Fridays @friedegggolf.bsky.social Shotgun Start flashback was amazing. Full support for @kvanvalkenburg.bsky.social curating these purely for opportunities to do silly accents

Hey friends, I'm very excited to start a new gig today. Hope you'll follow along as I continue to tell stories with the awesome @friedegggolf.bsky.social team. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/kev...

This is so wonderful and somehow hopeful in the face of despair.

We are honored and thrilled to share the cover of @tomjunod.bsky.social's upcoming memoir: IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. Preorder your copy now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89092/...

New installment in Lenny’s Book Club: AMERICAN KINGS: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE QUARTERBACK by @sethwickersham.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read this. Preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/789617...

The Ringer's Hollywood bureau chief @alansiegella.bsky.social has a new book out about The Simpsons that you need to buy right now. So many amazing nuggets about what the show owes to ('60s) Batman, the feud w/ Barbara (not just George) Bush, and more. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

For this week's @nolayingup.com narrative podcast, I wrote a love letter to my local muni (but really, munis everywhere). Neil and Randy and I also have a fun discussion about what makes a great muni in the back half of the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1lv6...

Sometimes I’m just like everything is so dumb and stupid what is the point and then I see Big Bird in a Larry Bird jersey and it’s like wow the world is beautiful and worth fighting for

For this week's @nolayingup.com narrative podcast, I wrote a love letter to my local muni (but really, munis everywhere). Neil and Randy and I also have a fun discussion about what makes a great muni in the back half of the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1lv6...

Finding out that the Winklevii aren't ball knowers

Hello twitter emigres! If you are here, poking around, a bit confused—a lot of the football folks you know are already on this app! Smash the subscribe button on this starter pack and you’ll instantly have a timeline 👇 go.bsky.app/8RH6KbH

People make smarmy jokes about Infinite Jest but man, so much of it turned out to be prescient.

Now that the Black Sox players have been removed from MLB's permanently ineligible list after 104 years, here's the most accurate history we know on what really happened in the 1919 World Series, from SABR's Eight Myths Out: sabr.org/eight-myths-...

Andor has a real chance to stick the landing and be a Top 10 all-time show. Not even joking a little.

This definition of corruption is so pedantic as to be nonsensical. Corruption is an umbrella category of which a bribe is a part.

The Righteous Gemstones was closer to a documentary than it was to fiction.

📘 American Kings by @SethWickersham (Sept 9) Football book of the year? A deep dive into the most mythologized position in US sports: quarterback. From Unitas to Arch Manning, Wickersham explores the ambition, pressure, and price of chasing football royalty.

On a lighter note, the Eagles fans who met at the Super Bowl parade got married and the Vows story is really quite sweet www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...

Me after watching Andor

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such

Stressing over how many lawns I would have to mow to pay off this debt if this was my dad.

The only NFL Draft analysis you need.

The @nolayingup.com Major Deep Dives are back as Soly and I dig into the year 2000! Seems like an important year to unpack, yes? We touch on Tiger's genius, Vijay's weird putter, Barbara Nicklaus' marksman ability, Jack's partyboi era, and more.

A taxpayer-focused argument for art education in Texas schools if I’ve ever heard one

If I was a person involved in exiling a two year old child with cancer to another country I would simply walk into the ocean and never return

Proud that we at @nolayingup.com were able to help bring about some positive change for Long Island and NYC golfers. Our podcast helped shine a light on this issue and exert public pressure. Hopeful this helps.

Dumb journalists think being a tough interviewer requires writing down gotcha questions in advance. Smart journalists know that the trick is just listening and sometimes going, ‘how so?’

This is one of my favorite @nolayingup.com projects I've ever worked on. For a week, @ngschu.nolayingup.com and I roamed the grounds of Augusta National with mics, capturing the sounds of the Masters, trying to tell the story of the tournament, pulling together a narrative podcast in real time.

This is one of my favorite @nolayingup.com projects I've ever worked on. For a week, @ngschu.nolayingup.com and I roamed the grounds of Augusta National with mics, capturing the sounds of the Masters, trying to tell the story of the tournament, pulling together a narrative podcast in real time.

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

The internet becomes more tolerable once you realize that 99% of the people who are being assholes to you online have never actually engaged with your work and have no plans to.

I really like this picture inside the Masters media center, one of the few pics of Greg Norman in the whole place. A subtle nod to the idea that you should speak with the press, even in the hour of your biggest disappointment.

Fred Couples just holed out with lumber from 191 on the 14th hole. People who complain about the presence of aging past champions in the Masters field simply do not know ball.

Happy Hour Masters week release! open.spotify.com/episode/4SgK...

Nearly three decades after Tiger Woods won the Masters, Black golfers still have a minimal presence on the PGA Tour. I wanted to explore what challenges remain in changing the complexion of golf & what Woods felt his purpose was instead of leading the crusade. wapo.st/4icb7ku

Paige Bueckers is cool. Typically can't get behind cheering for Goliath but she's too good to have left college without a chip.

(Me wiping away a single tear)

It's not that AI has no role in certain things. And some people may prefer aspects of it. But AI could never have given us Vern's: "In your life have you seen anything like that?" and it's silly to pretend otherwise.

AI would be a lot more tolerable and interesting if it wasn't being aggressively embraced by the absolute biggest dorks on earth, primarily because they can't write, be funny, or convince an actual human to fall in love with them, and they think they've crack a code to even the playing field.

This is good.

none of these people have worked in factories or warehouses, it’s not fun! there are literally signs that say things like “it’s been x days since someone got hurt”

This is a very good piece of culture writing.

In this month's episode of @nolayingup.com Special Projects, we ask a very personal question: What's your favorite Masters, and why? We unpack some stories that are personal, funny, sentimental and silly. One of my favorite things we've done. open.spotify.com/episode/21qr...

In this month's episode of @nolayingup.com Special Projects, we ask a very personal question: What's your favorite Masters, and why? We unpack some stories that are personal, funny, sentimental and silly. One of my favorite things we've done. open.spotify.com/episode/21qr...

This poster hung in every college room I ever rented. I did not know what my aesthetic was, but I wanted my ethos to be Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday, a man who talked some shit, who knew a poem or two, who was great at his job, and who was there for his friends. Yes, it was fantasy. But what cool one.

New pod! @joelanderson.bsky.social and I paid tribute to the publications that died, or attained zombie status, this century. ESPN the mag…Deadspin…Men’s Vogue…BuzzFeed News…Cal Sunday…Fusion…Grantland…Nintendo Power…and many more. open.spotify.com/episode/76t9...

1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece 2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words ew.com/kenan-thomps...