s quest for an Olympic medal (I do not believe they ended up succeeding this year lol). This is what I’ll be watching tonight!

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion but… is it possible the Olympics has *too much curling*

UPDATE: the league spokesperson has emailed me about this, saying, "The listings have been removed and will be updated as the link was no intended for public consumption yet." #WPBL

column: Tony Clark's shocking resignation from MLBPA is about far more than just a scandalous affair, which is the most disappointing part of all this. andscape.com/features/ton...

WITH THAT SAID, if any editors still want to commission this hmu. It’s a good and timely piece that I haven’t seen written anywhere else.

I’m working on a deep dive of t.A.T.u.’s music & its connections to the Winter Olympics, from Sochi to Milano Cortina, & the connections that music has to anti-LGBTQ+ resistance at the Games & in the host countries. I even interviewed my father-in-law, who wrote & produced t.A.T.u.’s album.

NBC is currently subjecting us to an entire feature package on the Tkachuk family, including interviews with the brothers and their father. Fucking spare me.

Swiss broadcaster Radio Television Suisse cravenly removed this footage from its website because the straight facts delivered by Stefan Renna "may have appeared inappropriate." They don't deserve this king. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

According to the WNBPA’s website, they don’t have a dedicated comms person. IMO it is shocking that professional labor organizers wouldn't know they needed a comms person who could draft a solid PR/media strategy that had tactics ready to go for every possible outcome in these negotiations.

The men of the NBA get about 40% of total revenue. Women are asking for 27.5% of total revenue. This statement by the WNBA is simply not believable. They need to explain clearly how a share of revenue below anything the men of the NBA have ever received would result in huge losses.

Yes I’ve spent my dinner date with @willshorn.bsky.social looking up the birth charts of Tyra, Miss J, and Mr. Jay so we can analyze the dynamics 🫡

I'm on the Landline podcast with @mimimahoney.bsky.social talking about Heated Rivalry and the Olympics and lots of other gay things podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I identified four (4) NBA teams part-owned by a firm that sold a property to the Department of Homeland Security for a planned ICE detention center. And I explain why more owners could follow in the warehouse to megajail business. it's the new [eyeblack]:

Ok sorry to be posting these on main but the time pry on these stories is quickly running out. Editors, get in touch if you’re interested & I can send along full pitches. DM or email Frankie at britnidlc dot com:

COURT QUEENS comes out in one month! Women’s basketball from the 1890s to 2020s, in words and pictures, from AAU to AIAW to WBL to WNBA. You can preorder now wherever you get your books ✨ www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emma-...

I’m in @awfulannouncing.bsky.social this morning with a fun little profile on US curling legend John Shuster who’s been blessing your TVs each morning on Gold Zone:

Have you ever wondered how they get those incredible drone shots at Milan Cortina 2026? Well I dove in for @sfchronicle.com and what it means for NBC going forward (gift article link):

I have watched the ANTM doc and while I’m not surprised that Tyra comes off so poorly, I am slightly surprised that she couldn’t even *perform* a modicum of empathy or regret.

From the @status.news on Anderson Cooper's decision not to renew his contract at CBS. "Weiss not only failed to persuade Cooper to grow his footprint at the network, but ultimately helped chase him away from it entirely."

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’” Solidarity to a real one.

Scoop: Anderson Cooper had grown increasingly uneasy with the direction of CBS News under Bari Weiss, contributing to his decision to exit "60 Minutes." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anderson-c...

People, it turns out, like to read about their community, about their local events, about their old schools, and about their kids and grandkids in their schools. Why this is something that has to be relearned every few years is something of a mystery.

he said “bye Bari” ✌🏼

also, how about IIHF, literally the organization in charge of hockey, saying that 2-time World Champion Abbey Murphy is playing so well she should be compared to the zero-time World Champion Tkachuk brothers

sure sure sure

Feel like all you need to know about the current freelance market is visible (or just slightly hidden) here:

someone on IG just called me “a normie who doesn’t understand how fandom works” which is why “real” fans have “kept people like me out of fandom spaces” and lolololololol

This looks like an IT complaint form, but one of the options on the pulldown under "What can we help you with" is 2026 Winter Olympics and I think we should all let NBC know what we thought of the women's hockey broadcasts help.nbc.com/hc/en-us/req...

I get, I could *almost* excuse it from years past. But there’s a pro league now with international recognition. We’ve got a tournament full of players who have come up through the NCAA. There’s too much to talk about to cut to Brady Tkachuk with a busted headset.