Wrote about listening to the games on the radio 🤠

I am so lucky to be alive right now

Game 6 moodboard

Incredible read on Jose Alvarado from @jamesherbert.bsky.social: www.cbssports.com/nba/news/kni...

An update from the SI Union:

Time to clock in for another shift at the “please kill me” factory

I’m going to die

Kevin Brown’s call of “THE SPRINKLERS ARE ON”…. beautiful

Blanked when I got to the deli counter and came up with “It’s a beautiful day for a sandwich” to have something to say

You cannot make me do another overtime I refuse

Nikolaj Ehlers you are a god

A fantastic game story on a truly fantastic game. I already suspect I'll be re-reading this during the offseason. defector.com/my-god-victo...

More from the WNBA refereeing beat! “We didn’t meet as often with our stakeholders, and it just started to drift away, and we found ourselves with a game that was too rough. And now we’re living with the process of cleaning that up.”

"His team immediately thought of doing a Pope Leo bobblehead but tragically couldn’t secure the necessary NIL rights, he said."

Minor niche theory I’m developing: There are way more Bark in the Park games now than even just a few years ago. Feels like every night has at least one game with dogs.

there are two types of people

This is the longest story I have ever written. It is also the most meaningful. It will go out in The Small Bow's newsletter tomorrow. You can read it here now: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

WNBA teams averaged 17 foul calls per game in 2025. That was up to 22 in the first weekend of play in 2026. The new refereeing emphasis on freedom of movement was clear right away, and it asks for a big adjustment from players, coaches and refs alike:

If you didn't previously know about the new officiating emphasis on freedom of movement, Mystics-Liberty's first half should have let you know reeeeal quick

The most cohesive, dominant Canes team of my adult life, in the best position imaginable here, and I still spent the entirety of that wanting to die

If your hockey team goes to overtime multiple games in one playoff series you should be entitled to compensation

“I really hope that people still do talk about those players. I mean, without them, we wouldn’t be here.” The players of the original Portland Fire often felt they were forgotten. That's changed as the new expansion franchise has brought back the name—and the archives. www.si.com/wnba/fire-ha...

“I know what it feels like to be at the bottom... I wanted to be a voice for the players like me.” The WNBA kicks off its 30th season under a landmark CBA. On Alysha Clark, the oldest player in the league, who helped negotiate it: www.si.com/wnba/for-vet...

Sylvia Crawley is the all-time leading scorer (and rebounder and shot-blocker) of the original Portland Fire. When the franchise went under, it felt like a huge chunk of her career had simply disappeared. Now? "When they started resurrecting everything, it was like, we’re not forgotten.”

Alysha Clark has seen the WNBA through a striking period of change, and she's helped drive some of that change herself, too. On what this new era means for the oldest player in the league: www.si.com/wnba/for-vet...

Really distressing how early in my life I have found myself pushed into old man sports takes. Arenas too constantly loud… uniform variants too weird… what’s happening to the games I love!!

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Who is the crisis comms consultant they hired on this and *how* was this initial response what they came up with!!!

Very unfair to have Tom Dundon Cheapskate Discourse without any mention of Chuck Kaiton

For years, Amalia Holguin was known as the Littlest Mamba, the youngest AAU player coached by Kobe Bryant. Then, she was the Last Mamba, the only one of that roster left playing high school ball. And now, as she leaves to play in college, she is ready to be known simply as Amalia Holguin

This is an exceptional piece by @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social about a child who lost her coach — who happened to be an icon. www.si.com/college-bask...

Amalia Holguin was the youngest AAU teammate of Gigi Bryant. Now, six years after the grief of that helicopter crash and everything that followed, she is the last of that cohort to go off to college. On becoming something bigger than The Littlest Mamba:

OR NOT!!!!!!

Those who can’t get over Game 1 of the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals (me) are doomed to repeat it

In awe of the deal Freddie Andersen apparently made with the devil last week

A beautiful Garret Anderson obituary from Verducci

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @heyjordanr.bsky.social and @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social about the people who made women’s basketball into the phenomenon it is today, and we'll get a preview of the upcoming season. ❓How have you seen the culture around the WNBA change? 📻 Listen:

"He has seen Staff’s face zero times, and he has decided, as a matter of creative principle, to keep it that way." that's right baby

Developing a new take: If you repeat at the Masters, they should let you choose any past champion in attendance to put the jacket on you

“We were talking about the academic rigor of a liberal arts education, and essentially how it can be updated for the current economic status and job market." A perfect @tomdierberger.bsky.social interview www.si.com/nba/pacers/v...

TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! 7PM DSK SQUAWKIN LIVE XX FEW TIX LEFT Come see @sportsillustrated.bsky.social stalwart @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social & Soul Power breakout star @sportyprof.bsky.social w/ @davidjroth.bsky.social & I at @squawkinsports.bsky.social! SEE YA THERE: tinyurl.com/4w5zkvw5

The Angel Reese trade exposes the Sky's central flaw: they mismanage their most valuable assets—their players. More on today's deal and Sky's history of failing to retain and build around their stars: www.si.com/wnba/angel-r...

The UCLA women won the title their way: with ruthless tenacity, and a whole bunch of love. www.si.com/college-bask...

SQUAWKIN’ LIVE XX THIS THURSDAY 7PM HOOPS, HOPS & HOPE WITH TWO A-LISTERS (also @davidjroth.bsky.social & I Join: @sportyprof.bsky.social @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social talking all the ball. Tix available but close to capacity. Prost! tinyurl.com/yeysv4ct

Lot of surprising things from this Final Four, to put it lightly, but gotta say I'm really struck by "Sarah Strong and Lauren Betts proving these programs seemingly do not have even one usable back-up jersey for their biggest stars"

Sorry to everyone covering the men who had to endure The Chainsmokers. The halftime entertainment here is Ilona Maher delivering bowls to Red Panda... a real win for women everywhere imo

“It’s really all about toughness at this point. And finding a way to make a winning play, even if it’s a winning play you wouldn’t have predicted or chosen.” UCLA would not have chosen to play such an ugly game. It won anyway.

“I never want it to be Geno and Dawn, Geno and this, Geno and that… I’ve tried really, really hard over the years to not make it about that ever again.” That was Geno Auriemma on Thursday. So where was that on Friday? Column from Phoenix:

Three-point shooting tips from Karl Smesko, post play pointers from Lisa Leslie, and general inspiration from Olympic sprinters. Wrote about Dawn Staley's list of guests for team visits this year and what it's brought South Carolina

“I’ve stayed in hotel rooms that are nicer than my house. But home is still home.” Wrote about what the Rays learned in their season away from Tropicana Field, and what it means for them to return, if only for a little: