learning about baseball with @redford.bsky.social

New episode of Only If You Get Caught with the great @timmarchman.bsky.social is out now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Maxime Raynaud needs to grow a terrible mustache right now

also also, and I'm sorry this is the final update this morning, the latest episode of Nothing But Respect, with Tom Krell of How To Dress Well, was particularly good podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The fourth episode of Only If You Get Caught is out now, wherein the great @claireefallon.bsky.social, @emmagray.bsky.social, and I consider whether it is possible to cheat on the Bachelor podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

As the nation turns to the best college football programs in the country this weekend, we turn our attention to one of the worst: Lincoln University, a downtown Oakland school whose head coach, and athletic director, threatened me at the end of our interview. www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

We are two months into the new NBA TV deal. Here’s the state of national basketball broadcasting: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news defector.com/nothing-but-...

The duality of Defector

In 15 minutes, our panel will reveal the longlist of nominees for the Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many. Join us here! www.twitch.tv/defectormedia

Jeremiah Fears is the Trae Young of De’Aaron Foxes

The rap music that defined 2025: defector.com/the-rap-musi...

Very special episode of Nothing But Respect this week, we had everyone's favorite @rayratto.bsky.social on to talk about the wide world of officiating: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

this was such a fun conversation! I’m excited to listen to this show now that I am back from being off the grid

The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

The Sacramento Kings may not be good, but they're doing whatever this is

Shocker: Appointing a 29-year-old derelict pet store owner with no politics experience to San Francisco Board of Supervisors not actually a masterstroke defector.com/shocker-appo...

🚨 Fresh YKB Just Dropped 🎙️Part two of our home & home series with the Nothing But Respect podcast (@redford.bsky.social x @lexaprotools.bsky.social) 💔 We drafted the NBA teams with the *worst vibes* right now 🐽 Anthony Davis fake trades pitched from Twitter & Discord Tap in below ⤵️

On ‘Shadow Ticket,’ Thomas Pynchon as comedian, and smiling through it all: defector.com/thomas-pynch...

The third episode of Only If You Get Caught is out today, and it's a very special one. We had the great @reveleth.com on talk through the Lance Armstrong saga and the ways it set the table for the anti-trans sports panic. Subscribe now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Jeffrey Epstein was the unofficial advice columnist for the elites: defector.com/jeffrey-epst...

The Sacramento Kings are an abomination: defector.com/the-kings-ar...

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Today on Twitch, join @girinathan.bsky.social @redford.bsky.social and @remas.bsky.social for another episode of Colossal Ponderings. Let's raise our status to the maximum. Watch live at 2 p.m. ET: www.twitch.tv/defectormedia

Earlier this week, I watched Sam Altman join Steve Kerr for a conversation about "innovation, leadership, and San Francisco," here's what they said (plus some stray thoughts on SF in the third tech boom) defector.com/an-evening-w...

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

The NBA media is not set up to cover a gambling scandal: defector.com/the-nba-medi...

interesting NBA news today, someone should make a narrative podcast about breaking the rules

I listened -- this was great, congrats, patrick! Subbed!

Riding my hobbyhorse into the sunset, via @redford.bsky.social's rad new podcast: Sports conspiracy theories are how fans do structural analysis.

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Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

this team is going to be so cool, either they get annihilated by a league that has passed them by (90 percent chance) or they succeed in a really stupid way: by the dark magic of Ethical Buckets (10 percent)

excellent blogs today at defector. good time to subscribe! defector.com/products

EXCITING NEWS: Only If You Get Caught, a new podcast hosted by me and produced by @alexlaughs.bsky.social drops one week from today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...

simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Israel breaks international law so that it can continue to starve Gaza: defector.com/israel-break...

this week's Nothing But Respect, with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social, also functions as an informal state of WNBA Australians. it is out on podcast platforms, there is time to listen four times before the fever-aces game tips off

shirt so good i'm becoming a #BallmerBoy bsky.app/profile/lawm...

RIP

good @redford.bsky.social on a bad movie

One Battle After Another, banger, yes, though a scene in beautiful Sacramento, CA—America’s farm to fork capitol—supposedly taking place in 2008 or 2009 shows the current Sacramento Kings arena, which did not open until 2016; concerning.

Hollow Knight may be the Dark Souls of Metroidvanias but Silksong is the Dark Souls of Hollow Knights

i wrote about navigating the splendor & contradictions of queer fandom in ballhalla for @coyotemedia.org, check out this piece! proud to be part of their launch this week. and if you're into political/cultural/queer writing about the wnba, dive into rough notes: wnbaroughnotes.substack.com

We had Noah Kulwin on NBR this week for what I thought was a great conversation about the Ballmer/Kawhi saga and the ways the NBA media landscape is and is not prepared to cover something like that. Check it! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Proud to have subscribed to @coyotemedia.org today, all Bay Area people should check out what they're building, they have a great crew!