Erin Strout
@byerinstrout.com
Journalist (health, fitness, higher ed) & author. The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports is out now! byerinstrout.com
Thanks to @phillymag.com for letting me write about the Sixers' new signing. LeBron made a handful of memorable visits to Philly back in high school; I was there for all of them and only almost got him suspended by taking him to Mitchell & Ness and facilitating the friends & family discount!
LeBron James’s Philly Connections Run Back Nearly 25 Years
The new Sixer first played in Philly in 2002, as a high school junior.
phillymag.com
ATLANTA (AP) — US surpasses 2025’s record-breaking tally for measles cases, with 2,318 cases and 5 more months left in the year.
good job to the publicist who dreamed up this distraction.
Mike Reiss@mikereiss.bsky.social · 2w agoMike Vrabel arrives 🐶🏈
did everybody in pennsylvania just get the same news alert? welcome, sir.
Needed a sweatshirt this morning and thought I got a brief whiff of the faintest aroma of football season. I know. It's only July and this is just a tease. It was a lovely morning nonetheless.
When you finally meet your neighbor and he launches into a story about the "mean alcoholic lady" who lived in your house in the 70s & 80s, died there, and nobody knew for weeks. 🫠
When I moved to PA from AZ last year I was hoping I was leaving wildfire smoke behind. Alas, there is nowhere to hide anymore.
Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 3w agoImportant: Thick plume of smoke expected to reach DC area by Friday, with probable CODE RED, unhealthy air quality. Folks vulnerable to particle pollution should limit time outside, wear N95 mask. Best bet stay inside w/ windows closed, AC running. Details: www.capitalweather.com/wildfire-smo...
In 2025, the number of #NIH-funded investigators declined for the first time in a decade, with the steepest reductions among Black and Hispanic researchers and fellows. ja.ma/4vnpf0Q
Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone
Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone. (Gift Article)
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.
nytimes.com
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
PSA: No such thing as a “former” Olympian. Once an Olympian, always an Olympian. Hire some copy editors!
The news station at my mom’s house (PA) is covering the wedding: “Berks-county native Taylor Swift is getting married this weekend…” Long live local news! Also, she gave the food bank $1 million so there actually was a local hook. 🫶
I’m just glad the country has become united around the magic of John Denver. 🇺🇸
Sports has always been the entry point, but it is not the final stop. I’ve said this since I started covering the Hecox v. Little anti-trans sports case which the Supreme Court ruled on today.
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
Here’s how Fort Greene celebrated as the Knicks sealed their first NBA title since 1973.
Wooooo! I lived in nyc for all my 20s so I’m on this bandwagon.
I feel like I’m a little like the knicks in that I thrive under intense deadlines but not so much in the hours leading up to them.
How and why have I become so invested in basketball? I know nothing and I can tell these refs suck.
New reporting links a “meaningful portion” of the 700 newborn deaths in 2024 from brain bleeds to skepticism of the vitamin K shot. Influencers have been fearmongering about it for years. From @alyssatirrell.bsky.social and me for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/propublica/n...
New reporting links skepticism of the vitamin K shot to newborn deaths. Influencers and media figures have been fearmongering about the shot for years.
Amid a rise in broader anti-vaccine sentiment, some influencers and media figures have cast doubt on the routine vitamin K shot given to newborn infants – and new reporting from ProPublica suggests su...
mediamatters.org
