Journalist | Co-author of Kingdom Quarterback, a book about Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes | Features editor and writer at @TheHustle | [email protected]
For @SBNation I wrote about three Mississippi high school football players who died in the same season, and how inequality in state funding and public education can make football's risks that much greater https://t.co/aPF0gm5lHl
Downtown Dallas has had lots of bad news the last few years as offices emptied out -- but there was always the possibility that it could transform into something new and more entertaining. The last 24 hours have made that a lot harder
Beyond high prices, I think sports leagues have been slow to realize the sheer number of options kids have for entertainment on youtube/tiktok. Like 25 years ago there was nothing else to do but be a sports fan and now you can find so many other niches https://t.co/viBVk0xbdY
In light of some of the discourse of Star Wars’ relevance waning, I’ve been thinking a lot about whether sports are making some of the same mistakes.
There’s a lot of data showing that kids are watching less sports than ever. I think it’s more of a threat than people realize.
There are some small liberal arts colleges in which ~70%-80% of enrolled students are athletes -- and one of them, Erskine College, had a men's basketball roster with 44 players
Full story here: https://t.co/cZaixn6Fr0
Something under-discussed about the demographic cliff affecting America's small colleges is that they're using sports to maintain enrollment and stay afloat.
This is the share of athletes at D2/D3 schools in 2004 vs 2023
Super interesting: Luxury boxes have physically pushed fans farther away from the action in baseball.
"Fans were closer to home plate in the *last* row of the upper deck at Old Comiskey (150 feet) than in the *first* row of the upper level at Rate Field"
https://t.co/ltHnimPVjm
The retro era of ballparks got one very big thing wrong: it pushed fans, the median seat, further from the game than the jewel-box era it attempted to recreate. Tired of waiting for an architecture firm to correct that error,
@MLBcathedrals, @architecturejks and myself decided to put our vision into the world. We created a (digital) ballpark for a @whitesox team in need of it. For
@ChicagoMag: https://t.co/7fppY7lryH
Deeply depressing, but also if you give people just a small sample in blind tests like these they'll say all kinds of weird things, like that they prefer Pepsi over Coke https://t.co/AZKQ20PDz6
We made a blind taste test to see whether NYT readers prefer human writing or AI writing.
86,000 people have taken it so far, and the results are fascinating. Overall, 54% of quiz-takers prefer AI. A real moment!
https://t.co/Gpbr3TAiiI
I have slowly made contact with more magazine writers who are using AI to do research and I want to stake the position that if you are not able to get off this slippery slope you should leave the field and choose a different profession
@TrungTPhan A much, much, much smaller scale than Chicken. But turkey consumption has actually doubled since the 70s! https://t.co/aXgcMOqEXp. Maybe someone needs to start a turkey fast food chain
@CatsBahner Agh, you're right! Definitely should've had that one in there. I do like the Celica better, but I love Solaras, too -- and yours looks great!