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Bob Hille

@bobhille.bsky.social
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40+ yrs in sports journalism (COTXMOSCMO) • Now: 🎯 STL @SportingNews.com Sr Editorial Consultant • BBWAA gold card • lifelong Liz lover + @CSURams 🐏 fan.

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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this date: Sept. 30, 1927, Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit 60 home runs in a season with a two-run shot in a 4-2 Yankees win over the Senators. "Sixty, count 'em 60!" the Babe crowed after the game. "Let's see some other son of a bitch match that!"
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is why I subscribe to "The Lineup" from the Sunday Long Read, basically a weekly newsletter of top long-form sports writing, current and past: an excerpt from and link to a Thomas Boswell piece on Greg Maddux for Playboy. Yes, please! (Now go subscribe at sundaylongread.com/thelineup/)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This Missouri case is a perfect nesting doll of the consequences of the SCOTUS approach to its docket.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026
We're headed into Aaron Judge's age 35 season and he's got five years left on that contract, whew
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you're looking for ways to pass the hours before kickoff, you could do a LOT worse than taking the time to read this by Wright Thompson on the Ole Miss-LSU rivalry, a story that's about a LOT more than the Ole Miss-LSU rivalry. www.espn.com/college-foot...
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Thompson: LSU-Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin and an old fight made new
The LSU-Ole Miss rivalry is long, with two fanbases deeply intertwined. The line between love and hate is thin, and Lane Kiffin's return brings those memories to the surface.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Worth noting and not for nothing: Entering today's play, National League teams are 43 games over .500 this season (1,165-1,122) while American League teams are 43 games under .500 (1,120-1,163).
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“I hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America were caused by Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, not by ‘TRUMP.’”
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Skeptical Man's Reaction
ALT: Skeptical Man's Reaction
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wild factoid (via Yahoo Sports AM): Every Week 1 NFL game had a different margin of victory, making this the first 16-game week in league history with 16 unique point differentials. 🧐 😳 🤯
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The headline: Dodgers, Yankees clinch. The subtext: LA is playoff-bound for an MLB record-tying 14th consecutive season (Braves, 1991-2005*), and NY is in the postseason for a record 61st time in franchise history, including the ninth time in the past 10 seasons. *No postseason in 1994 🙁
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All hail, Stewie! Breanna Stewart's résumé after she led Team USA's FIBA World Cup championship comeback vs. France to win tournament MVP: • 4 X World Cup champion • 3 X Olympic gold-medal winner • 3 X WNBA champion • 2 X WNBAA MVP • 4 X NCAA champion • 3 X NCAA POY 👑
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"It's going to be another long season in Cleveland," longtime friend + @sportingnews.com coworker Bill Bender writes. Happy reading, Browns fans! www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/cleve...
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How long will Browns start Deshaun Watson at QB? The uncomfortable answer after Cleveland's blowout loss | Sporting News
Deshaun Watson got off to a horrid start to the 2026 season, but his leash as the starting Browns QB may be longer than you think.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yahoo Sports' Jay Busbee comes in (deservedly) hot re: the 2026 version of America's Team: "EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 30 times, call me a Dallas Cowboys fan." sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...
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New year, same Cowboys. Dallas once again smashes its fans’ hopes in New York face-plant
Where do you even start after this flop of a performance? There's so much blame to go around, everybody gets a third serving. The defense will come in for the most severe scorching, and deservedly so.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting and not for nothing: There had been only 122 "immaculate innings" in all of MLB history. And then Diamondbacks righthander Justin Martinez and Red Sox lefthander Payton Tolle recorded three strikeouts on nine pitches in the same weekend. Wild.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"I don't want you guys to just see this and dismiss it as a little sad story. There's so much nuance here," said Yola, a friend of Pierre. "It wasn't just a bracelet. It was bondage. It was restriction."
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Masterful dataviz + inside baseball from the Wall Street Journal (via Yahoo Sports AM) re: the smallish changes PCA made two months into what then turned into an MVP-caliber season for the Cubs center fielder. Fascinating in all the details in a small space.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CSU football out here catching a stray in FOS's newsletter this morning about ESPN doing away with the BottomLine score ticker. Of all the scores in all the world … a four-year-old final from Week 1 2022.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Joe Manchin's opinion = adult voices in Peanuts cartoons.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m not sure how to convey this succinctly to legacy media who continues to go to Manchin for his opinion. But let me try: No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
we simply didn’t have to do this vaccination was working we solved this problem it was over with we did not have to do this
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Worth noting and not for nothing: Career earnings for Nneka Ogwumike, who'll retire after 15 WNBA seasons: $2.39M, per Sportrac. •Average• career earnings for a 15-year NBA player: approx. $120M (higher for a player with Ogwumike's credentials). No wonder she's been an active union negotiator.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Heads up M-I-Z peeps: Great story by @maxolson.bsky.social here about the wild ride that is being a QB1 in the transfer portal, starring one-and-done Tiger Beau Pribula, whose travel itinerary was insane. INSANE! www.espn.com/college-foot...
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College football's mad two-week scramble to land a transfer portal QB
Among the struggles? Finding yourself on a visit and another player takes your roster spot.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Brewers prospect Sawyer Strosnider's dad caught his first professional HR yesterday with High-A Wisconsin ... after predicting it. “The people on the party deck were like, ‘You know, this is a private party.’ I was like, ‘Well, my son's about to hit a home run that I'm going to catch.’”
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We are being "governed" by the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. You want a second opinion? They're smarmy too.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Good mornin', America. How are ya?
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/08/2026
If Reuters can tell when insiders are making bets on Polymarket that telegraph US military actions, it seems fair to assume that America's foreign adversaries can too www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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EXCLUSIVE: More than 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on military secrets, research finds
