How the sausage gets made in Illinois politics — it’s not pretty, via ⁦Ray Long⁩ chicagotribune.com/news/local/pol…

Madigan used the phrases “I don’t recall,” “I don’t remember,” “I don’t know” and “I have no memory” more than 100 times, via ⁦Ray Long⁩ chicagotribune.com/news/local/pol…

The return of Whole Paycheck, via ⁦Heather Haddon⁩ wsj.com/articles/highe…

Ask any informed baseball fan, or sports fan for that matter, but ⁦Sean Forman⁩ has built a better mousetrap with ⁦Sports Reference⁩, via The New York Times nyti.ms/2UX77Ku?smid=n…

Less than six years ago, Buffalo’s Nate Oats was teaching five math classes a day at Romulus High School in Michigan, Pete Thamel

“We are in a crisis moment in the recycling movement right now,” via Michael Corkery

Average levels were more than 90 percent lower at the testing locations closest to Sterigenics, via ⁦Michael Hawthorne⁩ chicagotribune.com/news/local/bre…

Stanley’s has struggled since a second Mariano’s, a subsidiary of Kroger, opened less than a mile away in 2015 — fine story via Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bi…

This is a crisis for people in the sport whose livelihoods depend on the breeding and nurturing, and the buying and selling, of racehorses, via ⁦Joe Drape⁩ nytimes.com/2019/04/29/spo…

Great read by Robert Channick on history, struggle, context and - ultimately - harsh realities for another factory layoff in IL: chicagotribune.com/business/ct-bi…

Column from last night’s Friday news dump. How a Texas town has been blinded by the lure of Friday night lights. Why would a tiny high school take such a “giant risk?” sports.yahoo.com/texas-high-sch…

Best to read the fine print — Without new financing, “we will be unable to continue as a going concern.” via ⁦Nelson D. Schwartz, ⁦⁦Neal Boudette⁩ nytimes.com/2019/05/28/bus… via The New York Times

This is a loss— John McEvoy was a fine journalist and a better man whose talent as a writer became evident in his later years as he moved into fiction chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/12/1866… via Chicago Sun-Times

An illuminating look by Sapna Maheshwari & Vanessa Friedman about two men shaking up the retail industry which should also interest sports media watchers because of the connection to Sports Illustrated nytimes.com/2020/09/08/bus…

Great to see #journalismcamp2021 kick off at #DetroitWritingRoom with students from around the country…

“It apparently is enough of a joy to be allowed to lose once more in person.” Joe Drape is back at Saratoga nytimes.com/2021/08/18/spo…

Translation: We are publishing statistical noise in the service of raising parental anxiety, boosting our circulation, and distorting house prices.

Freestyle skier Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine's only medal at the Beijing Olympics. Tonight he sleeps in a Kyiv parking garage with his family. I asked him to take a photo and send it to me. This is him with his wife, Alexandra, and their 2-year-old, Dmitry.

Updating with a link directly to the story, separate from our live Ukraine coverage. Details on Oleksandr and his family here. I’ll try to stay in touch in the coming days. Thanks to all for reading and tweeting. nytimes.com/2022/03/04/spo…

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