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Now: Sports Illustrated (@siunion.bsky.social). Then: Athlon Sports, TNIAAM. Syracuse alum. @Dan_Lyons76 at the other place.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
The Pro Bowl is a very special event
January 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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New @slate.com:

Your eyes are telling you one thing, but Stephen Miller is telling you another thing. Which should you trust?

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes
But this is exactly as bad as it looks.
slate.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed.

This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.
January 25, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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In Minneapolis I saw a vision for an alternative American ethos, which is love and also the willingness to fight to protect that love. Niceness, not weakness.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/hate-has-t...
Hate Has to Scatter When Minneapolis Arises
At the general strike.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Dybantsa’s serious
January 25, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Same as it ever was
At least we get to see the first true national SU coaching search in… 64 years?
January 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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At least we get to see the first true national SU coaching search in… 64 years?
January 17, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Apropos day for a whiteout in Syracuse, both for the weather and also it allows students to imagine they aren’t rooting for this Orange team.
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I would rarely say that Dabo Swinney has bars, but he was really getting after it on Ole Miss today.
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Cam Newton might be the best college football player I've ever seen and the worst person in all of sports media at talking about college football, perhaps suggesting an inverse correlation between the two
Cam Newton: "Notre Dame hasn't been relevant in years."

Shae Cornette: "They were just in the national championship game one year ago"
January 23, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I hope he has something awesome lined up. Seeing him with another franchise would be brutal.
@johndemarsico.bsky.social just announced on Twitter that he he is no longer directing games for SNY. Most devastating loss of the offseason by far!
January 23, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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A few years ago when I was studying for Jeopardy! I realized why it was so hard to study sports if you don't know ball. Then some other stuff happened and I decided to write about it for @defector.com : defector.com/are-jeopardy...
Are 'Jeopardy!' Contestants Really That Bad At Questions About Sports?  | Defector
There’s a stereotype about Jeopardy! contestants: They can name the stars of 18th-century operas, but not the starting quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. It comes up again and again and again and agai...
defector.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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I wrote about the Pitchfork paywall, the reaction to the Pitchfork paywall, and whether the future of online media is more like a record store or cable television. (This, ironically, is a free post!)
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What Is An Album Review Worth?
Thoughts on the Pitchfork paywall and the future of internet media
tinyurl.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Someone talk me into Luis Robert
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Indi-fricken-ana, football powerhouse. The Hoosiers broke the sport and broke what’s possible for any team. How will CFB at large react to IU’s magical run?

Column: www.si.com/college-foot...
Indiana’s Magical Title Run Has One Parallel That Foreshadows How College Football Will React
When Leicester City won the Premier League, historically successful clubs swiftly responded to tamp down additional upstarts. Could the SEC follow that model?
www.si.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Honestly might be the most incredible story in college football history.
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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CFP championship game live blog is indeed live. Check in for updates from Miami Gardens as Miami and Indiana play for the national title. www.si.com/college-foot...
Indiana vs. Miami: Live Scores, Updates From College Football Playoff National Championship
Will the Hoosiers win their first title, or will the Hurricanes return to relevancy? Follow Sports Illustrated from Miami for analysis from the title game.
www.si.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Syracuse MBB is so much less than the sum of its parts this year, it’s mind boggling
January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Did Dante Moore make the right call going back to Oregon and skipping the NFL draft? I took a long look at top quarterbacks dating back to Peyton Manning in 1997 who made similar decisions. www.si.com/college-foot...
A History of Top Quarterbacks Skipping Draft, Staying in College As Dante Moore Returns to Oregon
With Dante Moore electing to return to Oregon rather than enter 2026 draft, we look at other quarterbacks who’ve made that decision.
www.si.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM