Glen Powell Was Created In A Sports Lab

…Thanks to Adidas. The famed AE 1s are now football cleats, which our kid sister newsletter, SportsVerse, covered this week. There’s a baseball cleat version, too.  

The economy is a fickle thing (at least I hear people say that kind of thing), and right now, a lot of it is dependent on sports trips. Substack writer Emily P. Hoover talks about the significance of event-based consumerism and the memories we make along the way. 

Contracts can be messy. So can NIL deals. Put ‘em together and what do you have? A situation where college football players are mad at EA Sports for not offering them an opt-out clause if they don’t want to be in a video game.  

At OffBall, we are NFL fashion editor Kyle Smith stans. So, when we see a piece about how his first year has been and what his creative vision is for the future of the league, we read it 100 times and reshare it. Especially when the piece is written by friend of OffBall, Mike Sykes. It’s that simple. 

Caleb Williams has been famous for his nail polish, but this time, there’s a message behind his manicure. His Week 1 nails (which were done by Angel Reese’s nail tech) were painted in honor of suicide prevention. We stan an activist.