When Manute and Shawn Bradley played for the Sixers the great Harvey Pollack included “intimidations” in official scorer’s reports. Those need to be brought back for Wemby

In retrospect, everyone should have tanked for Wemby, including the championship favorites. 😂

Decent start to the series.

This week’s sign of the apocalypse.

Nothing “written” about them.

Mina out here buying Jeopardy! buzzers on the dark web.

always grateful for the best one-stop MLB newsletter highlighting [eyeblack]. this time, our series on the women who claim the league failed to investigate their domestic violence allegations against a player. ty @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Getting drafted (and signing) out of high school in New England is a rarity. How do prep prospects put themselves on the scouting map? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/18/s...

Thanks I hate it

Never go full Blue Steel.

“Game 7 on Amazon Prime” is a travesty of a sentence

HAHAHAHAAHAA! Not only did Trump send in a rerun video of himself reading a Bible passage, he also went golfing while his "flock" spent nine hours at the Rededicate 250 Religious Hypocrisy Jubilee in DC. What absolute rubes. My goodness.

Would love to hear this conversation.

What bands were broken up for a long time (16 years in this case) and then knocked it out of the park with their first song after reuniting? I'll start:

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

Wouldn’t have guessed Cook in a billion chances.

From a couple days ago: Schwarber wanted to return to Philly, of course, but entered the winter open-minded to other teams. He said the extent of the Red Sox' pursuit of him this offseason was one conversation with no offer. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/13/s...

Singer/songwriter Livingston Taylor, @chadfinn.bsky.social on the Red Sox, and Bruce Pratt with Sports Lit 101, all on the latest Downtown: richkimbally.podbean.com

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

Cool story from @charlottevarnes.bsky.social about Justin Crawford’s first visit inside the Green Monster, as he reflects on seven weeks in the majors: www.nytimes.com/athletic/727...

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

The Sixers really made those good vibes from beating the Celtics last.

When the Red Sox overhauled their major league staff, the implications rippled through the organization. A look at how the Sox have adjusted on the fly to all kinds of coaching staff movement in their minor league system: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/12/s...

Off on the two-day trip to pick up my son at school. Looking forward to a brief layover in Cooperstown. Haven’t been there since Pedro’s induction.

In 1983 I was 7 years old and during a Red Sox rain delay the local radio station in Hartford did a call-in show and I called in and said the Red Sox should trade Jim Rice for Robin Yount. The host thanked me for listening to the show because they never got calls from women.

one time i wrote a post about how AI could never replicate the human experience of writing and someone accused me of using AI to write it, like as a bit, and anyway AI is cooking all of our brains and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social says it so well here:

My big news: I've left The Athletic because they wanted me to stop covering the Twins. I refused to give up my dream, so I'm betting on myself and returning to my independent roots. I need your support to make it work. Join me and let's do this together: www.aarongleeman.com/welcome-to-t...

LMAO the great thing about this is that they had a private equity drone speak at a humanities graduation. But this is also another example of "Twitter brain": people (and industries) that are still on Twitter are disconnected from reality to such a degree that they're shocked to encounter it.

Happy Black Helicopter Day to all who celebrate.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

My old man left me the championship ring the spurs gave him. He used to always tell my sister and me that we put just as much work in as Matt and that got him to the NBA. Fuck man.

I couldn’t be a sports announcer because when I was supposed to be like “Ask AI who to bet all your money on using BetBoys!!!” I would not do that.

My new catchphrase.

This fan letter was sent to one of my editors. Dude didn’t read the column, but the writer definitely should be fired. Also, I think maybe he thought Shaughnessy wrote it?!

Consider it done, sir.

Trevor Story has more strikeouts this year than hits, home runs, and RBI combined. He has 7 walks in 155 at bats. He is hitting .200/.236/.284, has a 47 OPS+, and has been worth 0.0 WAR. In 304 innings he has zero defensive runs saved. He makes $25 million this year and does so again next year.

Everything about Trump is tacky and fake. This looks like toilet bowl water in a Motel 6 bathroom.

Thinking about all the moms in detention today, and all the ones left behind

Bet they call back.

Drew Carter is better than many of the play-by-play voices doing national NBA playoff games.

The only thing the US learned from Covid was callousness toward suffering and death.

I didn't get a pic, but I commend the three women standing outside Gate A three hours before the game with matching baseball hats that said, "Bad Day To Be A Hot Dog" on them.

Hmmm, I'd call them good ratings in the current media landscape, with one side not being entirely forthcoming. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/09/s...

For Billy Joel’s birthday, I’m re-upping @fluxblog.bsky.social’s 🎯 tweet.

Appreciate the conciseness.

Sunday Baseball Notes now posted. This week: * Catching up with David Ross as he steps back into baseball. * Red Sox observations. * Joe Castiglione remembers John Sterling. * And much more: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/09/s...

Here's Tara Sullivan on why local announcers, from John Sterling to Johnny Most and everybody in between, mean so much to us: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/09/s...