Josh Levin

Now that this story has been published, I grant permission to all NFL teams to pursue a 36-23 scoreline today.

is this your way of saying that you'd like to try some of the restaurants I've been suggesting?

Dave's Scorigami spreadsheet is incredible stuff docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

No NFL Game Has Ever Ended in a Score of 36–23 A scoreboard mystery

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the NFL's baffling scoreboard mystery: Why has a game never ended 36-23? Join me (via gift link!) on this @nflscorigami.bsky.social quest w/help from @jonbois.bsky.social, Dave Mattingly, some Scorigami-loving academics, and more www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

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Wilbur Huckle For President: Solving A 61-Year-Old Mets Mystery | Defector Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington, D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I’m not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a ...

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @joshuablevin.bsky.social & @defector.com! (H/t @barryyeoman.com)

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Breaking: Serena Williams Is Preparing to Return to Tennis The 23-time major singles champion has filed paperwork that sets a 2026 comeback to professional tennis in motion.

Big breaking news at Bounces:

Serena Williams has applied for reinstatement to tennis, adding herself back into the tennis anti-doping program to set herself up for a comeback to competition in 2026.

Read all the details here:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/serena-wil...

If I Fight, You Fight: The Oral History of ‘Creed’ Ten years ago, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan cemented their partnership and pulled off a million-to-one shot, bringing the ‘Rocky’ franchise into a new era

Here’s my oral history of CREED, the movie not the band. With help from Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and many more. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/m...

Brian Daboll is available …

In 1990, One of the Great Forgotten Acts of American Subterfuge Unfolded. It Involved Pizza Hut. A delicious caper of vodka bribes and world-altering salad bars.

"The Moscow crew shipped off all those pizzas and 20 cases of Pepsi to the parliament building, to fortify Yeltsin and his supporters against the coup. Antoniadi had inserted Pizza Hut into a political crisis." —Kelly Jones & @joshuablevin.bsky.social for @slate.com

Bottom Dollar On the shady practices of 1xBet, and its rapidly growing presence across tennis.

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On 1xBet, the strange and shady company which has become rapidly more visible across tennis in 2025 despite *many* reasons for tours, tournaments, and federations to steer clear of its mess.

Lots of odd details here, free for all to read at Bounces:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/1xbet-tenn...

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Every Week Should Be Wilbur Huckle Week Thank you for subscribing to the Replay Booth newsletter, where I’ll be sending updates on a podcast series that—according to the Guardian, in our first published review—has “the same sense of cheerfu...

In the Replay Booth newsletter, I've got a cornucopia of goodies for all the Huckle-heads out there: some great photos, a questionnaire he filled out in 1966, multiple unauthorized Wilbur Huckle baseball cards, and more!

www.replaybooth.show/p/every-week...

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The first eppy of Replay Booth, @joshuablevin.bsky.social’s new sports history podcast, is sensational. Highly recommended! I can’t wait to hear more.

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Screenshot from the Guardian that reads: Slate contributor Josh Levin was behind the great One Year podcast, each season of which told surprising stories from the same 12 months in recent-ish history. That show is sadly no more, but Levin has returned with a pilot for a new series, which has the same sense of cheerful inquiry. This time, tapping into his experience as host of the long-running US sport podcast Hang Up and Listen, he’s looking at the intriguing ways sport and history intersect. In this first episode, he tries to get to the bottom of a badge he found in a charity shop with the slogan “extremism in defence of the Mets is no vice” – a nod to both the New York baseball team and a notorious quote by a Republican presidential candidate. Who made it and why?

Thank you to Gwilym Mumford of @theguardian.com for this shout-out for Replay Booth. Listen now! pod.link/1462685560/e...

Wilbur Huckle For President: Solving A 61-Year-Old Mets Mystery | Defector Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I’m not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a l...

An incredible story about the stuff guys used to do to entertain themselves before there was posting on the internet: defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

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I mean, you really should. Even if you don't like sports, but especially if you do.

Replay Booth is a perfect podcast for Josh and warms my gerontology heart.

You should also listen to the pilot episode of Replay Booth, "Wilbur Huckle for President," and sign up for the Replay Booth newsletter! pod.link/1462685560/e... www.replaybooth.show/p/replay-boo...

Wilbur Huckle For President: Solving A 61-Year-Old Mets Mystery | Defector Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop like this one, I’m not looking for chairs or lamps. My interests are a l...

Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

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This is fabulous. A custom Wilbur Huckle Topps card!