Hello, @theguardian.com wants to hear from you. Are you excited about the World Cup? Are you planning to go to matches? Or is the answer to both those things a big fat NO? In either case, we want to hear more about it. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I got upgraded to business class on my flight and upgraded to a king suite at my hotel—off to a good start, Toronto

It’s 8am. I have been up since 2:30am to catch my early morning flight. I can’t check into my hotel until 3pm and I am SO TIRED 😴

I just made my first donation to @trevorproject.bsky.social on behalf of Between The Hashmarks subscribers for this special! Come check out what @miketanier.bsky.social and I are building, and help us do some good … together.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I did a deep dive last year into the way longtime Liberty fans are being priced out of tickets for the team they helped build: www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-gentri...

So uh who is the new editorial team at @playboy.com commissioning dope work from dope writers 👀

Trans porn was the second most-viewed category of 2025 on PornHub, up five spots from 2024. For some trans content creators, this isn’t really a surprise: trans people are hot and have always been desired—the political noise around their existence, they say, is just manufactured bullshit.

I’ve been toying with the idea of adding a podcast to OOYL but I just don’t know if it would be worth the time and labor. Like idk how many people it would incentivize to upgrade to a paid subscription more than already have. Maybe I should get better at short form video content instead? Idk!

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

It can be hard to keep track of where #NWSL games are streaming (and what time the actual kickoff will be, based on the provider…) So I created a website to help! Check it out here ⬇️ nationalwomenssoccerleague.com

In the basketball justice system, pick and roll based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious plays are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Very cool to see OOYL as recommended reading in today’s @19thnews.org newsletter:

According to a league source, the Indiana Fever have received a warning from the league regarding the timing of Caitlin Clark's injury report.

Not me discovering the night before that I spelled my own name wrong on my reservation for my 5 AM international flight

when a technology goes hard for marketing at historically underrepresented groups is when it's on the verge of collapse and desperately needs fresh blood to keep the lights on

NEW: WNBA fans seems to really hate AI but that hasn’t stopped the league & players from partnering with AI companies. Or, the “girlbossification” of AI reaches the WNBA:

Idk if it’s like this in other places, but my partner has gotten into pickleball in Boston and its been interesting to note the fact that a majority of the players in the leagues seem to be gay men. Only one of the league he plays in is an explicitly queer league, the rest are open.

Unfortunate to see the Super League follow the USL’s trend of annual attrition. Was hoping their breach into D1 would be able to more adequately vet ownership sustainability. Wrote in March about the USL’s issue to retain membership on the men’s side. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

New Unsupervised dropped today with this thumbnail lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAxv...

Asides from tone deaf tech execs, does anyone like AI?

SOURCE REQUEST: looking for fans who have attended Portland Cherry Combs or Minnesota Aurora games, or who plan to.

#WNBA fans tend to be among the most politically & socially progressive of any sports league (as are its players, fwiw). #WELCOMETOTHEW

Incredible new report finds that an illegal Israeli settlement club has progressed to the Israeli Premier League and has received millions of dollars in funding from the UEFA Foundation and US government. Other illegal clubs are having games streamed on FIFA+ and playing in UEFA competitions.

Fun fact: this is the kind of work I get to run at my newsletter when I can’t place it elsewhere. I pitched a version of it to three publications before writing it up at OOYL.

Feels like the W's version of all the gambling shit so many of the NBA guys co-sign. And in both cases it suuuuuuuuuuucks

just keep sharing these stories no matter what the institute is. ppl who don’t passionately hate AI but don’t really like it are starting to be like “wtf is the deal? this is clearly a scam”

NEW: WNBA fans seems to really hate AI but that hasn’t stopped the league & players from partnering with AI companies. Or, the “girlbossification” of AI reaches the WNBA:

This is the second time someone has mentioned this piece to me this week. I’m glad it still resonates. Thanks for sharing

Just gonna tune in to the WNBA and the 42 soccer games and the PWHL championship and the survivor finale and

oh sure

I’ll be in Toronto this weekend. Any recommendations for places to eat or visit?

"All together, these books press us to question what we take for granted and to open our hearts and minds to new possibilities. This is something that all who truly care about athletics and justice must do." www.texasobserver.org/trans-athlet...

Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

The recent removal of FiveThirtyEight's archive is a reminder of how fleeting digital content can be. Our research found 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. www.pewresearch.org/...

Feels impossible to convey to anyone under 35 or so how SI’s whole thing for decades was “we have the very best sportswriting.” That was the brand. Three generations of kids like me grew up with SI as the inspiration for our careers and as the dream job we all aspired to.

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A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEWS: #WPBL Says Salary Consistent Despite Increase in Games Played leftonbase.beehiiv.com/p/women-s-pr...

y'all wanna see a dead body

White genocide conspiracy freaks flee Nationals game after banner stunt: defector.com/white-genoci...

NEW: some behind-the-scenes action from the various press boxes I've reported from over the past few months. I'm rating the vibes, the view, and the food for each of them:

Great way to invest in quality journalism

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Love and basketball deserves the hate, that movie is a horror story. Love Jones is a forever fave. We need more black romantic dramas and romcoms 🥰

Today I visited the abandoned bobsleigh track in Sarajevo, built for the 1984 Winter Olympics. It was a remarkable & haunting experience.

The sports betting ads and stats on NBC/Peacock are so fucked up

today’s ’fit (LOOK AT THE BACK!!!)

he probably said 32 and the translator app got it wrong due to his accent and I didn’t catch it

coach: we are not mean whole team: [barks]