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Noah Cohan
@noahcohan.bsky.social
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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/
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h
I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…
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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21h
Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 19h
In the light of day, the insistence on taking millions of fans into the yawning abyss of hell that is a 15-inning game seems pretty difficult to justify. What were the Mariners thinking?
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d
baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other
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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d
ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
AMIN: yes [World engulfed by flames]
AMIN: oh god yes
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d
Mariners going to extras.
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Rock Me Amadeus Ex Machina @mikeall.bsky.social · 4d
Dan Wilson: Checkers Grandmaster
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Rock Me Amadeus Ex Machina @mikeall.bsky.social · 4d
If you're playing checkers when the other guy is playing chess you better be history's greatest goddamn checkers player
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 1d
#mariners
a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on .
ALT: a woman is screaming at a man in a suit while he looks on .
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 1d
Brought to you by the IBM Selectric II Electric Typewriter!
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 1d
I'm excited for a Toronto WNBA team, but I still can't get over this branding. Very regional bus company circa 1980. Travel from Toronto to Buffalo in style. Includes smoking “section” and more than one teenage runaway.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d
The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 4d
"No!" for a ball is hilarious
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 4d
atta boy, Keith Gilbert's son
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 4d
Seattle tourists' favorite bakery?
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Meagan Hatcher-Mays @importantmeagan.bsky.social · 4d
how I’m trying to be, emotionally, about playoff baseball
Snow monkey looking relaxed but stoic in a hot spring
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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · 4d
My rage, in graphs: #wnba #nba

“The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history”
The W.N.B.A. makes more money than the N.B.A. did at the same point in its history ANNUAL REVENUE $500 million Projected revenue the 2026 season W.N.B.A/ 400 N.B.A. 1982-83-season 300 1968-69 season 200/ 100 < 2019 season 23 25 27 29 31 SEASON 33 35 37 Sources: Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data • Note: N.B.A. revenue is in 2025 dollars. much. ÷96 Players get a tiny cut of the W.N.B.A.'s revenue, even as the league has grown significantly ANNUAL REVENUE How much money - $300 million the W.N.B.A. makes Money the players would 250 mshare, if they were paid like N.B.A. players 200 Möney that W.N.B.A. players actually make 150 mil. 100 mil. 50 mil. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025| Sources: Bloomberg, Forbes, Sportico, Rodney Fort's Sports Business Data Some of this is educated guesswork. The W.N.B.A. doesn't release official revenue data — What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve By David Berri Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Berri is a professor at Southern Utah University who studies sports economics. Oct. 3, 2025 @ Share full article 564 The 2025 W.N.B.A. season has set records for attendance, both in total and per game, even before the playoffs. More than three million fans have flocked to see stars like A'ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces and Alyssa Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury, whose @ nytimes.com year. •+95 What the top 10 W.N.B.A. players should have earned this year Players were ranked by how much their box score statistics, like points and rebounds, affected wins. 1 mil. 2 mil. 3 mil. $4 mil A'ja Wilson Alyssa Thomas eronica Burton Chelsea Gray Jackie Young pheesa Collier Aliyah Boston Allisha Gray irtney Williams Skylar Diggins Each player's current salary Source: Original box score stats used in calculations from Basketball Reference What about Caitlin Clark? She missed most of the season with a groin injury. But during her magical rookie season in 2024,
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Ben Mathis-Lilley @benmathislilley.bsky.social · 5d
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The Fabulous Peltoncast @peltoncast.bsky.social · 6d
Jorge Polanco. Julio Rodriguez. Build. The. Statues.
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lifelong new york jets fan @zjwhitman.bsky.social · 6d
Every playoff inning at Safeco in the last 20 years has been excruciating
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 7d
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 7d
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 8d
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 8d
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Noah Cohan @noahcohan.bsky.social · 8d
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 9d
Great command of the language on display here
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 9d
Former racecar driver Danica Patrick slams Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl 2026 halftime headliner:

“No songs in English should not be allowed at one of America’s highest rated television events of the year… not just for sports.”
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Corbin Smith @corbinsmith.bsky.social · 9d
HI EVERYONE! I wrote about The Materials Show, a big materials acquisition event for the Activewear Industry, and also the future of clothing in the face of IMPENDING CLIMATE AND PLASTIC CONSUMPTION APOCALYPSE for @defector.com! defector.com/the-future-o...
The Future Of The Sneaker Business First Requires A Future | Defector
PORTLAND, ORE. — Global capitalism begins with apparel. Slaves were brought to the American South from West Africa to do farm labor, and by the 19th century that largely meant cotton, a ubiquitous puf...
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