We LOVE colluding over text! A sports podcast through a pop culture lens. Culture critic and novelist Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers senior producer Sarah Enni discuss what we did on our summer vacation; Traylor finally launches…?; Bryce Harper, man of the people; the NFLPA infiltrated by cynical, greedy fucks; the WNBA All Star Game proves that fun is still possible; Paige and Azzi actually hard launch; Luka loses weight in LA; the focus was on Cal Raleigh and his Big Dumper; and we talk to author Victoria Zeller about writing about sports as a way of writing about life, her beloved Buffalo Bills, and mentally adjusting to winning.

Links:

• The Enni Way (Substack)

• Effectively Wild Episode 2309: Only a Woman: Ella Black, Lost and Found (Part 1–Ella’s Legend) (Fangraphs)

• Travis’ epic photodump (Instagram)

• Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (Bookshop)

• Travis’ on-set naps (TikTok)

• Gunman ‘focused on the NFL,’ went to wrong floor in NYC skyscraper, Mayor Eric Adams says (The New York Times) 

• Guardians All-Star Emmanuel Clase is team's second pitcher suspended in sports betting probe (NBC News)

• Rob Manfred has a plan: Tell players they’ve lost billions, and build their trust in him (The Athletic)

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