Good morning, good morning, good morning.
It is yet another glorious October Friday; even in our era of infinite #content, their kind remains so very rare. We're in that stretch of the calendar where football begins to rush to its midpoint, baseball has found its zenith (begrudging and obligatory "Go Brew Crew"), volleyball slaps, basketball looms, and hockey steams. We're in Sports Equinox territory.
It's the good stuff.
Let's hit a few links before Cleveland/Tampa and Purdue/Washington, yeah?
At the cost of college football, the 24-team Playoff is here
The pursuit of security above all will leave many in the wake of lapping waves.
J.H. Jimenez
What happened to the NFL's $7 million Deshaun Watson fund?
It didn’t all go to outside charities.
David Covucci
Today in Sports! 🍻 All aboard the Brew Crew Bandwagon 🍻
The Brewers are winning the narrative competition of the MLB Playoffs. PLUS, special guest Sydney Bauer previews Artistic Gymnastics World Championships and their Olympic implications, and I have *another* sports collapse to show you.
Rodger Sherman
Making A Great Fantasy Map Is An Art, And Ross Douthat Sucks At It | Defector
Ross Douthat has a fantasy novel for young adult readers: The Falcon’s Children, the first in what reportedly will be a trilogy from the respectability-conservatism peddler, who left his sinecure as a columnist at the New York Times earlier this year so that he could lower television’s aggregate charisma level by 944 percent as a…
Albert Burneko
World's oldest shipwreck found off Kekova Island in Turkey
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.
Alison Francis
