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Give this kid a trip to Toronto in June

Makes sense considering it's Cleveland @andrewdlinden.bsky.social

Wow already no undefeated MLB teams

Starting to think about the intersection of this and sport bureaucracies www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt03...

"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990". www.mcri.edu.au/news/insight...

We shouldn't be basing higher ed decisions solely on numbers like these because higher ed isn't a business, but we *definitely* shouldn't let people use 'run higher ed like a business' as a pitch and then bury the numbers that show they're killing profitable programs.

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Fairly sure that Kirsty Coventry is not going to say anything in this speech. She's popping it because she's scared she can't stick the landing.

Also I miss Adrienne Arsenault. Petrillo and Bucsis indulge themselves in lowbrow insults too often. The 50km skiers didn't sign up "just so they could get their medals here" and there was more to winning that event than "wanting it"

Damnit CBC your split screen ads during the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies (followed by full screen ads) is disruptive, disrespectful, and annoying af.

CBC Olympics posted this and this needs a review by the Olympics committee - 8 Czechia players were on the ice during their 3rd goal!!! WTF 🤬 CAN VS CZE

I somewhat get missing an extra player on a rush... but missing eight players on the ice in an Olympic quarterfinal is a feat I couldn't have even imagined. Thank goodness this wasn't a deciding goal.

This is unfortunate. A bad start for Kirsty Coventry, who will have to wear this for a long time, along with her tearful "I wasn't speaking as the IOC president" statement.

Yup, and there's some easy fixes here too, like fixing up already-built venues such as Calgary's Oval and sliding track and the old Big Thunder ski jump in TB.

I think Coventry may be hoping the CAS bails her out tonight. The Games themselves are going quite well, but this is the second mis-step (after the Haitian coats) this week where she's made a controversy where one didn't naturally exist.

I thank our national team’s standard-bearer at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Geraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle. This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or called “political action at sports competitions.”

🇺🇦 Zelensky: On his helmet are portraits of our athletes killed by Russia. Figure skater Dmyto Sharpar, who died in the battles near Bakhmut, 19-year-old biathlete Yevhen Malyshev, who was killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv, and other our athletes who were taken away by the Russian war.

Good call, I don't recall this kind of postponement in a a major tournament, ever

Some good news from Minneapolis

This Minneapolis bookstore sounds like a good place

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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

My home-state-in-law is on the front lines of oppression, and they are standing up over there. The rest of us can do no less. Refuse intimidation. Stand up for the real American ideals.

Woo!!! One of my favorite econ papers is from @filipecampante.bsky.social and co-authors showing that doing well in Afcon can improve national integration and reduce civil conflict so🤞and excellent work Super Eagles #AFCON

Lots of people talking about Thucydides these days. Here is Thucydides' key insight about war: When your regime acts like a rapacious animal in foreign policy, you teach citizens to treat each other like rapacious animals, and your political community dissolves from the inside.

Be jealous of the pop tart that is consumed, because all they want is to be eaten. That is their only goal in life. Weep for those that live, because they didn’t reach their dream.

Danny Ramirez was good. Judge in pinstripes was fun. I don't know what order to put the bad parts in: The dark suit & shirt on dark background was a bad choice. Gretzky did not do well with the "saying team names" part. Village People should revise that Native American outfit.

"The outer shell of the empire fell off in 1991, and many mistook that for collapse. Like a matryoshka doll, within one 'prison of nations' another waited," writes Andrew Chakhoyan, an academic director at the University of Amsterdam, in this op-ed.

Incredible energy from Rodriguez. Late first half goal, and running hard as anything at 106' (which was even more than it sounds, as 15' of extra time played in regulation, and a hour -long plowing delay.

Any thoughts @scottlincicome.bsky.social ? (more on the politics than the economics, but open-ended ask) youtube.com/watch?si=rEdDMPLbGr-uk6Eq&v=hN_CVvzExpM&feature=youtu.be

The ad was accurate Painful to defend Ford but the Reagan Foundation is full of 💩 bsky.app/profile/mich...

One way that social media has driven people insane is by convincing them that political outcomes are shaped by the net allocation of care points and so politics consists in attempting to shape the amount of caring everyone dedicates to your pet issue.

This is excellent

What am I doing today? Watching Canada try to win the Rugby World Cup www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgF...

Wishing everyone a great Fall.

10 years to the day since the miracle in Brighton; rugby has another historic result on English soil Canada take down the Black Ferns, inflicting their second ever knockout defeat, and in some fashion The semi-final that promised to deliver, has given us a result for the ages

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Fiscal crisis” has become a pretext for far-reaching changes that are not necessary so much as desired by uni leaders. “The tragedy…is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” ⬇️ www.chronicle.com/article/they...

Ukraine is celebrating its 34th Independence Day on Aug. 24, 2025. To mark the occasion, we’ve asked the staff of the Kyiv Independent to share their favourite fact about Ukrainian history, culture, or a famous Ukrainian — some of whom, you might be surprised to learn are from Ukraine.

"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."

"When war rages on the front line — with trenches, tanks, drones, and rockets — it is visible. But a far more dangerous war is fought where it goes unnoticed: in negotiations, in memoranda, in the emphasis on ethnic grievances..." writes Ukrainian author Vitaly Portnikov, in his recent op-ed.

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

I feel this a lot these days when I see people angry that other folks are not focused on the same atrocity they are, with the same intensity they are. I regret to say there's more than one genuine atrocity in the world at the moment; it doesn't minimize the others if one chooses another to focus on.

Someone on the Athletic is posting made up Jesse Marsch quotes under the "Snides of Marsch" label and now I'm sitting here trying to decide if I want to get in on the game as a hobby, or make a whole Snides of Marsch shit-posting account.

I don’t know what it means, but I think that’s the whole point. Let’s not make the mistake of understanding things we don’t understand, in a way that makes misunderstandings understandable. After all, it takes more than one lion to be in a flock…” 4/4 (from Michael T of The Athletic)