Kevin Van Valkenburg

Staying Cool at the Dunhill Links Championship On Robert MacIntyre and Dustin Johnson at the Dunhill Links Championship, where one player is maximizing his talent and the other is coasting on his.

For this week's Monday @friedegggolf.bsky.social newsletter, I wrote about Dustin Johnson and Robert MacIntyre and different kinds of cool. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/dun...

2025 Ryder Cup Final Thoughts Touching on what could have been for Justin Thomas, press conferences, who wasn't there for the United States, and the rowdy Bethpage fans.

I had three final thoughts from the Ryder Cup, but No. 3 is probably the one that will linger. The fans who screamed vile stuff about Rory and his wife? In the Hall of Fame of Losers. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/202...

U.S. Ryder Cup Team Needs Major Change After Bethpage After a rough showing for most of the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, the United States team needs to make a major change to its operation to compete with Team Europe.

The data people involved with the U.S. Ryder Cup team need to resign. Either they're being ignored or they're being outclassed. My latest for @friedegggolf.bsky.social www.thefriedegg.com/articles/usa...

I don't disagree with any of that. Euro *golf* fans are almost always very playful and fun. What we saw at Bethpage is what it would be like if Euro football fans who didn't really follow golf started coming to football games and hurling abuse at golfers.

Will do!

You bet I did.

Fridays @friedegggolf.bsky.social Shotgun Start flashback was amazing. Full support for @kvanvalkenburg.bsky.social curating these purely for opportunities to do silly accents

Kevin Van Valkenburg joins Fried Egg Golf We're proud to announce the hiring of Fried Egg Golf's newest staff member, Kevin Van Valkenburg, who will serve as our Director of Content.

Hey friends, I'm very excited to start a new gig today. Hope you'll follow along as I continue to tell stories with the awesome @friedegggolf.bsky.social team. www.thefriedegg.com/articles/kev...

This is so wonderful and somehow hopeful in the face of despair.

It made me smile a lot that such good sentences get to exist, and cry a little that I'm still moved by words with the world on fire.

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod: 9780375400391 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hi...

We are honored and thrilled to share the cover of @tomjunod.bsky.social's upcoming memoir: IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN. Preorder your copy now:
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New installment in Lenny’s Book Club: AMERICAN KINGS: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE QUARTERBACK by @sethwickersham.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read this. Preorder now:

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/789617...

Sadly I can't wake up Art Modell, but I think he's the only one.

Stupid TV, Be More Funny This comprehensive account of the meteoric rise of The Simpsons combines incisive pop culture criticism and interviews with the show’s creative team th...

The Ringer's Hollywood bureau chief @alansiegella.bsky.social has a new book out about The Simpsons that you need to buy right now.

So many amazing nuggets about what the show owes to ('60s) Batman, the feud w/ Barbara (not just George) Bush, and more. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...

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For this week's @nolayingup.com narrative podcast, I wrote a love letter to my local muni (but really, munis everywhere). Neil and Randy and I also have a fun discussion about what makes a great muni in the back half of the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1lv6...

Big bird sitting in his nest wearing a green 33 Larry bird jersey holding the Larry o Brien trophy. He looks so happy and wholesome

Sometimes I’m just like everything is so dumb and stupid what is the point and then I see Big Bird in a Larry Bird jersey and it’s like wow the world is beautiful and worth fighting for

For this week's @nolayingup.com narrative podcast, I wrote a love letter to my local muni (but really, munis everywhere). Neil and Randy and I also have a fun discussion about what makes a great muni in the back half of the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/1lv6...

Mina I would like to come on a discuss Andor. Thank you for listening.

Finding out that the Winklevii aren't ball knowers

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[Kermit voice]
"In conclusion... defund the police!"
[raises webbed fist]

People make smarmy jokes about Infinite Jest but man, so much of it turned out to be prescient.

"Oh I'm afraid this McDonalds station will be fully operational by the time your friends arrive."

Eight Myths Out 100 years since the 1919 World Series, new research has revealed new truths about baseball's darkest hour: the Black Sox Scandal. On the centennial anniversary, SABR's Black Sox Committee sheds light on the biggest myths about the fixing of the 1919 World Series.

Now that the Black Sox players have been removed from MLB's permanently ineligible list after 104 years, here's the most accurate history we know on what really happened in the 1919 World Series, from SABR's Eight Myths Out: sabr.org/eight-myths-...

Andor has a real chance to stick the landing and be a Top 10 all-time show. Not even joking a little.

This definition of corruption is so pedantic as to be nonsensical. Corruption is an umbrella category of which a bribe is a part.

The Righteous Gemstones was closer to a documentary than it was to fiction.

📘 American Kings by @SethWickersham (Sept 9)

Football book of the year? A deep dive into the most mythologized position in US sports: quarterback. From Unitas to Arch Manning, Wickersham explores the ambition, pressure, and price of chasing football royalty.