On Saturday, ABC interrupted hockey and NBC interrupted golf to report on Ayatollah Khamenei. It wasn’t the first time that viewers received major global news during a sports telecast. My latest piece for SABR revisits the Mets, the Phillies, ESPN, and the bin Laden raid. sabr.org/gamesproj/ga...

A timely reminder that CNN is and has been a go-to source for solid, fact based, timely, often live on location reporting on conflicts like this. The international news network may soon have a new owner in David Ellison that will surely not be committed to this level of coverage or truth telling.

We got news yesterday that could very much affect CNN's future. With that, it has never been more important to honor a CNN origin story. I present the cover for “CHANNELING,” Fred Hickman's posthumously released autobiography, due out March 31.

Enjoying some nighttime DX-ing with my new portable radio. From Durham, NC, WTAM Cleveland is coming in nicely! (Honorable and receivable mentions: WINS and the AM station formerly known as WCBS New York.)

CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.

I found Rickey at a thrift store! He was somewhere between a Pope John XXIII vinyl album and Dynasty: The Jigsaw Puzzle.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

SAY IT!

Kissing the ring.

Hank would’ve turned 92 today. In his honor, the Society for American Baseball Research has a new book out today! It includes a chapter by yours truly. sabr.org/latest/sabr-...

BOOK NEWS: My friend Fred Hickman would have turned SEVENTY this year! In his final months, he and I collaborated on his autobiography. As a CNN and TNT original, one of the first to host Olympics telecasts on U.S. cable, and one of the first Black sports hosts on national TV, what stories he had.

In a dream last night, I was atop a McDonald’s Playplace tube slide. Yogi Berra was crouched next to me, in a catcher’s squat. Right before I start sliding down, Yogi told me, “Hey, it’s never too late for the future!”

Every few years a reader says "STICK TO SPORT!" When that happens I get to ask: "What does that even mean? Does that mean when someone shoots the Cubs' first baseman we can't mention the gun?" This edition was prompted by @matrueblood.bsky.social's column from the Twin Cities. Free at BP.

The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

I'm confused. I thought Washington Post was doing mass layoffs?

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

No honest journalist or supporter of journalism could possibly support the arrest of Don Lemon for filming a protest. And to any journalist who’s afraid of speaking against this, for fear of your job being at risk: It already is at risk.

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

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Here's why the fact-gatherers are being painted as controversial: The painters are so far removed from truth, so unwilling to process the society around them, that they have lost the ability to tell fact from opinion — or fact from rebellion.

These eyewitness/ as it happens live accounts of ICE brutality are so jarring but it’s vital for people to see the reality...

Bellingcat is gold standard. Read entire thread "A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man BEFORE THE FIRST shot was fired." "At least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground."

I'd expect that mass boycotts of the 2028 Olympics aren't far behind. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

They didn't want to air Sesame Street in Mississippi because it was integrated.

He’s going for two!

“Lee [will] represent South Korea in the upcoming World Baseball Classic in March.” While I’m super glad this was a quickly-resolved paperwork issue, I wonder how many other WBC players will have similar problems. This is going to be a shitshow.

Well, after almost a decade living in the South, it finally happened. I was on a customer service call earlier and said “y’all’d’ve.”

All while wearing an Orioles cap tho?

“[Mainstream media outlets] are tying the rope for their own noose. If they aren’t willing to accept a basic duty of journalism – to warn the public about dangers to their well-being – they ought to at least be selfish enough to worry about dangers to the well-being of their own industry.”

"A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

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I've talked to some people in Milwaukee who knew Uecker, they all say he loved to make people laugh but you never saw him try. Al Michaels said the only person comparable to Uecker is Don Rickles, the way it just flowed from him, that's who he really was.

Who could've predicted that in just 3 short years Twitter would be the world's foremost website for both antisemites AND AI child porn.

Hello there, public bathroom CHAIR…

As if 2026 didn’t suck enough already…

I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer. How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

I know this Jeopardy category!

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I think my least favorite quality in a person, one that is so often praised as an asset or virtue, is: "doesn't take no for an answer." We're living through an extended nightmare of what that looks like when brought to its logical conclusion.

Jan. 6, 2021:

Now the REAL holiday season begins!

A US president uses his for-profit (but money losing) social media site to announce a military strike against a foreign sovereign nation and the seizure by military force of a foreign government leader. Says a lot about where things are at in the US in 2026.

Tonight’s scene out my window: A contrail in the sunset. May we all soar in 2026.

“Time stand still / I’m not looking back / But I want to look around me now” #Goodbye2025

There’s a 15 minute video displaying on the monument Mentioned: The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Artificial Intelligence, Lewis & Clark, the Moon Landing Not mentioned: slavery, the emancipation proclamation, the civil war

Still a few hours to go. 🤡 mashable.com/article/elon...

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...