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Noah Cohan
@noahcohan.bsky.social
Sports Studies Scholar. St. Louisan. Seattle ex-pat.

"How the Helmet Conquered Football: The Story of an American Icon"
coming 2027 from the Power Plays series at OU Press.

https://noahcohan.com/
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Apparently the signature prose style optimized to battle against the "Great Feminization" is to write as if you've just been kicked in the head by a horse.
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Good blog!
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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We could have this everywhere
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."

And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
November 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
A sad day for the Uni Community
uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/u...
Uni Watch: 1999–2025
After a long run, Uni Watch’s coverage of athletics aesthetics is coming to a close.
uni-watch.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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just exhausted inhabiting a reality that feels like a simulation with the dystopia sliders cranked all the way up
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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If you are working on anything sport, exercise, health, fandom, physical culture, etc., check out #NASSH2026. Never been to the conference and/or are a graduate student? We offer a lot of discounts for you. #Skystorians #SportHistory
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I never saw myself getting all emotional about baseball and writing something like this, but this gosh dang Mariners team made me do it.

I also don't think my experience is unique, so if you're missing someone and baseball helps you miss them a little less, this one's for you.
A Loss Only Mariners Baseball Could Cure
And even a season that ends in a loss can still be a salve.
blogs.fangraphs.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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This is the first year I've been as confused as Charles by the game.
The first edition of "Who He Broadcast For"
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Was he wearing the hot dog costume or
Adam Silver was on McAfee YESTERDAY saying there probably should be more regulation of sports betting and specifically player props
October 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Sen. Cantwell: "The people who want to pass the SCORE Act are the people who want to run away with the money."
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Sen. Cantwell: "We don't believe in giving [the NCAA] a broad antitrust exemption."

Sen. Cantwell has also brought up how they have introduced the SAFE Act as a counter to the SCORE Act www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/senat...
Senators Cantwell, Booker & Blumenthal Introduce Student Athlete Fairness & Enforcement (SAFE) Act
U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today introduced the Stud...
www.commerce.senate.gov
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In all seriousness, an important thread
good morning. this morning I am reporting from this. Senator Cory Booker is making opening remarks right now.
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
well, at least I don't have to have an existential crisis about what it means to be a Mariners fan
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
We remain, Seattle Mariber
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
AYR NAYLOR
October 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Remember when this kind of thing would have been unthinkable? How many other unthinkable things will become the new norm.
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"The irony of all this, in this particular instance, is that we never needed random computer-generated trash to scavenge and build meaning out of. We already had Rays-Angels games to do that. Surviving that, finding meaning in it and sharing it with each other, is the whole point of baseball."
October 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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My time travel novel in which Abraham Lincoln joins the Seattle Mariners bullpen and develops a deep friendship with a fellow middle reliever is called Lincoln and Bazardo
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…
October 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM