@rodger.bsky.social I live in RI and just got this email from the airport.

I really don’t think anyone writing at ESPN has actually watched the Pirates play this season, because this is simply not an accurate diagnosis of the team‘s current problems

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Still true

Thrilled to report the Arizona Rattlers CHUG CAM appears to be sponsored by an intervention and recovery center

James Dolan having to watch his team go down in flames from a 2-0 lead after inviting Donald Trump to ruin Game 3 for a photo op would be funny and just

THE BUCS AINT DEAD YET!

@scuffed.bsky.social sighting on John Oliver

kind of appropriate for Duke to play in a baseball stadium given the number of blown saves they've had recently

hello, it's your child's school! it's the final week of the year, so please attend the English expo, spring sing, the art fair, the PTA gala, the science fair, commencement ceremony, and teachers' picnic. all of these are during the work day. p.s. your kids have half days all week BYEEEEEEE

totally normal website. nothing to see here at @defector.com

When the Steelers-Bengals rivalry was at its peak.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

For most people @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social is an entry into art. But tonight for my 11yo daughter it was an entry into sports. She was flipping through our copy which led to her asking to see the Tyson/Holyfield ear clip on YouTube. What a wonderful book.

I was going to make fun of people getting worked up about the USMMT world cup roster but I realized that my posts here are public and you can see me getting worked up about the northwestern men's basketball transfer portal and these are exactly the same thing.

Anyways I'm too busy to get to the wedding Don junior. Working on some documents.

this the shit I been up to

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

The obvious takeaway from this is that evangelicals are amazing, but I'd also like to note that at least in this shot of the statue his hair looks like Trump is wearing a baseball hat bumped to the side in the classic Fernando Rodney style.

(Gianni Infantini describing being a season ticket holder at Old Ryan Field) Yes you could get a whole season for $250, but you were not guaranteed a hot dog bun. At the World Cup you will not be served a loose hot dog in a soda cup. How much is that worth?

@bootspod.bsky.social justice in case you hadn’t seen this: defector.com/whats-parent...

It had to be done, even if others may have already done it @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @rodger.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

whoops, today is apparently a "sibling kindness makes me choke up on the train" type of day

the mad emperor is fighting against the pope and started a war he cannot win in persia and we're supposed to believe we don't need history departments anymore

Go ‘Cats

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

cc: @danhopp.bsky.social

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

I will always think of that football-style inbounds play Michigan just ran as The Dan McQuade Play. It's one of my favorite college basketball blogs of his, and Greg Kampe is a great character. defector.com/greg-kampes-...

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

obviously i'm a bit biased, but i think russell martin's HR of cueto with the crowd going absolutely ballistic and cueto dropping the ball is one of the most memorable home runs in all of baseball in the last 15 years

I can't believe the "New Yorker" REJECTED this cartoon!

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

My grandfather played for UConn. He died in 1998. He never saw them make the Final Four. My father was behind the basket in 1990. He saw Duke deny UConn its first Final Four. I was behind the basket tonight. I saw UConn’s greatest win of all time.

Rickey Henderson, for sure. I had at least four different Starting Lineups of him

tired: talking about how Nebraska is like Indiana football bc they were never good and now they are wired: talking about how Iowa is like Indiana football bc they hired the guy who was an awesome coach in D-II and then was an awesome coach at a mid-major and is now an awesome coach at the top level

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

Chappell Roan meeting her young fans, by Gustav Vigeland, early 20th century

Using the bottom-dealing sleight of hand I learned from watching all the Ricky Jay specials to flip multiple pages at a time when my kid picks some long suck-ass book before bed when she’s clearly too tired to pay attention

Winning back-to-back national championships is hard, unlike talking to women your own age. Todd Golden struggles with both though, apparently.

OOOOOO LAWD UMBC

Hoosier Daddy

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

Pretty funny to work for an entity that can be abbreviated as BOFA and badly fall for a blatantly obvious trick