Michelle Martinelli

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Casey Wasserman Will Sell Agency After Epstein Files Controversy: “I Have Become a Distraction” The move comes after Wasserman faced mounting pressure from his roster after suggestive emails he sent to Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced in the Epstein Files

Just so we have this straight. The LA28 board refused to take action — but his clients and agents forced him out of his own company.

And now the taxpayers of the City of Los Angeles *WHICH HOLDS THE CONTRACT WITH LA28* are stuck with him! Great work everyone!

Your Lindsey Vonn advice is misogynistic trash. Keep it to yourself A recent opinion piece about Lindsey Vonn was ill-informed, condescending and misogynistic. Here's why.

Our opinion page published a guest piece on Lindsey Vonn that was misogynistic trash. I had thoughts.

Your Lindsey Vonn advice is misogynistic trash. Keep it to yourself A recent opinion piece about Lindsey Vonn was ill-informed, condescending and misogynistic. Here's why.

SPOT ON, @nrarmour.bsky.social

www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Think Lindsey Vonn should give up her spot at Winter Olympics? Kick rocks Vonn is not one to do something for appearance’s sake. She wants to race, and she believes she can do it.

Hell no Lindsey Vonn shouldn’t give up her spot at the Olympics.

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‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself

America is bringing its ugliest stain to the Games.

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Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala:
“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am a tire carrier competing in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and I’m taking you behind the scenes with me today.

Join me as I share my view of working on the No. 14 Lexus RC F GT3 in the GTD Pro class.

The Supreme Court will hear two cases today challenging state bans on transgender athletes.
These bans are about erasure. Not fairness.

This is the year. Bo Nix has improved so much under this new offense. He's focused. He's having fun. I wouldn't be surprised if he's a dark horse for the Heisman.

You will be visited by three spirits

Hitting free agency soon.

DM’s are open.

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT

gonna call them to let them know they’re never getting any donations from me since they apparently have $75 million lying around to appease the government

How Baylor Happened WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...

Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...

ACC after dark

Riley Gaines Investigated: The Lia Thomas Race, the Coach & Why She "Doesn't Even Like" Trump | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines.

Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.”

But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here

Notre Dame's Jeremiyah Love compares his style of play to this Detroit Lions star YouTube video by USA TODAY Sports

full video via @usatodaysports.usatoday.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBY...

Q&A: Notre Dame's Jeremiyah Love on his Heisman pitch and relationship with CJ Carr For The Win spoke with Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love about his season, the team and his relationship with CJ Carr.

some light reading for the Notre Dame-BC game today... i recently spoke with Jeremiyah Love about his Heisman elevator pitch, his relationship with CJ Carr and why he'd compare himself to Jahmyr Gibbs.

"I can do some spectacular things, but I'm also that team guy."

ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Me dressed up as the pop-tart mascot. I will likely not wear this for long because it’s hard to drink my drinks I’ve made to drink and get drunk

Happy Halloween, Sickos

INDI2NA
IN2IANA
2NDIANA

student journalism forever www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

More:

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thanks, Prince❤️

Trouble with the Snap: An oral history of the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game For The Win spoke with more than a dozen players, coaches, broadcasters, officials and fans to revisit the 2015 Michigan-Michigan State game.

"It’s the most fantastic ending that you’d never predict."

"An explosion of probability."

"One of the greatest endings in the history of college football."

"It’s just pure shock."

"Sean McDonough lives rent-free in my head."

"It still gives me goosebumps."

ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

the Trouble with the Snap game actually was the first of two games that season where Michigan State won but didn't have the lead until 00:00.