Karen Crouse

Writing without fear or favor for @SportNState DM me with story ideas /RTs not necessarily endorsements

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Appreciate this 😊

[matt foley ☁ @mattyfoles]

I remember reading an incredible ESPN the Mag profile of Ryan Lochte’s chaotic rise back in the day.

Consider this the sequel. Great feature by @Kayceeunplugged for @SportNState. On rebirth and renewed purpose:
https://t.co/XVcogJwP4R

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Today is the 21st of September.

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Ernie Accorsi’s passing made me consider the sense of urgency surrounding this Cowboys team under Jerry Jones, who was born 355 days after Accorsi. My column for @SportNState

https://t.co/ErBYSCEfsa

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

This is sadly true and wholly inexplicable

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

No one hates women more than other women

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

ICYMI: My column for @SportNState on the real loser in Oregon’s 84-0 win o er Portland State. Oregon travels this week to USC for a crossroads game for both:

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

In 2016 I lost friends because I wasn’t partaking in the popular moral panic du jour & again in 2020. If you had told me I’d go through the same thing again in 2026—I probably should have seen it coming—but I didn’t. It’s very upsetting.

Madness of crowds.

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Mad Mabel: A Novel https://t.co/lc00TmIwtS
This is my favorite read of the year, by far. Highly recommend! 👍👍👍👍

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Hey @jasongay, I couldn’t agree more with your take on Oregon, as you can see here:

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

An obituary worthy of a remarkable person who left this world way too soon

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

So terribly unfair, sending all my love to her family. NPR culture editor Rose Friedman dies at 38.
https://t.co/CxAKE9vtku

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

I wasn’t scheduled to write ✍️ today. But then Oregon 84, Portland State 0 happened. here’s my ode to the real winners of this masquerade:
https://t.co/f95cDMAHPJ

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

My thoughts exactly 🤔

[Chad Withrow @TheChadWithrow]

Why exactly is Kansas and Arizona State playing this game in London???

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Have a day, guys! 🤗🙌✌️

[Chad Withrow @TheChadWithrow]

It’s been an incredible first month. Thanks to everyone that has watched a show or read an article. We are also boots on the ground in Oxford today with @Hutton_Withrow , @ByGusWilson , & @breccastoll . A big day of College Football awaits!

[USC Trojans @USC_Athletics]

TUSK in Times Square‼️🎺

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Hey @coach_bowman, check out what @RyanLochte had to say about you! 😉

[Sport & State @SportNState]

American Swimming’s Biggest Goofball Turns Serious About Leading The Next Generation

✍️: @Kayceeunplugged
https://t.co/HzfWsQewyU

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

I have written eleven opinion pieces for The New York Times across 35 years. I still read it. I write what follows with no joy: while I have watched it become increasingly partisan in its news coverage over the decades, no topic has made its loss of balance clearer to me than its handling of Israel since October 7.

This week the Times published a sentence suggesting that Israeli victimhood over the 2023 Hamas terror attack was not a fact, but a "matter of perception." It only added an Editors' Note after furious backlash, much of it here on X. I have written corrections myself. A sentence like that doesn't slip past a reporter, an editor, and a copy desk by accident. The underlying problem is that it did not set off an alarm until readers outside the building made noise.

And that was simply the latest example. In May, the paper's Opinion section ran a column alleging Israeli forces used dogs to rape Palestinian detainees, built on sourcing no other serious outlet had corroborated. The Times's own executive editor later said the newsroom "wouldn't have done that exact piece."

Now there's data behind the pattern. A peer-reviewed Yale study of 1,559 Times articles on the war found the word "Israel" appeared more than three times as often as "Hamas," and that 1,423 of those articles mentioned neither Israeli casualties after Oct. 7 nor Hamas combatants killed in the war.

"Paper of record" was never a hereditary title. It was a claim about earned trust. I am not sure anyone still believes it.

My full article at Just the Facts: https://t.co/pG7mfcYpCj

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

I had no idea @ToddLewisGC that you were a man of so MANY talents 👍 hope to cross paths with you in a karaoke bar down the road ✌️😎

[Todd Lewis @ToddLewisGC]

Thanks for those kind words Ryan.

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Sophie Cunningham took the commonsense road and didn’t pile on Sydney Sweeney. Cunningham looked at Sweeney’s sports ad, said she didn’t like it, and still told Sweeney to go do her thing. That’s just normal thinking. You can think something is cheap and still admit it works. And it works. People are still talking about the ad.

Cunningham said it Thursday on her podcast. She called the ad inauthentic and morally weird. Then she asked the only question that matters: why are the girls mad? If an unattractive actress had posed the same way, a lot of the same people would have called it brave. Because Sweeney is beautiful, they called it a scandal.

A gambling company wanted attention. Sweeney sells attention. Cunningham noticed both things at once.

Most of the rest of the noise was jealousy dressed up as principle.

[Scott McKay @TheHayride]

What I would absolutely love would be if Arch Manning refused to answer media questions for the rest of this college football season.
"The last time I answered questions from you people I was forced to grovel for saying I thought an AI parody meme was funny," the press release he should send out would say. "Accordingly, I've decided it isn't in my interest in cooperating with the sports media. You need me more than I need you and I've been exploited for clickbait and ratings, to my detriment. I'm going to act on that calculation for the rest of this year. There are 104 other players on our roster, so you've got lots of other options for interviews and comments."

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

You go, Karol! 👊

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

About to be on with @BuckSexton and @ClayTravis and hear Clay is going to disagree with me on something, which is crazy. Watch below!

[Karen Crouse @Kayceeunplugged]

Wonder if she would have sung the same tune if her competitors when she swam at College of William and Mary had included biological males …

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Jen Psaki who has defended men winning women’s sports titles says Sydney Sweeney’s sports gambling ad is an attack on women’s athletics.