j-preg.bsky.social
@j-preg.bsky.social
Reposted
Wrote this for the New York Times today (hope this link works!)

W.N.B.A. is doing immensely well! Time to pay the players!!

Thanks to Sara Chodosh for asking me to write this (helping with the writing) and making the cool graphics!!

urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Is Making More Money Than Ever. Why Aren’t the Players? (Gift Article)
Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.
urldefense.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
If I told you in 2017 that in the year 2025 you’d be watching Aaron Rodgers v Carson Wentz play an international Sunday morning football game, which two teams would you have thought you’d be watching and how many guesses would you have needed before coming up with Minnesota and Pittsburgh?
September 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Reposted
Elections have consequences
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted
Restoring this website is not and will not be enough. This is an attempt to whitewash our shared national heritage and is an attack on one of America’s greatest citizens. This should be a national scandal and outrage.
Baseball great, Jackie Robinson, also served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. This week his military history was removed from the Department of Defense’s website as part of Trump wiping out DEI.

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge
Robinson trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II.
www.nbcnews.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Reposted
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Reposted
Gutting Alzheimer's research.

First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...

See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
February 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reposted
There's lots of conversation about weddings during college football season, but I wanted to see if a team's schedule *actually* made a difference in the number of weddings in a region on a date.

Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?

A data-driven analysis:

bit.ly/4iIBuzV
Will you marry me? During the bye week, obviously.
The Washington Post, smitten with football and love stories, analyzed data from The Knot to see how college football schedules impact wedding planning.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM