Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Derek Dooley said it best about his losing coaching record, “your film is your resume.” So let’s take a look at his film:

The best 10 bucks a month I spend, without question. Kudos to Alex & Richard (and friends of the program) for creating the best sports - not just CFB - podcast out there. Delighted to hear the state of SZD is in good health 🤝

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

I think this is a much closer call than you do. LA has two legacy CFB programs but very little day-to-day caring about CFB. New York has a ton of it, probably because it's a finance capital and those ppl have a lot of CFB obsessives in their ranks

incredible weekend for haters from the University of Texas

So far the only trend in 2025 CFP games is "which team do the Texas Longhorns hate more." Oregon is the only remaining first-round team with multiple wins over Texas. Not great for Texas Tech. Georgia is absolutely doomed

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

Casten is the single most informed federal elected official on the energy system. If he said this about something I penned on energy I would die of shame. Unfortunately, the neighborhood troll has none.

Putting partisan politics above policy is unironically what republicans have been better at than democrats for years.

A multigenerational gift to Republicans, ordered custom by Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and placed in one of those nice room service platters for them slate.com/technology/2...

I love to leave my life of unimaginable luxury at the apex of my profession to travel to the windowless lair of a video game streamer with a room-temp IQ so I can do the most absolute dogshit banter imaginable with him and his lumpy shithead buddies.

The reaction to this post makes the culture of this website make way more sense to me, as a lot of people seem to believe that they are doing very important political work by posting on here

I feel like it's gotta be stressed that the scale of American traffic violence is a genuine catastrophe. It's one of the biggest killers of otherwise healthy people and it totally erodes the viability of communities. It has to be treated with urgency

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

Kalshi is now the "official prediction market" of CNN, which has already started to use prediction market odds as a substitute for actual polling. I think this is a very bad idea. CNN wouldn't confirm the payment relationship between the parties when I asked, but more here: slate.com/technology/2...

The Marlins have designated RP Republican Gonzalez for assignment.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and if the tide gets high enough we don’t need to argue about the type of sail in all but a few districts!

I look forward to the day humans are not allowed to drive anymore (that day is not coming, but one can dream)

Think this is pretty accurate - my ranking of hires (vs options in their pool, not how well they’ll do in absolute) 1. VaTech 2. UCLA 3. Ok. St 4. CO St 5. Kent St 6. LSU 7. Florida 8. Auburn 9. Oregon St 10. Ole Miss 11. Stanford 12. Arkansas 13. Mich St

As always, hook ‘em 🤘

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Excellent thread below from Rep. Casten —

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

There’s a lot of people who claim to be really into politics but who are actually really into being righteously angry, and they’re pretty shitty sources of information. Anger is addictive and makes you stupid, try to limit it.

There's going to be a crowded race for this seat, obviously, but one name we can't overlook: Cincinnati head football coach Scott Satterfield, who's reportedly interested in a move to the political arena

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Remember: job’s not finished. This is a good start but get involved in your local campaigns

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

I’m hearing Godot might arrive by the time Game 3 ends

if you throw a single pitch to ohtani you are a moron

someone posted after 2016 something like "i just dont know how to convince you that you should care about other people" and i think about that a lot

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

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A real joy to read every year! So clear how deeply Norlander loves college basketball - shines through in every article/podcast

If you're looking for ONE piece of CBB content to give you a 30,000-foot view of the sport heading into the season, this is it. 18,000 words on 101 teams. The best 101 teams. An annual labor of love, and I'm giddy to share it with you. Come take the tour and let me know what ya think!

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Texas fans are loving every moment

The "no fall weddings" people are doing performative college football fandom. They're either poorly adjusted or compensating for something. Skip the football Saturday 100 times out of 100 if you care about the couple at all

I wrote about the caricature of Bluesky that right-wing Twitter accounts were pumping out to hundreds of millions of people yesterday @slate.com. Hey, Bluesky did finally become an echo chamber. Just not the one these people were pretending it is: slate.com/technology/2...

Sometimes I think I'm in the 99th percentile of Needing To Touch Grass, but then I see posts like this and feel way better about myself. No way I'm higher than the 97th percentile of Needing To Touch Grass

A sidebar on Illinois State, a school from the oft-raided Missouri Valley Conference that actually kept all its players and is aiming for an NCAA bid in '26. “People asked why I would stay. I flipped it to, Why would I leave?" bit.ly/4fcXhyi

Feeling incredibly seen by this article - there is something about the day/weekend trip that is just so fun & easy to plan last minute when you’re 23 and work hybrid and deep into the points & miles game (me)

Just found out that the number 1 punter recruit for class of 2027 is Gunnar Gillentine from Hattiesburg, MS. He's currently at Presbyterian Christian School... and has recently converted to Islam. Surely, fans of the schools that are vying for him will be kind to him re: his religious journey.

Real question for the New York Times. You referred to a source as “an academic.” What does that mean to the newspaper? If someone dropped out of graduate school and is not employed by a a university, are they an academic? If someone dropped out of medical school, would you call them a physician?

Cody Campbell made his billions by knowing when to buy low. Facing college football’s Wild West era, Texas Tech smelled opportunity. In the most ambitious story of my career, I went to Lubbock and wrote about the transformative power of aspiration. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

there should be a movie about pickett's charge and in that movie, the confederates should be portrayed as simply being the dumbest, most arrogant, most strung-out troops in the history of conflict. lee should be talked about like not just a racist but one who coached an 0-17 NFL team

This is some clear-eyed writing on the ways of empathy, artistic defiance and the communal fan experience by Ryan Miller of @guster.bsky.social. I've loved this band for 25-plus years at this point; the reasons go well beyond their melodies and harmonies. Those reasons are contained herein ⤵️