La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Just so we have this straight. The LA28 board refused to take action — but his clients and agents forced him out of his own company. And now the taxpayers of the City of Los Angeles *WHICH HOLDS THE CONTRACT WITH LA28* are stuck with him! Great work everyone!

Our opinion page published a guest piece on Lindsey Vonn that was misogynistic trash. I had thoughts.

SPOT ON, @nrarmour.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Hell no Lindsey Vonn shouldn’t give up her spot at the Olympics.

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Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe

America is bringing its ugliest stain to the Games. — Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala: “This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am a tire carrier competing in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and I’m taking you behind the scenes with me today. Join me as I share my view of working on the No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 in the GTD Pro class.

The Supreme Court will hear two cases today challenging state bans on transgender athletes. These bans are about erasure. Not fairness.

This is the year. Bo Nix has improved so much under this new offense. He's focused. He's having fun. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a dark horse for the Heisman.

You will be visited by three spirits

Hitting free agency soon. DM’s are open.

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT

gonna call them to let them know they’re never getting any donations from me since they apparently have $75 million lying around to appease the government

Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...

ACC after dark

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines. Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.” But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

some light reading for the Notre Dame-BC game today... i recently spoke with Jeremiyah Love about his Heisman elevator pitch, his relationship with CJ Carr and why he'd compare himself to Jahmyr Gibbs. "I can do some spectacular things, but I'm also that team guy." ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Happy Halloween, Sickos

INDI2NA IN2IANA 2NDIANA

student journalism forever www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

More: www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

today is the 10th anniversary of the Trouble with the Snap game between Michigan and Michigan State with one of the wildest endings in college football history. here's my story: Trouble with the Snap: An oral history of the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

god this rules so hard. @mmartinelli.bsky.social got pretty much everyone from the play but Jim Harbaugh on record. even the surrender cobra guy!!! ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

my latest project for @forthewin.bsky.social, an oral history of "Trouble with the Snap" — the infamous 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game. "A really surreal, emotional moment." "You're just shocked." "It still gives me goosebumps to this day." ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Wrote this when Texas A&M paid Jimbo Fisher more than $77 million to go away. Still true!

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

how disgusting and unnecessary. begging men to be normal just once.

Verlander. Je verlande, tu verlandes, il verlande, nous verlandons, vous verlandez, ils verlandent

Emperor Augustus and the Sybil of Tibur, by Konrad Witz, 1435, 📸 by @branndannart

Curt Cignetti is in this video for like one second and he’s TERRIFYING

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I don't know what the TV crew was doing on this play but I am CACKLING

Actors, by Carlos Almaraz, 1987, 📸 by Robert Deutsch

still don't understand how SJSU's official name is "San Jose State" and SDSU is "San Diego State" but Fresno State is actually "Cal State Fresno" & Sac State is actually "Cal State Sacramento" and Cal States Fullerton & Bernardino have to use their government names

College Football Week 1 Watchability Rankings: Trio of top-10 matchups to begin the season bit.ly/4g36Twi

College football picks against the spread, Week 1: Ohio State-Texas, Clemson-LSU and more bit.ly/4muUJ1s

i chatted with Deion Sanders about his new-look Colorado team, why he's happy not coaching his sons anymore, and beating cancer. "We may not have the lightning strikes that we had last year, but we're still going to cause a storm because we have a better team." ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

The year is 2035. Max Scherzer is 51 years old. He is stomping around the mound like a maniac.

Hawaii's kicker learned how to kick from watching Youtube in Japan, this is the greatest college football team ever already

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

The merger of the NFL and ESPN had nothing to do with the network shelving a documentary about Colin Kaepernick. Sure. And somewhere around here there’s a bridge I’d like to sell you.

I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.