Stephen Cohen
@smcohen.bsky.social
Managing editor for enterprise, The Athletic. Colorado State, Newhouse, Seattle P-I alum.
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Stephen Cohen
@smcohen.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Intro post: I’m Steve, an enterprise editor for @theathletic.bsky.social, where I get to work with some of the best writers in the business on some of their best stories. It’s a decent gig. Before that I covered some fairly good Seahawks teams. I live in the PNW with my wife and two kids under 4.
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Marquette King boomed punts downfield, then celebrated with moves tailored to his opposition, carving out a distinct persona at a position known for anonymity.
That persona may also be the reason he has spent the last several years out of the NFL: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
That persona may also be the reason he has spent the last several years out of the NFL: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Marquette King boomed punts downfield, then celebrated with moves tailored to his opposition, carving out a distinct persona at a position known for anonymity.
That persona may also be the reason he has spent the last several years out of the NFL: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
That persona may also be the reason he has spent the last several years out of the NFL: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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Perfect story
"I tell people, my life's not real."
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
The NFL’s most anonymous men are also the happiest: ‘My life’s not real’
'People think it’s impossible to get in (as a long snapper). It’s damn near impossible to stay in.'
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Perfect story
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"Maybe you get a beer named after you, or maybe you close a Tony Robbins seminar at midnight, or maybe you just drop your kid at school and hit golf balls in paradise ..."
@brianchamilton.bsky.social on the happiest men in the NFL, long snappers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
@brianchamilton.bsky.social on the happiest men in the NFL, long snappers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
The NFL’s most anonymous men are also the happiest: ‘My life’s not real’
'People think it’s impossible to get in (as a long snapper). It’s damn near impossible to stay in.'
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Maybe you get a beer named after you, or maybe you close a Tony Robbins seminar at midnight, or maybe you just drop your kid at school and hit golf balls in paradise ..."
@brianchamilton.bsky.social on the happiest men in the NFL, long snappers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
@brianchamilton.bsky.social on the happiest men in the NFL, long snappers: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
311!
Why is Darnell Washington still listed at 264?
“Honestly, I don’t know,” Washington said. “I’m just like you. I see it, just keep on about my day and laugh at it.”
On one of the NFL’s most unique players — and the quest to uncover his true weight
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
“Honestly, I don’t know,” Washington said. “I’m just like you. I see it, just keep on about my day and laugh at it.”
On one of the NFL’s most unique players — and the quest to uncover his true weight
www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
311!
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"I tell people, my life's not real."
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
The NFL’s most anonymous men are also the happiest: ‘My life’s not real’
'People think it’s impossible to get in (as a long snapper). It’s damn near impossible to stay in.'
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"I tell people, my life's not real."
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
To be an NFL long snapper is to have your worth measured by a half-dozen plays every week.
It's also a shot at football nirvana.
A story for @theathletic.com on the sport's last happy men, and what they're chasing.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
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I went on a journey — to Las Vegas, San Diego, Dallas, and Buffalo — to learn about the NFL’s long-distance kicking revolution.
From a camp of pro hopefuls to Brandon Aubrey, Cameron Dicker, Cam Little and more.
Here’s my story on the art of kicking.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
From a camp of pro hopefuls to Brandon Aubrey, Cameron Dicker, Cam Little and more.
Here’s my story on the art of kicking.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I went on a journey — to Las Vegas, San Diego, Dallas, and Buffalo — to learn about the NFL’s long-distance kicking revolution.
From a camp of pro hopefuls to Brandon Aubrey, Cameron Dicker, Cam Little and more.
Here’s my story on the art of kicking.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
From a camp of pro hopefuls to Brandon Aubrey, Cameron Dicker, Cam Little and more.
Here’s my story on the art of kicking.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
“Things happen,” he said of a journalist’s murder and dismemberment by a foreign government.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Things happen,” he said of a journalist’s murder and dismemberment by a foreign government.
I don’t wanna to be mean… but I can’t help it. This is some of the worst schlock imaginable.
this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I don’t wanna to be mean… but I can’t help it. This is some of the worst schlock imaginable.
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These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.
I’d feel more empathy for Marjorie Taylor Greene if I didn’t remember that she’s Marjorie Taylor Greene.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
Video surfaces of Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor with baseless claims | CNN Politics
Video of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg before she was elected to Congress went viral Wednesday amid an uproar over newly surfaced comments sh...
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’d feel more empathy for Marjorie Taylor Greene if I didn’t remember that she’s Marjorie Taylor Greene.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
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NEW: Trump likes to claim that his pardons are about undoing supposed Biden DOJ overreach, but @propublica.org found at least a dozen instances where Trump has granted clemency in criminal cases that originated during the first Trump term.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
NEW: Trump likes to claim that his pardons are about undoing supposed Biden DOJ overreach, but @propublica.org found at least a dozen instances where Trump has granted clemency in criminal cases that originated during the first Trump term.
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
As a former church-going person, this gives me a modicum of hope.
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
As a former church-going person, this gives me a modicum of hope.
I can’t stop laughing at the face.
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I can’t stop laughing at the face.
CC: Colorado State
threatening a player during the union push and then putting it in writing. getting 45 unanswered dropped on his head by usc. the only teams he beat were portland state, oregon state (x2), stanford, and cal. he was ass at wazzu and has been riding a good hawaii where he went 5-3 in the bad division
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
CC: Colorado State
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"What's the point of standards?" should be the definitive line on Bari Weiss. She's gotten this far by flaunting and mocking them, and stepping over the heads of anyone who ever tried to bind her to professionalism.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"What's the point of standards?" should be the definitive line on Bari Weiss. She's gotten this far by flaunting and mocking them, and stepping over the heads of anyone who ever tried to bind her to professionalism.
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still wild how many companies/media organizations/thought leaders etc. seem to be operating under the assumption this guy and his movement have the mandate of the American people when it's clear that most of us hate him
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
still wild how many companies/media organizations/thought leaders etc. seem to be operating under the assumption this guy and his movement have the mandate of the American people when it's clear that most of us hate him
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Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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The Portland Trail Blazers hand the Oklahoma City Thunder their first loss of the season.
Deni Avdija: 26 PTS, 10 REB, 9 AST, 2 STL
Deni Avdija: 26 PTS, 10 REB, 9 AST, 2 STL
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The Portland Trail Blazers hand the Oklahoma City Thunder their first loss of the season.
Deni Avdija: 26 PTS, 10 REB, 9 AST, 2 STL
Deni Avdija: 26 PTS, 10 REB, 9 AST, 2 STL
The Portland Trail Blazers
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The Portland Trail Blazers
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Oregon’s most diverse county, Washington County, declared a state of emergency this week because of increased immigration enforcement that has cloaked much of the community in fear over the past few weeks.
Washington County declares emergency over increased ICE activity
Hillsboro, Washington County set aside a combined $400,000 to help communities impacted by immigration arrests.
www.opb.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Oregon’s most diverse county, Washington County, declared a state of emergency this week because of increased immigration enforcement that has cloaked much of the community in fear over the past few weeks.
This is sick.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is sick.
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Mike Trout is a generational MLB talent, a player who should have been plastered on Times Square billboards and cereal boxes.
But he's faded from the sport’s consciousness.
How?
But he's faded from the sport’s consciousness.
How?
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Mike Trout is a generational MLB talent, a player who should have been plastered on Times Square billboards and cereal boxes.
But he's faded from the sport’s consciousness.
How?
But he's faded from the sport’s consciousness.
How?