Nelly Korda is the most dominant athlete in the world at the moment. It has not converted to anything like the boom around WBB or Caitlin Clark. I wrote about golf always being in its own way for @slate: slate.com/culture/2024/0…

IT’S ALMOST HERE ✨🪩

Listen to the full trailer for SLOW BURN: Gays Against Briggs, and subscribe wherever you listen!

First episode drops May 22 🍾

Hang Up and Listen w/Joel D. Anderson 🆓 + The LeBron James of Pig Feet. on the Knicks' series win over the Sixers and the latest Deion Sanders contretemps. Plus, me + Joel + Stefan Fatsis are joined by Alex Prewitt to discuss banked-in Korean free throws slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

Searching across a notebook on Evernote has stopped working for me, which is bad because that's kind of the whole point. Does anyone have experience fixing this and/or use another piece of software that's good for managing notes for big projects?

Hang Up and Listen w/Joel D. Anderson 🆓 + Alex Kirshner on NFL draft QB mania and Anthony Edwards' impending superstardom. Plus, Stefan Fatsis + I are joined by Chad Salmela to talk about Jessie Diggins' cross-country skiing excellence slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

Me in Slate on the recent talent exodus in Ivy men's basketball and the league's high-minded refusal to pay players. One lawyer told me: 'The schools are committing suicide by not allowing this to happen' slate.com/culture/2024/0…

In this edition of Emotional Investment, I write a little about what I’ve learned about the future of women’s basketball through former greats and having once rooted for the best WNBA franchise that ever existed-and no longer does.

Introducing r/Farhad, a column I’m writing for Slate about the best and worst and strangest corners of Reddit.

This time: why I can’t get enough of /AmITheDevil, where terrible people almost realize they’re wrong.

Please take a look! Thanks!

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On this week's Hang Up and Listen, Josh Levin, Joel D. Anderson 🆓 and I talk to Tom Haberstroh about Jontay Porter's NBA gambling ban and Ben Lindbergh about MLB's elbow-ligament problem. In Afterballs, I discuss a wave of Ivy men's basketball tran$fer$ slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

Highest rec for Hold Fast, the new pod about Backpage and the afterlife of alt weeklies, which is shit-stirring and funny like the best of the latter.

Great stuff Michael J. Mooney Sam Eifling Trevor Aaronson
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Hang Up and Listen w/Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis on the meaning of O.J. Simpson & the NBA playoffs w/Vincent Goodwill. And my Afterball this week was review of O.J.'s time on Monday Night Football, maybe the 1st—but not only—time he was publicly unpopular slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

This 2020 feature from Daniel Engber is one of the best reported and most important sports pieces of recent years. It says so much about who and what gets remembered and who and what gets excused. Read it before the Mets retire Dwight Gooden's number tomorrow slate.com/culture/2020/0…

“OJ fooled a lot of people. Few of them were black.” I’ve been thinking about the things Ralph Wiley wrote about OJ Simpson ever since I read them, going back almost 30 years ago. So I wrote about it. slate.com/culture/2024/0…

Hang Up and Listen w/Stefan Fatsis on South Carolina's win and Caitlin Clark's future (w/Chantel Jennings) and Hunterbrook's story on Suns owner Mat Ishbia's mortgage company UWM (w/Sam Koppelman) slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

Joel D. Anderson 🆓 Lindsay Schnell Eamonn Brennan Kent Babb The Washington Post And here's our special Bonus edition on Monday's LSU-Iowa and UConn-USC women's Elite 8 games—with Josh Levin! slate.com/podcasts/hang-…
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New Hang Up and Listen w Joel D. Anderson 🆓 on NCAA women (with Lindsay Schnell) and NCAA men (with Eamonn Brennan). Plus, an interview with Kent Babb about his The Washington Post profile of LSU head coach Kim Mulkey slate.com/podcasts/hang-…

This is the latest Emotional Investment, a story about those of us who have to send money home. Plus we get another guest appearance from the great Dorothy A Brown.

New story from me:

Ian Eagle was raised in nightclubs by a singer and a comedian. Now he's the voice of the Final Four. theringer.com/college-basket…

Let’s go Joel D. Anderson 🆓!

in this week's episode, i sorta rethought my take on john calipari using my previous opinion on georgia football. but i reserve the right to re-use the jim harbaugh analogy at any time.