man, that'd be like a supposed writer having endless exhausting angst about writing. 😬

Here's a take: These Olympics are loaded with the greatest athletes on the planet. And I don't know if any of them could take Anna Gibson in ... anything. www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...

Unbelievable night in Livigno. Triple corks on triple corks on triple corks. I don’t pretend to know much, but I know this was pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

Our story on President Trump calling U.S. Olympian Hunter Hess “a real Loser” and misrepresenting Hess’s original comments. (Lowkey, most ridiculous thing here is Trump saying Hess shouldn’t have “tried out,” as if the U.S. Team is a grade school basketball team.) www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

this is either wildly ironic or an amazing deep-cut

It's hard to know what's inside the narrowest of near-misses. That's why I'm pretty glad to have gotten the chance to get to talk to Ollie Martin not too long ago ... Tonight's story from Lovigno: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Incredible, and revealing, shot of a tragic result for Lindsey Vonn. Jacquelyn Martin of the Associated Press captured the picture that shows how Vonn's pole made contact with the right gate at an early jump, which led to the violent crash.

Absolutely brutal. All of it. @mattfutterman.bsky.social with the immediate story from Cortina. www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

It's hard to know what's inside the narrowest of near-misses. That's why I'm pretty glad to have gotten the chance to get to talk to Ollie Martin not too long ago ... Tonight's story from Lovigno: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

Livigno Snow Park is pumping. I'd share pics but don't want to be thrown out of the country by an IOC press official. Men's big air finals tonight! Ollie Martin is the lone U.S. hopeful China's Su Yiming trying to become first back-to-back big air gold medalist Japan hoping for a podium sweep

There are worse places on this large planet to watch freeski slopestyle qualifying than Bormio’s town square.

Red Gerard not reaching the men's big air finals might have something to do with Red Gerard, a slopestyle specialist, having no interest in competing in big air. “If I wasn’t forced to do this, I wouldn’t do it,” Story from Livigno: www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

Ollie Martin, 17, from Colorado, and decidedly deadpan, advanced out of men’s sb big air quals. Red Gerard, Jake Canter and Sean Fitzsimons did not. Onto slopestyle. Japan very unsurprisingly claimed 4 of 12 spots. Chinese star Yiming Su is in. Name to watch is Ian Mattioli, a 20-year-old Italian.

Life coverage from myself and all the peeps throughout Italy. Gonna be humming for the next three weeks. Keep the tab open: www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

📍 Bormio, Italy

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

A brief, recent history of the Washington Post: 1- Trump wins in 2024. 2- Bezos and minions make series of Trump-friendly changes to paper. 3-Readership tanks. 4- Bezos and minions fire tons of employees while telling them the audience just doesn't like what they're doing.

Jeff Bezos has enough spare change under the seat cushions of his rocket to keep this newspaper afloat. Can't he just pretend that the Washington Post is, like, a $75 million vanity documentary

I’ve added the @sickoscommittee.org to my still growing Olympics starter pack. Apologies for the oversight 🫡 This keeps growing every day, if you want more Olympics stuff in your timelines.

It was better and dumber than I could’ve even imagined. Numbers don’t account for context, so numbers are bullshit. Perfect. No notes.

No idea what happened and am *giddy*

Quinnio and Keeferari

Feb. 1, 1926: No. 1 tennis player Bill Tilden criticizes the “amateur” nature of college football as hypocritical given how lucrative the sport is for the programs. “Therefore, if we are to have this commercialism of all sports, why not pay the individual player?”

Direct hit, losing altitude, everyone get your parachutes

BREAKING NEWS: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected New York Giants chairman and co-owner Steve Tisch with multiple women, according to newly released emails.

apropos of nothing, "go birds" can technically include all biological species of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate, including ospreys and sea-dwelling buzzards

Lindsey Jacobellis, the most decorated snowboard cross rider in history, had to listen to allllll the noise over the years. She knows, as well as anyone, how the Olympics can frame an athlete's life. Now it's her turn to tell the Games' story. www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

Um. NOT GREAT. www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Before the Flyers game, NBCSP aired this tribute to @dhm.bsky.social

Imagine one person teaching a whole city the size of Philadelphia how much joy, love, and strength we could find in laughing at ourselves together. That’s what I will miss the most. Rest in peace, Dan.

I know I’m a homer but this was the most quintessentially McQuade story. Perfect idea, perfect execution. Dan was the only person on Earth who could’ve written this.

Being an FBI agent wasn’t a job to former Bear Charles Tillman as much as it was a vocation. He loved the people he worked with and found honor, integrity and nobility in their service. Then came that day last January. My story. www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...

this just absolutely sucks. Dan saw sports and the world in his own unique, wonderful way and shared that talent in a unique, wonderful way. Philly lost a real one. So sad. Rest easy, man.

love a story where a treasure hunter pours everything into finding an answer to the most obscure item. here's a great one, courtesy of @doughaller.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...

"Volcano" (circa 1997, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche) ((yes, seriously))

as a b10 basketball writer of the early 2020s, really can't believe that the league might come down to Jack Hoiberg and Foster Loyer's little brothers

[email protected] knows ball. And cj knew the kid in his old pickup game was good. But even cj didn't see this coming. He didn't see "one of the greatest stories in college basketball" coming. www.nytimes.com/athletic/699...

From @theathletic.com: Just weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics, a cheating scandal that is equal parts bizarre and brazen has taken its latest turn.

Really happy for Indiana fans. Also really happy for everyone who ignored the piss out of Twitter tonight. Good job, everyone.

Next up for the national champion Indiana Hoosiers? Finally catching San Jose State in all-time wins.

I know Cognetti is Old Football Jesus, but IU … should’ve gone for that, no? Win the game.

Best block since A.J. Moye.

I have to say: I'm very, very excited for the first Winter Olympics here on Bluesky the Sports App.

Cignetti wearing a whistle pregame. Hoosiers by six thousand.

The good brand featured on The Athletic. What a time to be alive. www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...