Looking forward to one day removing my giant credential lanyard before sitting down to eat after a game. Terrible lifetime record to date here but I’m sure it’ll happen eventually.

There was no one like my Mima ❤️ (And you really do never know what you might find when you get on a train!!!)

My very good buddy and overall sweet little guy Fisher took a bad tumble this morning and is racking up medical bills. I know times are tough, but if you can spare a few bucks for his recovery we would be so grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/fisher-rec...

No theme, just Guys, the purest incarnation of the art

Always kind of surprised when an adult gets their appendix taken out... coded very strongly in my brain as a child's ailment. And I think my only reason for that is Madeline.

Arch Manning has barely played but is already famous. It’s the exact opposite of what he always wanted. My @sportsillustrated.bsky.social story: www.si.com/college-foot...

Ready to call it after a lifetime of eating chips: These chips are the best. Thanks

Everyone in and around baseball knows that extreme velocity is correlated with elbow injury. But it’s also necessary to get noticed. So how are young pitchers and their parents navigating the pressure to chase speed while navigating known risks? For @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/p...

I went to the World Games in 2022 when they were in Birmingham, Alabama, to write about competitive lifesaving and they were like nothing else I have ever covered, in every sense of the phrase. Still giving valuable space on my phone to weird videos of drone racing in a totally empty stadium ❤️

Discussed some very important subjects with Drew and Roth. Including but not limited to soda seasonality and how disappointed I should be in myself for my failure to recognize Javier Sanoja.

Thrilled as ever to be exercising my constitutional right not to engage in Savannah Bananas discourse

Quite fond of Cheryl Reeve’s disdain for the in-game interview

You know, as so much of daily life has become increasingly optimized for efficiency, I've come to really appreciate a weird trade deadline strategy. Getting to say "Huh! Andrew Chafin! Okay then!"... an experience to savor.

A Truly Sad Week in America, Plus the 2005 NBA Redraftables

Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union

Clare Brennan on the best part of WNBA All-Star: The madcap joy of StudBudz, “an unflinching, all-access pass into what has long been the league’s essence”

Really good part of the swing-off is reading between the lines of the selections to figure out which players have already gotten out of uniform and / or gotten out of the ballpark

Home run robbery kid is my new favorite player. Put him in the all star game.

A lot of changes I would suggest for this Derby broadcast, tbh, but an easy one is identifying who the players chose to pitch!

You know who else had Eli Willits at No. 1? @rjandersonwrites.com did 🤠

The truth is out there

I got to go on the radio with @maris.bsky.social and it was so fun to hear her be a brilliant interviewee from two feet away! (I also listen in on her phone interviews for her book because she’s so smart and charming!!!)

You know, say what you will about the decline of print media, but the SI cover curse has proved shockingly durable!

Reading a biography of Chester Arthur and thinking about I Think You Should Leave

NBA referees are salaried employees of the league. WNBA referees are paid by the game and generally work college games in the winter. The NBA issues a Last Two Minute report and has off-site replay review. The WNBA has neither. On a longtime structural issue that has been brewing for a long time:

SI’s @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social talks about her Indiana Fever story & their accelerated timeline in search of a title, why she’d love to write about Cheryl Reeve, the women’s hoops book she’s working on with Jordan Robinson, and her soda Substack side-quest. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Getting a new understanding of the powers of the papacy here

Reaching new highs tonight in the category of “beautiful night to sit on a roof with a beer and a book” 🫡

Damn this put me in tears

Here is an essay about John Mulaney. I've spent a long time reconsidering the way I talked and thought about his drug addiction versus his divorce and immediate marriage. I really like the guy, and this is my reckoning: lindseyadler.substack.com/p/everybody-...

Boarding a flight right before puck drop and honestly that is probably for the best

Would have really appreciated a courtside reaction cam on Larry David for all of this

New from me at BP: An essay about the ecology of baseball stadiums, which stand as beautiful lifeless monuments to an era of urban command over nature, one that is quickly dying out. On ballparks, parks, and the growing divide between the two:

Two games in and that Citron-Iriafen combo is already so fun

resetting the “days since WNBA Discourse got out of hand” tracker back to zero

Aaron Sorkin level walk-and-talk from Holly Rowe here

“We may not reap the rewards of what we’re building right now. I don’t know if we’re going to be around to see it. But it will happen.” Kelly Krauskopf was Indiana Fever employee No. 1 in 1999. On why she decided to return this year + what she helped build: www.si.com/wnba/theres-...

A Natasha Cloud Game ™

The W return of Marine Johannès means the return of the league's most consistently perfect ponytail

Happy WNBA Opening Day 💫 From earlier this offseason, on the growth of Napheesa Collier, as both person and player: “Her recognition of her value, I think, has been her greatest evolution."

PLAYOFF ANDREI SVECHNIKOV 😭🥰😭

Kelsey Mitchell has played under four coaches in seven years with the Fever. She was unsure at first if she was going to sign up for more. On why she came back for Coach No. 5 and Season No. 8: "I’m not going to waste time. With her, particularly."

Shot right after the sun went down on the "Free Basket" sculpture at 100 Acres at the Indianapolis Museum of Art 📸: Ramona Rosales for Sports Illustrated

This, by @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social, on the new-look Fever is excellent www.si.com/wnba/theres-...

A new coach, new roster, new president, new general manager: After last season changed everything for the Fever, they leaned into that over the winter and changed even more. This month’s cover story is on the plans to win now in Indianapolis ✨ www.si.com/wnba/theres-...

This moment must be a turning point. Read our full statement below.

new pod! @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social and I break down the 12 most interesting characters heading into the WNBA season. Plus Chicago Sky assistant Courtney Paris talks Angel Reese’s new role and working with Kamilla Cardoso open.spotify.com/episode/65hM...

It's true

New baseball movie idea: Dark comedy where a banned player fakes his own death because he's desperate to see if he'll make the Hall of Fame

Have never forgotten watching her shut down Team USA at the Women’s Baseball World Cup in 2018—complete game shutout, no-hitter until the seventh, sick curveball