Cloud 9 | Gotham FC Supporters

Our matches are still in question due to these Baltic-like temps, so we’ll continue to highlight the dangers of this cold.

Within minutes extreme cold can result in frostbite, so if you must go out, layer up & think: hat, scarf, face mask & gloves.

Check in on older fam & neighbors

Take care❄️🦁🖤💛

This #BHM, we’re honoring pioneers who opened doors - and those who keep them open. From Dr. Gladys West and Jo Ann Allen Boyce to Crystal Dunn and Christen Press, their excellence and advocacy remind us that progress is built by those who demand more and make space for the next generation.

Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show live updates: Commercials, cameos, best moments Follow live updates and reactions to the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, where Bad Bunny takes center stage

They say Bad Bunny changes lives, and I'm here to say that's absolutely true🙏 Very excited to make my debut in "NFL" coverage by aiding in live blog coverage on @cbssports.bsky.social We're live now with all things Bad Bunny, #SBLX commercials, cameos, and more
www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sup...

Older gay men built their own hockey fandom. Then came 'Heated Rivalry.' The hit show is an unexpected invitation for some older gay hockey fans to reflect on love, acceptance and coming out.

Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts.

I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT Watching Football on Death Row — with a Wrongfully Convicted Man | PTFO

"I'm innocent. I can prove it."

Charles Flores, a wrongfully convicted football fan, is running out of time. I visited him in Texas for the one hour of the day when he's not in solitary confinement, to talk about life on death row — a decade after the real killer went free: youtu.be/0-GnKLFY_Gc?...

Yes, we smashed our initial goal of $10K. Y'all are incredible. We are in shock but also dreaming big. We are (somehow) currently at $19,518 (WTF!?!).

We'd love to make it above $21K today.

That will get us a monthly episode from June to the end of 2026!!

Stop praising the NFL for getting Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show as if they are "standing up to Trump." 1) The NFL owners *bankroll* Trump. 2) Bad Bunny is 💰. He's beyond famous. RATINGS 🔥 3) The NFL's next new international game is in Madrid where - shocker - they speak Spanish. (1/2)

Shouts to @womensgamemib.bsky.social for their support of trans and non-binary athletes. #TransPeopleBelong

Never Furtget.

Join the Club: ‘Heated Rivalry’ is Making Queer Hockey New York’s Hottest Sport The Pride Hockey Alliance has been bringing “hot queer friends” together for years before the buzziest show on ice.

so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈

New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:

Gotham FC is the fun team that has been a cinderella (lowest seed) in both of its championship runs and yet other NWSL fans are tired of its shit. Its fan group, @cloud9goth.bsky.social is one of the league's strongest and it even has its own branded beer from a Jersey City brewery.

After the Olympics, I'll be putting together a game to help Commish pick an NWSL team before the season starts.

If you want to recruit him to your fandom, drop your favorite gameday experience, stadium tradition, or abstract description of the team's vibe below, and I'll include them in my pitches

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

🖤🖤🖤

Meeting of my local antifa chapter..busily knitting hats. 🧶

Burn it all down AND Power Plays returning???????!!!?!???

We have hit our goal (more on that soon, and yes I'm crying) but every dollar we raise above our goal amount = more episodes of BIAD. To pay everyone and to pay for the services we need to make the show, it costs about $3K/episode bare bones and we'd love to make 10000000 episodes.

I’m so glad BIAD is back! And so thrilled they shouted out my newsletter about the NHL trying to capitalize on Heated Rivalry while also being homophobic asshats. 🙏

📰 #GothamFC has loaned forward Princess Ademiluyi to WSL 2 side Ipswich Town FC through 2026. Ademiluyi, 19, retums to England after joining Gotham in September following a transfer from West Ham United. Ademiluyi is under contract with Gotham through the 2029 season.

Our Kickstarter is live‼️

A new season of Burn It All Down is coming and we need your help to make it happen. Your support keeps independent, feminist sports media alive!

Learn more and support the campaign here:
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This month marks the 100th celebration of Black History Month.

Take the time this month to support and celebrate Black players, storytellers, and creators. Listen, read, share and subscribe.

(And learn more about the history of BHM!)
nmaahc.si.edu/explore/mome...

This is solid from Legay. So far, I have Bay FC, ACFC, and Boston as teams celebrating Black people as a theme night. Please correct me if I'm missing a team. Reminder, EVERY team is doing Pride despite not playing in June. Juneteenth is also in June.

episode graphic with trinity rodman doing the sexy dexy and emma hayes doing, erm, something

✊🏾NEW POD✊🏾

Sylvs joined André for a chat about the future of the USWNT, not in terms of results but something just as important (if not more so): its advocacy. We discuss what’s missing, and how to reclaim it.

🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/1M29...
🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... #woso #uswnt

the athletic should retract their britta curl redemption story and links from the week in queer sports

NEW: I wrote a little about why I think The Athletic should either correct or retract their puff piece on Britta Curl from December, in light of even more evidence of her anti-trans views. It was a blatant attempt at damage control ahead of the Olympics & The Athletic participated in it.

Been trying to sort something since the start of September (the DWP does not move at pace) but I’m still in limbo with it and I know I’m going to struggle to get the rent paid this month so, I’m again, shittily having to boost this.
Again hoping it’s the last damn time, ko-fi.com/lawsonsv

Gotham game graphic showing 4-0 defeat of ASFAR from Gotham FC on the website formerly known as Twitter

Great bounce back win. I’m tempted to say the semifinal was a little flukey, but also kind of the classic Gotham problem of spells without scoring. Also of note, Gotham’s entire style of play involves a high level of fitness that they’re only just starting to get back.

Happy Black History Month (year). We love our Blackness and yours

YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - American Skin (41 Shots) (Live in New York City)

Some of you may be too young to have appreciated Bruce's 41 shots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMq... - if yes, you should listen to it. And you should know that the NYPD and NJ cops pitched a MAJOR FIT over it.

The cast of SCTV

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.

S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky