Working in sports has been quite a ride. Lots of early success at Bleacher Report, followed by the voluntary decision to step away and pursue drama school. About a year post-COVID, as I was holding down various sports gigs to get my feet back under me, an opportunity at Barstool Sports fell from the strange skies of LinkedIn.

Although that led to a very public layoff, I took it all in stride. Careers in sports media and the entertainment industry are notoriously nonlinear, often without much in the way of immediate gratification.

While it’s unwise to rest on laurels of any kind, I believe it’s important to savor some of the great moments along the way. Here’s a healthy helping of my best, latest sportswriting from Barstool Sports and Whiskey Riff.

 

Barstool Sports

The Cincinnati Bengals Won NFL Free Agency By Building A Moat Of Glass Eaters Around Joe Burrow

Biggest 1st Round Winners And Losers In The 2023 NFL Draft

The Houston Texans DO, In Fact, Put Their Nuts On The Table, Trade Up To No. 3 And Grab Will Anderson As A Package Deal With CJ Stroud

New Guy TRIED TO TELL YOU About Derek Stingley Jr., The Lockdown Corner Who’ll Transform The Texans’ Defense

The Narrative About A Cincinnati Bengals Regression Is Disrespectful, Baffling And Straight-Up Wrong

The Disrespected, Pissed-Off Bengals OBLITERATED The Bills And Are Going Back To Kansas City To Defend Their AFC Championship

 A Greatest Hits Blog On The Force Of Nature That Has Been Mike McDaniel At Miami Dolphins Training Camp

Bengals DC Lou Anarumo Is Obnoxiously Overrated And Doesn't Deserve A Head Coaching Job So Shut Up About It Please Everyone

Jalen Williams' Buzzer Beater Is The Latest Proof That The Oklahoma City Thunder Are No Longer A Joke

Steph Curry Wins 2022 NBA Finals MVP To Shut Up Any Straggling Haters Who Doubt His Greatness

The Rangers' Season Is Over, But It Is In No Way, Shape or Form Igor Shesterkin's Fault

We Got A Good Old-Fashioned Stanley Cup Brawl Between The Golden Knights And Panthers After Florida's Furious Game 4 Comeback Fell Short

ONDREJ PALAT STRIKES AGAIN!! Lightning Stay Alive In Stanley Cup Final With Incredible 3-2 Win Over Avalanche

Open Championship Co-Leader Viktor Hovland Plays Round Of His Life, Still Gets DRAGGED By Brandel Chamblee For Awful Chipping

Whiskey Riff

2024 NFL Draft Top 100 Big Board: Caleb Williams & Malik Nabers Headline Stacked Rookie Class

Mel Kiper Jr Saying The NFL Should Ban 2-High Safeties Totally Validates Tom Brady’s “Dumbed Down” Take

Remember When Garth Brooks Was In Spring Training For The Mets In 2000? Right Before Their World Series Run Against The Yankees

MLB Legend Pete Rose Dies At Age 83 & Grieving Fans Are Demanding He Finally Be Put In The Hall Of Fame

Jaguars Employee Who Stole $22 Million Sues FanDuel For Exploiting His Gambling Addiction, Which He Argues Made Him Steal The $22 Million

Jim Harbaugh’s Breakdown Of Justin Herbert & Other Chargers Getting Stuck In An Elevator Is The Most Jim Thing To Ever Harbaugh

“You Start To Believe That” – Tua Tagovailoa Gets Brutally Honest About How Much Of A D*ck Brian Flores Was & How Mike McDaniel Saved His Career

Rams Fan Gets Rejected During Kiss Cam Proposal, Gets Nachos Spilled All Over Him

RANKED: The 10 Best (AKA Worst) Fantasy Football Punishments For Finishing Last Place In Your League

Golf Galaxy Employee Shoots 65, Pounds 3 Beers Before Playoff, & Qualifies For PGA Tour’s Rocket Mortgage Classic

Brother Of Kyle Filipowski Says The New Utah Jazz Center Was Brainwashed, Groomed Into Cutting Off His Family By Girlfriend

Aaron Rodgers’ Grandfather Was A Legendary World War II B-24 Pilot Who Flew 44 Missions & Survived As POW In Nazi Germany After Being Shot Down

Charles Barkley’s Improved Golf Game May Be The Biggest Comeback Story In Sports History

1920s-Style Reporter Scoops Callahan Crashes Caitlin Clark’s Press Conference To Ask The Strangest Question In Interviewing History

Australia B-Girl Raygun Goes Viral For Olympic Performance & It’s Probably OK To Leave Breakdancing Out Of The Olympics

Watching Vintage Clutch Steph Curry & Vintage Clutch LeBron Rally Team USA Over Serbia Is As Good As It Gets

Scottie Scheffler Won Golf’s Olympic Gold & Consoled His Buddy Tom Kim, Who Missed Chance For Military Service Exemption

As Clutch As Bryson DeChambeau Was To Win The US Open, The Golf World Is Stunned By Rory McIlroy’s Collapse

The Open Championship Is Brutal, As Joaquin Niemann Finds 3 Bunkers On 120-Yard Par 3 En Route To Quintuple Bogey