Let It All Mean Something (Alissa Walker's Version)

We believe all sensuality is necessary. A sports podcast through a pop culture lens. Culture critic and novelist Zan Romanoff and journalist and Scamfluencers senior producer Sarah Enni discuss playoff baseball and why crying is more than okay; WNBA players are openly feuding with their commissioner; when sports coverage gets downright erotic; locker room miming; James Dolan is watching you right now; young Americans increasingly agree that sports betting is bad; and we talk to Alissa Walker, LA journalist covering the massive sporting events coming to the city for her newsletter, Torched.   Links: New eyeglasses give Kiké Hernández a new outlook on hitting (The LA Times) More crying in baseball (Twitter) Yankees: Fix your hearts or die (Bluesky) Napheesa Collier, Cathy Engelbert and a WNBA teetering on the brink (ESPN) Steam Clinging to His Skin (Bluesky) ​​Shedeur Sanders Keeps Making His Biggest Problem Worse (Bleacher Report) How MSG became Maximum Spy Garden under Knicks owner James Dolan (NY Groove) Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports (PEW Research Center) Torched (Ghost) Fair Games Coalition (Unite Here)