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

Drake Maye and Sam Howell talk every day. Sometimes, it's about defenses they're going to face. Other times, they'll just hype each other up. Now, ahead of the Super Bowl, the Eagles third string QB is supporting his best friend. “He was born for these moments." www.inquirer.com/eagles/drake...

Meet the Brits who go to every Super Bowl city…even though they never get tickets to the game www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/s...

“We literally just shadow boxed right before we came in here.” “Every moment, every second. Every day—6 a.m., 4 a.m. it’s going down.” “The D-line has had full-on shadow boxing fights coming out of halftime.” The Seahawks are obsessed with a completely inscrutable game www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/s...

Super Bowl week review by the caricature of an influencer who is talking loudly near me: “Bro, there’s no aura here.”

He had conviction in his interests and values that wasn’t about validation seeking or signaling. Dan never doubted what he believed was important and cool, and his enthusiasm for those things made it true. He was proof that true self-confidence makes you kind. defector.com/what-we-love...

one of the things I genuinely struggle to understand: if you have more money than you could possibly spend in several lifetimes—meaning there is no financial pressure to do or not do anything—why would you do things that make so maybe people decry your behavior and mourn your very existence?

The thing about what’s happening at the Washington Post (and also, like, America) is: no one likes and it didn’t have to happen.

Blogged my most correct take for @cnn.com: the goalpost uprights should be worth extra. But first I brought the proposal to some experts on the subject. www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/s...

Super important topic that is talked about a lot but not in the right ways. This is the right way to talk about.

If you have a particular insight or story you want to tell about the increasing omnipresence of gambling (especially interested in how it’s affecting underage kids), get in touch. Email and signal in bio

For @cnn.com, a story about gambling addiction, gambling sobriety and how that changes many young men’s relationships to friends, family, and sports fandom. www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...

For @cnn.com, a story about gambling addiction, gambling sobriety and how that changes many young men’s relationships to friends, family, and sports fandom. www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...

Hello! I am looking to talk to moms who have covered/are covering the Super Bowl about their experiences pumping breastmilk at the big game. If that seems niche and random it's probably because you've never had to account for pumping at work. But if that resonates, let's chat: [email protected]

Dan McQuade was one of my favorite people and a dear friend for almost a decade. I should say something funny and weird about wildwood or thrift stores to commemorate him but lately we mostly texted about our babies. He was one of the first non family to meet Archer. He was so kind and I’ll miss him

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 25, 2026

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

Gratifying to be nominated again this year — alongside a murderer's row of writers, as always — for an @optaanalystus.optajoe.com story on the evolution of center fielders. Can read it here: theanalyst.com/articles/cen...

And now I get the very gratifying and cool news that this piece is a SABR finalist. Congratulations to all the other finalists, it’s a good day to read some great baseball stories. sabr.org/latest/annou...

I keep wanting to write more about parenthood but then I think about what’s been on my mind lately and it’s just all this stuff I already wrote about how motherhood has made me soft to the horrible news of the world. open.substack.com/pub/somehard...

too much sports content these days from very smart and esteemed media professionals is kind of just like, lightly scolding fans for having a different perspective than a smart, esteemed, and, critically, impartial media professional might.

cayenne pepper in the socks is crazy. wouldn't be an NFL player just for that.

I will be at the Super Bowl in SF for CNN. Obvs we don’t know the teams involved yet but I am also interested in telling bigger (and smaller) stories about football in the Bay Area. If you have an idea for something—local characters, fan groups, amateur angles?—I want to hear it. Hannah.keyser@cnn

I've only read it once so far but I do fear that I feel about this Taffy piece the way that Taffy feels about Operation Mincemeat www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

included within: my essay about the Yankees which I started when I didn't have a job and finished when I did and I feel like if you read it, you can kinda tell.

"If WAR stood for Words Above Replacement, well, PhamGraphs would be the authority." perfect blog

sorry wait wWHAT they're corduroy? For (finals in) Miami??

in honor of this, I am reissuing my take from last WBC: the teams should have names. Team Great Britain? Nah. The Great Britain Bangers (or something). Please submit suggestions

Returning to Brooklyn with rival hand-me-downs. Let this be a notice to the other NL East teams, gotta act fast if you want to make a play for my son’s loyalties

My 89-year-old grandmother, a rabid Mets fans whom we called “deGram” during the time when that made sense, just declared that she is reverting to her childhood dodgers fandom. “I hope [the Mets] lose every game this year.” There you have it.

Find someone to write a newsletter with who makes you feel this un humble. It was the year of many things—including getting a job that requires me to step back from it—but first it was the year of writing The Bandwagon with @zcrizer.bsky.social. Some of our faves open.substack.com/pub/bandwago...

This is my favorite thing I wrote all year. My first story in the New York Times. But it was already my favorite before it ever published, for a couple reasons and if you’ll indulge me… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/s...

my worst take is that I don't think it's unreasonable to send emails/expect emails this week (or last week! when the decrying of such things had already started). If you're OOO that's fine! just like it would be any other week, but if you're not (yet) it's ok to want work hours to be productive!

everyone loves old athletes these days so I talked to one of the, er, least young, Jamie Moyer, about pitching until he was 49 www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/s...