My fellow Cal people... we have a quarterback 🤙🏼
Senior national columnist for The Athletic. Author; current book, The Why Is Everything, available everywhere: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1324093609/ref=cm_sw_su_dp Partner, Backstage Media. Past: NFL Network, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo! Sports, SF Chronicle
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My fellow Cal people... we have a quarterback 🤙🏼
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Yo... youtu.be/DhNrGs5zuNs?...
Aloha Golden Bears
🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
A home game for Out Here
Absolutely
Hear ya but... Giants' management has been a tad rough the past decade and a half
Thank you!
My @theathletic.com column on the Micah Parsons trade... www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
The Cowboys and Packers made a big trade. I opened my laptop. @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
😱😱😱
Don't be mad at THIS Jerry 💀🌹
"And as for newly installed Packers CEO Ed Policy? At the next owners’ meeting, he should roll up rocking Gucci slippers and a Hugh Hefner-style red velvet smoking jacket..." @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Up and running... @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Just dropped: My column on one of the biggest blockbuster trades in NFL history... www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Jerry Jones told people "don't lose any sleep" over Micah Parsons' trade request three weeks ago. My @theathletic.com colleagues and I called BS. @diannarussini.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
BREAKING: The Cowboys have reached agreement on a trade that will send Micah Parsons to the Packers, per sources. Parsons will sign a four-year, $188 million extension with Green Bay that includes $136 million guaranteed.
A statement from Micah Parsons:
Appreciate you
6) Finally, here's the @sportsillustrated.bsky.social cover story I wrote off the Saints' emotional victory in the wake of the disaster... vault.si.com/vault/2005/0...
Here's the 10th anniversary story I wrote for the NFL's website... www.nfl.com/news/sidelin...
This is the @nflnetwork.bsky.social feature from 2015... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNa...
3) Here's the original piece for the SI website, which they kindly re-ran on the 10-year anniversary... @sportsillustrated.bsky.social www.si.com/nfl/2015/08/...
2) This was the first story that appeared in the magazine... @sportsillustrated.bsky.social vault.si.com/vault/2005/0...
1) Twenty years ago, I was the first outside sports journalist to visit New Orleans after Katrina, a haunting & indelible experience that I've since done my best to document. Here's the original @sportsillustrated.bsky.social story, the @nflnetwork.bsky.social 10-year anniversary feature & more...
Newsom: This cannot be normalized. And yes so I'm highlighting some just just blatant hypocrisy. Yes, we are putting a mirror up to the lunacy that is trump's tweets and his grift.
All good
It was No. 1 then and it's No. 1 now 🤷🏻♂️
#GoBears
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
🤦🏻♂️
Innocent children were praying inside a church this morning when a gunman shot and murdered them. Prayers will never bring these kids back. Or any kids murdered due to gun violence. Prayers will never heal families and communities destroyed by guns.
REUNION! The Vikings are acquiring WR Adam Thielen in a trade with the Panthers, sources say. The two teams work out a deal to bring the Minnesota native back home, where he spent the first nine seasons of his career.
49ers roster decisions: CB Luter > Flowers DT Anderson > Valdez DE Beal > Gipson IOL Moss > Zakelj TE Tonges > Willis Some of these seem to have been decided by special teams value. Which do you like/loathe?
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
The final starter is named:
A lot of fascists say that
I'll miss you love
Since one of us actually knows him... maybe resist the urge to blurt that out? 🤦🏻♂️
Travis is one of the good guys 👊🏼
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
The Browns are trading QB Kenny Pickett to the Raiders for a fifth-round pick, source confirms. Las Vegas has its backup QB in the wake of Aidan O'Connell's injury.
An NFL executive summed up today’s new deals in Washington and Cincinnati with one question: “Took six months to land here?”
The Raiders are signing free-agent receiver Amari Cooper to a one-year deal, sources tell me and @tashanreed.bsky.social. Cooper had interest from multiple teams, including the 49ers, but elects to sign with Las Vegas.
BREAKING: The Bengals and pass rusher Trey Hendrickson have agreed to a reworked deal that will end his hold-in, per source. Hendrickson receives a raise that will bump his 2025 salary to $30 million. He will still become a free agent after this year.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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"The president was never inappropriate with anyone." Pardon me if I don't consider Ghislaine Maxwell, someone who used to prowl Middle Schools looking for young girls to rape, an expert on what's appropriate behavior.
Seems legit
Thank you so much for reading, and for the kind words!
You are mean!
You know who would've come in handy for the 49ers right about now? JP Mason 🤷🏻♂️
I stand by what I wrote two weeks ago: It sure doesn't seem like the Parsons/Cowboys standoff will end happily... @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
Micah Parsons on Twitter:
The audio edition of my book, The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution" can be snagged for 50 PERCENT OFF through Sept. 5. Thank you for your attention to this matter! @wwnorton.com www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
What the fuck are you talking about??????
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
Authoritarianism in plain sight. Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak. She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.
49ers WR Demarcus Robinson has been suspended three games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, Kyle Shanahan told KNBR. Shanahan says the 49ers can appeal.
Seems fucked up
if you've never seen a guy try to sound tough while whining about getting his ass kicked by 90 year olds, check this out
He knew he'd beat out Richardson 🤷🏻♂️
Good
Russian invasion troops spotted flying US flags at the frontline in Ukraine, in honour of Donald Trump and MAGA after the recent Alaska summit.
Seems super promising
Per source, the 49ers will be signing QB Nate Sudfeld, who had a tryout with them on Monday. Sudfeld, 31, spent the 2021 season in San Francisco and knows the offense.
My first column for @theathletic.com, from last October... www.nytimes.com/athletic/588...
After letting Sam Darnold test free agency, the Vikings were confident they could re-sign Daniel Jones and keep him as a hedge to JJ McCarthy. But Jones understandably jumped at the opportunity to compete for a starting job against a QB who completed 47 pct of his passes in 2024.
There is another word for this
Yeah only an unserious person would do that 🤦🏻♂️
I caught up with newly named Browns starting QB Joe Flacco earlier this summer... @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
sounds on point
Hegseth
Be sure to check out my new favorite band, Hypersensitive Fascists... coming soon to a venue near you
Born to be a Raven? Derrick Henry seems to have been. My story for @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/654...
He's 31. He's still hungry. Literally and figuratively. Every day. @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/654...
Only with the folks I dig
lol
Story dropping tomorrow on one of the best football players I have ever seen 🙌🏼
The three-term South Carolina Republican is accused of using the screen name "joebidennnn69" to exchange 220 different files of toddlers and young children involved in sex acts on the Kik social media network for about five days in spring 2024. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
It was always epic... especially when leading into drums...
Every time I touch down in the golden state it feels so good... 💀 🌹 youtu.be/BTfDgvd5rhg?...
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Campbell Robertson Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Really wrenching scene at Texans practice. Tight end Brevin Jordan went down with a leg injury and was loaded onto a cart. Teammates circled around him and he moaned in pain. Practice paused for a bit. People understandably shaken. Rough.
1. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted a video last week advocating repealing women's the right to vote It was a window into Hegseth's extreme Christian Nationalist ideology which he is imposing on 3 million military service members and civilian employees. Let's dig in.
The world watched in awe. One year ago today. 🇺🇸
From Morice Norris on Instagram:
An update from the Lions:
Dan Campbell says Norris is breathing, talking and has some movement.
No