"On the day the WaPo sports section died—was killed, in fact—we ought to resist nostalgia ... First, nostalgia does little to polish the circulating résumés of the Post sportswriters who lost their jobs. Second, nostalgia is liable to make you wistful. What happened today should make you angry."

Our Kickstarter is live‼️ A new season of Burn It All Down is coming and we need your help to make it happen. Your support keeps independent, feminist sports media alive! Learn more and support the campaign here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

If I'm running an NFL team, my first question during the interview process is whether this was AI generated. If you're not writing your own LinkedIn Taco Bell sponcon, then can we really trust you with the keys?

@redargyle.bsky.social hey Anthony, can you email me at [email protected]? have a question for you about curling. thanks!

I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

for our latest HIMMW interview: @joshuablevin.bsky.social left a 20-year "forever job" at Slate to go independent. We break down the finances of the jump: 🎙️ The cost of self-funding narrative podcasts 📖 Negotiating unpaid sabbaticals to write books 💸 Adjusting to a "TBD" income

I talked to @joshuablevin.bsky.social about the evolution of "welfare queen" politics during Trump 2. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

For @earbudspodcol.bsky.social, I collected my fave podcast cultural history/mysteries, including work by @99pi.org's Christopher Johnson, @leonneyfakh.bsky.social, @geedee215.bsky.social + @willa.bsky.social (& the pilot episode of Replay Booth naturally) newsletter.earbuds.audio/p/cultural-h...

You can get carried away with these historical analogies and I tried hard not to do that here Reagan, obviously, was not Trump But some similarities hard to miss — and they can help us understand what’s happening www.thebulwark.com/p/how-somali...

Been kind of a rough game for Chris Fowler but all is redeemed if he says "this is for all the VRBOs"

One of the three extant buildings from Storyville, the famous red-light district in New Orleans, is facing demolition. I found that it'd been a Black bar, making it the only link to the community of color that lived and worked on the backstreets of the district. acloserwalknola.com/places/joe-v...

LFG @joelanderson.bsky.social @davidshoemaker.bsky.social x.com/awfulannounc...

Just in time for the holidays, a feature story on the 1977 Xmas party that changed the marijuana legalization movement forever. There was a rock band, strobe lights, a juggler, silver trays full of joints, and an allegation that Jimmy Carter's drug czar did cocaine ... slate.com/news-and-pol...

Holy %$##*%^&. A @newyorker.com essay by Louis Menand about my book

Now that this story has been published, I grant permission to all NFL teams to pursue a 36-23 scoreline today.

Dave's Scorigami spreadsheet is incredible stuff docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the NFL's baffling scoreboard mystery: Why has a game never ended 36-23? Join me (via gift link!) on this @nflscorigami.bsky.social quest w/help from @jonbois.bsky.social, Dave Mattingly, some Scorigami-loving academics, and more www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @joshuablevin.bsky.social & @defector.com! (H/t @barryyeoman.com) Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

Big breaking news at Bounces: Serena Williams has applied for reinstatement to tennis, adding herself back into the tennis anti-doping program to set herself up for a comeback to competition in 2026. Read all the details here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/serena-wil...

Here’s my oral history of CREED, the movie not the band. With help from Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and many more. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/m...

"The Moscow crew shipped off all those pizzas and 20 cases of Pepsi to the parliament building, to fortify Yeltsin and his supporters against the coup. Antoniadi had inserted Pizza Hut into a political crisis." —Kelly Jones & @joshuablevin.bsky.social for @slate.com

New: On 1xBet, the strange and shady company which has become rapidly more visible across tennis in 2025 despite *many* reasons for tours, tournaments, and federations to steer clear of its mess. Lots of odd details here, free for all to read at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-tenn...

Slow Burn/Fiasco/Backfired's @leonneyfakh.bsky.social: "I loved the episode and getting the newsletter a week later felt amazing as it tuned me into various little details that had stuck with me subconsciously. Alas I have basically no social media presence left so I don’t know how to tell anyone."

In the Replay Booth newsletter, I've got a cornucopia of goodies for all the Huckle-heads out there: some great photos, a questionnaire he filled out in 1966, multiple unauthorized Wilbur Huckle baseball cards, and more! www.replaybooth.show/p/every-week...

The first eppy of Replay Booth, @joshuablevin.bsky.social’s new sports history podcast, is sensational. Highly recommended! I can’t wait to hear more.

Thank you to Gwilym Mumford of @theguardian.com for this shout-out for Replay Booth. Listen now! pod.link/1462685560/e...

An incredible story about the stuff guys used to do to entertain themselves before there was posting on the internet: defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

I mean, you really should. Even if you don't like sports, but especially if you do.

Replay Booth is a perfect podcast for Josh and warms my gerontology heart.

Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

This is fabulous. A custom Wilbur Huckle Topps card!

A truly Metsgasmic listening experience.

I was a HUGE fan of One Year and Slow Burn so really thrilled to have Josh back doing podcasts, and this one is about sports history, the best topic!!

This was a fun story, well-told. The best part is that almost every bit has a surprise to make it about 50% more interesting than it already was. Very glad to have Josh Levin in podcast form again, and reminded me to go back and listen to One Year episodes I might have missed.

Went back on ye olde Hang Up and Listen with @alexkirshner.com, @benlindbergh.bsky.social, and @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social to talk about my new podcast Replay Booth and do an afterball about one of the most delightful fan clubs in baseball history slate.com/podcasts/han...

Josh Levin has made some of my favorite narrative history podcasts (Slow Burn, One Year). He has a new project that explores “history, sports, and the surprising threads that connect past and present.” Give it a listen so @joshuablevin.bsky.social can make more! open.substack.com/pub/replaybo...

Extremely excited for Josh's new project. Yes to more thoughtful sports storytelling, and yes to more Josh Levin.

i'm in the middle of listening to this and it's unsurprisingly really great. check it out!

The theme tune rips! pod.link/1462685560/e...

Nice to see the launch of "Replay Booth" a new sport history podcast by @joshuablevin.bsky.social (formerly of @slate.com ). There's space for the kind of thoughtful, engaging sport stories the old "Only a Game" on NPR used to run, and this could be it. www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...

This new sports history podcast from @joshuablevin.bsky.social looks sensational

I'm thrilled to announce the pilot episode for a new sports history podcast called Replay Booth. The pilot, "Wilbur Huckle for President," is live now. If you liked Slow Burn and/or One Year and/or Hang Up and Listen, you'll love this www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

New @slate.com sports podcast Hang Up and Listen with @alexkirshner.com, @benlindbergh.bsky.social and @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social on UNABRIDGED and sports words. Plus: Afterball intro about Brett Favre and "Dutch oven"

I will be there!

Happy pub day to me! Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

My new book, UNABRIDGED, published by @groveatlantic.bsky.social, is out! It took a long time to report and write and I'm proud of it and would be grateful if you bought it and would love to see people when I'm traveling to promote it. Consider this an official book thread

(Meddy knew enough to win 6-4 in the third.)