Kristy Parker
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Counsel, Protect Democracy. Fmr fed civil rts prosecutor @TheJusticeDept, historian, KState/Oxford/Harvard Law alum, believer in the baseball gods. Views mine.
Checking in from Tokyo to say what should be the most obvious thing imaginable: Travis Kelce isn’t playing for any team other than the Chiefs in 2026.
Based on conversations with several teams, TE Travis Kelce appears motivated to return to play a 14th season. The Chiefs remain very much in the mix to re-sign the three-time Super Bowl champion and four-time All-Pro.
Take heart, friends: The sunset in D.C. on Sunday will be 7:08 p.m.
Keri Russell & Matthew Rhys #ActorAwards 📸: The Collective You
Connor Storrie on how Heated Rivalry 'opened an essential conversation about vulnerability and queerness in sport—an arena traditionally perceived as hostile to both.' “I think that’s beautiful,” Connor says. “It’s a subtext, a purpose of creation. Rachel Reid wrote this story in a very specific genre, consciously and intentionally. She’s said herself she wanted to address homophobia in hockey and spark conversation. And Jacob was very vocal about wanting to create a gay love story that wasn’t tragic. Not about people being torn apart, about lives destroyed without a happy ending. It’s important to return to Rachel’s intention and how Jacob translated it to screen. They’re brilliant. And it makes me so happy that it resonated. I receive so many messages, especially from queer people, who feel seen through Ilya. Who feel validated as bisexual. Who genuinely connect to that narrative. This could have remained just a sweet love story with a twist. But it’s incredibly moving how deeply it echoed, how many people globally saw themselves in it.” Art, in any form, has always carried a potential for social change—even when it arrives late, after our patience has worn thin. Time spent in collective struggle, connection, questioning, and even micro-shifts in consciousness always counts. “I think the role of art is to present an experience, and the conversation we have around it is what creates change. It’s a delicate line. Art that tries to be didactic can backfire. Heated Rivalry wasn’t created as a pretentious lecturing. It simply shared an experience so people could understand a different position. That honesty is what drew people in. You can connect to a story on a human level. That’s why it matters. Not because it’s over-intellectualized or academic. It’s about specific human experiences you can witness and understand, even if you don’t identify with them, and that make you think. I’ve heard conversations about hockey, sport, sexuality from people who played sports and realized, statistically, at least one person they knew probably went through something similar. That’s the most you can hope for—that you’re part of something strong enough to make people reflect on their own experience.” 🔗 Read more here: vogueadria.com/heated-rivalry…
USA Olympic GM Bill Guerin to @JoeSmithNHL of The Athletic on the controversies that stemmed from the team’s locker room celebration.
NEWS: Olympian and gold medalist Hilary Knight will join “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday, March 2 for a sit‑down interview. Knight will be joined by Olympians Jack and Quinn Hughes from the men’s gold medal team.
Criticism of the USA men's team was unfair and overreactive. They just won gold. They're celebrating. The President calls and catches them off-guard with an awkward comment. We don't need to over-analyze why they didn't stand on top of a desk in disgust. Situational awareness.
Jeremy Swayman admitted "we should have reacted differently" to Trump's ill-conceived joke about the US women's team while on a call with the USA men's team: "We know that we are so excited for the women's team...to share that gold w/them is something we're forever grateful for"
