Journalist | Co-author of Kingdom Quarterback, a book about Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes | Features editor and writer at @TheHustle | [email protected]
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For @SBNation I wrote about three Mississippi high school football players who died in the same season, and how inequality in state funding and public education can make football's risks that much greater sbnation.com/2020/2/25/21144…
The last 24 hours, basically my entire timeline has been about Bo French, who's been perhaps the most prominent person spreading anti-South Asian rhetoric in Texas. But worth pointing out he's far from the only one
Something I wrote earlier this summer: texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
Frisco is one of America's foremost 21st century boomtowns, powered by the Texas economic miracle, massive suburban growth and immigrants.
But since about a year ago, it's been the epicenter for increased nativism toward Indian Americans and attacks on legal immigration
My latest long read: texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
It's still crazy to me that golf partially led to the existence of Daylight Saving Time -- and one of the biggest reasons for it potentially becoming year-round is the golf lobby
I've long thought the only sport that should use instant replay is the NFL. Everywhere else it's either used for crazy reversals or wastes way too much time (espec. in NCAA basketball) xitter.cf/BillSimmons/status/207…
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Maybe making travel soccer even more expensive will help the US finally get good.
officially impossible not to become a fan of Algeria soccer now xitter.cf/KUAthletics/status/206…
Downtown Dallas has had lots of bad news the last few years as offices emptied out -- but there was always the possibility that it could transform into something new and more entertaining. The last 24 hours have made that a lot harder
Beyond high prices, I think sports leagues have been slow to realize the sheer number of options kids have for entertainment on youtube/tiktok. Like 25 years ago there was nothing else to do but be a sports fan and now you can find so many other niches xitter.cf/ShehanJeyarajah/status…
Something under-discussed about the demographic cliff affecting America's small colleges is that they're using sports to maintain enrollment and stay afloat.
This is the share of athletes at D2/D3 schools in 2004 vs 2023
There are some small liberal arts colleges in which ~70%-80% of enrolled students are athletes -- and one of them, Erskine College, had a men's basketball roster with 44 players
Full story here: thehustle.co/originals/can-m…
Super interesting: Luxury boxes have physically pushed fans farther away from the action in baseball.
"Fans were closer to home plate in the *last* row of the upper deck at Old Comiskey (150 feet) than in the *first* row of the upper level at Rate Field"
xitter.cf/Travis_Sawchik/status/…
The retro era of ballparks got one very big thing wrong: it pushed fans, the median seat, further from the game than the jewel-box era it attempted to recreate. Tired of waiting for an architecture firm to correct that error,
@MLBcathedrals, @architecturejks and myself decided to put our vision into the world. We created a (digital) ballpark for a @whitesox team in need of it. For
@ChicagoMag: chicagomag.com/city-life/a-m…
Deeply depressing, but also if you give people just a small sample in blind tests like these they'll say all kinds of weird things, like that they prefer Pepsi over Coke xitter.cf/kevinroose/status/2031…
We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing.
86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment!
nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
Wow that amazing Brazilian national anthem with all the fans wearing nfl jerseys is a good reminder of why the nfl can get away with anything
