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Raleigh McCool

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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Titans after using four consecutive top 11 picks on offense and hiring a QB whisperer as offensive coordinator
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Joe Tessitore is the best announcer when a home team is getting upset because he treats it as though a fictional president has been kidnapped
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
CHEF, FIRE PARAGUAY INTO THE ROUND OF 16, CHEF
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
As a Kat Westbeld believer and fan this is sad to me
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Chicago Sky this offseason
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Okay now we’re talking
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
If I were the Phoenix Mercury I would sign, perhaps, even a single player
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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I realize I’m in the minority on this, but I can’t wait until Morant is gone. The highs were high — ‘21-‘22 was the most fun I’ve ever had watching bball — but the rest is defined by lack: of accountability, responsibility, growth as a player, maturity, availability, leadership…
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A fun announcement I have for the Internet is that today I am two years sober (!).
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Babe is everything okay you’ve barely touched your Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl on the CW
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
When I tell someone to get well soon and they don't, I take it personally.
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I have one thing to say: THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Anchoring down to depths heretofore unknown
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Each week the Titans unveil cooler, more innovative ways to suck
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
He has to go by Bohei Ohtani now
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What a comeback — Vanderbilt almost had it
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Could not POSSIBLY publish my piece on Vanderbilt football soon enough open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
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Vandy, we (really are) turnt
Reflections on Vanderbilt football, Clark Lea, and Diego Pavia from a lifelong Nashvillian and (fair weather?) Commodores fan
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
In my opinion this is a sufficient amount of baseball
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
You just hope that this won't in any way dampen the unparalleled effervescence and swashbuckling, glint-in-the-eye panache that Bill Belichick has always brought to his duties
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“Why is he going?” “Because going is the only way to find out if you’ll make it.” Three years ago I was so flabbergasted by a simple baserunning play by Ronald Acuña Jr. that I HAD to write about it. raleighmccool.substack.com/p/how-ronald...
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How Ronald Acuña Jr.’s Slide Helped Answer Life’s Biggest Question
The star Braves outfielder cemented Atlanta’s win on Tuesday with an astonishing slide into home.
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I liked Diana Taurasi, so I became a @mercuryphx.bsky.social fan. She promptly retired. I thought, well, that's that. Yet somehow, three weeks into the 2025 season, I am ALL IN. My story on fandom, and finding joy in unlikely places (the desert?!) open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
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I picked a WNBA team at random and now I'm a lifelong Phoenix Mercury fan
How I stumbled into WNBA fandom and found my team – and my heart – in the desert.
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Up late just gazing at LeBron’s basketball reference page
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social! On throwing a party, pouting, and what a stranger taught me about welcome www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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There are a lot of rules for throwing a great party
Raleigh McCool read an essay about throwing parties and walked away from the piece electrified — jazzed to host a celebration of his own. To plan it, I went straight to the experts, he writes. And the...
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/raleighm... I wrote about “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical Christian around to punch it up 🙏
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Tate McRae needs God
On “Dear God,” my favorite song on Tate McRae’s divine third album, 'So Close To What,' and its biggest sin: not having an ex-evangelical around to punch it up.
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This just in: the Mercury are so unbelievably, hellaciously back
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Writing this was one of the biggest-sized blasts I had all year long. To paraphrase Charli xcx — I wanna read me!! open.substack.com/pub/raleighm...
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Little known fact: when quarterbacks are looking at the card on their wrists in a high-pressure situation they are reading a little note that says “JUST BE YOURSELF. :)”
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
is it just me or is everybody’s social security number 948-22-2471? maybe it’s just me
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
deeply regret that I used this joke before Tennessee and Ohio State got paired in the playoff
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
OH MY JA
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Eugene is the home of weird bars, musty used bookstores, kooky white people with dreadlocks, woodland conservationist-poets, and very pleasant hiking enthusiasts, and it is…ODD that it’s also the home of the most badass football team in America
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Me when Penn State is on my television
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
As the Big 12 championship kicks off (ASU/Iowa State: classic Big 12 matchup), throwback to the time I happened to hear RG3 have a brief orgasm on live TV
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Jay Huff is extraordinarily saucy with the reverse
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Y’all I have breaking NBA news: Jake LaRavia is, like, good
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
inside of you are two party girls: a 365 party girl and a party girl who is sober and is actually a boy and who listens exclusively to ambient music when he writes
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I can’t explain how or when or why but Marcus Smart has earned his Grizz stripes
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Luka Doncic should try falling down
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Waiting until the fight is basically broken up, then shooting pepper spray directly into the wind so it flies back in your face, great job
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
FYI, rearrange Diego Pavia’s first name and you get: “i.e., God”
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Raleigh McCool @raleightatum.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is so beautifully dumb
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