Benjamin Hoffman

My daughter bought me a Noah Kahan hoodie and said she was happy “they had one of Dad’s colors!” “What does that mean?” Daughter: “blue, muted green or gray” Son: “and sometimes brown.” I went and looked in my closet and … shit.

Saw a post in the other place claiming the Hurts clot issue was obviously caused by the Covid vaccine and I guess the real conspiracy theory here is how Chris Bosh got that vaccine in 2016

Honestly this would be a good omen for the Valkyries. The other Golden State team won its first championship while playing home games at the Cow Palace because their arena was booked for the Ice Follies www.sfgate.com/valkyries/ar...

Jose now had 463 dingers

“It’s a crappy day out but not so bad that I think my son’s blacksmithing workshop should have been canceled” isn’t a string of thoughts I ever imagined having

Two years later, I still enjoy baseball but I don’t care about it anymore. Not like I did. I grew up hearing sob stories from Brooklyn Dodgers fans and wondered why it seemed to hurt them so much. I get it now.

It feels like more than 14 years ago when the Most Emailed list was king. It was shortly after this that the weekend sports editor, a true digital pioneer in an era where there was no audience team, asked a game-changer question: “why do we care about that list and not ‘most viewed?!??’”

Elena Rybakina winning her first U.S. Open is cool. But back when she was in the qualies at the Open in 2019, a little girl from Brooklyn sat and waited through a long rain delay just to get her autograph. Which was a little cooler.

When I first started in the NYT sports department I thought it was weird that we always had the TVs muted. Just about every sports broadcast decision made since then has made that choice seem prophetic.

There seem to be a lot of people trying to decide who the weird one was in the Aaron Rodgers-Shailene Woodley relationship and … there is a third option.

My 15-year-old is planning outfits for Olivia Rodrigo’s tour and referenced something Olivia wore in something she did with “the old British guy.” My wife looked confused and I mouthed “Robert Smith” at her and then we both perished from old age.

I’m not sure it would be possible for a band to come up with a bitchier album title than “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads”

A nurse asked me “so … do you still work?” yesterday, just in case you were wondering if I’ve still got it

Other than the dozens of sexual assault allegations, the fact that the team gave up a huge haul of picks to get him, his cap-destroying contract and his absolutely dogshit play, it’s hard to see why Browns fans wouldn’t like Deshaun Watson. His being mad about it is a cherry on top though.

I was briefly in charge of a small sliver of Harry/Meghan coverage and while there are numerous reasons people choose to read stories, I can assure you that many people, many many many people, follow along with every development in that world regardless of what they would claim in a survey.

Old enough to remember when a sign of Bill Simmons going legit was changing his byline from The Boston Sports Guy to just The Sports Guy. Now he’s a “Spotify executive” in an NYT story about the media bona fides of an English prince.

So weird to see this place so empty … even at 1 am

Those films were shot 26 years ago and one guy being a little heavier and another having a bit of gray hair (while the other two look exactly the same) has People magazine mystified

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

Proud of my team for continually making cool things on the internet www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It rained (hard). There were so many bugs. We lost our voices from shouting and singing and ruined our shoes and boots by walking 50-plus miles in the mud. Kids got injured and multiple got sick. We never stopped moving and learning. It was perfect.

OOO

Once again I will lead my Scouts into the forests of Rhode Island for a week of chaos fueled by various weapons, tools, small watercraft, poorly-sung songs and a wildly controversial amount of Arizona Iced Tea. Success is measured by exactly one metric: returning with the same number of kids.

The world is better with the Indianapolis Clowns playing baseball again

Pretty cool project but if I were still designing I’d have done one that is all of Argentina’s shots on goal in the final

So happy for Spain (and Wes). And yes, Wes has already started lobbying to go to the next World Cup.

He’s like 18 percent Spanish but 100 percent committed

Who are all these casuals talking about getting sick from Taco Bell outside of an outbreak that was 0 percent their fault? I’ve literally never gotten sick from food there. Maybe you all should stick to dry toast.

More people should be talking about Himesh Patel in The Odyssey. What a performance.

What if we got excited about a player or a team in a big sporting event and were just happy about it without making huge declarations about them being the greatest player or team in sports history? Like, we could even acknowledge the limitations of comparison across eras and sports.