Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

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An African Goalkeeper Is Everything Polymarket Can't Price
Why the World Cup doesn't care what Rick Rubin thinks.
 • Michael Weinreb
Soccer Had One Thing American Sports Didn't. FIFA Just Took It Away.
FIFA calls them hydration breaks. Fox calls them inventory. The rest of the world recognizes them for what they are.
 • Michael Weinreb
The Endorsement: Erling Haaland, and Soccer's Beautiful Weirdness
Haaland is the door. The rest of soccer's glorious goofiness is on the other side of it.
 • Michael Weinreb
Glenn Burke and the Promise of San Francisco
A handful of Giants pitchers turned Pride Night into a protest of the city's values. Burke's story is the rebuttal.
 • Michael Weinreb
College Football Has Always Played By Its Own Rules. But This Is Different.
The Brendan Sorsby ruling didn't create this mess. It just confirmed no one's in charge.
 • Michael Weinreb
America Loves Soccer Now. So Why Does the World Cup Feel So Empty?
The sport finally found a home here. It just never belonged to us.
 • Michael Weinreb
"Coming Up After Football, It's 60 Minutes"
For fifty years, the NFL and 60 Minutes defined the American Sunday. One of them is being destroyed from within.
 • Michael Weinreb
The Endorsement: Rooting for Terrible Teams
Sure, the Knicks are in the Finals. But what if the suffering itself was the reward?
 • Michael Weinreb
What Rupert Murdoch Wrought, on the Back Page and Beyond
Fifty years after he bought the Post, his hysterical sensibility--both for news and sports--has landed in California. Good luck with that.
 • Michael Weinreb
"Tarps Off" Is Pointless, Stupid, and Necessary
Why the dumbest trend in sports is also its most hopeful.
 • Michael Weinreb
AI Can't Even Begin to Fathom the Next Victor Wembanyama
Some ideas are too subversive to clone.
 • Michael Weinreb
Nolan Ryan and the Last True Fastball
What did baseball lose when 100 m.p.h. became pedestrian?
 • Michael Weinreb
The Newspaper Sports Page You Didn't Realize You Missed
An ode to the agate page, and to the website that rebuilt it.
 • Michael Weinreb
The NBA Doesn't Need A Dictator
Adam Silver, Pete Rozelle, David Stern, and the seductive myth of strongman leadership.
 • Michael Weinreb
Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
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