Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter

might not be exclusive to athletes

@realbachscore.bsky.social seems like a solid candidate

Sources: www.loc.gov/resource/sn9...

www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

The early years of the Michigan-Wisconsin series were marked by catastrophic collapses of the stadiums they played in. In the Ann Arbor game, players actually helped rescue people from the wreckage.

Chicago (1902) and Ann Arbor (1905)

🏈 💍 In honor of Saturday's Miami-Florida State game, I call your attention to the most "That escalated quickly" anecdote in the history of the @nytimes.com Vows section:
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/f...

Are ‘Super Spikes’ Powering America’s Running Resurgence? Cole Hocker, who has won world titles for the U.S. in the 1,500 and 5,000 meters, said he could be benefiting from new shoes that may give an edge to bigger, heavier runners.

The thinking used to be that middle-distance runners should be as light as possible. But ‘super spikes’ might be giving an edge to bigger runners—like Americans.
www.wsj.com/sports/super...

Big news in women's college basketball: The NCAA announces that the 2028 Women's Final Four will move to Lucas Oil Stadium from Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

This follows a string of WFF sellouts at NBA-sized arenas and skyrocketing resale prices for tickets.

2028 Women’s Final Four moves to Lucas Oil Stadium - NCAA.org The Division I Women's Basketball Committee on Monday voted to change to a larger venue for the 2028 Women's Final Four, moving the event to Lucas Oil Stadium in

Here's the full release:
www.ncaa.org/news/2025/9/...

NCAA Corporate Sponsorships Are for 90 Championships. They Revolve Around One. The NCAA handed over all sponsorship sales to CBS and Turner, which broadcast the men’s basketball tournament. That could be leaving other sports behind.

Another view: With women's March Madness essentially frozen out of the NCAA's lucrative corporate sponsorship program, it's important to explore other ways to generate revenue from and for women's basketball.
www.wsj.com/sports/baske...

I hear you. But tickets getting so expensive that they're unreachable to many fans is also a terrible experience.

Big news in women's college basketball: The NCAA announces that the 2028 Women's Final Four will move to Lucas Oil Stadium from Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

This follows a string of WFF sellouts at NBA-sized arenas and skyrocketing resale prices for tickets.

The fastest hat trick in league history (36 minutes) and the coolest name: Gift Monday.

The 23-year-old Nigerian joined the Washington Spirit this season.

The Out-of-Nowhere Ending That Lit Up College Football’s Game of the Year Saturday’s showdown between Oregon and Penn State started out slowly. It ended up an overtime masterpiece.

Penn State-Oregon was first time this century that two teams scored less than 7 points in the first half and more than 40 after the start of the fourth quarter.
www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

YouTube video by Fred Pool Portlandia Intro

The Portlandia intro still slaps
youtu.be/3vIUPIOlOjQMe

Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE.

Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

A rendering of the outside of the proposed London City training facility. A white building with floor to ceiling glass overlooks outdoor fields.

London City Lionesses announced it has secured approval to develop a performance campus that will "rival that of a men's Premier League team." Owner Michele Kang, who also owns Washington Spirit + Lyonnes, previously announced renovation plans in Lyon and has also been searching for land around D.C.

My Ticket to a Cheap(er) Weekend on the Vegas Strip: a Quirky Best Western Vegas has gone high-end, but you can still find deals in the center of the action.

Because vacations in Las Vegas have gone from a bargain to shockingly expensive, I appreciate my colleague finding the cheapest place on the Strip: a Best Western that charges $99 a weeknight. It even has a cigarette machine! Old-school.
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

Wow. New York Liberty coach Sandy Brondello is out.

The Minnesota Vikings really took ranch dressing and cereal with them to Europe

(V SBJ) www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

This 1913 story talks about football players working their way through school. At the time, according to this, annual expenses were $250.

That's $8265 in today's dollars. For an entire year of college expenses.

(The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.), Dec. 23, 1913) tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Great story, Annie!

Find you someone who will stick up for you like Metallica stuck up for this bagpiper:
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Setting my alarm for 1 am so I can wake up and watch the second half of Michigan State-USC

Marilyn Hagerty, Whose Column on Olive Garden Went Viral in 2012, Dies at 99 It was a simpler time online, her son recalls—and his no-nonsense mother broke through the noise for all the right reasons

“Way back in 2012, the internet wasn’t yet the angry, shrieking wasteland it has become. A simple story about a no-nonsense lady in North Dakota could break through the noise.”

Spectacular obit on the Olive Garden reviewer, by her son.
www.wsj.com/us-news/mari...

Happy weekend, everyone.
(photo from www.studiomuseum.org)

Every Gap Band song is the same song but it’s an absolute banger

America Loves Cocaine Again—Mexico’s New Drug King Cashes In The Trump administration’s war on fentanyl created an opening for ‘El Señor Mencho’ to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. by the ton.

This does a good job of explaining why cocaine is on the rise again:
www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The 1970s were wild….
(From The Book of Lists, 1976)

How giddy are long-suffering Illinois football fans right now, heading into top-20 tilt with Indiana? Actual message board comment:

WR Helen Kwong, mother of Illinois receiver Hank Beatty. cc: @minakimes.bsky.social