This is fantastic — Substack Sports having its moment.
Austin and the Substack team have done a ton to facilitate collaboration, with better and better tools. I've seen first-hand how working together creates a virtuous circle ... and a way to lift all boats. It's fun, too.
As a follow-up to what Austin said ... We're going to keep it rolling, with more collaboration to come.
If you're interested in participating or just want to connect, DM me here or email me at 5x5basketball@substack.com
Subscribed and excited to see where this goes! Much of my work for Basketball Intelligence has been done with this same general spirit in mind (albeit at a much smaller scale). Really excited to see this community grow together and, hopefully, change sports discourse for the better.
Thanks for this! My friends and I at The Low Major have been writing about college basketball (among other things) for about two years and we've long lamented how unintuitively hard it is to build a community on this platform. Sincerely hoping this effort can change that!
Hey Eli, I'm not much of a college basketball psycho, but I do dip in from time to time and look forward to seeing what you guys post. Do you have any bangers that are good for NBA-heads?
Y'know, I never realized it until you asked, but I don't think I've written anything that directly relates to the NBA.
The closest thing I have right now is a page from my year-long quest to detail the nickname history of every Division I basketball team. The Dallas Mavericks essentially stole their name from UT Arlington, who had been known as the Mavericks for almost a decade before the NBA team was: https://thelowmajor.substack.com/p/name-a-day-calendar-september-29
This is definitely a blind spot for me because I do love the league; I had Timberwolves season tickets back when they were awful. Perhaps I'll have to rectify it sometime.
Hi! Would like to introduce myself. I'm a wrestling content creator. Used to work for WWE now I commentate wrestling matches, podcast, interview, Livestream, and am media press for wrestling companies. I do a little bit of everything. I love what I do. I did subscribed though.
Wresting is my nostalgia love language. I'd love to do a post in that vein once. I'm also kinda obsessed with wrestling docs, the one that ESPN did on Rick Flair was amazing...
Hi Austin. I am new to Substack and social media in general. I just launched Finding inner pizza where I speak of finding joy. One piece so far, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, is about spring training. I plan on including baseball in my newsletter. I would love to help out with anything baseball. Just keep it in mind. Now grab a slice of pizza.
I would follow Royce Webb through the Gates of Hell. It just took me a few years to follow him here, which is pretty obviously nothing like Hell. Looking forward to sharing my passion for baseball history, sifting through my dozens of book ideas, and building a community of smart readers and colleagues.
Really excited to be part of this new community. My co-founder and I cover the small slice of the sports pie that is University of Nebraska athletics. We'd been doing that for a decade for an independent, monthly magazine before it shuttered last August. Since then, we've been on Substack and feeling encouraged about the future of sportswriting. If anyone ever needs a Husker perspective (guest post, podcast guest, a question answered, etc.), let me know. I already have a handful of Substack creators who cover related beats that I'm hoping to collaborate with and I'm looking forward to finding more.
On my Substack page I have videos and newsletters about local sports history. I know it is focused on a small rural area but good media and stories can be found at the local level too. I subscribed to this to see what you produce.
We also have some good talent so I try to include some of our latest athletes as sort of a contrast and compare. Not to mention that there are some amazing pictures of them.
Pumped to see this launch! Austin, this all looks incredible and you have done an amazing job with this. Proud to be part of the community here and can't wait to see where it all goes. Looking forward to connecting with all of you
I have started The Red Thread, a baseball Substack that will be a mix of history, interviews and commentary. It’s at stuarthall.substack.com . It’s also my hope to connect with many of the really baseball Substackers already established. Let me know if…
TrueHoop wants to mine the minds of Substack Sports! Soon we'll be writing a story assessing who is the best basketball player in the world? We would love your input! Takes about a minute: https://forms.gle/TZYgCEqZ9b3GY2Nk6
This is fantastic — Substack Sports having its moment.
Austin and the Substack team have done a ton to facilitate collaboration, with better and better tools. I've seen first-hand how working together creates a virtuous circle ... and a way to lift all boats. It's fun, too.
As a follow-up to what Austin said ... We're going to keep it rolling, with more collaboration to come.
