Noah Cohan
@noahcohan.bsky.social
Sports Studies Scholar. St. Louisan. Seattle ex-pat. "How the Helmet Conquered Football: The Story of an American Icon" coming 2027 from the Power Plays series at OU Press. https://noahcohan.com/
A Texas Tech professor was told her course on the Holocaust could stay in the university’s core curriculum only if she agreed to cut the content about queer victims of Nazism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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And then a bonus newsletter on a man named Bill Hickman who catalogues Near Major Leaguers in an incredible public spreadsheet for SABR. That spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... And more on Hickman here: collegesportsmoney.substack.com/p/so-close-s...
Near Major Leaguers
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it's like if you turned a cybertruck into a football stadium
Kevin Tompkins@ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 3d agowhy does the Cleveland Browns' new stadium legit look like a prison lmao
Sports Media: Women's sports are in trouble!! Too much politics!! Women's sports have too many distractions!!! In other news... viewership numbers are surging. Doesn't it feel like that is the news story media outlets should report? awfulannouncing.com/wnba/womens-...
Women's sports viewership surging in 2026
Front Office Sports' Ellyn Briggs reports that women's sports are surging in viewership, with 52% of the U.S. population now interested.
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so many bad things happening that are kind of inevitable feeling or more an example of tactical neglect - then there's ai, the tool for people who want to go out of their way to destroy a world that was already melting and its culture bsky.app/profile/404m...
404 Media@404media.co · 3d agoIt's possible to scan books without "cutting" them, which literally means ripping off the spine. But why are AI companies doing this? For one, it's cheaper and faster. Also, in a case against Anthropic, a judge ruled it was NOT a copyright violation because the original had been destroyed.
RIP THE LEGEND JONNY TOHM (1941-1883) 365 Careers 19 Victoryies 1.1111111 Average Sports 50-50-50 First Man to be in Ocean 4X World Player (200, 300, 300, 300) First Woman to Vote (1920) America's Most Beautiful Tree (1978) Longest Career (1) Pitched All of It (100)
Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 4d agoAnd people wonder why people have absolute furious anger towards garbage AI slop that pollutes all discussion (Sent to me)
love love love this essay by David Hollingshead. So smart, so funny, and winningly earnest
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...
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New episode on everyone's favourite substance (abuse)
The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social · last wk.What’s the Deal with Protein? Samantha King and Gavin Weedon join to discuss their groundbreaking new book on the scientific, cultural, and political dimensions of the protein phenomenon. open.spotify.com/episode/3JS5...
That this guy will ultimately benefit from getting roundly criticized for this anti-humanist perspective is a big problem with social media.
Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · last wk.Are we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.
How do billionaire team owners not only pay a lower tax rate than some of their superstar players, but also a lower rate than the people who sell concessions at the games? Revisit our 2021 investigation from "The Secret IRS Files":
The Billionaire Playbook: How Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower t...
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Reading: What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. defector.com/axios-ai-rea...
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing | Defector
Reading: What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. When you read a book, the stuff in the book goes into your mind, and your mind…
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The truest inheritor of Shawn Kemp's mantle, and he should've been a Sonic, too.
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · last wk.He probably hung around too long and eventually what was weird/too much overtook the other stuff, but the coolest stuff Westbrook did was the coolest stuff a basketball player can do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGs...
Don't forget about letting the cheapest billionaire on earth buy the Blazers and strip them for parts But hey, at least he also led the gambling legalization charge that's caused multiple scandals
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · last wk.Off the dome so I don’t have all the teams but anyone is free to help, but under Adam Silver: The Mavericks became owned by the largest private funder of the Palestinian genocide in USA Grizzlies owned by a guy whose tech enables Russian drone strikes against Ukrainians Lakers owned by TurboNazis
Wait… so Mark Walter and the Guggenheim group unload the Lakers to a Trump family member - Josh Kushner last seen two weeks ago failing to stripmine FIFA. - and Walter & Guggenheim are under a mammoth DOJ and SEC investigation? Watch that “investigation” disappear. This country is being looted.
Hello I reinvented Cliff’s Notes so adults can revert to being lazy 8th graders who didn’t do their homework. Give me a billion dollars now.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way
so they know when gamers crash into something and die they can just restart the game right
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · last wk.So, this is real, I just checked
Robin has a storied history of laying the smack down on mascots.
Morris “Day and The Time” Katz@vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 2w agoomg lol
“Some strange, strange bedfellows with this bill ... That was always the risk of trying for something that’s really, really sweeping.” The Senate did not vote on the college sports bill before recess. A breakdown (and look ahead) for @notus.com: www.notus.org/sports/colle...
Senate Doesn’t Vote on College Sports Bill Before Recess
So what’s next?
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The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.
Mariners fans are responding to the team’s 12th straight inning of being shut out with chants of “50 MORE YEARS!”
Seattle Mariners@marinersbot.bsky.social · 2w agoKicking off our 50 Seasons Celebration Weekend! #Mariners50 🎉 📺 @AppleTV 📻 @SeattleSports
i cannot overstate how accurate this is
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 2w agoMissouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
When AI models tell stories about animals, how are the characters gendered? And what does that reveal about model bias? Super fun to see this write-up about our FAccT paper. Led by Imani Finkley, and building on the Bears Will Be Boys story with the @pudding.cool! www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-b...
He, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanish
A new University of Washington study testing leading AI models across nearly 24,000 story completions found that AI guardrails designed to reduce bias have accidentally erased female characters — defa...
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