A great dumb yearly goal is visiting every Edgar Allan Poe house museum. (Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC.) It’s fun and then you get to brag about doing something that no one in any room you walk into has done, unless you ever walk into a room of Edgar Allan Poe scholars

COURT QUEENS! March 2026! Preorder now! amzn.to/4b5eYQs

COURT QUEENS is out March 17, women's hoops in pictures and words, 1890s to 2020s. It was a blast to pull together such a love letter of a coffee table book—pre-orders open everywhere you buy your books 🧡 (But 25% off for Barnes and Noble members right now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/court-quee...)

Genuinely shocked that most of the Letterboxd reviews of The Holiday focus on Jude Law…. Where is the respect for how charming Jack Black is here………..

watching hockey

When it was announced that Oklahoma City would host 7 events at the 2028 L.A. Olympics, a lot of people asked … why? I *went rafting with the mayor of OKC* and got the full story of a city that's transformed itself through sports. www.si.com/olympics/oklahoma-city-kayak-softball-2028-digital-cover

Checking in as yet another person who became obsessed with Lonesome Dove after thinking no way I would ever care that much about a 900-page cowboy novel 🫡 Sucker! I was so wrong!!! This was perhaps the most enjoyable reading experience of my adult life and I am so grateful I finally picked it up

On a perfect-for-me copy of a perfect book:

New for @sportsillustrated.bsky.social: The world's oldest hockey rink, Boston’s Matthews Arena, will host its final game Saturday after 115 years. As the first indoor rink in Boston, it’s largely responsible for Massachusetts becoming a hockey hotbed. www.si.com/college/last...

Just got out of the new Knives Out and proud to say I immediately clocked the MLB footage as from either 2025 or late 2024 because you could see the Motorola patch on a Cubs jersey

(Coming down from my sicko euphoria to say that if Duke had lost I would have been mad about that final drive of regulation for the rest of my life)

FOOTBALL SCHOOL

YOUR ACC CHAMPION DUKE BLUE DEVILS

THAT’S RIGHT HAHAHHAH

fuck it, put Duke in the playoff

Exactly what I wanna see from Duke, give me all your fake punts, lean into the chaos, let’s commit to the bit here

Beautiful sentence. God bless America.

Really savoring this brief window of sicko fantasizing about what happens if James Madison loses tonight and Duke wins tomorrow

Wrote about the long history of baseball’s salary cap fight, which dates back to the 1800s: www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...

YOUR 7-5 DUKE BLUE DEVILS ARE GOING TO THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP HAHAHAH THANK YOU CAL THANK YOU

lmao

Very charmed by Jack Hughes / Tate McRae rising to the level where Teen Vogue writes an explainer on him... "Heightened by his lax ‘fit and bandaged arm, he quelled up a lot of curiosity" ... I'll say!!!

For CNN I'm looking to talk to young men (feel free to interpret "young" broadly) who are actively sports betting sober—as in, you made a conscious decision to abstain for your wellbeing or you quit gambling—but are still sports fans. If that's you: Hannah[dot]keyser[at]cnn[dot]com

Especially cool to see this for players like Meggie Meidlinger, who has been grinding and playing for *so long* for a chance like this

Kim Caldwell expected to learn a lot in her first year coaching at Tennessee. She did not expect that it would overlap with her first pregnancy. On what she gained from a rollercoaster of a year: www.si.com/college-bask...

On how Kim Caldwell built her system and what it does (and doesn't) answer at Tennessee:

Today on Phantom Island: @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social joins me to explain the particulars of why players and coaches are so fed up with WNBA officiating, what makes this situation different from other instances of ref frustration, and how the league can improve things.

@greenwell.bsky.social seeking comment on kentucky men's basketball... hearing they're frauds? can you confirm

On women playing baseball outside the framework of "first" or "only," for Kelsie Whitmore, Mo'ne Davis and more in the fledging WPBL: www.si.com/mlb/mone-dav...

Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:

everyone please wish a happy birthday to @jon-becker.com, the king of your baseball offseason!!!!

Interesting to consider Unrivaled's NIL deals with college players in light of the Project B signings. Wild how quickly the landscape has changed here.

Humbled and thrilled to announce I won the very first match I played in LearnedLeague (because my opponent forgot and forfeited)

Good for Andy Pages on getting "championship saving catch" in as a career defining moment before the world heard about "unknowingly foiling gambling plot by swinging at extremely obvious ball"

“I don’t know how much I’ve got,” he told Prior through his interpreter, Yoshihiro Sonoda, “but I can give you something. All I need is to be given enough time to warm up.” Verducci going long on Yamamoto, Rojas, Smith and the Dodgers:

Can’t wait to read Verducci on that one in the morning

MIGUEL ROJAS??????????

The craziest thing about Ernie Clement is that his legal name is just “Ernie,” not Ernest, not short for anything. And the second-craziest thing is that he has the single postseason hit record.

“It’s an important piece of the process—complete with its own politics and plenty of space for idiosyncrasy—and relievers agree: It’s a trip they have to make.” — @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social on relievers when the benches clear, from 2022

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

Just how they drew it up

Dave Roberts thinks he's in a movie

One thing I did not expect about this month was how much of it would be spent watching Louis Varland

It's just such a bummer to watch the universe of sharp, interesting, weird internet writing keep getting smaller and smaller.

The WNBA and the WNBPA reached a resolution on Thursday for a 30-day extension on their CBA deal, league sources told @theathletic.com

“Yesavage pitches like a man changing a light bulb while standing reluctantly and perilously on a ladder.”

Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series: Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5 Randy Johnson, 2001 G2 Bob Gibson, 1968 G1 Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6

The intentional balk is so high up my list of niche baseball joys

A great detail from Verducci www.si.com/mlb/shohei-o...