My man Marcus Thompson II. Top of the top.

Honored to be named among such excellence. What a craft we behold

LFG MT2!!!

Marcus Thompson II congrats 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I see you Dave Wilson! Congrats!!

Competitive field, but it’s gotta be Kate Wagner

Would college football fans suffer through two back-to-back winless seasons just to win a championship the next year? Check out the Beyond Sports Initiative's first Alabama Report on Sports and Gaming! Get the report and learn more about BSI at icir.ua.edu/bsi.

IACS is seeking nominations for five elected positions: Vice-Chair, Treasurer, and three Board of Directors members. Position descriptions & instructions for how to apply are available here: tinyurl.com/IACSelections2…. The nomination call will close on 5/30/25 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

Access all nine years' worth of Best Sportswriting nominations for the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting at this handy-dandy webpage: moody.utexas.edu/centers/sports…. Great summer reading!!!

We are very excited to bring the Jenkins Medal ceremony to the Big Apple. More exciting news to come!

We cannot wait for this opportunity and celebration in September!

Join us, won't you? No better occasion to celebrate the sportswriter's craft as exemplified by His Ownself, Dan Jenkins. The Jenkins Medal Awards Dinner will be on Sept. 26 in NYC. Event information here: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a7e….

The 2025 Jenkins Medal Sports Legend is Billie Jean King, sports icon and equality champion. Join us on 9/26 to celebrate her and the (forthcoming) winners of the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. Seats, tables and sponsorships: available: cvent.utexas.edu/event/c4fe4a7e…

Michael Bamberger offers a heart-wrenching profile of Filip Krüeger, a good athlete, amiable chap and otherwise regular dude, out for a round of golf with this friends when fate intervened. Published in GOLF.com: golf.com/news/features/…

Bamberger has written for golf.com since 2017. He wrote for Sports Illustrated for some 22 years before that. His work has appeared in three editions of Best American Sportswriting. His latest book is The Playing Lesson: A Duffer's Year Among the Pros.

Ending manhood in the hall of shame bit.ly/4kIqkMm

Howard Bryant chronicles the "simmering fractures within the Fort Myers (FL) baseball community" which resulted in the collapse of a high school baseball team amid racial invective and two federal discrimination lawsuits. READ IT: espn.com/espn/story/_/i…

Bryant has been a Senior Writer for ESPN since 2007 and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006. His most recent book is Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original (Mariner Books, 2022). More info at howardbryantbooks.com.