New reporting today showing the absolute flood of AI music on Spotify. - 'Aventhis' has more than a million monthly Spotify listeners; one of his tracks has 2 million+ plays; he has released 57 songs in 4 months; he has an official Spotify-generated ‘THIS IS… Aventhis'

Wait wait wait. He said it’s not fair for Beyonce to “stay at the top just because she’s Beyonce”? Does he think the charts are a meritocracy?? Is somebody gonna tell him?

From Kansas City. Live in Nashville. With all due respect, she is speaking for a very specific demographic.

Champion. Trailblazer. Activist. Icon. Remembering the late, great Arthur Ashe, 50 years on from his 1975 gentlemen’s singles triumph. #Wimbledon

Explains a lot

She came through in the clutch in the biggest game of the tournament 🏆 Your 2025 🇺🇸 #AmeriCupW MVP - Mikayla Blakes 🫡

For The Guardian, I wrote about the homes of Black writers like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lucille Clifton and the urgency to preserve them lest their literary legacies be erased & forgotten forever. theguardian.com/culture/2025/j…

After months of uncertainty following federal funding cuts, Humanities Tennessee has announced that the Southern Festival of Books will return for its 37th year this October, in partnership with Vanderbilt University. buff.ly/isFYCjv

A signature shoe in college is next level. Klutch is not messing around.

With all this talk of pure scorers. This guy right here got 4 scoring titles in 7 years. In a league that had Shaq, Kobe, Tmac etc. Iverson won 4 scoring titles in 7 years!

"There is a problem with a contract when it is so unfair, one-sided + oppressive that it shocks the conscience." FSU's new rev-sharing deals allow it to void compensation to injured players. We argue this is a new iteration of the same old exploitation. theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…

The Orioles love them some Vanderbilt hitters. RJ Austin goes to Baltimore in the third round. Slot value of this pick is $826,400 tennessean.com/story/sports/c…

Headed to the O’s! With the 93rd pick, the Baltimore Orioles select RJ Austin!

Wishing a happy 103rd birthday to the amazing Rachel Robinson, founder of The Jackie Robinson Foundation 💙

Cathy Engelbert said in the press conference that there is a revenue share model in the current CBA. That is misleading. WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike told me players have never seen that happen. I wrote about how this revenue share works here: forbes.com/sites/roberta-…

Absolutely remarkable

She said “me” before the reporter even said who it’d be against 😭

What a privilege to be able. What a privilege to have a routine. What a privilege to think it and then create it.

So heartbreaking but also so real to read that CC doesn’t think a multisport athlete like him could make it today. The youth sports game has changed so, so much. Still, every young athlete—and every youth coach—needs to read this.

Boys Playing Leapfrog, by Candido Portinari, 1957, 📸 by Roberto Carlo