Dan Lyons

North Dakota State Pushes to Change Longstanding NCAA Rule Ahead of FBS Move As of now, the Bison won’t be eligible to participate in the FBS postseason until the 2028–29 season.

Based on current NCAA bylaws, the Bison would have to wait until 2028–29 to play in the FBS postseason, but they’re planning to challenge what they call an “antiquated” rule. si.com/college-foot...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Only one Olympic pair, the Czech brother-sister pair of Daniel Mrázek and Katerina Mrázeková, skated to AI music. But they ran into a problem — the first time they asked AI to spit out a 1990s song, it plagiarized the lyrics to an actual awesome 1990s song, “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals. (A true banger, maybe my favorite 1990s song, tbh.) The video is STUNNING, I have no idea how they thought they could get away with it. For the Olympics, they swapped that one out for a new AI song, which also sucks but isn’t directly stolen from anybody.

wild AI story from the Olympics
ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it
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Some important personal news:

I think I'm turning into a tea guy in 2026. But still a coffee-first, coffee/tea bigamist.

Breezy Johnson Unspools Masterful Run to Become Team USA’s Newest Star The Wyoming native knits to calm her nerves before bombing down ski slopes. On Sunday in Cortina, she stitched together a gold-medal run for the ages.

Second: the column on gold medalist and knitting enthusiast Breezy Johnson. She has now experienced both sides of "the beautify and the madness" of downhill racing. bit.ly/4knUjtF

The Tragic End of Lindsey Vonn’s Comeback Doesn’t Erase the Triumph of Trying The 41-year-old’s devastating crash in the women’s downhill sent shockwaves through the Milan Cortina Olympics, but it doesn’t mean it was all for nothing.

It was a two-byline day from the Olympic downhill Sunday. First, the heavy silence that followed Lindsey Vonn's gruesome crash: bit.ly/4afDlJ7

Throw the little you know about Scottish surnames out the window

This still trips me up if I haven’t written/edited something on him in a bit

Greg Bishop on how the Seahawks busted ghost after ghost on the way to their Super Bowl LX win 🏆 www.si.com/nfl/an-exerc...

guys… we made a Super Bowl ad

here’s how we did it: www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Ok, if you were waiting until after the Super Bowl to get really into the Olympics, have I got some stuff for you…

100%... pretty tame given the circumstances

"Suspected political message" is laugh out loud funny. Dangerously high levels of giving the game away.

Who the Little Boy Was in Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show Bad Bunny handed a Grammy to a young boy during his Super Bowl LX halftime show.

No, the child from the Bad Bunny performance wasn’t Liam Ramos www.si.com/nfl/super-bo...

Time for the Super Bowl here on BlueSky, the app for sports.

North Dakota State Football to Pay Hefty Price to Make Jump to FBS, Mountain West The Bison will become a football-only Mountain West member, which is losing schools to the new-look Pac-12.

The biggest football news of the day: they’re actually doing it. www.si.com/college-foot...

Certified Chris Hooks Classic, here. It is very detailed and humane in telling the story it tells, which concerns the damage that a small number of snitches, creeps, and dullards have done to this institution, but also about the long history and awful present of snitches/creeps/dullards doing that.

“All the remembrances of Dan’s offbeat personality and style bring us to tears. One day, we will read these to Simon. He will never forget his Daddy because all of you have left him a documented history book of who Dan was.”

How Seahawks DC Aden Durde Became the Coach Who Could Break a Major Barrier The U.K. native is pulling a reverse Ted Lasso, a possible harbinger of what’s to come as the NFL’s global pipeline primes itself for more imports.

The rise of Seahawks DC Aden Durde is unlike any story in modern NFL coaching.

But it's *because* he was born and raised in the U.K. that he was able to master his craft, not in spite of it.

Our deep dive into his scheme, his past and what changes now: www.si.com/nfl/aden-dur...

How One Fan’s Paranormal Encounters Could Help the Seahawks Vanquish Their Ghosts Keith Linder wonders if Seattle’s football team may be able to follow the same steps he did to complete a season of exorcisms. Plus, more from Greg Bishop.

How One Fan’s Paranormal Encounters Could Help the Seahawks Vanquish Their Ghosts www.si.com/nfl/one-fans...

Sports Illustrated's Daily Rings Sports Podcast · Updated Daily · SI’s daily podcast covering the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Hosts Mitch Goldich and Dan Gartland cover every sport, discuss top storylines and preview what you should...

🚨🎧 Thursday’s episode of SI’s Daily Rings:

▶️ News updates: Vonn, Minions skater, USA flag-bearers
▶️ Deep dive on all the venues in Milan Cortina
▶️ Fourth and final episode before the opening ceremony

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🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2FG2WnU...

Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Live Updates: All the Biggest Moments From Milan Cortina 2026 The 2026 Winter Olympics are officially underway.

@tryler.bsky.social has our Winter Olympics opening ceremony live blog fired up www.si.com/winter-olymp...

a dude dressed as cupid

OH YEAH LET'S GET ITALIAN

A few hours to go before the opening ceremony, who wants to see a huge thread of Olympics preview stories from Sports Illustrated?

Let’s go… 🧵🧵🧵

What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector Today is Dan McQuade’s funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan’s widow Jan,...

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

The Quarterback Development Question That Could Be Answered by Super Bowl LX “Pure progression” vs. “coverage-based reads” is a battle that’s been affecting the NFL for a while now. But while progression passing has gained momentum over the past decade, Drake Maye and the Patriots are proving there’s another way.

The Patriots' offense requires the QB & WR to read the defense in real time after the play starts, come to the same conclusions, and then (telepathically?) adjust the route tree accordingly. This deserves repsect, however much you hate Brady or Boston.

Down go the Zags

Tarik Skubal Is Primed to Revolutionize MLB’s Salary System The Tigers ace enters Wednesday’s arbitration hearing with the goal of setting a precedent for players in their final season before free agency.

Tarik Skubal Is Primed to Revolutionize MLB’s Salary System www.si.com/mlb/tigers/t...

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one? "If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out.

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