Politicians’ knife-wielding relatives get busted

Red Sox back to the playoffs

Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw announces he’s retiring after the year

For those who heard the strikeout whistle when Donald Trump was shown on the video screen at Yankee stadium last night, I’m told it was played accidentally. I was told the technician meant to click on “Hail To The Chief” but pressed the whistle by mistake.

Spent some time with this thoughtful person. He came very close to dying in a most public way. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

This is such a great song. Could you tell us who is playing what on it?

Carlos Alcaraz, U.S. Open champion, congratulates Jannik Sinner on a great tennis season: “I’ve seen you more than my family.”

I wasn’t tired. You were tired!!

Touching send off for Cliff Drysdale, who just did his last tennis broadcast.

Really?

No way he killed her.

Great work, Jon, to you and all the BBWAA guys working their tails off the last 100 hours! You crushed it!

BLOCKBUSTER TRADE: Mason Miller indeed goes to Padres, JP Sears, too.

That’s big

That’s a scoop! Well done, Jon

A bat flip goes to court www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...

Condolences

My skating is somewhere between awkward and slapstick.

I got rammed here, but got the pass off first. Good clean fun!

Courtney Williams is w WNBA All-Star, but the league won’t allow her to wear a brand of sneakers made specifically for women. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/n...

Believe me, this was even clumsier than it looks

Was this with the Damned and Anti Nowhere League? Or was that later in the summer? Some obnoxious violence at that show.

Amusing line from Ulysses, which was published in 1922. I didn’t know Pedro pitched back then.

Happy Bloomsday 🌸🇮🇪✡️📖

Zach Hyman was right! x.com/BarDown/stat...

@punkrockhistory.bsky.social …I need some more

AL Central is suddenly a very serious division. 3 teams have a .600-plus winning percentage, another has the Pope’s blessing

Looky ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/n...

Agitez vos serviettes!!

Are we sure it’s not Nancy and Ann Wilson?

New Professional Women’s Hockey League team in Vancouver, which makes sense. The team will be called PWHL Vancouver, until they come up with a “permanent brand identity.” Most human-type people would call that a “name.”

The Preston School in the Bronx has been saved! Under pressure from Letitia James and others, the Sisters who own Preston are selling it to Bally’s Corp, which is basically handing it back to the school for free. Story coming soon

According to the great Jeff Bernstein, the inimitable SID at NYU, men’s hoops coach Dave Klatsky, who led the Violets to the D3 championship game, is leaving NYU to join D1 Natty Champ Florida’s staff.

Wore this one out⤵️

I get on the ice. My goalie skates off the ice. Puck heads for goal. I go into goal.

Jon with great stuff, as always!

895!!!

We spoke to Wayne Gretzky about this 2 1/2 years ago, and he wasn’t wrong. www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/s...

Cooper Flagg reminds me of — and people are going to say it’s because of the obvious — Jayson Tatum!

Alex Ovechkin scores twice and ties Wayne Gretzky’s career goals mark with 894. We profiled his pursuit of the record in Dec., 2021. www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/s...

This is incredible: Ovechkin is now one goal away and if he ties it in the next game, it will be in his 1,487th game, same number that Gretzky played. (Gretzky scored his 894th goal in his 1,479th game).

Boogie Fland is entering the 2025 NBA Draft. www.instagram.com/p/DICS5PrSQf...

1981 gig in Ann Arbor. I had one of those Sex Bomb Baby singles with the unique stamps on the cover. After the show I asked one of them how they made them, did they get together with their friends and turn ‘em out. Whichever one it was said, “We don’t have any friends.” How punk rock is that?

There was a Detroit band in the early 80s called L7, fronted by the very talented Larissa Stolarchuk (later the guitarist for the Laughing Hyenas). The original L7