I absolutely cannot believe that several days later these men are still saying with their whole ass out that it's unfair that their partying with the FBI Director, taking a government plain, visiting the White House and attending the SOTU is being made political

she's right, and even more reason why any of those giggly ass male hockey players should've addressed it directly instead of having one of their moms go on a morning show to tell everyone that they're good boys

Well, unfortunately for them we’re not going to stop so they can go fuck themselves & then, once they’re finished that, give us the money they’re illegally withholding because they can’t fathom the amount of love & care we have for each other since their own mothers should’ve sold ::WiFi cuts out::

I’m currently reviewing whether the last brownie was improperly eaten in a father-related scarfing, as has been alleged.

HEADLINE: Jack Hughes breaks silence on Trump's comments JACK HUGHES: "'People are so negative out there and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing." ME:

Unprecedented, a double gold medal in🥇Men’s Hockey🥇and🥇Squandering Public Goodwill 🥇

Just remembering the time a Tesla owner hit a bump which breached his battery creating a back to the future moment where the car accelerated to 88 miles an hour before hitting a wall & incinerating the screaming owner. All of this was recorded by the car. www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...

By the way, a reminder on Jack Hughes, since the grifters are already trying to hijack his postgame interview www.vogue.com/article/meet...

I’m so proud of these dudes whose social media content I will never, ever check

wild choice of example

So few players I’ve ever seen who could break defenses on their own the way he did. It felt really special watching him play for Purdue.

I can’t imagine anyone doing this story better than Frankie. I mean, it’s literally the nexus of queer sports + politics + pop culture. One of my favorites they’ve ever done.

unfortunately for Rodger, the newsletters keep getting better as he gets less and less sleep

Hilary Knight, as a Wisconsin Badgers legend it is your birthright to produce some iconic photographs tonight/tomorrow.

This is running tomorrow! It would mean a lot if you subscribed to read it. It will be free to read but paid subs allow me to keep doing this work and to hire an editor (the fabulous @louisbien.bsky.social who did a ton of heavy structural lifting for me on this one): thefrankiedlc.news

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

you can totally get off Substack, it's a fucking terrible place that is detrimental to a healthy media environment, where all the most popular Substacks™ are pyramid schemes about how to write popular Substacks™. Now backed by Polymarket, because what was already bad can always get worse.

I’m working on a deep dive of t.A.T.u.’s music & its connections to the Winter Olympics, from Sochi to Milano Cortina, & the connections that music has to anti-LGBTQ+ resistance at the Games & in the host countries. I even interviewed my father-in-law, who wrote & produced t.A.T.u.’s album.

I pitched it 15 places & got no bite. I’m excited to be able to hire @louisbien.bsky.social to edit it for my newsletter. It would mean a lot if you subscribed to to read it later this week. It will be free to read but paid subs allow me to keep doing this work: thefrankiedlc.news

HE DID IT!!!!!!!! HE PUBLISHED A FREE, DAILY OLYMPICS NEWSLETTER BEFORE THE EVENTS PREVIEWED IN THE NEWSLETTER ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE THEY SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

If you are into the Olympics, Rodger has the greatest daily summation you could ever ask for. If you want to get into the Olympics, Rodger will have you fired up for every sport. And if you're a fan of great sports writing, Rodger's newsletters are easily the most entertaining and engaging.

NEW: “Real life is not a romance novel, and the athletes in these leagues are not fictional characters. In their enthusiasm to see their favorite show reflected in the real world, some ‘Heated Rivalry’ fans are behaving in ways that feel all kinds of icky.”

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

I love this newsletter

Even casual Winter Olympics fans - perhaps especially them - NEED to read the daily recaps from @rodger.bsky.social. Essential skeeting

50 years ago, we started building bikes. Then we started building something bigger. This is the journey. Thank you for being part of it.

JOHN BLACKWELL WAVING GOOD BYE TO THE ILLINI CROWD INJECT IT IN MY VEINS

read Diana’s very important piece, especially because over at Outsports, Cyd is giving the pair kind of framing bc ofc he is

me, interacting with every tech product I must use daily now:

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

Here is the Czech pair dancing to their AI rip-off of You Get What You Give, replaced for the Olympics by an AI song with “original” lyrics that sounds pretty much the same

So that’s what that looks like

I’m really enjoying Rodger’s Olympic roundups, which are fun and super accessible and I highly recommend subscribing. They’re free! (Rodger & I also share a newsletter editor in @louisbien.bsky.social so I’m probably biased in that direction too bc Louis rocks).

smart thinking to put in PLEASE, WE REALLY DON'T WANT YOU TO LOOK HERE markers for Congress

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

Punter MVP in a Super Bowl with a 135-yard rusher

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

don't think your ad humanizing AI that's 55 seconds of AI killing Chris Hemsworth is as effective as you think

That Ring ad

The NFL going "you know man I'm not sure everyone is a deep, profound cultural conservative again, maybe we should just take a beat for a minute and let it play out" is unfortunately why they are the best at this stuff

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

Walker is on fire, and also really wants to fumbie it tonight

Establish it. All of it

Bad Bunny deserves to be only person to score a touchdown tonight

this is such a happy halftime show, I can't believe people are going to get mad about this

Both of these teams are either throwing it too much or not enough

Legitimately an unreal performance.

at the end of the six months, only one of you will have written a book