Ryan Anderson

AI is making a small number of billionaires richer and everyone else is paying for it.  That has to change.

Yesterday was the most watched Kentucky Derby of all time…19.6 million for telecast and 24.4 million for actual race It was higher rated than basically every sporting event besides the NFL and College Football title game It’s crazy how much the Derby continues to grow

Unfortunately, this explains so much. So much.

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. Since that day, job growth has come to a standstill, with only the non-traded healthcare industry adding meaningfully to payrolls. Also, since that day, inflation has accelerated, with the consumer expenditure deflator increasing at a 3% year-over-year pace, up from 2.5% before the tariffs and well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. And the trend lines don’t look good, especially as the economic fallout from the Iran War hits with full force. The higher energy and other commodity prices caused by the war threaten to do even more economic damage than the tariffs, further undermining growth and pushing inflation higher. The U.S. economy is resilient, but just how resilient is set to be tested.

"I think that college football should be run by people who like college football. And every decision, every idea I've seen about playoff expansion seems like it's come from people who don't like college football, don't know why we like it... A 24-team playoff would be a disgrace." - Kevin Clark

The money is the money — but I still can’t believe the league signed off on a plan to have playoff games overlap each other on a night when there were only two games. And then the second one, which is great, isn’t nearly as accessible to fans because of where it’s airing.

We must protect the art of writing at all costs.

There are two types of journalist Those who file in the CMS and those who google doc in case CMS crashes.

With all due respect, journalists with the freedom to choose their futures (ie, at the very top of the field) are unlikely to go work for newsrooms that just laid off, with no reason or warning, hundreds of equally talented peers or colleagues. This is what a lot of media executives forget: When you do mass layoffs, it makes the organization look unstable and unsupportive of top talent. Good journalism requires stability. The Post's dumb little layoff antics have ruined its ability to recruit at a high level for the foreseeable future.

The pitiful part about March Madness expansion is simply that it’s just another bailout to the mega-conferences that grew beyond recognition. YOU added those schools to make more money. Now YOU want more at-large slots available to you. We didn’t ask for Rutgers & UCLA in the Big Ten. It’s the worst kind of appeasement.

I am going on record. The NCAA Tournament was perfect at 64. Anything else is shameful greed exhibited by power conferences. Anyone who loves the sport knows this is the gospel truth,

Salaries of journalists necessarily impact who can and cannot afford to be one. That impacts the press overall.

While there are many people celebrating the demise of LIV, for far too long there were far too many mute mouths about the cancer that LIV was and is. It tilted the game towards greed. It muddied the meritocratic aspects of golf. It’s likely that the philanthropic foundations of this game will, to some extent, be eaten into to fund the future equity of PGA Tour players. It stalled, or killed, the trajectory of hall of fame players. It divided the game. The only win, as I see it, is that LIV sought to launder the atrocities of the Saudis, but instead it further highlighted them. As LIV players sold their autonomy, the whole sport seemed to be in the throes of transition, from professionalism to authoritarianism. But the golf world knew that the Saudis were not interested in golf and that sport has norms that are worth preserving. Money, not for merit, but for the murky purposes of sportwashing crowds out those norms. It is in the striving to get better that one gets richer, that is the transformative influence of sport; both the athlete and audience benefit from the norms of competition. Sportswashing, what MBS/PIF were attempting to do with LIV by paying athletes for their celebrity to confer legitimacy on their murderous regime, reverses this process because it is only ostensibly about the competition, it is primarily about the obfuscation of the horrors of the regime. Both the athlete and the audience are robbed of the transformative influence of sport and what they are participating in and watching is merely a facade, a base amusement. So it is no surprise that almost nobody watched. Good riddance to the Saudi backed LIV.

Everyone knew ncaa tournament expansion to 76 was inevitable. Almost nobody wants it. Those trying to argue its merits are gaslighting you. I’ve written it many times — it’s a lousy development that contributes to the erosion of what makes college sports great.