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.

Me: “wow I can’t believe no editors have responded to my VERY GOOD PITCHES” that I sent this weekend” *oops it’s a federal holiday and everyone is OOO*

Unfortunately it *always* been like this for the women’s hockey games. Either we’re hearing about a player’s brother/father in the NHL, or we’re running through the “fun fact” sheet on repeat.

how many times have they told us that BJK, the Kelces, and the Tkchuck brothers are in the crowd (I know that’s not how the brothers spell their name but I refuse to learn it or look it up rn)

I’ve got two pieces I’m really excited about writing this week. They both involve original reporting & hiring an editor. If you like my queer sports writing, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to my newsletter. www.thefrankiedlc.news

Rodger is hoping to add 10 new paid subscribers today. As someone who generally only does about one roundup style post a week, I can’t begin to tell you how much work Rodger is putting into his Olympic recaps. If you enjoy them, please consider paying for the work he does!

Love a good break to talk to one of the least interesting people in human history, who is also having a hard time hearing the questions

It’s only been ~3 months since the Tkachuks got on their dumbass podcast and said that they hate when women call them by their nicknames and that women are only there bc they want to fuck them. First of all, they’re both ugly. Second, the women on Team USA are more talented than they’ll ever be.

The Tkacucks bringing the vibes down where ever they go

The Tkachuks did a TikTok with Elmo for Sesame Street, and the entire comment section was people telling Elmo to run as fast and as far away from them as possible.

Now over the course of US women’s hockey games, we’ve been subjected to JD Vance & Marco Rubio at a game with the transphobic Lamoureux twins & now the Tkachuk brothers. I addressed the brothers in today’s queer Olympic news roundup. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/more-gay-n...

Ok wait now I’m wondering… any good recs for romance novels with nonmonogamous couples??

great stuff. there are so many out queer athletes now who are sharing their stories publicly, and projecting on or joking about athletes who are straight or potentially just not out gives me such an ick.

Excellent piece!

The Wicked For Good trailer I've been forced to watch during the Olympics makes the entire film look like a love story between Glinda and Elphaba. And while, let's be real, it's not NOT, it also absolutely isn't. And it just feels like queerbaiting in a way I really don't like.

Idgaf about Heated Rivalry, but this excellent, thoughtful piece from @thefrankiedlc.news on fandom & privacy for athletes goes way deeper on the problems of heteros shipping real people w/ real lives—particularly queer/queer-presenting athletes—for their own personal headcanon is a great read:

Is posting social content from my newsletter on Instagram even worth it? People read the headline & pull quotes on the graphics & then argue with me in the comments about points I address in the full piece & no one ever actually clicks through to the newsletter itself. It’s pretty frustrating!!

“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.” A newspaper editor actually said this! @theonion.com is cooked.

My second roundup of all the gay stuff from the Winter Olympics is here! It’s free! Enjoy!

»The world of men’s sports still is not safe for queer people, and queer men, in particular.« #NOlympia

the cameras cut to the US pairs’ parents all lined up in the same row in their team USA gear and I finally realized the ACTUAL Olympics romance I was born to write is a Just Friends pairs skating team whose moms have a midlife gay awakening and fall in love

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YOU GUYS. Kim brought Nicole cookies that the Belgium federation gave her for Valentine’s Day. Nicole said they’re rooming together in the Brazil House & when they arrived their room was decorated half Brazil, half Belgium. What a delightful duo. Can’t wait for you to hear from them on the show!

Zany as it may sound, Germany is bidding on the 2036 Olympics, which would mark the 100-year anniversary of the "Nazi Games" overseen by Hitler & Goebbels (and in the very same stadium no less). The anti-Olympics group @nolympiaberlin.bsky.social is organizing against it. apnews.com/article/berl...

The IOC has banned the courageous & principled Ukrainian Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych for his “helmet of memory” commemorating Ukraine’s war dead. Meanwhile the IOC is selling a $42 "Heritage T-shirt" commemorating the 1936 Olympics, known as the Nazi Games. shop3.olympics.com/en/olympic-g...

The @bostonglobe.com opinion page this morning is headlined by white supremacist Richard Hanania, whose racist views have been smoothed over in recent months by centrists

I wanted to be a Literary Writer when I grew up. Do you know how fucked that is

I sent out what I think is a dope-ass Winter Olympics pitch yesterday—it incorporates music, Heated Rivalry, & politics, & includes exclusive interviews with hard to get sources. I will be very bummed if no one picks it up & I have to run it at my newsletter.

FIS is the federation in charge of alpine skiing, cross country, freestyle skiing, ski jumping, and believe it or not snowboarding, but they’re NOT in charge of biathlon and they are MAD ABOUT IT

honestly kinda surprised this story hasn't blown up more the Italian curling team's coaching staff got rid of a player who had been on the team for years and replaced her on the Olympic roster with one of their daughters

I fell asleep with the Olympics on in the background & my dreams incorporated the race pxp. I dreamt it was some ski relay event that involved checkpoints where they had to solve puzzles like in The Challenge. One competitor lost a ski and shoe during the race. I woke up & it was speedskating.

The USOPC commercial that says the American athletes are "powered by you" & then solicits donations while failing to disclose that it's because the U.S. is the only country who doesn't pay their elite athletes pisses me off bc I think if the general public knew that, they'd be likely to donate.