Respect to Maxey…but damn…I’m clearly getting too old for this shit…

Libs of TikTok, on a crusade against Planet Fitness’s trans-inclusive policies, found an unlikely ally in the gym empire’s co-founder, who built its brand on inclusivity. Next came bomb threats to dozens of locations. W/ TaylorLorenz.Substack.com washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

This, by David Murphy, is on the 💰
#Sixers
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A great David Weigel story on a new phenomenon in plain sight: masked protesters semafor.com/article/04/23/…

New Post Sports: The DOJ has agreed to pay nearly $139 million to victims of former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar washingtonpost.com/sports/olympic…

I hope you can make time today to learn about the beautiful life and tragic death of Emily, an 18-year backcountry skier who saw the ground break apart beneath her skis

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An investigative expose of the biggest corruption scandal in US military history - guaranteed to make you howl, scream, laugh and snort your coffee. Coming 5/14

An Iowa state police investigation into college athletes who gambled online unraveled amid allegations of illegal searches. My story on a case that embodies the uncomfortable tensions of the sports betting boom: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Sports TV beers ranked.
1. Awesome 3:30 college football game beer.
2. Masters beer.
3. First round of the ncaa tournament beer.
4. Early morning World Cup beer.
5. Thanksgiving NFL beer.

1) I did a deep dive on the debate over whether social media is ruining teens' mental health. TLDR: The evidence is much weaker than Jonathan Haidt suggests, but not as negligible as his critics claim.

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I wrote about the implications of the Cass Report for US debates: “If you still think that concerns about child medical transition are nothing more than a moral panic, then I have a question: What evidence would change your mind?”

Here’s a gift link:

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Stormy's other court battle: A multimillion dollar feud inside the rarefied world of competitive horse riding, via Peter Jamison

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Gotta be the first time that phrase has been in the WSJ

From the New York Times (N.R. Kleinfield), Oct. 4, 1995, the morning after the verdict:

NEW from me: The inside story of how the prominent media-fighting law firm Clare Locke was torn apart. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/bus…

It appears that the difference between what Oakland offered and what the A's wanted was about $35 million or so over three years.

Or about the same that the Angels are paying reliever Robert Stephenson.

Meanwhile, owners overseeing an industry worth many tens of billions of

Investment firm Big League Advantage offered college athletes cash in exchange for a cut of their future earnings. Did their deals violate state NIL laws? Gus Garcia-Roberts & I investigated the controversial company at the center of a burgeoning industry: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

It’s difficult to watch someone lose their job in real-time — a pitcher who signed for $5,000 and five years later pitched in the World Series. You can yell and scream about a night like Monday. But there is a human side too: theathletic.com/5384632/2024/0…

At the start of Texas-N.C. State, an NCAA official told another that a fan had alerted game officials to the discrepancy between the three-point lines.

Enter lawyer Michael McGrath, who spotted it from the 300 level: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03…

Here is a deeply reported, well-crafted profile of Kim Mulkey by Kent Babb that you may have heard about washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03…