We find it hard not to be romantic about baseball… and the WNBA and so many sports, really. A podcast about where pop culture and sports culture collide… inspired by the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Culture critic and novelist Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers senior producer Sarah Enni discuss WAG swag, our new favorite WNBA players, update on the NCAA paying athletes, and a conversation with The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany about the shift from obsessing about boy bands to obsessing about baseball.
Links:
Meryl Streep (Instagram)
NHL stars' significant others continue custom jacket playoff tradition (ESPN)
Lexi LaFleur Brown (TikTok)
The NFL scheduled around Taylor Swift (Twitter)
How Big is Taylor Swift? (NY Times)
Is “Love Is Blind” a Toxic Workplace? (The New Yorker)
California Love (SLAM Magazine)
WNBA Stars in the Skims Spotlight (The New York Times)
DiJonai Carrington (Instagram)
A normal way to help someone up off the court (Twitter)
LSU star Angel Reese’s world of double-doubles, trash-talking, winning and stardom (The Athletic)
LSU's Angel Reese rejects Jill Biden's White House invite explanation: 'I don't accept that' (USA Today)
Angel Reese is Taking Her Talents to the WNBA (Vogue)
Sky rookie Angel Reese named newest owner of DC Power Football Club (The Athletic)
From Revenue Sharing to Private Equity: Breaking Down the NCAA’s Historic Week (Front Office Sports)
NCAA, Power Five Conferences Approve Settlement to Allow for Revenue Sharing (Front Office Sports)
‘A Breathtaking Lobbying Campaign’: The NCAA’s Sophisticated Effort to Save Amateurism (Front Office Sports)
Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet As We Know It (Bookshop.org)
A Bloop and a Blast (Bookforum)
Gentle Sports Touches (Twitter)
Sean Murphy (not Mark Canha) gets hit by a pitch on the butt (TikTok)
Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard (The Atlantic)
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball (ThriftBooks)
