Brendan Quinn
@bfquinn.bsky.social
I write stuff for The Athletic
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/brendan-quinn/
Detroit, via Philadelphia
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/brendan-quinn/
Detroit, via Philadelphia
Pinned
Matt Berninger traded his notebook for a baseball. And the words kept coming
For The National’s frontman, the way forward was written on rawhide.
www.nytimes.com
A new story I'm pretty pumped to share. It's about words, and our pastime, and changing your traumas by changing your patterns.
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
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Kai Trump will be a college golfer.
But she's not ready for the LPGA tour.
Don't blame her. Blame those who are desperate enough for attention that they thought it was a good idea to invite the No. 461 junior golfer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
But she's not ready for the LPGA tour.
Don't blame her. Blame those who are desperate enough for attention that they thought it was a good idea to invite the No. 461 junior golfer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
Kai Trump is not the solution to the LPGA’s problem
The No. 461 junior golfer in America was given a coveted sponsor exemption because of her last name and massive social media following.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kai Trump will be a college golfer.
But she's not ready for the LPGA tour.
Don't blame her. Blame those who are desperate enough for attention that they thought it was a good idea to invite the No. 461 junior golfer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
But she's not ready for the LPGA tour.
Don't blame her. Blame those who are desperate enough for attention that they thought it was a good idea to invite the No. 461 junior golfer.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...
Had the good fortune last night of listening to two great writers (@sethwickersham.bsky.social & @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social) at a great bookstore (Ann Arbor’s Literati) discussing a great book (American Kings).
Wickersham is about as good as it gets in this game. Buy the book (at a bookstore).
Wickersham is about as good as it gets in this game. Buy the book (at a bookstore).
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Had the good fortune last night of listening to two great writers (@sethwickersham.bsky.social & @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social) at a great bookstore (Ann Arbor’s Literati) discussing a great book (American Kings).
Wickersham is about as good as it gets in this game. Buy the book (at a bookstore).
Wickersham is about as good as it gets in this game. Buy the book (at a bookstore).
That might be the funniest false start ever. Eat it, LaFleur.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
That might be the funniest false start ever. Eat it, LaFleur.
this is a perfect Take — one hundred percent petty, and one hundred percent correct
It's Actually Annoying that Fox Sports is still using Roundball Rock for its college basketball coverage when NBC has the NBA back on its air and is naturally using the song again.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
this is a perfect Take — one hundred percent petty, and one hundred percent correct
if any sportswriter in Happy Valley is curious, the bible verse on Omar Cooper's wrist band is Jeremiah 29:11 ... “For I know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
if any sportswriter in Happy Valley is curious, the bible verse on Omar Cooper's wrist band is Jeremiah 29:11 ... “For I know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"
zero chance any of your stupid football games are currently as good as Alabama-St. John’s at the Garden
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
zero chance any of your stupid football games are currently as good as Alabama-St. John’s at the Garden
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The NFL’s first regular-season game in Berlin, which sees the Falcons take on the Colts, will be played on Sunday at the Olympiastadion — a stadium originally built and funded on the orders of Adolf Hitler.
Its events have shaped a profound and complicated history.
Its events have shaped a profound and complicated history.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The NFL’s first regular-season game in Berlin, which sees the Falcons take on the Colts, will be played on Sunday at the Olympiastadion — a stadium originally built and funded on the orders of Adolf Hitler.
Its events have shaped a profound and complicated history.
Its events have shaped a profound and complicated history.
If you, like me, have been fairly confused about the status of Russian athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics, here's @mjslater.bsky.social laying it all out. Good, informative read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
Will Russians compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics? A look at where things stand
With the 2026 Winter Games three months away, Russia will be sending one of its smallest delegations ever because of ongoing Olympic bans.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you, like me, have been fairly confused about the status of Russian athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics, here's @mjslater.bsky.social laying it all out. Good, informative read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
Nepotism, thy name is Bethune.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Nepotism, thy name is Bethune.
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Seeing some decent uptick tonight in CBB posts from accounts that were a bit sleepy in recent months. Keep it up, ball is back.
College basketball finally returns today😃
Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.
Bluesky's CBB activity is FAR too low, but I'll keep posting here all the same. Here's a big Starter Pack I created about a year ago. Share it! If there are accounts posting about ball near-daily that should be added, let me know and I'll share tonight.
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Seeing some decent uptick tonight in CBB posts from accounts that were a bit sleepy in recent months. Keep it up, ball is back.
Everyone complaining is welcome to come over and watch St Joe’s-Lafayette on my ESPN+ feed
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Everyone complaining is welcome to come over and watch St Joe’s-Lafayette on my ESPN+ feed
Resharing for the weekend long-readers. On Matt Berninger and the baseballs of writing …
Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Resharing for the weekend long-readers. On Matt Berninger and the baseballs of writing …
Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
Story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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Alejandro Juarez, who worked for more than a decade at a Trump Organization golf club, said he was never given a chance to contest his deportation in front of an immigration judge before he was returned to Mexico. ICE agents told him that they were just following orders. Those orders were wrong.
How a Former Trump Golf Club Worker Was Mistakenly Deported to Mexico
When Alejandro Juarez was returned to his homeland, federal agents told him that they were just following orders. Those orders were wrong.
nyti.ms
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Alejandro Juarez, who worked for more than a decade at a Trump Organization golf club, said he was never given a chance to contest his deportation in front of an immigration judge before he was returned to Mexico. ICE agents told him that they were just following orders. Those orders were wrong.
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From @theathletic.com: A few years ago, Matt Berninger, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The National, was stuck with writer’s block. “I started getting depressed by notebooks.” So he wrote on a baseball instead. Then the words kept coming.
nyti.ms/3WtMo2Q
nyti.ms/3WtMo2Q
Matt Berninger traded his notebook for a baseball. And the words kept coming
For The National’s frontman, the way forward was written on rawhide.
nyti.ms
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
From @theathletic.com: A few years ago, Matt Berninger, the singer-songwriter and frontman of The National, was stuck with writer’s block. “I started getting depressed by notebooks.” So he wrote on a baseball instead. Then the words kept coming.
nyti.ms/3WtMo2Q
nyti.ms/3WtMo2Q
A new story I'm pretty pumped to share. It's about words, and our pastime, and changing your traumas by changing your patterns.
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
Matt Berninger traded his notebook for a baseball. And the words kept coming
For The National’s frontman, the way forward was written on rawhide.
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A new story I'm pretty pumped to share. It's about words, and our pastime, and changing your traumas by changing your patterns.
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
On Matt Berninger, and the baseballs of writing:
Reposted by Brendan Quinn
I'm so excited to announce that I'm now a senior writer with The Athletic! I'm going to be writing long-form NBA features. I’ll also dabble in other sports from time to time too! 💜💜💜I wrote a column introducing myself: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
From globetrotting with LaMelo to diving deep on Giannis, how Mirin Fader sees storytelling
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'm so excited to announce that I'm now a senior writer with The Athletic! I'm going to be writing long-form NBA features. I’ll also dabble in other sports from time to time too! 💜💜💜I wrote a column introducing myself: www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
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Taking the Liberty job and pretending to speak in tongues at the intro presser would be a great bit
Jamey Chadwell takes a P4 job and Brian Kelly goes to Liberty
The thing I’m most curious about in the wake of the BK firing, isn’t what established coaches go where, it’s where does BK go? He’s like Ebola, Haunta virus and radioactive waste made a baby at a threesome that no one’s claiming. But he can coach. Who’s desperate enough to hire him? Is it…. MSU?
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Taking the Liberty job and pretending to speak in tongues at the intro presser would be a great bit
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First down. No notes.
October 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
First down. No notes.
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Forty-one years after 1984 and 37 years after 1988, Kirk Gibson is in the midst of his biggest October yet.
Here’s how Parkinson’s disease changed a World Series legend. And here’s how the new Kirk Gibson Center is helping change lives.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Here’s how Parkinson’s disease changed a World Series legend. And here’s how the new Kirk Gibson Center is helping change lives.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Ten years into his Parkinson’s diagnosis, Kirk Gibson is still changing lives in October
Gibson's most famous moment came 37 years ago this month. Now he's leading another team towards a very different goal.
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Forty-one years after 1984 and 37 years after 1988, Kirk Gibson is in the midst of his biggest October yet.
Here’s how Parkinson’s disease changed a World Series legend. And here’s how the new Kirk Gibson Center is helping change lives.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
Here’s how Parkinson’s disease changed a World Series legend. And here’s how the new Kirk Gibson Center is helping change lives.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/674...
A potentially unpopular take, but one that needs to be said as we slide further toward incivility:
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A potentially unpopular take, but one that needs to be said as we slide further toward incivility:
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
Stop bringing your children to breweries.
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we absolutely have and have had data that Twitter is nothing but a complete and utter time suck that offers zero juice for your squeeze ... there is NO engagement. people do not click on links, they don't want to chat and unless you pay Elon you get zero signal on these meaningless posts
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
we absolutely have and have had data that Twitter is nothing but a complete and utter time suck that offers zero juice for your squeeze ... there is NO engagement. people do not click on links, they don't want to chat and unless you pay Elon you get zero signal on these meaningless posts