sixers really are peaked curse. first maxey now this bastion of positivity and vibes out?

but for real try to conjure up a woman or black head coach saying they spend hours and hours using chat gpt, full stop. then think of the lifetime’s worth of scorn and glee they’d get at first error, big or small

eyeblack, my newsletter where I document my research on sports, climate, and transportation has 117 subs already! I'm floored, thank you. But now that you've let me into your inbox, like the sinners from Sinners, I've developed an insatiable hunger for more. Could we get to 150 today?

i don’t put a lot of faith in the daily but a cursory scroll through the last few days and it’s like a real time, though still disbelieving, narration of the US’s descent into an absurdist techno authoritarian state

if we’re all talking about chotiner may i present the time basketball feelings got chotiner’d

i wish this wasn’t so funny

This passage from @wtevs.bsky.social stopped me in my tracks

why are you guys believing a dude with a worm in his brain about anything

wrote about the individualist conceit that “no one is thinking of you” i’ve seen going around, and what fandom, even in its flawed devotion, can teach us about consideration

honestly maybe not much more of a perfect line than “in the middle of that riot/couldn’t get you off my mind”

is it radical to tell your friends you were just thinking about them? turns out yes

wrote about the individualist conceit that “no one is thinking of you” i’ve seen going around, and what fandom, even in its flawed devotion, can teach us about consideration

There is no such thing as a good billionaire.

unlocked this post because as more is uncovered in the ballmer/aspiration/kawhi mess the more the original premise remains: assuming billionaires are intellectually and morally superior is very dumb, and we should knock it off

Only in America would the firing of the guy from the Man Show be the confirmation it’s full blown fascism.

seeing my sweet freak jarvis cocker again who tried to throw grapes in his mouth to start the show and missed, halfway through spotted a grape on stage and said, “i found me grape” — tried again, missed

ok but why does even the graphic people are sharing the new american tiktok news with look evil

got around to reading this morning (surprise it's really good) and especially as a trio of people very concerned with how we form memories in real time about the sports were watching, and which of those memories we take with us into the future, it hit on many levels, highly recommend checking it out

stoked to be back this wed with @museumoftoronto.bsky.social for another women-focused panel! join me and broadcasting powerhouses kayla grey and kate beirness as we chat about storytelling in sports, how the audience appetite for athlete stories has changed, and what goes on behind the camera

my guy jeff hiller won! a shred of light and good in the world, or at least the television academy

Personally, I’m a big fan of the NBA being a highlights based league.😎🤙 Read Katie’s story.

Need to thank @wtevs.bsky.social for handling what Adam Silver ACTUALLY SAID with some nuance open.substack.com/pub/basketba...

- the nba is a highlights-based league - the nba is a league with full games worth watching wrote about why both are true, why silver wasn't wrong (or calling anyone broke), and why assigning him singular authority undermines our own critical capacity

if there’s one thing ‘saipan’ nails it’s the irish man’s inability to communicate

do you think any tiff celebs have ever ended up in the PATH

the reason i’m seeing so many movies at tiff is because i forgot scotiabank has coke remix machines

i'm hosting a series of women-focused panels this month for @museumoftoronto.bsky.social's ongoing 'home game' exhibition! join me, mery andrade of the raptors, former olympian tamara tatham and shes4sports founder ainka jess tomorrow at nba courtside from 7-9pm — event is free, spots are limited!

i kind of wish they gave kawhi part of the leafs

icymi: no war but class war

masai back

"... the presumption of infallibility via wealth. He fixates on it so often and bizarrely that he contradicts himself over and over again throughout the interview, so singular is the bedrock dogma that wealth, the crude accumulation of money and assets, offers abiding superiority, security."

icymi: no war but class war

I have said so many versions of the sentiment: "people don't care about corruption because they can't tell the difference between that and normal capitalism" for so many different scandals

wrote about why i have a hard time caring about the ballmer-kawhi-clippers allegations (spoiler: it all boils down to billionaires)

every time i get a little bit happy for the downfall of the american empire i remember we are definitely going with them

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so pleased to share my essay 'everything in a name' was selected for 'the year's best sportswriting 2025'! immense gratitude to hanif abdurraqib for picking a piece about family a world away, the toronto tempo and the fragility and hope of naming to include alongside this roster of heavy hitters

i don’t mind kawhi taking more money from a billionaire but i do hope as an apology they go and plant however many trees that money was supposed to equate to

This is a great piece. Astute point made, and really well written. I enjoyed reading it, even though the subject matter is infuriating.

this is very good.

every cyber truck i’ve ever seen: only one person in it

This is an incredible piece and wish you all would read it. While this framed in basketball, it speaks loudly to so much more.

There’s not a writer of any prominence in the NBA space who writes with more empathy and generosity of spirit towards players than Katie, so the lengths someone has to go to inspire her to this level of vitriol can only be measured in the Richter scale

“Porter Jr. steeps in ignorance with a dull-eyed, sated smugness.”

the weird little squeal i just let out

“Curiosity is open-ended, flowing out and out and out. It’s lively, orchestral.”

im obsessed with this piece <3

always read katie heindl