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S.L. Price
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26-yr. Sports Illustrated senior writer: 47 cover stories, 9x Best American Sports Writing. Latest book -- "The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse."
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S.L. Price @byslp.bsky.social · May 13
Thrilled to see an adaptation from my new book, "The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse," appear in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The photos are incredible: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/m...
They Invented the Game. Will They Be Allowed to Play It in the Olympics?
www.nytimes.com
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Live with Haudenosaunee chair Leo Nolan on heritage, lacrosse and the looming Olympic question:
laurascalzo.bsky.social Laura Scalzo @laurascalzo.bsky.social · 6d
DC friends—Don't miss this!
Nov 20| 7pm | MLK Library
@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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@edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com Deep, deep dive with greats Dave Zirin and lax maven Vin Intondi. Listen up:
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
How Lacrosse and Boxing Explain the USA
On the latest episode of Edge of Sports.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ListenUp: Deep convo with greats Dave Zirin and Vin Intondi on The Nation podcast:
www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...
How Lacrosse and Boxing Explain the USA
On the latest episode of Edge of Sports.
www.thenation.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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DC friends—Don't miss this!
Nov 20| 7pm | MLK Library
@dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Calendar watch: Thrilled to be appearing at DC's MLK Library Nov. 20 with Haudenosaunee board chair Leo Nolan. We will be talking about the 2028 Olympics, and why lacrosse's creators need to be there. Tickets going fast, I'm told:
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Sovereignty, Lacrosse, and Olympic Controversy
Join us for a discussion with S.L. Price, in conversation with Haudenosaunee Nationals Board Chairman Leo Nolan, on lacrosse's journey from Indigenous origins to America's Fastest growing sport.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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had previous mentioned that I was working on a Women’s College Volleyball side project; that’s now live. would mean a lot if you downloaded and signed up! apps.apple.com/us/app/fanfl...
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Blue Jay (rotated), by Helen Frankenthaler, 1963, 📸 by @haffeyphoto
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I talked with @davidfrum.bsky.social on his show about civil-military relations: Who will obey illegal orders?

Apple, Spotify, YouTube:

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Would U.S. Generals Obey Illegal Trump Orders?
Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 10/29/2025 · 1h
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October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"A warm, personal paean to Merriam-Webster and its staffers." 🙏 for this thoughtful, positive @washingtonpost.com review of UNABRIDGED by @djbduncan.bsky.social
Review | Can the dictionary stay relevant in the digital age?
In “Unabridged,” Stefan Fatsis explores how words become enshrined in the dictionary and whether the book maker can keep up with the evolution of language.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I think we probably take Jess Pegula's late-blooming career surge for granted:

Only Serena Williams (18) has reached more WTA-1000 finals than Jessica Pegula (7, surpassing Venus Williams) among Americans since the format’s introduction in 2009.
October 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Thrilled, psyched, honored, humbled etc. for UNABRIDGED to make this @nytimes.com list of new books. Preorder now!
27 Books Coming in October
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Any book worth banning is a book worth reading" — Isaac Asimov
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet.

After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!
September 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Julius Erving at Roosevelt High School
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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FREE STOMPER (and Stomper's handlers)
There are unique challenges that come with navigating the game-day experience for an organization with such a fraught recent past. The game-day employee says an edict came down early in the season requiring anyone who works with the team's elephant mascot, Stomper, to be on the lookout for anyone wearing SELL shirts or pro-Oakland paraphernalia such as shirts inscribed with "I'd Rather Be At The Coliseum." The team felt it became necessary after several fans made it through the line either wearing the shirts or removing jackets that revealed them while posing with Stomper, then posing them on social media. "Stomper got in a little bit of trouble for that," the employee says. "It wasn't Stomper's fault, though. Stomper can't really see." After that, the employees who surround Stomper are responsible for scouring the crowd around the mascot. "If you see someone halfway through the line with a SELL shirt, call it off," the employee says. "Make up a reason, like, 'Oh, sorry everybody, Stomper has to go back now.' It doesn't seem like it should be part of anyone's job to watch out for shirts that tell us to go back to Oakland, but that's where we are."
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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statehood yesterday
September 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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In 1972, in Kansas, a family of four picked up a hitchhiker. Then they got into a near-fatal car crash. The hitchhiker later chronicled the event in an acclaimed short story that became a movie—and a word-of-mouth hit among Gen Xers.
The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece
Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Whenever people tell me that we are more innovative now than ever, I bring up ESPN Page 2 as an example of how things used to be better.

There actually used to be a website you could go to that would make you smarter about sports and the world around you. Now all you get is betting apps.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 11
No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001.

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We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force. Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing. The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators. The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Director: Billy Wilder

#filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞
September 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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people who say the worst part of writing is "actually writing" are just ridiculous. the worst part is "other people reading it"
August 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Wow, didn’t even know they were dating.
August 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Hey Northern Cal: All that's good in my career grew out of rookie days in Sacramento, Davis, Oakland and SF. So there's no greater thrill than a return this Wednesday to the great Readers Books in Sonoma. Mini SI reunion, too:
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S.L. Price at Readers Books
Find tickets & information for S.L. Price at Readers Books. happening at 130 E Napa St, Sonoma, CA, United States, California 95476, Sonoma, CA on Wed, 13 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm PDT. Register or Buy Ti...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM