Jake Lovett
@jllovett.bsky.social
Currently: Kentuckian; designer, The Minnesota Star Tribune. Formerly: 206th Editor, Iowa State Daily; Iowan. Briefly: Texan, Washingtonian. Probably: Watching soccer or the nearest birds. Allons-y. jakelovett.com
The NWSL’s struggling teams are falling behind: defector.com/the-nwsls-st...
The NWSL's Struggling Teams Are Falling Behind | Defector
The 2026 NWSL season has provided some astonishingly fun soccer, and many off-field successes too: The league has boasted some record attendances, salaries, and goal-scoring this year, not to mention ...
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Royals Legend (was part of the Ben Zobrist trade) Sean Manaea.
Ben Krimmel@benkrimmel.bsky.social · 2d agoSean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.
Sean Manaea is wearing a "New York Is Love" Mets Pride shirt after pitching six solid innings to beat the Texas Rangers, the MLB's only team without a Pride night. Perhaps coincidence, perhaps not.
It's been a little over a week since McClatchy's mass layoffs. I wrote about what's at stake when communities lose local journalists. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...
McClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. - Poynter
I was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again.
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I keep waiting for Brock Purdy to turn into a pumpkin.
Terrell Owens: That's My Quarterback Romo
ALT: Terrell Owens: That's My Quarterback Romo
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Manchester City and Sunderland are doing their best impression of an average MLS Saturday night game (complimentary)
“She said she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward for SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents NPR's editorial workers. She wanted the line to say that her ‘proudest achievement’ was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.”
el Niñoberries@ninaberries.bsky.social · 6d agoRose was the kindest, most enthusiastic editor and friend. We were both editors on the arts desk together for years. im so sad and can't stop crying. she was only 38 and had two small children. fuck cancer. www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...
NEW- For the first time, groups in Iran, China, and Israel have used open source AI models to run start-to-finish influence campaigns. They told the models to create fake accounts on social media, find an agenda, and push it. Some are already targeting the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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a tale of two 15-year-olds. on raheem sterling, jj gabriel and football's army of child labour www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Raheem Sterling’s bleak tale a reminder of absurd path young footballers face | Jonathan Liew
The winger was one of the first big-money academy transfers, part of a child labour market that has barely been questioned
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NEW: Savannah DeMelo is suing UofL Health for negligent care before her 2025 cardiac arrest. Sources tell @us.theguardian.com that Louisville have reached an agreement with DeMelo for 2027, and her 2026 debut may come next week; Racing moving on from UofL Health. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Louisville’s Savannah DeMelo sues team doctors after cardiac arrest during game
The midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest mid-game last year, and is alleging negligence on the part of UofL Health and two physicians.
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Whoa.
Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · last wk..@racingloufc.com Racing Louisville star Savannah DeMelo has sued UofL Health & two physicians for negligence in failing to properly diagnose her heart condition before she suffered a cardiac arrest at a match in Seattle one year ago. UofL Health declined to comment on "pending litigation."
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
Someone get Elliot Anderson in an ice bath immediately. I thought he was incredible.
Will Tottenham Hotspur ever score again? Many people want to know.
Still can't believe USA Network has a show called "Anna Pigeon," named for its protagonist, Anna Pigeon.
Really proud to have had the Texas Observer's cover story earlier this year about why trans inclusion in sport is good, actually.
Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 2w agoOnce the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another. But it doesn't have to be this way. These books offer a humane approach to trans athletes:
There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTalarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs. It leaves the second-largest newspaper in Kentucky with just two reporters left to cover city and state government.
McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
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