Mark Nazzal

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate today: 6.75% Same day last year: 6.99% -------------------- 10-year Treasury yield today: 4.66% Spread today: 209 bps

The first season in the Ken Holland experience was an abject failure everyone but team shills saw coming. One of the least enjoyable seasons I can remember as a fan. Good riddance to the 2025-26 #LAKings season. #GoKingsGo

One of the best to ever do it. Congratulations on an outstanding career, Quickie! Wishing you all the best in retirement 💙❤️

Not sure anyone ever played goal better than Jonathan Quick played in the 2012 playoffs. It was like Patrick Roy in 1993, Ken Dryden in 1971, Bernie Parent before that. Congrats on retirement to a crusty three-time champion.

Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia is wearing a custom glove with the name of his late newborn daughter Sterling Sol Vesia on it, along with her birthday and the letter K on the ring finger for his wife Kayla His newborn daughter passed away two days after the start of the World Series last year

Really nice moment at the end of the game between Kopitar and Quick.

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder. In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book. Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing. A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens. UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain. One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off. The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

CROWN HIM 👑 Anze Kopitar passes Marcel Dionne in his final NHL season to become the @LAKings' all-time points leader!

@LoganMohtashami Pain

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We witnessed one of the most amazing moments you'll ever see at a high school event tonight at Schneider Arena. Colin Dorgan, who lost his mother, brother & grandfather in the Lynch Arena shooting last month, scores a 2OT game-winner to send his team to the @RIIL_sports D-II championship game. Incredible resilience from this young man & this BVS team. Fortunate to call this emotional moment with Marty Crowley tonight on the NFHS Network. @SRASaints @PCDAthletics @Fic27

TRIPLE ROOKIE LAP!!!

This is a crazy storyline in USL Championship. Cristo Fernández is likely signing with El Paso Locomotive. Yes, the actor who played Dani Rojas in Ted Lasso. Can’t wait to see how this one plays out.

Someone delivered the Herb Brooks speech at Harry’s Taproom in Ambler during the 3rd intermission before USA beat Canada in overtime for the gold 🇺🇸

A truly terrific graph defining the role of sports in society.

This is Nazgul. A 2-year-old Czechoslovakian Wolfdog who escaped his enclosure at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics cross-country sprint in Italy. Decided to join the racers, sprinted alongside the pros, and crossed the finish line unharmed.

🇺🇸 ICE persigue a manifestante de Minneapolis mientras se desliza cuesta abajo, sentado en una silla de escritorio y vestido de "fuck you" 🤣 x.com/OunkaOnX/statu…

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate today: 6.16% Same day last year: 7.07% ------------------ 10 Year Treasury: 4.26% Spread today: 190 bps

@PicturesFoIder Every cave video ever

After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don’t correct them harshly. Don’t rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment, quietly wrapped as love.

You’re tellin me we figured out Rocket League foosball and I’m just hearing of this?