Jason Gay

Two years ago, the College of Biblical Studies lost a basketball game by 141 points and everyone laughed and covered it. "A hard time," says then-player Victoria Henson. The other day, they stunned the No. 1 team in their conference. The turnaround: wsj.com/sports/basketb…

@jaycaspiankang @yeahhiga i think it's also a way of -- in increasingly isolated communities -- purchasing a social life for a kid.

@yeahhiga I think that's true but I also think there's a lot of parents who did play baseball as kids and don't understand why baseball now costs thousands of dollars a year and eats up every weekend?

the book I've got coming out soon is about how so much of child raising for the middle classes is built off this model, how this leads to alienation and loss of community (and doesn't produce better athletes, mathematicians, or anything). Stay tuned.

This is not a controversy. Or is it? wsj.com/sports/basebal…

Economics and basketball: that's what the University of Chicago does: wsj.com/sports/basketb…

@Larstickle @tricknole this is correct on House (NIL does have lots of state laws, part of the craziness.) House was an attempt to avoid crippling loss but also set terms (it's "revenue-share" technically not pay for play, enjoy that parsing)

@tricknole @jasongay Name the law. There was a settlement, but there is no law that mandates payment of student athletes. The intent of NIL was to allow athletes to capitalize on their marketability because they weren't allow to work or profit off their success. This isn't that.

Trump's college sports panel was a zenith example of the "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" hot dog suit meme. wsj.com/sports/trump-c…

@fitsoccerqueen Do you think this is a function of "sampling" or the fact that club programs do not totally go dark - and instead continue to practice and play during "offseason" periods. That feels like an abundant practice. As you try something else, other sports also clamor for time.

So here’s where sampling becomes dangerous: when multiple sports that have similar movements are played in a single season. This isn’t sampling anymore. It’s load stacking. It’s more overuse. Especially if the sports have the same movements like soccer and lacrosse, soccer and basketball, soccer and field hockey – it’s still more sprinting, cutting, and changing direction – the same repetitive crap we are trying to avoid, and the same repetitive crap that can lead to worse overuse. ericasuter.com/early-speciali…

that's about as good as it gets btwn novak and draper

@jaycaspiankang you're very right tho no one leans out of their cab to stare the Cosmopolitan

@jasongay Yes give me some castles and pirate ships and the Eiffel Tower.

I get it but it looks pretty sterile and boring. Someone should write ‘learning from Las Vegas 2’ about what happened post Aria where all the new casinos are so fucking boring and sterile even if they’re ‘nice.’ This looks like the resorts world of stadiums

i knew sweetgreen was getting expensive but

a new gold rush of separating college kids from their money (and high school, for that matter, shhh) wsj.com/business/media…

@stevemagness pls dont tell this to That Guy at the Gym.

How you talk to yourself matters. In one study on lifting weights, goal directed self-talk "enhanced performance by 43% once an RPE of eight was reached, resulted in 63% more repetitions, and demonstrated more efficient muscle activation patterns."

Amid a season of tanking controversies, the "gap year" Boston Celtics can't stop winning. wsj.com/sports/basketb…

I wrote about Netflix's new strategy: "Let's Watch Geezers Fight" wsj.com/sports/mayweat…

on the hockey puck: wsj.com/sports/olympic…

On four minutes that changed the Olympics: wsj.com/sports/olympic…

She's way too humble to say it but: @louiseradnofsky is the planet's best figure skating writer who also covers the Supreme Court. wsj.com/sports/olympic…

The goal. It'll live forever. wsj.com/sports/olympic…

Mikaela does it. Again. wsj.com/sports/olympic…