Emma Baccellieri

twitter stan account called "divamcrae" sharing a picture of quinn hughes with "he’s cute but he looks like he’s having an existential crisis"

very excited to tell you it's already happening and they're focusing on all the right stuff

What to Know About Jack Hughes, the Buzz-Worthy Hockey Player And his brothers.

Very charmed by Jack Hughes / Tate McRae rising to the level where Teen Vogue writes an explainer on him... "Heightened by his lax ‘fit and bandaged arm, he quelled up a lot of curiosity" ... I'll say!!!

For CNN I'm looking to talk to young men (feel free to interpret "young" broadly) who are actively sports betting sober—as in, you made a conscious decision to abstain for your wellbeing or you quit gambling—but are still sports fans. If that's you: Hannah[dot]keyser[at]cnn[dot]com

Especially cool to see this for players like Meggie Meidlinger, who has been grinding and playing for *so long* for a chance like this

Caldwell and her husband, Justin, had tried for a baby in the past. Instead, it happened just when she was taking on a new job that felt completely all-consuming, while the couple was still looking for a house in their new town. She automatically felt as if she was letting her team down. Now, a year later, that reaction feels ridiculous. But Caldwell could not frame it to herself any other way in those early weeks. “I was hired to do this job,” she remembers thinking. “I was hired to coach these players. And everyone’s going to be disappointed in me, because now I’m not going to be able to be there for them the way they need me to be.” No one else shared that reaction. When she was ready to tell the administration, they showered her with congratulations, offering resources and sharing how coaches in other sports had navigated pregnancy. Caldwell still dreaded telling her players. “I was terrified,” she says. She was sure that her news could only be received by them as a disappointment.

Kim Caldwell expected to learn a lot in her first year coaching at Tennessee. She did not expect that it would overlap with her first pregnancy. On what she gained from a rollercoaster of a year: www.si.com/college-bask...

thanks so much! appreciate it

Kim Caldwell Believes in Her Unconventional Basketball Style—And So Does Tennessee The second-year coach runs a fast-paced system with

On how Kim Caldwell built her system and what it does (and doesn't) answer at Tennessee:

What's the officiating problem dragging the WNBA into turmoil? Podcast Episode · Phantom Island · 11/19/2025 · 44m

Today on Phantom Island: @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social joins me to explain the particulars of why players and coaches are so fed up with WNBA officiating, what makes this situation different from other instances of ref frustration, and how the league can improve things.

@greenwell.bsky.social seeking comment on kentucky men's basketball... hearing they're frauds? can you confirm

yes! Could've written a ton on this but with "Whitmore discussed her pitch mix" — playing against women means she can use her 80 mph fastball instead of trying to reinvent herself as a crafty offspeed type like she has to playing against men. And that plays out in a million different ways.

Davis and Whitmore each had given so many interviews over the years as the first or the only. They were always positioned as singular figures, anomalies, unconnected from any other girl who might have ever played the game. But after the last day of tryouts, they sat before the cameras and microphones together, right next to Siegal. Whitmore discussed her pitch mix and then shared one moment that she kept turning over in her mind. A group of players had grabbed dinner together after the first day of tryouts, and when they piled into the car, Whitmore had joked, “Girls’ night out.” But heart cracked open as soon as the words left her mouth. She thought of all her other first days on new teams in new leagues—always known as the girl, the only one, in a way that she could not out-run or out-hit or out-throw. “The isolation has always been real,” Whitmore says. And here she was making a joke, girls, plural. She could hardly believe the freedom. There were no big contracts or long-term plans or even any team names yet. But the league had already given them something they had scarcely been able to dream of before.

On women playing baseball outside the framework of "first" or "only," for Kelsie Whitmore, Mo'ne Davis and more in the fledging WPBL: www.si.com/mlb/mone-dav...

thanks, Preston!

Mo’ne Davis Is Finally Ready to Play Baseball Again More than a decade after becoming a Little League sensation at age 13, Mo’ne Davis is set to make more history as the face of the Women’s Pro Baseball League.

Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:

rip, william jennings bryan, you would have loved, etc.

everyone please wish a happy birthday to @jon-becker.com, the king of your baseball offseason!!!!

A Pro League Paying College Athletes? Unrivaled Is Thinking Outside the NIL Box The thriving three-on-three league is teaming up with 14 of the best women’s college basketball players, who have more options than ever before.

Interesting to consider Unrivaled's NIL deals with college players in light of the Project B signings. Wild how quickly the landscape has changed here.

ty!!! I had been meaning to get an invite for ages and am so glad I finally did

Humbled and thrilled to announce I won the very first match I played in LearnedLeague (because my opponent forgot and forfeited)

Damn I'd completely forgotten he was the one who hit the ball to Kerkering lmao

Good for Andy Pages on getting "championship saving catch" in as a career defining moment before the world heard about "unknowingly foiling gambling plot by swinging at extremely obvious ball"

Dodgers Become Baseball’s Modern Dynasty With an Unforgettable World Series Win Los Angeles won its third World Series in six years with some of the sport’s biggest stars and unlikely heroes—and, perhaps, some divine intervention.

“I don’t know how much I’ve got,” he told Prior through his interpreter, Yoshihiro Sonoda, “but I can give you something. All I need is to be given enough time to warm up.”
Verducci going long on Yamamoto, Rojas, Smith and the Dodgers:

Can’t wait to read Verducci on that one in the morning

The first ninth-inning game-tying homer in a winner-take-all by a man in a Van Cleef & Arpels necklace

MIGUEL ROJAS??????????

The craziest thing about Ernie Clement is that his legal name is just “Ernie,” not Ernest, not short for anything. And the second-craziest thing is that he has the single postseason hit record.

‘Everybody Needs Some Oxygen’: What It’s Like to Be a Reliever on the Run When the benches clear and the brawl begins, those in the bullpen make the long, obligatory sprint to join their teammates in the kerfuffle.

“It’s an important piece of the process—complete with its own politics and plenty of space for idiosyncrasy—and relievers agree: It’s a trip they have to make.” — @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social on relievers when the benches clear, from 2022

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

Just how they drew it up

Dave Roberts thinks he's in a movie

One thing I did not expect about this month was how much of it would be spent watching Louis Varland