More confusion over the future of McMurphy's in Amherst....now there are reports they're relocating. masslive.com/westernmass/20…

Free agent center Luke Kornet has agreed to a four-year, $41 million deal with the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell ESPN. Key frontcourt addition for the Spurs, who negotiated a contract tonight with Kornet's agent Max Wiepking of Gersh Sports.

Luke Kornet going from undrafted and toiling in the G-League, to NBA champion and basically a Boston legend, to now earning a $41 million deal is such a great story. The Celtics will miss him dearly on the court. Our notebooks and cameras will miss him even more.

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day: Bonilla is set to collect another $1.193 million from the NY Mets today, as he will each July 1st through the year 2035.

Worth your time....

“The deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the media industry.” Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus… via @NYTimes

Journalists: stop using "Big Beautiful Bill" to describe the federal budget bill unless you use it as a quote. This phrase is a marketing ploy that masks the profoundly serious nature of this legislation.

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USA Today makes Heather Burns its first women’s sports editor ow.ly/vh5a106ePyi

THE CAPTAINS MADE THEIR PICKS 🔥 The official 2025 WNBA All-Star rosters for Team Clark and Team Collier are set. Who will get the W? 👀

this is an emergency that does not have to happen. It is unfolding now. It is not fake news, it is not bad science. It is real and it is preventable. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/wel…

Many thanks to #umasssportsjournalism alum Sophie Weller for taking the time today to speak with future sports journos at UMass Journalism's Summer Sports Broadcasting Program for High Schoolers! #rockstar SBS UMass Amherst UMass Summer UMass Amherst

More than 1,000 U.S. counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-re…

Just want to take a minute to mark a huge moment in DC. The legendary Dan Balz is retiring from full-time work at the The Washington Post after 47 remarkable years. I had the great privilege of sitting next to Dan in the Post newsroom and working with him for years. He is the last of

What the president is thinking about/doing on a Saturday morning: Considering the citizenship status of Rosie O’Donnell.

Honestly this feels inevitable- Sold-out TD Garden game fuels Connecticut Sun to Boston relocation talk - masslive.com masslive.com/sports/2025/07…

Interesting take. I also think Americans are dying for diversions to distract them from the more serious issues facing the country.

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Leave it to the sports guy so smack DJT around: "....We live in an era in which ridiculous blathering can somehow morph into reality, so Trump’s unserious posts have to be taken seriously." wapo.st/4lZfYI2

If you do nothing else today, take 30 minutes to watch this: Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein D... youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?si… via YouTube