I'm very glad the kids are discovering and enjoying TV on the Radio. Wolf Like Me is a indie rock HOF track
Michelle Bruton
@michellebruton.bsky.social
senior editor at Triumph Books; Olympics and action sports writer at Forbes SportsMoney; emo scholar at The Alternative; Packers writer here and there; IPA defender; parasocial Boston Bruins fan. NH ➡️ CHI
many weren't sure how readily action sports athletes would take to the team-based concept of X Games League. so I was blown away by the level of commitment and support inaugural champions XC New York showed one another throughout the three events of their season www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
How X Games League Changed The Way Athletes Compete
X Games League's first season saw previously independent action sports athletes compete as part of a team. Eventual champion XC New York athletes embraced the change.
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Pub day for Andrew Brandt and 'Smarter About Sports'! Had a blast working with Andrew on this memoir, which includes never-before-shared #Packers stories but also plenty of other fun stuff from the never-boring life of a sports agent. You won't want to miss it! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/smarter-ab...
Smarter About Sports: My Life Navigating Athletes, Agents, Media, and the Business of the NFL
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"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."
The demand for tests for cyclosporiasis, a pathogen often caused by contaminated fresh produce, is so intense, with so many patients seeking help for diarrhea and crippling abdominal cramps, that many labs can’t keep up.
big news today: the IOC has approved freeride as an Olympic discipline for French Alps 2030. Other figure skating, skiing and snowboarding disciplines will make their debut, while Nordic combined—the only Winter Olympics discipline to exclude women—has been removed www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
Freeride Skiing, Snowboarding Approved For French Alps 2030 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee has approved freeride skiing and snowboarding for the 2030 Winter Games in the French Alps, marking the discipline's Olympic debut.
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looking to chat with someone for a story who loves dirty soda and frequents standalone soda shops, a la Swig or its many competitors. bonus if you use soda shops as a third space instead of bars or coffee shops. let me know!
If you tune in to X Games this weekend, you won't be watching a standalone event. Instead, you'll be watching the first stop of a three-event summer season as part of the new X Games League structure, with a championship in late July. Here's how it all works: www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
X Games League Is Here. This Is How It Works
On Friday, X Games League, the new global, team-based season structure, will replace the standalone X Games events of the past. Here's how it will work and how to watch.
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when your Authenticator code is ticking down and about to expire, do you wait for the new one to load like a normal person, or do you accept the challenge to race against the clock and type in the current one like I do
use promo code 'TOLERANCE' for $200 in bonus bets with any $5 wager
roger is simply the greatest to ever do it
#CANES fans, we've been working on something special 📚 Pre-order your commemorative book, 'PERFECT STORM', featuring writing by @corylav.bsky.social spanning the whole Stanley Cup run alongside dozens of memorable photos: triumphbooks.com/CANESWIN *cover not yet final
KNICKS. IN. FIVE. Pre-order your @nypost.com @nypostsports.bsky.social commemorative book, 'KNICKER BONKERS' now, capturing this wild championship season for the ages: www.ipgbook.com/knicker-bonk... *cover not final
Me: “I used to listen to Slipknot while I played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” My husband: “I used to listen to Foo Fighters while I played Mario Kart” each of us in a nutshell
For a story: Have you brought food into an MLB ballpark? (Did you know you could?! To more than half of them!) If so, was it either: a. an incredibly strange item, or b. to make the day at the park affordable for your family? Let me know!
Can’t believe live nation actually did the right thing and postponed Jimmy Eat World/Get Up Kids/Sunny Day Real Estate since y’know, Chicago is under an EF2+ tornado warning. Venue notorious for refusing to cancel in bad weather too. Putting social media pressure on venues/organizers works, folks!
My analysis of the Myles Garrett trade: I'm so happy for Chloe Kim 🥲
because they’re on your now, a Yellowcard take: 🗣️ Paper Walls is a better album than Ocean Avenue
Unfortunately, this was not true in the Italian Alps in February, when I encountered an enormous spider in our hotel and felt completely betrayed and blindsided. It! was! snowing! outside! Don’t google giant alpine spider, you won’t like the result
winter >>> summer because there are NO BUGS
if you see me walking around like a mummy outside in the summer so I don’t accidentally walk face-first into a spiderweb…no you didn’t
smash cut to: women all over Chicago flushing wet wipes down their toilets so they can call the hot plumber
Inside you there are two wolves. Ones absolutely hates having to ask something of customer service. But the other hates spending more money than necessary. And that’s how you find yourself standing at Best Buy asking for a $130 Memorial Day sale price adjustment on your vacuum
Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer
Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/
Almost always hate pulling the goalie down one with 1:30 to go
ESPN broadcast showed the players on the ice approximately ONCE during the national anthems
moving soon and donating/selling a ton of items. figured I’d share this Packers pom beanie eBay listing here in case anyone I know is interested! ebay.us/m/1HnQDg
’47 Brand Green Bay Packers NFL Pom Knit Hat | eBay
Green, gold, and gray ’47 Green Bay Packers NFL pom beanie. Fleece lining. Never worn. Smoke-free home.
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In case you're out of the loop, X Games is no longer a series of one-off events but an action sports league (summer and winter). The 40 athletes on the four summer teams will be decided by the first-ever X Games draft tonight at Cosm in LA! Here's how it will all work: www.forbes.com/sites/michel...
Everything You Need To Know About The First-Ever X Games League Draft
The new X Games League, a team-based, co-ed action sports league, will hold a draft on Thursday to determine the athletes who will compete in the summer season.
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Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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