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Ph.D. Director of journalism MA online programs at St Bonaventure. Writing on Substack at Sports Media Guy. Podcasting about writing at The Other 51. Ellie's dad. Bills/Bonnies/Barça fan. He/Him/His. Print news, raise hell.

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Polymarket says “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets” Predictions market Polymarket and Substack are now "exclusive," the companies announced. And the relationship getting serious is raising a few eyebrows. On Wednesday, Substack announced the new featu...

It would be so much easier to throw deserved scorn at Substack for this nonsense if ESPN and CNN had not already sold their souls to betting markets also.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/poly...

20.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”


Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

19.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 3597    🔁 488    💬 55    📌 84

Good lord.

19.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is the kinda cursed phrase you never even imagined could be written.

19.02.2026 21:12 — 👍 32    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

At Sports Media Guy this week, a quick riff on how media outlets are writing about prediction markets - and why it's all a little weird.

open.substack.com/pub/sportsme...

18.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is not a policy oriented around helping students learn meaningful things. Training students to do school by avoiding AI detection is not worth anyone's time.

17.02.2026 21:24 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Adding this to tomorrow's post about it!

(And let's talk papers. Could have fun with it.)

17.02.2026 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Guaranteed the reds date back to Lanier.

17.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, there are those of us who used to teach in computer labs.

17.02.2026 02:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand

it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

16.02.2026 19:21 — 👍 5454    🔁 1038    💬 61    📌 59
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Godspeed, Max Mercy.

16.02.2026 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also a time before technology allowed for easy writing from the field. Pre laptops and phones. The rewrite man might be the only person with the ability to typing the story up for the editors.

16.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The "rewrite man" is an old journalistic role, an relic of the days when journalistic outfits had more reporters than news hole and lots of people to throw at breaking news. I am certain these are not the Plain Dealer's current problems.

16.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0

"Removing writing from reporter's workloads" is one hell of a thing to say out loud.

(Safe travels!)

(Reposted to fix typo in the original)

16.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“We are disrupting soup.”

16.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“By removing writing from reporter‘s workloads” is one hell of a thing to say.

16.02.2026 13:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

At least this kid didn't name his podcast after a Hamilton lyric in 2016. Imagine the horror of doing that.

(Please like and subscribe to The Other 51 oh shoot)

15.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.

This is really, really dark.

www.wsj.com/world/middle...

12.02.2026 15:56 — 👍 1796    🔁 744    💬 48    📌 118

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

11.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 893    🔁 197    💬 9    📌 24
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How the Phillies’ $100 million marriage with Nick Castellanos ended in divorce When the Phillies ate $20 million on Thursday and released Castellanos, it was an admission that the relationship was irrevocably broken.

Full story here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

12.02.2026 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"The beginning of the end for Nick Castellanos’ time in Philadelphia came on the night when the $100 million outfielder cracked open a Presidente beer and carried the green bottle into the Phillies dugout in the middle of a game."

Well that's an all timer of a led @mattgelb.bsky.social

12.02.2026 21:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When I saw they were all going like 30mph the whole time I was stunned!

12.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Kevin Stevens The intertubes.

Remembering my old colleague Kevin Stevens, a man as Binghamton as a lamb spiedie.

12.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Kevin Stevens The intertubes.

Remembering my old colleague Kevin Stevens, a man as Binghamton as a lamb spiedie.

12.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

You are a foot soldier in the War on Protein.

11.02.2026 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"I want to build a factory on the moon."

Buddy, I want to do a lot of things ...

11.02.2026 23:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
"The only thing Big Tech is selling us is their own unprocessed trauma back to us. It's not a revolution. It's a comfort blanket for a managerial class that still can't fathom that all their tech and wealth couldn't protect them from the pandemic."

"The only thing Big Tech is selling us is their own unprocessed trauma back to us. It's not a revolution. It's a comfort blanket for a managerial class that still can't fathom that all their tech and wealth couldn't protect them from the pandemic."

Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.

11.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 843    🔁 242    💬 11    📌 11
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Wetzel: Giannis/Kalshi deal does NBA no favors All this might be legal, but at some point perception defines reality and optics overwhelm everything.

Dan Wetzel has been a consistent voice in favor of legalized gambling, dating back years. If he's hedging on the prediction market world, that feels significant.

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

11.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Are you suggesting he would not be fully invested in the budget for the cross country team?

11.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

This column is good and @davekarpf.bsky.social should feel good.

11.02.2026 03:41 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

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