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For being a mostly bleh organization the Cardinals really did it right with this re: Josh Rosen. Cut losses and move on
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Also okay one more that maybe doesn’t count because they ended up officially releasing the soundboard but I was at this show and have never heard an outdoor crowd pop louder
youtu.be/jSHkZHlkzgA?...
Joyce Manor - "I Saw Water"
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Unbelievable how far we’ve regressed on this. In 2004 alone we got NFL Street, 2k5, and Street 2. All markedly better and more fun than this year’s CFB and Madden
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We had the the two single most exhilarating playoff runs in nfl history and the price was literally everything else forever
October 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
But yea, nothing I recall indicated he would be an avatar/key player in shaping culture’s worst form of masculinity. And some messed up shit happened at that camp to put it mildly lol
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Because I did not finish it out I never got the camp yearbook that would sadly verify this lol
September 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
He lived in the bunk next to mine. Being the ‘punter for West Virginia‘ made him cool to all of us. I did not last the full summer (lol) but I vaguely remember hearing he was fired as well for being lazy/something fairly innocuous. NGL was cool to see him on the Colts a few years later but then….
September 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
(speaks in New Jersey-ese) I grew up going to a lot of Springsteen & Wilco shows with my parents. They have one friend who would borderline berate people for talking when a song was over. It was a little much but also admirable
September 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Also more generally appreciate your journalism and am a fan! McAfee was a counselor at my overnight camp in 5th grade so I’ve tracked his career with increasing dismay. Great to see someone call him on his BS and wish it happened more
September 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Link to audio from Youtube! Why anyone talked through this is beyond me but decent quality youtu.be/pRiNK_wYS54?...
Tomberlin & Lucy Dacus - Casimir Pulaski Day live (Sufjan Stevens cover)
YouTube video by Lucyhistorian
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September 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This was like the first wave of concerts post vaccines in like 2021 where everyone had to have their vax card and be masked so the vibes were just so good all around that night
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
she led into it by saying they’d be doing a cover, pausing, and then adding “it’s a really good one”. I was nevertheless still shocked.
September 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I was at a last second Music Hall of Williamsburg show she played in 2021 where she brought out Tomberlin to do Casmir Pulaski Day together. Not a dry eye in the audience
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So true! And like the league/its owners were plenty messy in their own right but the creativity created so much of what are now so obviously the best parts of basketball on the court
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My grandpa has forever claimed he saw him playing under a pseudonym in the Jewish equivalent of a YMCA-sponsored league around this time because it was the only place he could
September 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Oh man yes this will be full of them. It‘s definitely in that book too but Connie Hawkins’ life is definitely a pretty rich internet rabbit hole. He was one of the best 10-15 basketball players in the world in the late 60s but blackballed from the NBA and filed an antitrust suit against the league
September 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Was going to post this on the OP but this is an extremely fun and easy read with an interesting (whether intentional or not) undercurrent about antitrust in professional sports! bookoutlet.com/book/loose-b...
Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
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September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The ABA (the league this happened in with a few teams ultimately getting absorbed by the NBA) was something else!
September 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
That they “hand designed” it to look like an AI slop image is a gorgeous touch
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
PFF had Bowers like 20 spots below his adp in fantasy solely based on Carroll’s historic TE snap %. I did not know this until seeing that!
September 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I like Emma Goldman’s memoir a lot, in part because she seemed kinda messy on a personal relationship level and that’s interspersed with her like, arguing with Jack London about socialism. Do biographies count too? If so I have one that is probably my favorite!
August 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Not sure if you began leave before they launched but have you heard of Techtonic Justice? New disability rights org highlighting the harms at the AI/disability intersection and founded by advocates who have been sounding the AI alarm for years
August 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
it’s an offshoot of this but the ways that the lower skill cap opens up more styles and playbooks. Running the triple option in the AFC is obviously asinine but can win you the AAC! Also just love many of the jerseys and fields lol
August 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Oh wow haha. I did not appreciate what talent there was at those NJ sports sections growing up (the high school sports coverage alone was incredible). Not sports but seeing this on the TL a few months made me surprisingly a bit emotional
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM