Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
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Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
· Nov 22
Ok, there are so many new followers and I appreciate it, but you should know what you're getting into LOL so here are some things I've written or worked on to give you an idea of what I do, what I care about
Honored to be asked to participate. I definitely had some basketball feelings this year.
the BASKETBALL FEELINGS FEELING OF THE YEAR returns! friends and contributors share the moments, people and memories that stood out to them most in basketball and beyond for 2025
The Basketball Feelings Feeling of the Year (FOTY), 2025
The annual year-in-review of the moments, people and memories that stood out to BASKETBALL FEELINGS friends and contributors.
www.basketballfeelings.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Honored to be asked to participate. I definitely had some basketball feelings this year.
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Next test for America: pick up & distribute Crave’s upcoming lesbian softball mockumentary sitcom co-exec produced by Elliot Page & Stevie from Schitt’s Creek with Nadine Bhabha - Kip’s friend Elena from Heated Rivalry - both as a guest star & one of the writers.
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
Beer, Lesbians and Baseball! Casting Announced for New Crave Original Comedy Series, SLO PITCH - Bell Media
TORONTO (October 2, 2025) – Crave announced today casting details for its new original series SLO PITCH, produced by Shaftesbury in association with Boss & Co, and Elliot Page’s PAGEBOY Productions. T...
www.bellmedia.ca
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Next test for America: pick up & distribute Crave’s upcoming lesbian softball mockumentary sitcom co-exec produced by Elliot Page & Stevie from Schitt’s Creek with Nadine Bhabha - Kip’s friend Elena from Heated Rivalry - both as a guest star & one of the writers.
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/pre...
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25 years ago, the WNBA was an infant league that had crowned only one champion. Pat Summitt ruled over college basketball. And the USA Olympic dynasty was just beginning.
Here’s a look at what has happened since. www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
Here’s a look at what has happened since. www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
Women’s basketball’s defining moments of the last 25 years
Caitlin Clark's logo 3. Breanna Stewart's four-peat. Dawn Staley's legacy. Candace Parker's rookie season.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
25 years ago, the WNBA was an infant league that had crowned only one champion. Pat Summitt ruled over college basketball. And the USA Olympic dynasty was just beginning.
Here’s a look at what has happened since. www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
Here’s a look at what has happened since. www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
This will not scratch the exact same itch but it's not far off -- if you are looking for something to watch on HBO now that you've (re-)watched Heated Rivalry, I big recommend Starstruck. It's a rom-com in the very best ways.
December 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This will not scratch the exact same itch but it's not far off -- if you are looking for something to watch on HBO now that you've (re-)watched Heated Rivalry, I big recommend Starstruck. It's a rom-com in the very best ways.
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Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can.
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
Opinion: The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
web.archive.org
December 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can.
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
web.archive.org/web/20251228...
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
I spent a day in an airport with David Byrne after our flight from Austin to Newark was diverted to Raleigh due to a snowstorm. We sat next to each other with one seat between us and chatted on and off until we each got on a different flight to the NYC area. He was very nice.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I spent a day in an airport with David Byrne after our flight from Austin to Newark was diverted to Raleigh due to a snowstorm. We sat next to each other with one seat between us and chatted on and off until we each got on a different flight to the NYC area. He was very nice.
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the people at the barbed wire absolutely killed it this year. journalism texans deeply deserve.
It’s time for @thebarbedwire.com’s Best of 2025! 🫡 thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/23/2...
Gutsy, Fearless Journalism Isn’t Dead. Don’t Let Bari Weiss Convince You It Is.
Gutsy, fearless journalism is alive and thriving. Look back with us at the hopeful and heartbreaking reporting from The Barbed Wire in 2025.
thebarbedwire.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
the people at the barbed wire absolutely killed it this year. journalism texans deeply deserve.
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not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year
Flu deaths exceeded COVID deaths last winter and we may be on track for the same thing this year!
I can speak anecdotally that at the hospital I work at we’ve had very low covid census. We test anyone experiencing respiratory symptoms, and we’ve had very few people with Covid who have needed to be hospitalized. Which is a relief because we are absolutely inundated with flu rn
December 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year
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now accepting suggestions for cool places to go, cool food to eat, cool things to see in the los angeles area (particularly the valley)
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
now accepting suggestions for cool places to go, cool food to eat, cool things to see in the los angeles area (particularly the valley)
“I don’t ever want that problem to ever go away.” I can’t stop thinking about it!!!
December 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“I don’t ever want that problem to ever go away.” I can’t stop thinking about it!!!
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As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
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Buzz the Yellow Jacket is now wearing a Pop-tart costume
December 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Buzz the Yellow Jacket is now wearing a Pop-tart costume
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The Georgia Tech mascot was sad after they turned the ball over and needed to be comforted by the Pop-tarts
December 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The Georgia Tech mascot was sad after they turned the ball over and needed to be comforted by the Pop-tarts
Pop Tarts going full in on their sponsorship of this bowl game is maybe the best thing about this sport and possibly capitalism
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Pop Tarts going full in on their sponsorship of this bowl game is maybe the best thing about this sport and possibly capitalism
Hello, if you would like a lesbian winter sport sexy romance to read now that you've (re-)watched and/or (re-)read Heated Rivalry, might I suggest Rachel Spangler's Edge of Glory? www.amazon.com/Edge-Glory-R...
Edge of Glory
Amazon.com: Edge of Glory: 9781612941097: Spangler, Rachel: Books
www.amazon.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Hello, if you would like a lesbian winter sport sexy romance to read now that you've (re-)watched and/or (re-)read Heated Rivalry, might I suggest Rachel Spangler's Edge of Glory? www.amazon.com/Edge-Glory-R...
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Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
I’m going to do this because in 2025, I finally finished and defended my dissertation and graduated with my doctorate (at the age of 44!) and I still sometimes forget that I did it, I’m done!!
Quote this with what you have accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Reading & writing has kept me alive this year.
Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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Somehow, it’s been my most productive year as an author.
Here’s a guide to what I’ve published in 2025, in case you’ve lost track.
Individual links below but it’s all on itch: danifinn.itch.io
And elsewhere: books2read.com/ap/nAApPp/Da...
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December 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I’m going to do this because in 2025, I finally finished and defended my dissertation and graduated with my doctorate (at the age of 44!) and I still sometimes forget that I did it, I’m done!!
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Haven't done one of these in a while! I've got a post-holiday haterade rant about the NHL's support for Heated Rivalry, which I hate. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/sorry-but-...
sorry but I don't give a fuck that the NHL has embraced 'heated rivalry'
a post-holiday haterade rant
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Haven't done one of these in a while! I've got a post-holiday haterade rant about the NHL's support for Heated Rivalry, which I hate. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/sorry-but-...
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I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
'Heated Rivalry' Creator Reveals the Finale's Biggest Changes From the Book and the Status of Season 2
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney discusses the finale's biggest changes from the book, those new end credits, the status of Season 2, and more.
collider.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
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Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey | Defector
I wasn’t sure, at first, that I wanted to read Heated Rivalry, or the rest of the novels in Rachel Reid’s best-selling “Game Changers” series. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first of Reid’s two standalo...
defector.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
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feels like at some point if there are still books being written, the one about how all of these supposedly very savvy business leaders simply said “you’ve got a bag of magic beans? take my cow, please” when it was offered to them will be a particularly humiliating one
The exec that said "we thought it was farther along then it was" is absolutely the greatest issue right now. Not only is it not capable of doing any of these things on a broad scale, it will do them significantly worse than any employee. Going all in on something to boost stock value that fails.
Honestly im shocked
Well
Not that shocked
Well
Not that shocked
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
feels like at some point if there are still books being written, the one about how all of these supposedly very savvy business leaders simply said “you’ve got a bag of magic beans? take my cow, please” when it was offered to them will be a particularly humiliating one
Ok, I’m ready. 3 Stranger Things episodes followed immediately by the cottage. Let’s go.
December 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ok, I’m ready. 3 Stranger Things episodes followed immediately by the cottage. Let’s go.
Merry Cottage Eve!
December 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Merry Cottage Eve!