The 1930s truly was the golden age of sportswriting
May 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The 1930s truly was the golden age of sportswriting
Sometimes sportswriting seems glamorous. Sometimes it doesn’t.
I'm told it's just a trip to the bathroom for Nikola Jokic.
January 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Sometimes sportswriting seems glamorous. Sometimes it doesn’t.
this is perfect sportswriting
Last night, my football dreams came true. A play I’ve yelling about online for about a decade happened in an actual NFL game—the first fair catch kick since 1978.
Here’s everything there is to know about this impossibly rare play, the NFL’s vestigial tailbone: open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
Here’s everything there is to know about this impossibly rare play, the NFL’s vestigial tailbone: open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
Everything you need to know about the fair catch kick, football's vestigial tailbone
Thursday night, the Chargers made history by converting on a play that hadn't been successful in FORTY SIX YEARS
open.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 9:04 PM
this is perfect sportswriting
god help me i’m sportswriting again
December 11, 2024 at 1:58 AM
god help me i’m sportswriting again
I blame sportswriting, personally.
June 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I blame sportswriting, personally.
Fuck this sportswriting newsletter bullshit I’m making computer games baybeeeeee
Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it
April 26, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Fuck this sportswriting newsletter bullshit I’m making computer games baybeeeeee
sportswriting is hard, it requires that you understand complex dynamics, nuance, history, process, and statistics, unlike politics writing
“Aren’t talented enough to write about sports”
Damn, that was cold
Damn, that was cold
July 1, 2024 at 4:36 AM
sportswriting is hard, it requires that you understand complex dynamics, nuance, history, process, and statistics, unlike politics writing
Woj announces he is retiring from sportswriting:
September 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Woj announces he is retiring from sportswriting:
I was never around Rickey Henderson much during my sportswriting days, so I can't speak to the guy's personality etc. But my last assignment in daily sportswriting was the 1989 MLB playoffs. He personally fcked with the minds of every pitcher on the Toronto staff. Greatest leadoff man I ever saw.
December 21, 2024 at 9:53 PM
I was never around Rickey Henderson much during my sportswriting days, so I can't speak to the guy's personality etc. But my last assignment in daily sportswriting was the 1989 MLB playoffs. He personally fcked with the minds of every pitcher on the Toronto staff. Greatest leadoff man I ever saw.
PEAK SPORTSWRITING
April 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
PEAK SPORTSWRITING
My favorite piece of sportswriting. Maybe ever.
In all the talk of trans women & basketball, I wanted to share this profile I wrote of the Basketdolls, an all-transfemme pickup basketball league in Brooklyn. I would love to see the Liberty shout them out or donate to them in some way. This story was selected for The Year’s Best Sportswriting 2025
Let’s Hear It for the Dolls: A Day Shooting Hoops With Brooklyn’s Trans Basketball League
“You can play hard and have fun without the fear that you’re going to have to deal with pushback from someone.”
www.self.com
August 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
My favorite piece of sportswriting. Maybe ever.
doing sportswriting
January 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
doing sportswriting
Everything is sportswriting
this actually crystallizes something for me: every political journalist wants to be the color commentator, nobody wants to do the play-by-play
October 30, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Everything is sportswriting
Feels impossible to convey to anyone under 35 or so how SI’s whole thing for decades was “we have the very best sportswriting.” That was the brand. Three generations of kids like me grew up with SI as the inspiration for our careers and as the dream job we all aspired to.
A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece.
SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.
futurism.com
May 19, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Feels impossible to convey to anyone under 35 or so how SI’s whole thing for decades was “we have the very best sportswriting.” That was the brand. Three generations of kids like me grew up with SI as the inspiration for our careers and as the dream job we all aspired to.
One of my favorite genres of sportswriting is "knowledgeable person just explains in a calm voice why some dude is about to get fired"
From earlier, at Y! Sports: I wrote about Nico Harrison, downside risk, and the bills coming due: yhoo.it/4p18PZc
Mavericks GM Nico Harrison on the hot seat? Rumblings are growing louder in Dallas — wonder why
Multiple reports suggest Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison’s seat might finally be getting a little toasty.
yhoo.it
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
One of my favorite genres of sportswriting is "knowledgeable person just explains in a calm voice why some dude is about to get fired"
i can't take sportswriting seriously anymore because i assume all of them are betting on the outcomes now
December 1, 2024 at 1:15 PM
i can't take sportswriting seriously anymore because i assume all of them are betting on the outcomes now
sportswriting-wise this is Gary Smith for me
I don't get it and I probably never will
I don't get it and I probably never will
October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
sportswriting-wise this is Gary Smith for me
I don't get it and I probably never will
I don't get it and I probably never will
This piece is where I arrived at probably the most penetrating insight of my entire sportswriting career (the insight is that winter sucks)
Thinking about this @brianphillips.bsky.social classic again as we start another Winter Olympics: grantland.com/features/cit...
» Citius, Altius, Frigidiores
grantland.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
This piece is where I arrived at probably the most penetrating insight of my entire sportswriting career (the insight is that winter sucks)
Using Trumpian “logic,” I have a trade deficit with Wegmans. We buy a lot of food there and they never buy any of my sportswriting. Unfair!
April 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Using Trumpian “logic,” I have a trade deficit with Wegmans. We buy a lot of food there and they never buy any of my sportswriting. Unfair!
I tried to explain why sports media in the gambling era just kinda sucks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Sports Betting Is Legal, and Sportswriting Might Never Recover
The $10 billion industry transformed how sports media is funded—and written.
www.bloomberg.com
August 16, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I tried to explain why sports media in the gambling era just kinda sucks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The sportswriting room will now be staffed entirely by Ravens and Orioles fans
April 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The sportswriting room will now be staffed entirely by Ravens and Orioles fans
the economic purpose of sportswriting is to manipulate municipalities into doing the bidding of the capital that owns the local team
Hooboy, @billoram.bsky.social making me care about sports. 😬 (Yes, I had to Google "Clay Bennett.")
I hope I’m wrong, but this is why I fear the Trail Blazers could be as good as gone | Bill Oram
Tom Dundon may not necessarily want to move the Trail Blazers, but he strikes me as agnostic to where the team plays.
www.oregonlive.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
the economic purpose of sportswriting is to manipulate municipalities into doing the bidding of the capital that owns the local team
Fantastic blog here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Sports Betting Is Legal, and Sportswriting Might Never Recover
The $10 billion industry transformed how sports media is funded—and written.
www.bloomberg.com
August 16, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Fantastic blog here: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
this got more traction than I thought and strangely more followers than I'd have imagined so uh two pieces I wrote on AI in the sportswriting space:
www.wideleft.football/p/artificial...
www.wideleft.football/p/sumerbrain...
www.wideleft.football/p/artificial...
www.wideleft.football/p/sumerbrain...
December 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
this got more traction than I thought and strangely more followers than I'd have imagined so uh two pieces I wrote on AI in the sportswriting space:
www.wideleft.football/p/artificial...
www.wideleft.football/p/sumerbrain...
www.wideleft.football/p/artificial...
www.wideleft.football/p/sumerbrain...