An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.) www.espn.com/college-foot...

Oh, you know the ones.

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This will probably look silly in 10 years but it’s hard to imagine what it would look like for two people to be better than this at tennis

Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans. #DawgPound www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

ah yes "shit-kicking anti-establishment" is what i think of when someone gets bought by the son of one of the world's richest men bsky.app/profile/jayr...

Don’t threaten me with a good time

What will it mean for culture when the live television band, something that has been an American institution for 70 years, goes extinct?

Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

Nobody knows whether or not Arch Manning will live up to the hype this season. "He ain't even pissed a drop yet," Grandpa Archie told @dwil.bsky.social. But: people are still stealing his photo off the wall of an Austin burger joint. Everybody's already watching.

Watching fiction spread about a great American city where countless people live normal lives feeling safe every day isn't new, but the military occupation of the city on those grounds is a fresh take on it

Contains: The secret of what happened to Eric Dickerson’s gold Trans Am

the really fun part: @dwil.bsky.social's draft mentioned his dad, Bill Wilson, who ran a TX car dealership and loaned out modest cars to Texas A&M assistants. Bill passed away a few years ago, but Dave speaks of him often and he was a real character. Here's a classic 70s ad for Bill's dealership...

Great @dwil.bsky.social feature on the long-standing connection between car dealers and college football programs. Quick thread on how we had a little fun with the art ... www.espn.com/college-foot...

One of the more offensive aspects of the potato-chip-bribe story is that someone would think a journalist’s integrity costs like $200.

there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch

In an alternative world, @paolouggetti.bsky.social takes us over to Tennessee, home of Rory McIlroy. "Johnson City is quite a bit like Ireland in just the terrain, just rolling hills and cattle," Aaron O'Callaghan said. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

Man, it’s tough to see a great champion struggle like this. To express my sympathy, I will now play a brief solo on this trombone that I happen to have handy

Come on

I'm being pandered to and I love it

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

Lol NBC putting all the +4s on the board

Not sure if anything in sports is more entertaining than tennis at its best

Alcaraz has all the shots but, man, he's just unshakeable. Somehow felt like he never doubted this one.

None of the major finals between two members of the Big Three involved a comeback from two sets down

This is the first Alcaraz-Sinner major final, but the fourth instant classic they've played. These guys just have it.

Sam Anderson returning to the Thunder beat, years after "Boom Town," is a good, good time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/m...

This is a blow. No one was better on the Jeopardy! beat. Hire Claire!

I find the idea of a "cover up" of Biden's health both obvious and absurd. It's clear that the president and the people closest to him went to great lengths to try to obscure his declining health. But the idea that you can "cover up" aging is ridiculous and most people saw through the ruse

We're pleased to present the Best Sportswriting nominees for the 2025 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Get article links and all the details at jenkinsmedal.com.

Quote post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

I wrote about Essentially Ellington, a high school jazz band festival full of kids who can really play www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...

The Augustinians already took basketball from the Jesuits. Now this!

This is really well done

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Our NEA grant was canceled. Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.

AMDG

Japanese baseball: superior fan experience. Watched the mascot pull a tablecloth out from under a couple bottles between innings. Fan section has a conductor for songs. Opposing fans put off in their own corner. Good stuff.

The smattering of fans watching Rose stay loose on the range are maximum golf perverts

Holy shit

Nobody Move

This doesn’t count because they took away the glorious final round funnel pin