“This was, in many ways, yet another crystallisation of America’s philosophy under Trump, where a rules-based international order can be swept aside when it is deemed to be in the interests of the U.S.” — @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Go Norway

That was cool until it totally wasn’t.

need to meet some irl who is watching this jameis and gronk soccer show

I am *very biased* but this is awesome. @codystavenhagen.bsky.social on DELC❤️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

Happy 250. Here’s to our collective spirit and honoring the real stories of those who ignited it youtu.be/qv6OOuPI5c0?...

That was exhausting. Love you, Cape Verde.

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

What I know about soccer: Nothing What I am certain of: That call was a load of bullshit.

. @byameek.bsky.social nails it www.nytimes.com/athletic/740...

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

It's Josh Schertz szn in Ann Arbor

Four days in the Hamptons did not suck. Wrote about Harry Higgs. No, not the old one. The new one. www.nytimes.com/athletic/737... And asked Mike Whan where everyone was. www.nytimes.com/athletic/737... And wrapped with our live gamer on Wyndham's win. www.nytimes.com/athletic/738...

headline writer enjoyed a loooong drag of a cig after this

Harry Higgs. Go Birds.

pulling this shit in indie ball is grim. hating gay people so much you'd rather go back to working at autozone than be a professional athlete is insane

if, like me, you've only followed the Sorsby Shitshow with passing interest, this well-reported piece by our Justin Williams is very good and very handy www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

who'd have guessed — over two thousand comments all saying Grant is spot-on. great job everyone! www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

fellow sportswriting dorks rejoice – @dvnjr.bsky.social & @jacobfeldman.bsky.social are adding a bi-weekly sports-specific version of the Sunday Long Read. Check it out here: mailchi.mp/sundaylongre... Subscribe to it (and SLR), here: sundaylongread.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

NEW from me: If you're in Times Square today, you'll see a massive Elon Musk effigy looming over passersby on the eve of the SpaceX IPO. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/massiv...

Folks: my magnum opus. The 2026 World Cup, and all 48 teams, through the lens of their college basketball counterparts. Uruguay is Marquette, the USMNT is Wisconsin, Cote d'Ivoire is Davidson, and yes, Germany is Kentucky www.basketunderreview.com/the-2026-wor...

What an incredible photo of the scorekeeper for the Durham Bulls.

Love my man @jledwardsiii.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Game 1 of the NBA finals is tonight. No better time to be on the sports app! Here are NBA and basketball accounts to follow for the next 4-7 games and beyond go.bsky.app/FGmgtea

I'm Mike Lindell. I'm Herschel Walker. I'm Mel Gibson. I'm Sidney Powell. I'm Riley Gaines. Those stories and more. Tonight. On 60 Minutes.

The 82-0 game is awesome but it’s hard to not just make sick ass college teams

Spent the past eight months investigating fixing. The first in the seven-part series explores why experts believe corruption is rapidly growing - including at some of the world’s largest events. “It’s in every sport on every continent.” Free to read ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

gotta be shitting me

Ok hear me out. The Giants need to quell this locker room dissent(!), and they don’t reallllly need Abdul Carter, and, hey, why not pair a young star like Malik Nabers with a fellow superstar wr like … AJ Brown?

I wrote about Claude Lemieux — amoral agitator, clutch performer, giant force — and a tragedy that has left the hockey community in shock. My story on the life and death of “Le Gros”. www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...

"Sites like ours need traffic to survive, and writers like me need those sites to stay alive to remain employed. Now Google, which is set as the default search engine in nearly every piece of tech you consume, is poised to cut off their oxygen supply altogether." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

One day after New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Donald Trump at a rally in New York on Friday, linebacker Abdul Carter questioned his teammate on social media. “Thought this s—t was AI, what we doing man,” Carter wrote on X. www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

‘For AI companies and builders of the data centers that serve them, AI rejectionism is creating an acute crisis. All over the country, community-level organizations have been succeeding in blocking data-center projects.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Followed the final pairing at Aronimink yesterday on a lonely walk through the long shadows of missed opportunity. Aaron Rai got his Cinderella story. Alex Smalley and Matti Schmid didn’t. On what was, what might’ve been, and how lives can change … Free read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Final round of the PGA at Aronimink is cooking. Scottie Scheffler, five shots back, is on the course. Leaders go off in just over 2 hours. We have thoughts w/ @gabbyherzig.bsky.social & @brodymiller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/728...

The most Delco name among contenders on the leaderboard is unexpectedly German. But I'm pretty sure I've had beers at Burke's with multiple guys named Matti Schmid.

Declined to speak to media afterward. Will next play LIV events in Korea and Spain before returning for the U.S. Open.

This is art.

in fairness, it's true.

Jon Rahm threw his golf ball to fans after his eagle on No. 2 and has thus supplanted former Eagles wideout J. J. Arcega-Whiteside as the greatest Spaniard in Philadelphia sports history.

Jon Rahm has come to look and sound like he knows his place in the game is not what it should be. A large man on a small island. www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

“So how do we market golf to a bunch of hoagie-mouthed animals?”

“why and who cares?” perfectly sums up … everything

Over here crying big hot tears of happiness

"We don’t want to be the first expansion team to be getting our asses kicked. Nobody wants that." Thirty-five days to tipoff: Inside the Toronto Tempo’s mad dash to opening night. Free to read: www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...

Key wording. “Alleged leaders.”

Add him to the Philly news interview pantheon

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