We LOVE colluding over text! A sports podcast through a pop culture lens. Culture critic and novelist Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers senior producer Sarah Enni discuss what we did on our summer vacation; Traylor finally launches…?; Bryce Harper, man of the people; the NFLPA infiltrated by cynical, greedy fucks; the WNBA All Star Game proves that fun is still possible; Paige and Azzi actually hard launch; Luka loses weight in LA; the focus was on Cal Raleigh and his Big Dumper; and we talk to author Victoria Zeller about writing about sports as a way of writing about life, her beloved Buffalo Bills, and mentally adjusting to winning.

Links:

• The Enni Way (Substack)

• Effectively Wild Episode 2309: Only a Woman: Ella Black, Lost and Found (Part 1–Ella's Legend) (Fangraphs)

• Travis' epic photodump (Instagram)

• Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World (Bookshop)

• Travis' on-set naps (TikTok)

• Gunman 'focused on the NFL,' went to wrong floor in NYC skyscraper, Mayor Eric Adams says (The New York Times)

• Guardians All-Star Emmanuel Clase is team's second pitcher suspended in sports betting probe (NBC News)

• Rob Manfred has a plan: Tell players they've lost billions, and build their trust in him (The Athletic)

• Sources: Phillies' Bryce Harper cussed out Rob Manfred in meeting (ESPN)

• Phillies rip MLB for adding Jacob Misiorowski to All-Star roster (ESPN)

• The "Holy Grail" of NFL Secrets (Pablo Torre Finds Out)

• We Sparked an NFL Union Crisis. Here's the Sequel (Pablo Torre Finds Out)

• We Followed the Money in the NFL Union Scandal. So Did the FBI (Pablo Torre Finds Out)

• How the Hot Pink Haze of StudBudz Took Over WNBA All-Star Weekend (Sports Illustrated)

• In Stud Budz We Trust (The Cut)

• StudBudz Promise to Press Dave Portnoy Over Angel Reese Hatred (Sports Illustrated)

• Fox Sports Inks Broad Pact With Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy to Become Regular On-Air Contributor (Variety)

• Wag Talk ft. Paige Bueckers (Instagram)

• Behind the Scenes with WAG Talk (TikTok)

• Luka Dončić 2.0 Has Entered the Chat (Men's Health)

• Yankees broadcast was briefly obsessed with Cal Raleigh's 'Big Dumper' (The New York Post)

• It's All Worth it For 17 (Defector)

• One of the Boys (Bookshop)

• The Prospects by KT Hoffman (Bookshop)