The 95% confidence intervals in minutes per game preceding the Achilles tear vs the rest of their season. 10 games: 24.5-33.5 vs 23.2-31.6 15 games: 24.2-33.0 vs 23.2-31.6 A statistical difference, but not a clinical one.

Lucas Seehafer@seehafer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This study is a textbook example of statistical significance not meaning clinical significance. The "small spikes" equated to a couple minutes. I'm confident saying these "small spikes" were ultimately meaningless. It's also the problem of using linear statistics to explain nonlinear dynamics.

for Part 2 of the analytics/eye test column we published earlier this week, here are my Jaylen Brown All-Stars! www.theringer.com/2026/08/05/n...

The Jaylen Brown All-Stars

Five NBA players with underwhelming advanced stats who are worth believing in anyway

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If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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There are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 22h ago

Did we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?

Thanks, @howardbeck.bsky.social. Here's my response to @enavakas.bsky.social's question:

Howard Beck@howardbeck.bsky.social · yesterday

That's a better question for @mccannsportslaw.bsky.social than me.

Listen man, this was easily more compelling than the dunk contest (and multiple tanking teams last season).

RMJ=H@rmj.bsky.social · yesterday

Don’t worry man. NBA going to be back soon

I should also note degree-of-difficulty here: We have parked cars on both sides of the street, and just enough room for one car/truck to pass through the middle, so it's supertight. Also: He then had to drive the wrong way down our one-way street to get the car out of here. Just incredible stuff.

Howard Beck@howardbeck.bsky.social · yesterday

Just spent 10 minutes absolutely MESMERIZED by a tow-truck driver threading the needle (more like 100 needles) to remove a (booted) Dodge Charger from my very narrow block. Angled the hydraulic lift to pull it away from the curb, w/inches of a parked BMW, which he never touched. The man is an artist

Just spent 10 minutes absolutely MESMERIZED by a tow-truck driver threading the needle (more like 100 needles) to remove a (booted) Dodge Charger from my very narrow block. Angled the hydraulic lift to pull it away from the curb, w/inches of a parked BMW, which he never touched. The man is an artist

Thinking about TENET and also how nobody in TENET knew what it was about www.theringer.com/2020/07/22/m...

A History of the Cast of ‘Tenet’ Trying to Explain ‘Tenet’

It’s not a time-travel movie, OK?

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Bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal: DHS has been tracking down Americans at work and on the road who are critical of immigration policies, spending millions on contractors to surveil First Amendment protected speech and create political dossiers. Outrageous. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

ICE agents harassing a child and her family in Bushwick. Macing a woman in Inwood. Threatening a witness in a Lower Manhattan ER. These are just 3 examples of ICE agents targeting New Yorkers the past days, in what advocates are calling an uptick in ICE activity the past week.

Great stuff here from my guy @michaelvpina.bsky.social.

Michael Pina@michaelvpina.bsky.social · 2d ago

I wrote about the NBA’s increasingly stupid analytics vs. eye test conversation: www.theringer.com/2026/08/03/n...

On the role Adam Silver and the NBA will play in determining the Blazers’ future in Portland, whether Tom Dundon wants to keep them here or not www.rosegardenreport.com/why-adam-sil...

Why Adam Silver Won't Let Tom Dundon Move the Trail Blazers

City and county lawmakers are preparing to vote on their portions of a Moda Center funding package.

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if you missed this back when i posted about it, it’s now expanded well beyond the MTV universe (Eurovision! Tiny Desk! Austin City Limits!)

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7mo ago

a friend recently shared this with me and i'm obsessed — it's an MTV/VH1 simulator with almost 30,000 videos (organized by decade) along with special sections for things like 120 Minutes, Unplugged, Yo! MTV Raps, and Pop-Up Video (!!!) wantmymtv.vercel.app

"It's insane. I can say for myself and 200 of my friends in finance, we're not getting anywhere near this. In another administration, this would be considered criminal.”

Trump’s media company today began selling early access to the president’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100k a month to financial institutions. I talked to former SEC lawyers, who see the service as a violation of insider trading laws. And a Wall Street executive, who told me:

Today is the day. Opening Day of the Women's Pro Baseball League. I want to take a moment to explain how we've covered the WPBL at @theixsports.bsky.social and what you can expect going forward. www.theixsports.com/category/the...

WPBL Archives | The IX Sports

News coverage of the Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL): Boston Hunters, Los Angeles Queens, New York Heights and San Francisco Firebells.

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Batman: Michael Keaton's 'Get Nuts' Joker Scene

ALT: Batman: Michael Keaton's 'Get Nuts' Joker Scene

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Michael Pina@michaelvpina.bsky.social · 4d ago

went on the ringer nba show with @howardbeck.bsky.social to reveal our way-too-early, unnecessarily spicy nba awards predictions: open.spotify.com/s/ccORxxe

Always read Tyler.

Tyler Parker@tylerparker.bsky.social · last wk.

Wrote about LeBron and the art of ending well.

Howard is so good. You should read this story if you haven’t already!

Howard Beck@howardbeck.bsky.social · 2w ago

NBA execs and coaches were stunned when LeBron chose Philly. (So was I.) After 23 years, they shouldn’t have been. (And yeah, I shouldn't have been either.) Latest from me, at The Ringer:

“Will the scaffolding never end?!” says the dude walking the other way down Court Street, speaking for us all.

NBA execs and coaches were stunned when LeBron chose Philly. (So was I.) After 23 years, they shouldn’t have been. (And yeah, I shouldn't have been either.) Latest from me, at The Ringer:

What the NBA Still Doesn't Understand About LeBron

League sources were stunned by LeBron’s decision to choose Philadelphia. They shouldn’t have been.

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It's like an 8-year-old breathlessly explaining the castle he's building is going to have sharks with laserbeams in the moat and and and spinning turret guns and a and a and a secret hanger for his SQUADRONS OF ATTACK DRONES. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The entire speech is just rambling gibberish. My God.

NBA execs and coaches were stunned when LeBron chose Philly. (So was I.) After 23 years, they shouldn’t have been. (And yeah, I shouldn't have been either.) Latest from me, at The Ringer:

What the NBA Still Doesn't Understand About LeBron

League sources were stunned by LeBron’s decision to choose Philadelphia. They shouldn’t have been.

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Huge win for Sixers. Huge loss for Dallas, Masai, oil, golf, Macau, Africa.

In this story, we're also revealing some more of the ~400 celebrities who were designated as some sort of "risk" in MSG's talent database. They include: * Elliot Page * Jamie Foxx * F1 driver Lewis Hamilton * Simu Liu * “Real Housewife” Ubah Hassan * Achraf Hakimi from Morocco’s World Cup team.

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 2w ago

EXCLUSIVE: Madison Square Garden's sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. MSG boss Jim Dolan recently made a major exception—for Taylor Swift. I reviewed the internal memo locking MSG security staff out of their own surveillance network. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

Here's the latest piece. Like @katie-drummond.bsky.social says, it's free for everyone to read, because James Dolan doesn't want you to: www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

wired.com

Endorse. Less "watch me dunk on Ezra, Matt, Stancil, Atlantic." More "check this out, it's good work that you might not have seen."

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2w ago

A proposal: let’s bring back some of the traditions that made early Twitter so good and see if we can’t both grow this place and grow accounts worth following. I suggest #FollowFriday be brought back with enthusiasm

I made this list three years ago. It's about to get longer.