Luke DeCock

@lukedecock.bsky.social

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Used to be a sports columnist. USBWA past president/HOF | he/him | COYB Nobody knows anybody, not that well.

Malvinas memorial in Ushaia
Moviefone Kramer
The “it’s time” opening scene from HFRO
Erling Haaland saying “no worries y’all”
A fun stat doing the rounds. Of the eight top-ranked teams going into the World Cup, five made it to the quarter-finals. The other three were all managed by ex-Everton managers! Carlo Ancelotti (Brazil) Roberto Martínez (Portugal) Ronald Koeman (Netherlands) Lots of responses, many from Toffees fans, using the word “cursed”.
There isn’t a wave of transgender girls “taking over” women’s sports, just as there wasn’t an epidemic of bathroom assaults that called for the gross overreach of HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill.” All there is are kids — and this bill specifically targets children, not adults — trying to find their way in a world that isn’t as friendly or familiar to them as it is to the rest of us. Because it’s a hard concept for most people to approach let alone comprehend, transgender people are an easy target for this kind of culture-war posturing, just as gay marriage was only a decade ago. (Remember Amendment 1?) These kinds of bills have become trendy across the country, with three anti-transgender bills under consideration in this North Carolina legislative session alone. Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article250834239.html#storylink=cpy
Headline that calls Ronaldo Ronald
King Tuff playing Lincoln Hall, great show
The way to make a mint julep, I said, was to dissolve granulated sugar in water until it turned to oil, dump in a murderous portion of bourbon, and add a freshly picked leaf of a mint.