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09.12.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Traci Thomas' Most Anticipated Books of 2026 - She Reads
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The great Traci Thomas—the heart of The Stacks podcast and one of best literary voices out there today—has named HEARTLAND as one of her “most anticipated” books of 2026. And apparently, I am now the “Larry Bird of sports biographers." Amazing! Truly. Wow. shereads.com/traci-thomas...
08.12.2025 17:46 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks, Adam!
08.12.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seriously!
04.12.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is a no-brainer, folks. Vote him in! And while you’re at it, vote in Roger Craig too. If you watched football in the 1980s, you know.
04.12.2025 00:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Keith O'Brien
HEARTLAND — video trailer
My new book HEARTLAND has a trailer! Watch, enjoy, share with friends, spread the word, and preorder your copy today. It comes out on 3/3/26 from @atriabooks.bsky.social, and I can’t wait for you to read it. Thanks, everyone! 💙🏀💙
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03.12.2025 17:03 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
I am thrilled that my home state of Ohio has selected Charlie Hustle as a community read in 2026! Thank you to the @statelibohio.bsky.social, the Ohio Center for the Book & the Ohioana Library for this honor. This book just keeps chugging around the bases... library.ohio.gov/home/news-an...
01.12.2025 18:50 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Chanda!
01.12.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always a good sign, IMO!
26.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the summer of 1978, two future Hall of Famers—Larry Bird and Joe Montana—squared off for a state title in slow-pitch softball. Can you guess who performed better that weekend on the dusty fields of Indiana? Make your choice in the comments. I’ll reveal the answer later this week. #heartland
24.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Nothing made me feel older today than the death of the penny.
13.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In an age of gambling scandals, this is just another. Prop bets are dangerous to all the sports you love.
09.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
The switch to standard time means one thing: it already feels like winter in New Hampshire. This is a live view of the sky at 4:53 p.m.
03.11.2025 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Baseball. There’s nothing like it.
02.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Devastating loss for Toronto. Amazing World Series for baseball fans around the world. Pitchers and catchers report in 101 days.
02.11.2025 04:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gotta hand it to Derek Jeter … He called this in the pregame. He said Bo Bichette would come up with runners on as the Dodgers tried to pitch around Vlad. Shohei intentionally walks Vlad to get the Bichette. And—boom—Canada explodes. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
02.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When did I get interested in writing about Larry Bird? I guess you can say 1987—when we visited Terre Haute and stopped at Bird’s restaurant. This is me with my brother and sister that day. I regret nothing—except for that Ohio State hoodie. Check out HEARTLAND, coming 3/3/26. Preorders are open!
31.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
We should all channel the fortitude and determination of this tree, trapped in an abandoned suburban parking lot, but still releasing its glory into the great wide world.
🌳🍁💙
28.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you pray, pray for Jamaica. There should not be a hurricane this strong in the Caribbean this late in the season. #ClimateCrisis #HurricaneMelissa
28.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Given the latest sports gambling scandals, I’m not sure this fan is the image that MLB wants behind home plate tonight. But I guess this is what you get in a world of legalized gambling.
26.10.2025 01:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wait—which team was heavily favored to win this World Series?
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
25.10.2025 02:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prop Bets Must Die
As long as one player can fix the outcome of a wager, the temptation will prove irresistible to some athletes.
Yesterday's sports gambling bombshell isn't an outlier. Actually, it's alarmingly normal. Gambling scandals are the new American pastime. But there is an easy way to head off the next crisis: Take prop bets off the board. My piece for the @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
24.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
Heat’s Terry Rozier arrested as part of FBI gambling investigation
A federal gambling investigation led to the arrest Thursday of Heat guard Terry Rozier.
Another sports gambling scandal is unfolding in Florida—allegedly involving prop bets yet again. This should surprise no one and worry everyone who cares about the integrity of the games we watch.
www.miamiherald.com/sports/nba/m...
23.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
What a fun night at the Ohio Book Awards—with Gov. Mike DeWine, the First Lady Ohio, my date for the evening (my mother!), great writers like @timothysnyder.bsky.social, and people fighting to defend books.
16.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Already paying the price for staying up until the end of this one. But I don’t regret it. It was PEAK playoff baseball.
11.10.2025 11:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the powder blues with all that hair and moxie, Harrison Bader looks like he could have been on that @phillies.com team with Darren Daulton and Lenny Dykstra.
10.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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