Pub day for Andrew Brandt and 'Smarter About Sports'! Had a blast working with Andrew on this memoir, which includes never-before-shared #Packers stories but also plenty of other fun stuff from the never-boring life of a sports agent. You won't want to miss it! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/smarter-ab...

"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."

big news today: the IOC has approved freeride as an Olympic discipline for French Alps 2030. Other figure skating, skiing and snowboarding disciplines will make their debut, while Nordic combined—the only Winter Olympics discipline to exclude women—has been removed www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

looking to chat with someone for a story who loves dirty soda and frequents standalone soda shops, a la Swig or its many competitors. bonus if you use soda shops as a third space instead of bars or coffee shops. let me know!

If you tune in to X Games this weekend, you won't be watching a standalone event. Instead, you'll be watching the first stop of a three-event summer season as part of the new X Games League structure, with a championship in late July. Here's how it all works: www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

when your Authenticator code is ticking down and about to expire, do you wait for the new one to load like a normal person, or do you accept the challenge to race against the clock and type in the current one like I do

use promo code 'TOLERANCE' for $200 in bonus bets with any $5 wager

#CANES fans, we've been working on something special 📚 Pre-order your commemorative book, 'PERFECT STORM', featuring writing by @corylav.bsky.social spanning the whole Stanley Cup run alongside dozens of memorable photos: triumphbooks.com/CANESWIN *cover not yet final

KNICKS. IN. FIVE. Pre-order your @nypost.com @nypostsports.bsky.social commemorative book, 'KNICKER BONKERS' now, capturing this wild championship season for the ages: www.ipgbook.com/knicker-bonk... *cover not final

Me: “I used to listen to Slipknot while I played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” My husband: “I used to listen to Foo Fighters while I played Mario Kart” each of us in a nutshell

For a story: Have you brought food into an MLB ballpark? (Did you know you could?! To more than half of them!) If so, was it either: a. an incredibly strange item, or b. to make the day at the park affordable for your family? Let me know!

Can’t believe live nation actually did the right thing and postponed Jimmy Eat World/Get Up Kids/Sunny Day Real Estate since y’know, Chicago is under an EF2+ tornado warning. Venue notorious for refusing to cancel in bad weather too. Putting social media pressure on venues/organizers works, folks!

My analysis of the Myles Garrett trade: I'm so happy for Chloe Kim 🥲

because they’re on your now, a Yellowcard take: 🗣️ Paper Walls is a better album than Ocean Avenue

Unfortunately, this was not true in the Italian Alps in February, when I encountered an enormous spider in our hotel and felt completely betrayed and blindsided. It! was! snowing! outside! Don’t google giant alpine spider, you won’t like the result

if you see me walking around like a mummy outside in the summer so I don’t accidentally walk face-first into a spiderweb…no you didn’t

smash cut to: women all over Chicago flushing wet wipes down their toilets so they can call the hot plumber

Inside you there are two wolves. Ones absolutely hates having to ask something of customer service. But the other hates spending more money than necessary. And that’s how you find yourself standing at Best Buy asking for a $130 Memorial Day sale price adjustment on your vacuum

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

Almost always hate pulling the goalie down one with 1:30 to go

ESPN broadcast showed the players on the ice approximately ONCE during the national anthems

today’s fits ☘️🐻

moving soon and donating/selling a ton of items. figured I’d share this Packers pom beanie eBay listing here in case anyone I know is interested! ebay.us/m/1HnQDg

In case you're out of the loop, X Games is no longer a series of one-off events but an action sports league (summer and winter). The 40 athletes on the four summer teams will be decided by the first-ever X Games draft tonight at Cosm in LA! Here's how it will all work: www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Who won the United States' first gold medal of the 2026 Winter Paralympics? Who else but Oksana Masters, the most dominant Winter Paralympian of all time www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

From The Archives:

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

I’m still struggling to wake up in the morning from Italy jet lag and meanwhile the Olympic snowboarders are gearing up to compete in Snow League finals in Aspen today. Just built different

And, as someone who has to read information to absorb it (and *reads along with the transcript* if I ever listen to a podcast), I’d never want to make anything I have to say less accessible to people who learn the same way I do

fun bit of history: Connor Hellebuyck is the first goalie in the history of the Olympics to make 40+ saves in a game and get an assist in a game. (assisted on Hughes GWG with Werenski)

To the player who said “Absolutely!” and the one who chanted “2 for 2”—please rub off on your friends. (I do think some of the cheering in response to what Trump said was meant to be in support of the women’s team. But those other cackling laughs must be heartbreaking for the women’s team to hear.)

This was the thing that stood out when reading about the Blackhawks covering up sexual assault. No one wanted to rock the boat, with them thinking that talking about the sexual assault was the boatrocking, not the assault itself. It's so bad.

Re: Trump telling the men’s team that he’s going to “have to” also invite the women’s team, and the men laughing—one of the most toxic aspects of hockey culture is that it is unfailingly “polite.” They are raised to listen to their elders, not to push back even when they know something is wrong

big shoutout though to the one guy on the US hockey team who starts chanting 2-FOR-2! 2-FOR-2! when Trump brings up the women's team while pretty much everybody else laughs, he gets a pass

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

The Olympics are done! I’ve written 37 articles this month! I am SLEEPING FOREVER

Closing out the Olympics with one of my favorite stories I've written during them www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

*Stares in Hellebuyck*

Jack Hughes: “I looked on the ice and saw my teeth”

You can smell the champagne from here!

Sway when he sees the gold medals: “Wowwww” 😆

GOALIE HUG: OLYMPICS EDITION

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WHAT AN ENDING

while we wait for this FULL INTERMISSION (whyyy) to conclude before 3 on 3 overtime (WHYYY), read about Eileen Gu! www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

Team Olympic Village vs. Team Fancy Hotel. which will win out?