RIP Michael Ray Richardson, a troubled and gentle soul who provided two of the most memorable quotes in NBA history. Asked during the 1981-82 season about the state of his Knicks, he said, "The ship be sinkin'." Asked how far it could sink, Sugar added: "The sky's the limit." You can't make that up.

Live with Haudenosaunee chair Leo Nolan on heritage, lacrosse and the looming Olympic question:

@edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com Deep, deep dive with greats Dave Zirin and lax maven Vin Intondi. Listen up: www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

ListenUp: Deep convo with greats Dave Zirin and Vin Intondi on The Nation podcast: www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

DC friends—Don't miss this! Nov 20| 7pm | MLK Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social @byslp.bsky.social

Calendar watch: Thrilled to be appearing at DC's MLK Library Nov. 20 with Haudenosaunee board chair Leo Nolan. We will be talking about the 2028 Olympics, and why lacrosse's creators need to be there. Tickets going fast, I'm told: dclibrary.libnet.info/event/14878420

had previous mentioned that I was working on a Women’s College Volleyball side project; that’s now live. would mean a lot if you downloaded and signed up! apps.apple.com/us/app/fanfl...

Blue Jay (rotated), by Helen Frankenthaler, 1963, 📸 by @haffeyphoto

I talked with @davidfrum.bsky.social on his show about civil-military relations: Who will obey illegal orders? Apple, Spotify, YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... open.spotify.com/episode/2vO3... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

"A warm, personal paean to Merriam-Webster and its staffers." 🙏 for this thoughtful, positive @washingtonpost.com review of UNABRIDGED by @djbduncan.bsky.social

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)

I think we probably take Jess Pegula's late-blooming career surge for granted: Only Serena Williams (18) has reached more WTA-1000 finals than Jessica Pegula (7, surpassing Venus Williams) among Americans since the format’s introduction in 2009.

Thrilled, psyched, honored, humbled etc. for UNABRIDGED to make this @nytimes.com list of new books. Preorder now!

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

Julius Erving at Roosevelt High School

This only happens to you once

FREE STOMPER (and Stomper's handlers)

statehood yesterday

In 1972, in Kansas, a family of four picked up a hitchhiker. Then they got into a near-fatal car crash. The hitchhiker later chronicled the event in an acclaimed short story that became a movie—and a word-of-mouth hit among Gen Xers.

Whenever people tell me that we are more innovative now than ever, I bring up ESPN Page 2 as an example of how things used to be better. There actually used to be a website you could go to that would make you smarter about sports and the world around you. Now all you get is betting apps.

One, Two, Three (1961) Director: Billy Wilder #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

people who say the worst part of writing is "actually writing" are just ridiculous. the worst part is "other people reading it"

Wow, didn’t even know they were dating.

Hey Northern Cal: All that's good in my career grew out of rookie days in Sacramento, Davis, Oakland and SF. So there's no greater thrill than a return this Wednesday to the great Readers Books in Sonoma. Mini SI reunion, too: allevents.in/sonoma/sl-pr...

Hey Northern Cal: All that's good in my career grew out of rookie days in Sacramento, Davis, Oakland and SF. So there's no greater thrill than a return this Wednesday to the great Readers Books in Sonoma. Mini SI reunion, too: allevents.in/sonoma/sl-pr...

In Lake Placid Friday for a downtown chat with UVa head coach Lars Tiffany, during the epic Lacrosse Summit Classic. A preview: www.lakeplacidnews.com/news/local-n...

Heading to Lake Placid next week for a downtown chat with UVa head coach Lars Tiffany, during the epic Lacrosse Summit Classic. A Preview: www.lakeplacidnews.com/news/local-n...

love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

AOC: "when politicians leave government, they go and work for lobbyists and that tells you everything about the coordinated interests that are in cahoots all over regardless of party."

Honored to be back on Chapel Hill soil -- at least, via radiowaves -- on this episode of WUNC's Due South: www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...

Highly recommend the book Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum about the development of the stadium site in a once thriving neighborhood

Attention, scribes: "It is in pausing for a word that lies the salvation of all writers. The proof of prose lies in the percentage of right words. Not the precious word: not even the startlingly real word." -- Ford Madox Ford

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Appearing 6 p.m. tonight at Bethesda's wonderlandbooks.com/events on a live podcast with the great Torie Clarke chatteronbooks.com, NBA titan David Aldridge and CNN legend Jamie McIntyre. Free signed book to the first 20! 📷 wonderlandbooks.com

Going!

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Appearing/signing at Bethesda's Wonderland Books this Monday wonderlandbooks.com/events on a live podcast with the great Torie Clarke chatteronbooks.com, NBA titan David Aldridge and CNN legend Jamie McIntyre. Come all.... wonderlandbooks.com Wonderland Books

It’s a big giant book like what’s in there that could possibly take up all those pages? Believe me, you will be near the end and wonder how it went so fast. I’m a book crybaby I’ll admit it but x3 so far I had to stop and absorb this emotional story. Maybe for the truth of things. Rare lately.

Thanks, Washingtonian: www.washingtonian.com/2025/06/10/t...

Father's Day looms, & the Dadbook scramble begins. Necessary ingredients: American history, biography, military devotion, sports. Olympics. Wall Street money. Billionaires. Buffalo. Greatness. Suggestion:

I have a friend who has Parkinson's: he wrote about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-... Like Bill, Al is a great writer, and a truly lovely man. Life isn't fair, and I am grateful for those who show us how to exhibit grace and determination, in the face of really hard things.

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Father's Day looms, & the Dadbook scramble begins. Necessary ingredients: American history, biography, military devotion, sports. Olympics. Wall Street money. Billionaires. Buffalo. Greatness. Suggestion:

Tonight!

Authors Beware: I was just made aware of this sickening sight. Unauthorized AI ripoff of my newly released book on, uh, lacrosse -- not football:

Only in Baltimore: A completely off-kilter, June 6 cavalcade combining my new lacrosse book, great new fiction, and the musical stylings of former UNC All-American Steve Martel. Come one, come all: www.theivybookshop.com/event/jessic...

Alt-rock horror comics no.1 Pixies’ Wave Of Mutilation. The first in a series of drawings I’ll be posting over the next couple of weeks.

yep. ranked 4,666 on amazon right now.