Chris Almeida
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CFB editor at ESPN | writing elsewhere | chrisjalmeida.com
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Wrote a story for
@newyorker.com
on house bands and why live music is cool
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The End of the Late-Night Band
Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-the-late-night-band
2 months ago
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I will not apologize for putting band stories on espn dot com
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The buzzer went off again
5 days ago
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Anna Merlan
6 days ago
I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde:
www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...
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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and CondĂ© United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this weekâs layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands
Late Wednesday night, CondĂ© Nastâs VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four CondĂ© United leaders for engaging âŠ
https://www.nyguild.org/post/statement-from-the-newsguild-of-new-york-and-conde-united-on-illegal-firing-of-four-union-leaders-who-demanded-answers-about-thi
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Wrote a little cricket essay for the next issue of
@thebeliever.net
. Sub so you don't miss it!
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6 days ago
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The New Yorker Union
7 days ago
Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.
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Jake Lahut
7 days ago
I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere â the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night.
straightfromthehut.substack.com
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David Dayen
9 days ago
Literally quoting Mario Cuomo
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David_j_roth
9 days ago
I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
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Chris Hayes
9 days ago
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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Jack Mirkinson
9 days ago
need 50 of these
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Dave Wilson
16 days ago
Son of an old-school East Texas ball coach who was raised the Lobo Way, the tall tales of Haynes King explain his rise to being the toughest sumbitch out there. Story with the great
@adavidhalejoint.bsky.social
www.espn.com/college-foot...
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'Toughest player I've ever seen': The Legend of Haynes King
Stories about how the quarterback became one of the quirkiest, toughest and most insatiable players in college football.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46760323/haynes-king-stories-georgia-tech-quarterback
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Patrick Wyman
17 days ago
Even by the standards of a Chotiner'ing, this was brutal to read.
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Alex Shephard
23 days ago
this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
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Woman plays clarinet during four-hour brain surgery
Denise Bacon, 65, underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) as Parkinson's Disease has affected her ability to walk, swim, dance and play her instrument.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cn7evl56zpgo
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derek guy
27 days ago
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Amanda Mull
29 days ago
The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subjectâs friends and employees
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Woof.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Tom Scocca
about 1 month ago
The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview
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Patrick Hruby
about 1 month ago
This is simply not true and has never been true! Peopleâpretty understandablyâhate being told theyâre wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. Thereâs nothing new or partisan or principled about this, itâs just contested social mores.
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The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.
about 2 months ago
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Asawin Suebsaeng
about 2 months ago
I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that arenât liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just donât understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year
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Dave Wilson
about 2 months ago
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...
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'Bragging rights for all eternity': An ode to the Iron Skillet rivalry
Looking back at the history of the SMU-TCU grudge match before its 104th, and potentially final, edition.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46292886/iron-skillet-rivalry-smu-tcu-history
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
Oh, you know the ones.
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
2 months ago
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...
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This will probably look silly in 10 years but itâs hard to imagine what it would look like for two people to be better than this at tennis
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Dan Moore
2 months ago
Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans.
#DawgPound
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
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Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith
The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46168604/cleveland-browns-fans-dedication-nfl-season-opener-2025
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Ryan Mac đ
2 months ago
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...
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Donât threaten me with a good time
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The New Yorker
2 months ago
What will it mean for culture when the live television band, something that has been an American institution for 70 years, goes extinct?
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Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-the-late-night-band?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Wrote a story for
@newyorker.com
on house bands and why live music is cool
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The End of the Late-Night Band
Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-the-late-night-band
2 months ago
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The New Yorker
3 months ago
In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldnât survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.
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The History of The New Yorkerâs Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-history-of-the-new-yorkers-vaunted-fact-checking-department?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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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.
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The five stories that explain why Arch Manning was built for this moment
How did the Texas quarterback learn to handle the pressure he's facing as the most famous college football player in the country?
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46079673/arch-manning-texas-five-stories
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Alex Kirshner
3 months ago
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
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL
3 months ago
Contains: The secret of what happened to Eric Dickersonâs gold Trans Am
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Luke Knox
3 months ago
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...
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Luke Knox
3 months ago
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...
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'We are what we drive': How car dealers became college football's power brokers
More college football players are driving sports cars than ever before. But the connection between dealers and programs goes back decades.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46011014/college-football-texas-car-dealers
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Philip Bump
3 months ago
One of the more offensive aspects of the potato-chip-bribe story is that someone would think a journalistâs integrity costs like $200.
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Peter
3 months ago
thereâs a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you donât buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch
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Dave Wilson
4 months ago
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/_...
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Before he was the best golfer of his generation, Rory McIlroy was an East Tennessee State commit
Fred Warren was one of the first college coaches to recruit heavily from Europe. And he nearly snagged a young McIlroy.
https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/45039271/rory-mcilroy-open-east-tennessee-state-commitment
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Brian Phillips
4 months ago
Man, itâs 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
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I'm being pandered to and I love it
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
5 months ago
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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jamelle
5 months ago
whatâs 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 â accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on âkitchen tableâ issues.
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Alexandra Petri
5 months ago
itâs even more demoralizing when the history youâre repeating is history you were around for the first time
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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)
5 months ago
so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out thatâs not what âmagical realismâ is
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Perry Bacon
5 months ago
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.
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Lol NBC putting all the +4s on the board
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