An estimated 50% of the student population at ATLAS HS is undocumented immigrants. Chronic absenteeism is a big issue—students don't always feel safe transiting and they don't see the value in a diploma. Now, a boxing gym is giving them a sense of solace, and opportunity. www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...

Mental health campaigns, especially those in sports, often present overcoming stigma as a complete solution. But, as the situation with Jarren Duran shows, that’s not the end of the story. www.cnn.com/2026/04/18/s...

Mental health campaigns, especially those in sports, often present overcoming stigma as a complete solution. But, as the situation with Jarren Duran shows, that’s not the end of the story. www.cnn.com/2026/04/18/s...

How a storage closet-turned-boxing gym is helping migrant students graduate, and giving them options for the future I — and fantastic video crew — spent many months working on this story which I am proud of and hope you'll click on and even consider paying for! www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...

@zcrizer.bsky.social trying to mets fans feel better... I think. bandwagon.ghost.io/april-will-m...

How a storage closet-turned-boxing gym is helping migrant students graduate, and giving them options for the future I — and fantastic video crew — spent many months working on this story which I am proud of and hope you'll click on and even consider paying for! www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...

[looks around uneasily, as a Phillies-fan-turned-Penn-ancient-history-major-turned-baseball-reporter] Thank... you, world, for this treat but try to be a little less on-the-nose next time. www.penn.museum/blog/major-l...

Like, right?

through 10.5% of the season the mets have half as many shutouts as they did all last year. This: Matters? Doesn't matter? Doesn't matter except that it is causing you a deep and perhaps soul-altering anguish?

Robots made the challenge system possible; humans – full of hubris and frustration – have made it entertaining. On ABS, which is weird and fun! www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/s...

“money doesn’t make you a grown up. It just gives you grown-up problems” Loved this from @danaoneil.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/03/28/s...

One reason to bandwagon every baseball team, with guest appearances from @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social, @sammillerbb.bsky.social, @williamfleitch.bsky.social, @actioncookbook.com and many more. Happy Opening Day (the real one). bandwagon.ghost.io/one-reason-t...

How many hooks are in your home? Wrong. It’s so many more. When you move out of a place you suddenly realize how many hooks are in use

Help, my toddler will *only* listen to twist and shout by the Beatles and refuses all other music (even the longstanding favorite: songs 3-8 on the Moana soundtrack). What else should we try?

I’m ready to get hurt again by buying into the weather seeming to take a turn for the better

extremely thrilled for all the Venezuelan fans www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/s...

all-star style derby swing off if it's tied after nine, who says no? (none of the MLB teams with pitchers at the WBC, that's for sure)

We hear “stick to sports” too much, but let’s be clear here: Team USA itself refused to stick to sports, eschewing representation of so much great American culture for, uh, Da Troops and nothing else.

“So many people are asking how the game is played and what the rules are.” Write about actual *Italian* Italian baseball fans (yes they exist) and what they made of Team Italy’s charmed if ultimately ill-fated WBC run. www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/s...

My sister and her family — husband, four-year-old, two-year-old — live in Beirut. They are still there, still trying to teach at AUB and still trying to keep their kids' lives normal despite constant disruptions. I think about them constantly. Her husband wrote this. thepointmag.com/forms-of-lif...

re-upping for tonight's matchup

lol

Tap your helmet! What are they gonna do? Eject you from the tournament?!

Mason Miller looks like a kid imagining himself in the future

the WBC is good for the very simple reason that it's like an All-Star game except actually competitive. where else are you get Paul Skenes vs. Luis Severino in a game 7 environment

since people are talking about sports gambling today, can I implore you to read this, in which recovered gambling addicts talk about how it changed their relationship to friends, family, fandom and themselves. I've thought about these conversations so much since reporting www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...

if Team Italy isn't dancing to Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso after wins a la the 2022 Phillies with Dancing On My Own... what is this tournament even for???

Went to Miami to talk to Venezuelan fans about baseball and national pride in these strange times. www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/s...

Of course our kids can never appreciate the sacrifices we make for them so I need you all to know I took a flight home landing after midnight ON THE DAY WE SPRING FORWARD rather than spend an expensed night in hotel in Miami to hang out with my son when he wakes up at 6am tomorrow.

when team Venezuela is winning

Geopolitics aside, what hot dog are you getting

Who is the most insecure — not in a pejorative but more in a relatable way — athlete? A certain amount of blustery ego is necessary for the profession. But someone has to be the most plagued-by-the-same-self-doubt-that-afflicts-most-of-us. Who is it

Are the slides better now?! A Bandwagon theory, investigated. bandwagon.ghost.io/keep-slides-...

dispatch from watching free ski halfpipe: little mustaches abound and, although I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this particular bit of self knowledge, I like them.

if I ever do something worthy of a wikipedia page, please include mention of my pets when listing family members

Some news: The Bandwagon is switching to Ghost. Plus, I’m opening up a way to support the newsletter so it can stay free for all fans. bandwagon.substack.com/p/the-call-i...

when people ski sideways or UP(!!!) for sport? awful, horrible, insane behavior. if you had to do that for some reason, it would be the worst day you ever had. you'd be regaling people for years with the wretched time you had to try to go UP the mountain in skis.

parents whose children do the big jump flippy in the air trick snow sports: how how how do you sleep do you live do you handle watching them spinny flip 18 stories up???

racing when your feet are stuck together on a snowboard is so silly cause they can't pump their legs faster they're just like 😬😬😬😬😬 *goes faster*

the thing I would add to this with an extra year of thinking about how the labor battle will play out is: revenue sharing. I suspect we will hear much more about revenue sharing in the coming months and, if they're smart, the players will position increased revenue sharing as a counter to a hard cap

And also ... a scenario forecasted by @hannahrkeyser.bsky.social almost a year ago in The Bandwagon. bandwagon.substack.com/p/18-what-i-...

does anyone know anyone who does double luge? Sure, I'd love to chat to them if you do but that's not even my point. I'm just like, how many people, globally, do double luge? Have you ever met a double luge fan? A recreational double luge-r? A youth who aspires to double luge?

Hello sports fans! Did you know, sports didn't end with the Super Bowl? Not for me and, if you're so inclined, not for you! If you're looking for MOAR SPORTS can I interest you in a daily Olympic newsletter? It'll be a mix of me and CNN people actually in Italy. Sign up! www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/s...

along with many other folks from CNN Sports, live blogging and sharing stories from the week here www.cnn.com/sport/live-n...

A funny feature of this Super Bowl matchup: a disproportionate number of 12 jerseys on both sides.

You've probably seen stories about how flag football is booming—for girls, in high school and increasingly college. But what about boys whose parents are also concerned about concussions? I talked to some of the only 825 boys who play HS flag, compared to 68,847 girls www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/s...

“It’s almost like a toxic relationship. You want to get as close to football as you can without actually playing football.” The best boys flag football team in the Bay Area knows that you wouldn’t watch football without the violence. my latest for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/s...

“It’s almost like a toxic relationship. You want to get as close to football as you can without actually playing football.” The best boys flag football team in the Bay Area knows that you wouldn’t watch football without the violence. my latest for @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/s...

(this is about everything) I often find myself wishing we lived in a time or a world where I thought it mattered more what my son wanted to be when he grows up and not whether that job will still exist