funny to know something that the people calling the ongoing tigers game do not...they are just showing wholesome pics of the broadcast booth's trip to the sacramento train museum
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It does feel like whenever I am most discouraged by WNBA discourse, the basketball gods intervene to bring me some incredible, life-affirming game
It does feel like whenever I am most discouraged by WNBA discourse, the basketball gods intervene to bring me some incredible, life-affirming game
ok this is huge for me
My Basketball GOAT Is 5-Foot-4 | Defector
One problem with women’s basketball’s recent forays into the mainstream is that I, proud sports iconoclast, must develop increasingly eclectic basketball tastes in response. In the same way a slang ph...
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Sabreena Merchant@sabreenajm.bsky.social · 3w agoCan report that the Las Vegas Aces are signing Japanese guard Mai Yamamoto with their final roster spot. She was most recently in training camp for the Dallas Wings in 2025.
New pod! @maitreyiaa.bsky.social and I did a deep dive on all things Olivia Miles: her basketball background, her all-time rookie season, and how the new generation is changing the point guard position. open.spotify.com/episode/6cmF...
A Deep Dive on Olivia Miles’s All-Time Rookie Season with Maitreyi Anantharaman
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I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
Every Time a Bell Rings
A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It's a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film's actors and creators, its unexpected journey f...
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I love when smart people write about the places they're from. So I'm very glad that one of my favorite people wrote such a book and that I got to interview @justinellis.bsky.social about his new razor-sharp interrogation of Minnesota nice: defector.com/justin-ellis...
Justin Ellis TELLS ALL About Minneapolis Life In This EXCLUSIVE Interview | Defector
In late 2020, months after the murder of George Floyd, our colleague Justin Ellis moved back to his hometown of Minneapolis to begin work on a book about black life in the city, where promises of raci...
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“Man, I love that kid,” Lindsay Whalen said when I asked her about Olivia Miles. Had some fun writing about the Lynx rookie and the exciting state of PG play in the WNBA rn:
Defector@defector.com · 2mo agoOlivia Miles is the throwback point guard of the future: defector.com/olivia-miles...
An update for subscribers and Fever fans: www.fieldhousefiles.com/p/an-update-...
An update for subscribers and Fever fans
After the Indiana Fever revoked my credentialed access, I want readers to understand what happened, why I stand by the reporting, and what it means for future coverage.
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Dan was a truly singular person bc I have also been wishing I could text him this week, but about Paul Reed playoff minutes.
Kalyn Kahler@kalynkahler.bsky.social · 3mo agoWatching Eurovision … wish I could text @dhm.bsky.social Dan McQuade about how weird it is that Romania woman is singing “I want you to choke me” in operatic tones but also extremely goth heavy metal
🏀💕 excited to talk sports romance tomorrow! new yorkers, come hang! rsvp/tickets here: www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/allure...
The WNBA is back, and so is @defector.com's TEN MINUTE QUARTERS at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Monday May 18. We’ll have giveaways, games, goofs, and as always a lineup of hilarious comics. Go to defector.com/wnbashow for tickets, use code LETSGOLIBS for 10% off
by all means, sign three starting PGs in their mid 30s, you know how that thrills me
Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe W wears Prada: A WNBA season preview with @maitreyiaa.bsky.social We listen, we judge, we pitch, we predict, we trend forecast: on the refs, Cathy, A'ja Caitlin, Natasha Cloud, scouting trends, and more, including the debut of the Chicago Sky swear jar open.spotify.com/episode/5VuI...
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a pistons-hornets 1st round series will FEED FAMILIES….specifically, jalen duren’s family. all other families will have extra time to eat together because it will be over in four games
Friends, I am thrilled to introduce you to Valkyries Beat. This is where I will be writing about the Golden State Valkyries this season, running a full beat and -- with your help as subscribers -- back on the road. www.valkyriesbeat.com
my gorgeous perfect beautiful sons the detroit pistons
the compliment I will pay to UConn is that if you ever spend any time in Storrs, Connecticut, you will leave with so much respect for anyone who has ever played or recruited there, geno and jim calhoun are wizards
shoutout to the getty photographer who prepared for a WNBA lockout with this stock photoshoot. the only downside of labor peace is that we have no use for these beautiful images
a good point she brought up: audits are very expensive! the NBA/NBPA devote a ton of $/resources to the annual BRI audit. a rev share system tied to net revenue, like the WNBA wants, would put even more work on the players to scrutinize the “expenses” owners are reporting and that’s *costly* work
Defector@defector.com · 5mo agoFormer NBPA head Tamika Tremaglio discusses the WNBA labor battle and the art of bargaining: defector.com/tamika-trema...
a new WNBA romance novel got me thinking about how romance fandom and WNBA fandom can both feel like expressions of optimism: defector.com/how-can-you-...
How Can You Not Be Romantic About Women's Basketball? | Defector
Most “women’s sports novels” are really novels about girls. In them, girlhood is something mourned before it’s over. Like the games themselves, the books are set to ticking clocks. When the high schoo...
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