More than 150 wallets on Polymarket International may have traded on inside U.S. military information, attracting copycat ​bets and raising concerns that the market could broadcast signals exploitable...
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) @peeweebigadventure.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I know you are, but what am I?
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
From a "blue-ribbon" panel that somehow, someway included … me? www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foot...
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Sporting News 140: Ranking the 20 greatest college football teams since 1886 | Sporting News
Our 20-voter blue ribbon panel names the best of the best.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That's a 6-game losing streak (to the Red Sox and Cubs). OK, last year’s Dodgers suffered through a seven-game losing streak and still emerged as repeat champs. But this little streak is a reminder that this team is capable of the sort of swoon that could get you eliminated in October.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Jefry Yan Experience has arrived for the Mets (as I furiously flip through the pages of baseball's unwritten rulebook.)
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
World Cup host cities in the U.S. are having to chase $1 million "legacy" payments promised to them by FIFA, which made roughly $15 billion during the World Cup cycle. Man, Gianni and the Welchers really are just like the Trump Org.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Countdown is on. We're less than a month from Week 0 of the 2026 season. What better time to celebrate the game and @sportingnews.com's 140th birthday with a project led by longtime friend + Bill Bender? What a great parade of names! www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foot...
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Sporting News 140: College Football All-America teams by decade | Sporting News
We named an All-Decade All-America team from the 1960s on.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"We have the parameters of a deal that would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat.”
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Rank the 25 best baseball teams since 1886, @sportingnews.com, est. 1886, asked our blue ribbon panel. "Fun!" they said. Also … "This," Bob Costas said good-naturedly, "is impossible." www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/...
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Sporting News 140: Ranking the 25 greatest baseball teams since 1886 | Sporting News
Our blue-ribbon panel has the Yankees in the top three spots.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nearly spit out my coffee when I read this gem from @ianfroeb.bsky.social in his review of a local (STL area) Mexican restaurant's lackluster offering: "Call them Señora Paul’s fish tacos." 😬
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From the @sportingnews.com archives, a cover story — by Jack Lang — with one of my fave classic renderings of "Tom Terrific." The year: 1969, which might ring a bell for (Amazin') Mets fans of a certain age. www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/...
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Why even President Nixon thinks Tom Seaver can save the Mets (SN Archive — 1969) | Sporting News
“Oh, I know you. You were winning before the Mets were.”
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please send one large hot dog costume to: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street NE Washington, DC 20543
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"a false positive"
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Skeptical Kid Meme: Really Bro?
ALT: Skeptical Kid Meme: Really Bro?
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Continuing our celebration of @sportingnews.com's 140th anniversary, a little something on baseball from the "Bible of …" www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/...
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Baseball's Greatest Players: 140 legends and one reimagined approach for ranking all-time greats | Sporting News
Celebrating the greatest players in baseball history, period.
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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Please link to the report on the ground! The Portland Press Herald is doing great work (they're still updating), and citing where we're getting info from matters. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Live updates: ICE agents involved in shooting of Biddeford man were not wearing body cameras, King says
Protests are growing after a man identified as a 26-year-old from Colombia was fatally shot. Immigration advocates say he was authorized to work in the U.S.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Uday and Qusay are raking it in.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
At the break, the "retooled" Mets are 40-57 record, their worst first half since 1995. 😑
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Dangerdill @ddangerdill.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The U.S. system “is not a youth-centered or a talent-development system,” Tom Farrey, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society program, told The Athletic. “It’s primarily a system set up to use kids to make money for adults.”
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The ‘pay-to-play’ problem in U.S. soccer, explained in the World Cup context
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Wild heater: Royals speedster Tyler Tolbert is 12-for-12 in his past three games, raising his batting average from .200 to .396 in that span. 😳
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
At Big 12 football media days Tuesday, Colorado coach Deion Sanders referred multiple times to his new offensive coordinator Brennan Marion as “Brendan." A member of his own staff. I wonder how Coach Prime would feel if one of his assistants called him "Diane" in an interview.
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Still thinking about this and gonna be thinking about it for a long, long time. youtu.be/5LZOhEGG-_o?...
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Brandi Carlile performs 'America the Beautiful' at the Statue of Liberty
YouTube video by ABC News
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Worth noting and not for nothing: Sunday's comeback win over the Giants gave the Rockies their ninth series victory this season, one more than in all of last season. Over its last 25 games, Colorado is 13-12 (.520).
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Bob Hille @bobhille.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#OTD July 6 in 1933: The first All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago — and of course @sportingnews.com, est. 1886, covered it!
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm not going to get mad and tell you you suck, instead I'm going to tell a person I've made up in my head how much they suck and get mad about that person who doesn't exist

Coach Yac 🗣
@Coach_Yac
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Will Clark on why he won’t coach:

“People ask me why I don’t get into coaching or get into managing and all that, I am not going to pat you on the back and tell you you’re doing a good job when you’re hitting .220 and you strikeout 100 times. You actually suck. I’m gonna tell you that you suck. I’m going to tell you to make a fucking adjustment and if you don’t make an adjustment, you’re going to the minor leagues and somebody else is going to go take your spot. Sorry, that’s the way the fucking game goes. This is a big boy game. Not a little boy game. And you have to have fucking thick skin. If you don’t have thick skin, get out the way because I’m gonna fucking steamroll you.”
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