I have one thing to say:
THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES
THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I have one thing to say:
THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES
THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES
Anchoring down to depths heretofore unknown
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Anchoring down to depths heretofore unknown
Each week the Titans unveil cooler, more innovative ways to suck
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Each week the Titans unveil cooler, more innovative ways to suck
He has to go by Bohei Ohtani now
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
He has to go by Bohei Ohtani now
What a comeback — Vanderbilt almost had it
Could not POSSIBLY publish my piece on Vanderbilt football soon enough open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
Vandy, we (really are) turnt
Reflections on Vanderbilt football, Clark Lea, and Diego Pavia from a lifelong Nashvillian and (fair weather?) Commodores fan
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November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a comeback — Vanderbilt almost had it
Could not POSSIBLY publish my piece on Vanderbilt football soon enough open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
Vandy, we (really are) turnt
Reflections on Vanderbilt football, Clark Lea, and Diego Pavia from a lifelong Nashvillian and (fair weather?) Commodores fan
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November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Could not POSSIBLY publish my piece on Vanderbilt football soon enough open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
In my opinion this is a sufficient amount of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
In my opinion this is a sufficient amount of baseball
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You just hope that this won't in any way dampen the unparalleled effervescence and swashbuckling, glint-in-the-eye panache that Bill Belichick has always brought to his duties
September 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
You just hope that this won't in any way dampen the unparalleled effervescence and swashbuckling, glint-in-the-eye panache that Bill Belichick has always brought to his duties
“Why is he going?”
“Because going is the only way to find out if you’ll make it.”
Three years ago I was so flabbergasted by a simple baserunning play by Ronald Acuña Jr. that I HAD to write about it.
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“Because going is the only way to find out if you’ll make it.”
Three years ago I was so flabbergasted by a simple baserunning play by Ronald Acuña Jr. that I HAD to write about it.
raleighmccool.substack.com/p/how-ronald...
How Ronald Acuña Jr.’s Slide Helped Answer Life’s Biggest Question
The star Braves outfielder cemented Atlanta’s win on Tuesday with an astonishing slide into home.
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July 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“Why is he going?”
“Because going is the only way to find out if you’ll make it.”
Three years ago I was so flabbergasted by a simple baserunning play by Ronald Acuña Jr. that I HAD to write about it.
raleighmccool.substack.com/p/how-ronald...
“Because going is the only way to find out if you’ll make it.”
Three years ago I was so flabbergasted by a simple baserunning play by Ronald Acuña Jr. that I HAD to write about it.
raleighmccool.substack.com/p/how-ronald...
I liked Diana Taurasi, so I became a
@mercuryphx.bsky.social fan. She promptly retired. I thought, well, that's that. Yet somehow, three weeks into the 2025 season, I am ALL IN.
My story on fandom, and finding joy in unlikely places (the desert?!)
open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
@mercuryphx.bsky.social fan. She promptly retired. I thought, well, that's that. Yet somehow, three weeks into the 2025 season, I am ALL IN.
My story on fandom, and finding joy in unlikely places (the desert?!)
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I picked a WNBA team at random and now I'm a lifelong Phoenix Mercury fan
How I stumbled into WNBA fandom and found my team – and my heart – in the desert.
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June 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I liked Diana Taurasi, so I became a
@mercuryphx.bsky.social fan. She promptly retired. I thought, well, that's that. Yet somehow, three weeks into the 2025 season, I am ALL IN.
My story on fandom, and finding joy in unlikely places (the desert?!)
open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
@mercuryphx.bsky.social fan. She promptly retired. I thought, well, that's that. Yet somehow, three weeks into the 2025 season, I am ALL IN.
My story on fandom, and finding joy in unlikely places (the desert?!)
open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
Up late just gazing at LeBron’s basketball reference page
April 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Up late just gazing at LeBron’s basketball reference page
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social! On throwing a party, pouting, and what a stranger taught me about welcome www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
There are a lot of rules for throwing a great party
Raleigh McCool read an essay about throwing parties and walked away from the piece electrified — jazzed to host a celebration of his own. To plan it, I went straight to the experts, he writes. And the...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social! On throwing a party, pouting, and what a stranger taught me about welcome www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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I wrote about “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical Christian around to punch it up 🙏
I wrote about “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical Christian around to punch it up 🙏
Tate McRae needs God
On “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, 'So Close To What,' and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical around to punch it up.
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March 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I wrote about “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical Christian around to punch it up 🙏
I wrote about “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical Christian around to punch it up 🙏
This just in: the Mercury are so unbelievably, hellaciously back
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This just in: the Mercury are so unbelievably, hellaciously back
Writing this was one of the biggest-sized blasts I had all year long. To paraphrase Charli xcx — I wanna read me!! open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
December 30, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Writing this was one of the biggest-sized blasts I had all year long. To paraphrase Charli xcx — I wanna read me!! open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
Reposted by Raleigh McCool
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
Reposted by Raleigh McCool
Little known fact: when quarterbacks are looking at the card on their wrists in a high-pressure situation they are reading a little note that says “JUST BE YOURSELF. :)”
October 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Little known fact: when quarterbacks are looking at the card on their wrists in a high-pressure situation they are reading a little note that says “JUST BE YOURSELF. :)”
Reposted by Raleigh McCool
is it just me or is everybody’s social security number 948-22-2471? maybe it’s just me
December 12, 2024 at 5:42 PM
is it just me or is everybody’s social security number 948-22-2471? maybe it’s just me
Reposted by Raleigh McCool
deeply regret that I used this joke before Tennessee and Ohio State got paired in the playoff
I think it’s sweet that Auburn and Duke basketball fans get to hang out together outside of their January 6 sentencing appeals
December 8, 2024 at 5:59 PM
deeply regret that I used this joke before Tennessee and Ohio State got paired in the playoff
OH MY JA
December 8, 2024 at 2:34 AM
OH MY JA
Eugene is the home of weird bars, musty used bookstores, kooky white people with dreadlocks, woodland conservationist-poets, and very pleasant hiking enthusiasts, and it is…ODD that it’s also the home of the most badass football team in America
December 8, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Eugene is the home of weird bars, musty used bookstores, kooky white people with dreadlocks, woodland conservationist-poets, and very pleasant hiking enthusiasts, and it is…ODD that it’s also the home of the most badass football team in America
Me when Penn State is on my television
December 8, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Me when Penn State is on my television
As the Big 12 championship kicks off (ASU/Iowa State: classic Big 12 matchup), throwback to the time I happened to hear RG3 have a brief orgasm on live TV
December 7, 2024 at 5:17 PM
As the Big 12 championship kicks off (ASU/Iowa State: classic Big 12 matchup), throwback to the time I happened to hear RG3 have a brief orgasm on live TV
Jay Huff is extraordinarily saucy with the reverse
Reminder that the Jay Huff reverse dunk experience can come anytime, anywhere.
December 6, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Jay Huff is extraordinarily saucy with the reverse
Y’all I have breaking NBA news: Jake LaRavia is, like, good
December 6, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Y’all I have breaking NBA news: Jake LaRavia is, like, good