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Gooner, Phils Phan, NYG Fan, JMU Dukes 4eva. Formerly of NYC, RDU & PHL. Coming to you from the Jersey Shore (most of the time).
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OLYMPICS NEWSLETTER, DAY 6

🛷I cannot believe how invested I got in doubles luge🛷
👎 The French Judge strikes back👎
🔫⛷️The Olympics of Biathlon Mess continues🔫⛷️

AND MORE!!!!

sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...
February 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Drone cam for Olympic downhill is the best.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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"It was f—king gross. All of it. These people are gross, and they deserve none of the shine they spend all day basking in. They deserve tribunals, and soon."

Good news, we got @drewmagary.bsky.social to review the 'Melania' movie: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
'Melania' is so, so, so bad
"It has no journalistic value and even less entertainment value."
www.sfgate.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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With Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes & Tarik Skubal, this will be the first WBC with all 4 of MLB’s reigning MVP & Cy Young winners

And!! Nippon Professional Baseball’s reigning Sawamura award winner, Hiromi Itoh, and reigning MVPs Teruaki Sato & Liván Moinelo (for Cuba)
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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A friend of mine, Matthew Barry, asked me to reflect and write on what's been going on in the Twin Cities, and how it intersects with the football culture I'm a part of here.

So I did that.

Here it is, for #HeartOfAFan.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
Laurie Laker: Soccer and Community In Icy Conditions
A special guest blog from a friend on the ground in Minneapolis
substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Swapping Bovino for this clown is like shitting your pants & changing your necktie
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Borarteta. Very nice.
January 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Pre-storm check in:
January 24, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Also found at the Thrift Store, in the CD section, whatever this is. My curiosity was worth the $1.99 to rescue this, if even the Richie Ashburn thing *alone* proves to be on here. I will let you know.
December 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Spaceballs the Flamethrowerrrrr!" -- Yogurt, 1987
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
And old (typically white) re-treads. Sports!
The perfect storm for up and coming, great coaches.
Coaches staying at their current schools in this carousel cycle:

Curt Cignetti (Indiana)
Eli Drinkwitz (Mizzou)
Mike Elko (Texas A&M)
Rhett Lashlee (SMU)
Matt Rhule (Nebraska)
Clark Lea (Vanderbilt)
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The perfect storm for up and coming, great coaches.
Coaches staying at their current schools in this carousel cycle:

Curt Cignetti (Indiana)
Eli Drinkwitz (Mizzou)
Mike Elko (Texas A&M)
Rhett Lashlee (SMU)
Matt Rhule (Nebraska)
Clark Lea (Vanderbilt)
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Same picture
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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“OMG PRONOUNS! You and your favorite racist podcaster thought that you’d saved this country from the tyranny of an expanded, gender-blind pronoun set. Well, guess what? Zey’re back! Zey’re all back!”
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The new mayor of New York City is an Arsenal supporter.

We're fucking massive.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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you think it's just a particularly majestic lion and then you realize the mane spells UAPB
in women's hoops Arkansas Pine Bluff upset Memphis and any excuse to post the majestic UAPB Golden Lions logo is a good one
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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“ it's what you dream of as a kid. I've played in quite a few Game 7s in my backyard over the years, so it's going to be a lot of fun. It's why I play the game. It's everything I've dreamed of. It's a chance to win a World Series.”

-Ernie Clement

Baseball is the BEST
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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game is on ESPNU!
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM