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Art but make it sports

L J Rader is the person behind the account that pairs sports photography with fine art in startling similar juxtaposition.

@artbutmakeitsports started in 2019. When did you realize that you had this gift?

I don’t know if there was an exact moment. I think the account first started as me captioning art—I would say, “This Francis Bacon painting looks like Philip Rivers screaming.” Then it was like, “Wait, I’m gonna just put up the picture of Philip Rivers screaming.” I always knew in my head, this is what this thing looked like. But it started taking off when I put the actual image next to the actual artwork. And it was a steady burn—steady growth, but never really something that I cared about. I’m gonna, you know, post it to however many people, and I’ll post however many more in the future. But it is fun to see the community that’s grown around it.

2026-05-28
Pickleball’s best player

Like any sport in its infancy, they’re weird. Pickleball is still growing, and talented players are beginning to make a name for themselves. 19 year old Anna Leigh Waters is one such name.

“When I was younger, I didn’t really understand it, but a lot of people were treating me poorly on the court or would get pretty upset [and] call me names,” Waters told NBC News. “But now that I’m older, I realize the feelings they must have been going through losing to a 12-year-old. I could see how that could get people to maybe do things that they characteristically wouldn’t do.”

Seven years since her debut, Waters, 19, is the No. 1-ranked female singles and doubles player in the world and widely considered the greatest to ever compete.

2026-05-22
How much does it cost to hire a college mascot for a wedding?

This is the hard hitting journalism we need: how much does it cost to hire a college mascot for a wedding?

Last offseason, we asked, Does anyone object to having a Mascot at this Wedding?since we saw Goldy the Gopher at a wedding. We created a spreadsheet with all the mascot costs and broke it down conference by conference.

Now, we’re back again with a partnership with FOIAball, and we asked a question about which mascots were booked the most and what the mascots were booked for, and we also updated rates of some of the mascots we couldn’t get wedding prices for previously and ones that have changed.

2026-04-11
Rodger Sherman gives a Para-Olympics primer

What makes Rodger Sherman a great sports writer is how he can convey not only his enthusiasm for a sport but what makes it interesting and exciting. The Para Olympics start this weekend, and he has an excellent overview, explaining how certain events – visually impaired skiing – work.

There’s going to be BLIND people skiing down a mountain?

Yes, there are visually impaired events in all four alpine skiing categories. The visually impaired athletes ski down the mountain with a guide ahead of them, giving audio instructions through a Bluetooth headset

2026-03-08
Bluesky sports starter packs

One of the more interesting features of Bluesky is the concept of starter packs, where people can create a list of accounts for a certain topic. Since sports are the last bastion of real time reaction culture, it would be natural for communities within sports to play out commentary in real time. Denny Carter collated a list of starter packs for a variety of sports.

2026-02-04
Claw machine competitions

Operating a claw machine is becoming a competitive sport.

…the competitive claw machine community has grown. Aspiring clawmasters share tips and tricks online. Clawcades host tournaments for local players. The cost to play depends on location and prizes, but on average is still between a quarter and $2 per play. They’re especially popular in Japan, where a woman named Yuka Nakajima holds the Guinness World Record for most claw-machine wins at 3.5k.

2026-01-26
100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond

100 years ago, an all-Black team beat the KKK on a baseball diamond.

The Monrovians’ game against the KKK might have been set in motion by an open invitation that the Black team had announced in the Wichita Eagle three weeks earlier, saying they were “open for games with any team in Kansas,” according to a 2008 story by the Society of American Baseball Research.

The game, which took place 11 years before Jesse Owens would shatter the myth of white supremacy by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Nazi Olympics, provided a less-noticed dent, with the Monrovians winning, 10-8.

There was little coverage of it in the press. “Monrovians Beat K.K.K.,” ran the headline in the Wichita Eagle, in a story that was just two sentences long: “The Wichita Monrovians won from the K.K.K. team in a close and interesting baseball battle at Island Park, Sunday 10 to 8. A good sized crowd watched the colored team win the contest.”

2025-11-24
Father Pete leads the masses at Notre Dame

Thirty seconds into the video, the camera shows Father Pete — to call him anything else is to barely know him — striding into the Basilica. He’s as identifiable by his buzz cut and black-rimmed glasses as he is by his perpetual smile. Sunlight follows him through the doors.

That’s when the student section loses its collective mind, cheering as if running back Jeremiyah Love just went for another 98-yard touchdown.

Excellent story about a University of Notre Dame priest and the community he supports.

2025-11-09
Geoguessing

Did you know that there are competitions surrounding identifying a certain geographic, location, a.k.a.geoguessing? Like, could you identify a location in 30 seconds based on a single image?

2025-10-16
Cheating at stone skimming championship

Who knew you could cheat at stone skimming?

2025-09-30

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