Nick Zararis

Nostalgia Only Works When You Mean It: What NBC Got Right and ESPN Keeps Getting Wrong NBC’s return to NBA coverage shows how to honor the past without being trapped by it — a lesson ESPN’s hollow NHL revival still hasn’t learned.

The NBA's return to NBC felt like a triumphant completion of a cycle. The NHL's return to ESPN has felt anything but

On the latest for my Substack

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Hard Work Won’t Fix a Talent Problem: The New York Rangers’ Slow Fade from Contention New York’s front office has built a team in its own image — stubborn, structured, and short on skill

The Rangers aren't even playing bad hockey, but man does it feel like the GM is more concerned with saving his own ass than building a good team

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Dominic Michael Tripi & @DMichaelTripi X.com NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does "more harm than good." 10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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The Rangers are truly a hilarious hockey team

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Mika Zibanejad your legacy is on the line for the duration of Trocheck’s injury

the idea that freedom is in our DNA is just a misinterpretation of the fact that we’re a nation of finicky whiners who don’t like to be personally inconvenienced

a russ vought special

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

JT Miller cannot move

Zibanejad’s one timer is a pop gun, it’s 2020 Drew Brees

Imagining a beautiful future where every coach knew who their best six defenders were.

God I forgot we’re supposed to pretend Marv’s son is a good broadcaster

"My opponent doesn't give a damn about anybody, he made choices that put women and children on the street, and I'll show you" seems like elementary politics, but these days ...

This piece is about how the author thinks Bari is a brilliant journalist, and how people who think otherwise simply have derangement syndrome. About halfway through, the author mentions that Bari, her wife, and her sister are close personal friends.

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

In some ways this is the government now

Baker Mayfield on changing perceptions of him: “Early on in my career it was ‘cocky, immature.’ Now it’s ‘moxie’ and ‘he’s a dog.’ Same sh— different day. As long as you play well, they change the narrative, but you’ve just gotta be yourself, and I’ve always been like that.”

These are genuinely amoral, monstrous people

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

Chris Drury swears he’ll sign a marquee free agent on July 1st, you just don’t know him because he goes to a different school

Really is impressive to be on the wrong side of every issue in your life

I'm a prophet?

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

J.T. Miller has to still be feeling the effects of that lower body injury, he was a total non-factor

Be nice if the NHL, instead of tokenist “get screened for cancer,” paid for by a pharmaceutical company had any actual point to redress the struggle it is to get access to medical care as opposed to portraying it as a matter of personal responsibility