Patrick Hatten

An internet prankster harassed a hardworking Red Baron employee and father of four, and posted the video for laughs. Instead, Americans rallied behind the dad and raised over $500,000. A powerful reminder of what the American dream is all about.

RIP June Jones, a true offensive pioneer who coached in NFL and college, dies at 73. nytimes.com/athletic/7736251…

People call being a sports fan a one-sided relationship. You give a team decades, and it doesn’t even know your name. Then you see a video like this. An 81-year-old man in a Brewers jersey, crying, with his wife next to him, watching his team win the World Series. The Brewers came to Milwaukee in 1970, when he was about 25. They made the World Series once, in 1982, and lost in seven games. He waited 56 years, through decades of losing seasons, to see this. You don’t see an 81-year-old in that video. You see the kid who started rooting for them. The psychologist Daniel Wann has spent years studying why fans stay. His research found that identifying with a local team gives people real connections: the friends you watch with, the strangers you high-five, the shared language of a city. In one of his studies of older fans, with an average age around 71, people who identified more strongly with a local team reported feeling less lonely. So maybe it’s not as one-sided as it looks. The team never learns his name. But it gave him 56 years of people to share it with, and one night he’ll never forget.

"Hate is lonely when no one notices it." If you read just one thing from me, make it this column: My thoughts on how online hate is winning, but how you can render it as powerless as it should be foxnews.com/outkick-sports/b…

I hope this is fake. The leaked Penguins Hometown Remix jerseys look like something straight out of Chuck E. Cheese. Whose idea was it to add polka dots and make the logo look like it’s on cheese? 🐧🧀 #LetsGoPens

He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us.

Done.

“The NFL just wants to play on every fuckin day at every hour. If the NFL was smart, they’d go back to just playing every game on Sunday… We’re getting to the point where it’s gonna suck. They’re gonna play Tuesday and Wednesday and we’re gonna have like 5 games at noon on a Sunday and they’re all gonna suck” -Big Cat

First look at the ‘DUNE: PART 3’ popcorn bucket.

Yes!!

Should've been this.

Maybe I should be a nihilist. How does one get started in nihilism

Ask somebody around the league for their best Jameis Winston story, and it's very rarely some silly or hilarious tale. It's stuff like this. Here's Giants OC Matt Nagy on "The Schrager Hour", taking us through the day Jameis was benched for JJ McCarthy. @OmahaProd @ESPNNFL

That's all well and good, BUT the fact that Jameis Winston is treated as a "Whipping boy" is shameful. If Jameis is healthy yet not starting SOMEWHERE, it's a legitimate sports travesty.