If you're interested in participating or just want to connect, DM me here or email me at 5x5basketball@substack.com
Stephen A Smith is the #1 reason I change the channel off ESPN.
IKR
Subscribed and excited to see where this goes! Much of my work for Basketball Intelligence has been done with this same general spirit in mind (albeit at a much smaller scale). Really excited to see this community grow together and, hopefully, change sports discourse for the better.
Thanks for this! My friends and I at The Low Major have been writing about college basketball (among other things) for about two years and we've long lamented how unintuitively hard it is to build a community on this platform. Sincerely hoping this effort can change that!
Hey Eli, I'm not much of a college basketball psycho, but I do dip in from time to time and look forward to seeing what you guys post. Do you have any bangers that are good for NBA-heads?
Y'know, I never realized it until you asked, but I don't think I've written anything that directly relates to the NBA.
The closest thing I have right now is a page from my year-long quest to detail the nickname history of every Division I basketball team. The Dallas Mavericks essentially stole their name from UT Arlington, who had been known as the Mavericks for almost a decade before the NBA team was: https://thelowmajor.substack.com/p/name-a-day-calendar-september-29
This is definitely a blind spot for me because I do love the league; I had Timberwolves season tickets back when they were awful. Perhaps I'll have to rectify it sometime.
Hi! Would like to introduce myself. I'm a wrestling content creator. Used to work for WWE now I commentate wrestling matches, podcast, interview, Livestream, and am media press for wrestling companies. I do a little bit of everything. I love what I do. I did subscribed though.
Wresting is my nostalgia love language. I'd love to do a post in that vein once. I'm also kinda obsessed with wrestling docs, the one that ESPN did on Rick Flair was amazing...
Hi Austin. I am new to Substack and social media in general. I just launched Finding inner pizza where I speak of finding joy. One piece so far, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, is about spring training. I plan on including baseball in my newsletter. I would love to help out with anything baseball. Just keep it in mind. Now grab a slice of pizza.
here comes the pizza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w&ab_channel=PaulKafasis
This is my all time Don and Jerry moment!!!
Thank you!!!
I'd trade half the team to somehow get Don and Jerry back, they were the best, especially when they were giggling at nonsense.
Agreed. When Don was laughing so hard he could only squeak was the best.
I would follow Royce Webb through the Gates of Hell. It just took me a few years to follow him here, which is pretty obviously nothing like Hell. Looking forward to sharing my passion for baseball history, sifting through my dozens of book ideas, and building a community of smart readers and colleagues.
Really excited to be part of this new community. My co-founder and I cover the small slice of the sports pie that is University of Nebraska athletics. We'd been doing that for a decade for an independent, monthly magazine before it shuttered last August. Since then, we've been on Substack and feeling encouraged about the future of sportswriting. If anyone ever needs a Husker perspective (guest post, podcast guest, a question answered, etc.), let me know. I already have a handful of Substack creators who cover related beats that I'm hoping to collaborate with and I'm looking forward to finding more.
On my Substack page I have videos and newsletters about local sports history. I know it is focused on a small rural area but good media and stories can be found at the local level too. I subscribed to this to see what you produce.
Love it
We also have some good talent so I try to include some of our latest athletes as sort of a contrast and compare. Not to mention that there are some amazing pictures of them.
This is great, find my sports writing at rytheguy.substack.com.
Love it! Thanks for offering this!
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Pumped to see this launch! Austin, this all looks incredible and you have done an amazing job with this. Proud to be part of the community here and can't wait to see where it all goes. Looking forward to connecting with all of you
Let’s go!!! Subscribed, and happy to see where this is going. Proud to be a part of this community🙏🏼
And thank you, Austin!
I have started The Red Thread, a baseball Substack that will be a mix of history, interviews and commentary. It’s at stuarthall.substack.com . It’s also my hope to connect with many of the really baseball Substackers already established. Let me know if…
Baseball is fun; I like baseball.
TrueHoop wants to mine the minds of Substack Sports! Soon we'll be writing a story assessing who is the best basketball player in the world? We would love your input! Takes about a minute: https://forms.gle/TZYgCEqZ9b3GY2Nk6