We are aspirationally untethered from the earth’s gravity. A pop music fan and a football fan discuss the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. What happens when a billion-dollar corporate sports league meets a billion dollar person... and all of media explodes? Culture critic Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers producer Sarah Enni discuss what T+T eat on their long flights together, coastal grandmother vibes, collective action in college sports, and an interview with Harvard professor and poet Stephanie Burt.
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Aaron Rodgers and Jesse Ventura Top R.F.K. Jr.’s List for Running Mate (The New York Times)
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Reportedly Had a Date Night at Madonna’s 2024 Oscars Party (Us Weekly)
Cardigan (Travis’ Version) (Instagram)
Sketch of Taylor at The Party (Instagram)
Caitlin Clark record tracker (ESPN)
What we know: South Carolina's SEC tourney ends with fight, multiple ejections (ESPN)
NAACP Urges Student Athletes to Reconsider PWI Universities in Florida Amidst Dismantling of DEI (NAACP.org)
‘We Want to Be Paid’: Inside Dartmouth Men’s Basketball’s Historic Union Effort (Front Office Sports)
Dartmouth basketball unionization explained: How we got here and what’s next (The Athletic)
College athletes are getting closer to becoming employees. What would happen next? (The Athletic)
Former football coach Nick Saban laments the current landscape of college sports (CNN)
Stephanie Burt’s books (Bookshop.org)
“Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star” by Tracey Thorn (Bookshop.org)
Matinees by James Merrill
The Ring Cycle by James Merrill2
“L”Albatross” by Charles Baudelaire
