Washington #Nationals president of baseball operations opened a video call with media bemoaning the loss of the Post sports department and ball writers Andrew Golden, Spencer Nusbaum, Chelsea Janes and Barry Svrluga, while noting the San Francisco Chronicle's role in shaping him as a youth.

Rasmus Wranå is the most Swedish a name can be without devolving into an offensive stereotype. I don't even know what the American equivalent would be

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

Realistically, professional ballplayers get to eat their fill. But I've lived a life that leaves me unable to take free workplace food for granted, so I had to write about it

wild AI story from the Olympics ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

France's viral ice dancing team has a dark backstory: defector.com/frances-vira...

If China took away the Stanley Cup, how would Canada even know?

*hits blunt harder* Baseball= turn based Football = turn based Soccer= real time Hockey = real time Basketball = real time

[last week] i don't know the names of any curlers but i'll probably have it on in the background while i do other stuff [today] IF CORY AND KOREY WIN GOLD WE ARE GOING TO CHILI'S TO CELEBRATE

Post a banger that isn't in English

As good an opportunity as I'll ever have to post this video of Nate McLouth (born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan) showcasing some of the best Dominican Spanish you will ever hear in your life.

C/KOREY!

I don't like that trade it's looking at me weird

They moved an entire farm and a power station onto the field in five minutes and the Pats can't move a football 10 yards

Lady Gaga appearing here is risking some "actually Italians aren't white after all" backlash

Go Birds

this is what a guardians/brewers world series would be like

A commercial that's all butts punctuated by a pun is the best short film of 2026. Both the major food groups

Whenever the Dodgers sign a free agent

Guy who hasn't really been paying attention since he woke up from a 15-year coma yesterday but is really looking forward to hearing "My Backwards Walk" performed at the Super Bowl halftime show

Not ashamed to admit I got up and yelled

Mine is Frank Rijkaard's coaching accomplishments are more impressive than Pep Guardiola's

i bought the fangraphs womens zip up and its sooooo comfortable and cozy. and more importantly i will finally get to go to games and represent my sports fan allegiance to team spreadsheets

Man can't travel internationally because his farts violate treaties on the proliferation of biological and chemical weapons

Akani Simbine finished 4th or 5th in the 100m at the 2016 Olympics, 2017 Worlds, 2019 Worlds, 2020 Olympics, and 2022 Worlds, and 2024 Olympics. finally got a silver in the 4x100 in Paris though

One of the random athletes I think about most is an Italian swimmer named Alessio Boggiatto, who qualified for exactly one event at three straight Olympics and finished fourth all three times, the last two times behind Michael Phelps

I don't know how Olympic athletes have the mental strength to work hard enough to compete, then cope with losing by hundredths of a second. I'd be on the podium accepting my silver medal in a straitjacket

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if a generation of tech, science, and business reporters hadn't decided that the press release was the news

Glad this guy is going away before I could differentiate his name from the QB who eats banana peels and puts mayo in his coffee

The home run derby being better than the dunk contest is the most unlikely development of the past decade. Including all the other stuff

so, I declined a temporary gig covering The Olympics for a Big Media Company bc I wouldn't have been able to do the newsletter. I was hoping to get enough paid subs over the 2 Olympic weeks to make up for it. friends... you hit the number ***BEFORE THE OPENING CEREMONY*** can't thank you enough

Extremely sad news, RIP

Watching downhill skiing, remembering one of the most important things I ever wrote

I was gonna make a list of athletes you'd think would be good on The Muppet Show but would actually bomb, but decided it was too mean. He'd be no. 1 on that list for me. Or no. 2 behind Peyton Manning. I feel OK being mean to Peyton Manning.

Athletes who'd kill on The Muppet Show: Marshawn Lynch, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen but not Lando Norris, both Kelces for different reasons, Matthew Tkachuk but not Brady, Joel Embiid, Paige Bueckers, Gronk, Rose Lavelle

I think this is the only context in which Sidney Crosby would be funny or interesting

A fun piece of news to drop right after the filing that Emmanuel Clase allegedly rigged prop bets in 1/4 of the games he pitched over the last three years of his career. Nobody learns from anyone else's mistakes.

I'd like to commend the editorial decisions that led to us learning every detail of Shaun White's personal travel history and brand partnerships, and nothing about who carried the Olympic torch into the stadium

Listen if you're gonna talk like this you need to at least try to make a joke

I remember catching a Six Nations rugby game a few years ago and finding out the Italians had a rousing, jaunty national anthem, and not one dude going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Please rise if you are able for the Italian national anthem, sung in tune for the first time ever at an international sporting event

Reminder: Today is the final day to vote for the winners of the 2026 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards! sabr.org/latest/vote-...

In case you missed it yesterday, here's Baumann on Skubal's arb case

Italian sports fans being famously restrained and obedient

Trying to imagine what a Blue Jays game would be like without Buck in the booth and getting nothing but static

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Panic! At the Discobergruppenführer

Maybe the dumbest niche sports thing I love is when players wear a different number for their national team than their club team, so WBC Roster Day has been fun

If he's any good he's gonna become the most popular Philadelphia athlete since Brian Dawkins