Can we do a Friday news dump of ✨some personal news✨?
Here goes: I’m writing a book, titled Win Tonight. It’s the complete, behind-the-scenes story of the 2026 World Series champions, available next spring/summer. Keep your eyes peeled for preorder info in the coming weeks!
First copies arrived today! 🥹
So grateful to @TriumphBooks and everyone who made this book possible. You can pre-order New Kings here: https://t.co/VmewADkkeS
THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS HAVE DONE IT!
Pre-order your World Series commemorative book, OUR WAY, by @journalsentinel now: https://t.co/ux9aqjeUU2
*cover subject to change
NEW PODCAST:
Guests are:
1. @Grady, on working as a play-by-play broadcaster nationally for the @NBAonPrime, the @NBAonNBC & locally for @Timberwolves.
2. @MirinFader , the editor of "The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2026," the annual anthology of the best sports writing.
LISTEN: https://t.co/jq91gZ7Mmt
Thanks to my partnership with @TriumphBooks, you can read about the Penguins' early struggles and the stars and teams that turned it all around. https://t.co/G8GOFU9ajs
@bobgrove91 tends to not be one for self-promotion, but I’m happy to help him in that area here. If you’re not immediately buying this bound-to-be outstanding book about the #Penguins franchise, shame on you for 6 weeks
No one knows the Penguins like @bobgrove91 .
In THE FRANCHISE: PITTSBURGH PENGUINS, Grove goes beyond well-worn narratives to uncover the moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the team's iconic identity.
Out now: https://t.co/GnlXMYdjNK
Out now: THE ARCHITECTS: Hockey's Coaching Legends on NHL Glory, Olympic Gold, and What It Means to Lead. By @DaleEArnold with a foreword by @Buccigross
https://t.co/XgYf29BY2v
Tuesday is Publication Day! I’m very excited to share my look at hockey coaches and how they build their teams. Thank you to @TriumphBooks. Available everywhere!
delighted to discover my @FOS piece about the social media shitposting of Kalshi and Polymarket is an honorable mention in The Year's Best Sports Writing. ty guest editor @MirinFader and story editor @meredithturits 🤘
Feeling grateful to find out that I was mentioned in the notables section of The Year’s Best Sportswriting 🙏🏼 seeing my name in print alongside so many of my peers, mentors & writers I’ve admired for a long time is so surreal to me.
Thank you @MirinFader for the shoutout!
Shout out to @MirinFader X @TriumphBooks for the honor of having one of my Chicago Defender columns in the honorable mention section of the 2026 The Year’s Best Sports Book Writing series.
Thank you @MirinFader for including my @hhqsports piece on @John_Fanta in the notables section of The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2026 🙏 So grateful and honored.
You can order the book here: https://t.co/8rrOhHy6CO
So crazy to see one of my stories on the Notables list of the year’s Best Sportswriting.
@MirinFader — someone I am so, so lucky to know — congratulations and thank you ❤️ so grateful for you.
Huge shoutout to @MirinFader for picking “Island Time” as an honorable mention in @TriumphBooks 2026 Best Sports Writing! And I spy an Esses Magazine feature in the collection…
Cool final act at ESPN: My story on the fledgling ABS system’s effect on catching is in the notable section of this year’s Best Sports Writing from @TriumphBooks. Not my first time, also hopefully not the last. Grateful to the folks who talked, readers, & @JenaJ34 on the edit.