In the Bills–Jaguars playoff game (January 11, 2026), Hawk-Eye measurements ruled two first downs short — by two inches and by four. No chain crew walked onto the field to do it. That was the first full season Sony’s Hawk-Eye cameras were the NFL’s primary method for line-to-gain measurements. The…

In the spring of 1989, Bob Knight came to Fenwick for a basketball coaches’ clinic. Two years earlier he’d won his third NCAA championship at Indiana — 1976, 1981, 1987 — and at the time there was no argument about who the best coach in the sport was. It landed…

In August the FDA authorized a wearable that does two jobs at once. Abbott’s Libre Duo 10 Day continuously measures glucose and ketones in the fluid under the skin, every minute, for ten days, and sends both to a phone. It is the first device in the United States cleared…

The wearables fight is no longer about who ships the most units. It is about who sits between your pulse and the model that talks to you all day. Garmin already owns the serious training file: pace, power, HRV, Body Battery, the decade of loops you would not re-enter by…

The richest football league in the world does not run a startup program. The tier below it does. And an ocean away, a much younger league just built one timed to the biggest stage in the sport. Premier League, EFL, and MLS are all trying to modernize the same game….

Washington State is the holdout that can still grab $700 million for education. A year ago the Educational Choice for Children Act was a new line in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Today it is permanent federal law. It is IRC §25F, the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, often called the…

Disclosure: I am an investor in KILOGEAR. I have been a USATF Level 1 coach since 2017. I have coached youth Cross Country for eleven years. This is a first-month plan, not a catalog. Several vest styles can do the job. Placement of weight matters more than the logo and…

Oura just shipped its smallest, most polished ring yet — and quietly layered a new paid add-on on top of the subscription you already owe. The Ring 5 launched in May at $399 (Black/Silver; $499 for other finishes), 40% smaller than the Ring 4, with better sensors and 6–9 days…

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Cambridge New Criticism Marshall McLuhan did not arrive at media theory by accident. It was a long apprenticeship in literature, theology, and close reading. Before he became the man who said the medium is the…

GameChanger started as a way to keep a youth baseball and softball scorebook without a pencil. It is now the default way millions of families watch your favorite 10-year-old’s at-bat from another state, and one of the few consumer apps that can tell you, in public numbers, how large youth…