The GIST

Pick'em

The GIST's NFL Pick'em Challenge

Make your picks for a shot at weekly and season-long prizes.

September 03, 2025

Previewing the first round of the 2025 College Football Playoff

🏈

Tick tock — you have until 12 p.m. ET today to enter The GIST’s College Football Bracket Challenge, plenty of time to read this primer then make your picks. The top four College Football Playoff (CFP) seeds (No. 1 Indiana, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia, and No. 4 Texas Tech) received a bye to the quarter-finals, while the other eight squads will battle it out in first-round action beginning tonight. Hut hut, here we go.

December 19, 2025

Division races heat up ahead of Week 16 action

🏈

Just like their college counterparts, the stakes are sky-high on the pro gridiron. With only three weeks left in the regular season, the NFL’s playoff picture is beginning to take shape — and three divisions are looking extra spicy in Week 16. Pour a glass of egg nog and let’s discuss.

December 19, 2025

U.S. Ski & Snowboard CEO Sophie Goldschmidt explains the governing body’s winning marketing strategy

⛷️

Powered by the success of big-name athletes like Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Chloe Kim, the org is ready to capitalize on the Olympic spotlight and unlock snow sports’ full marketing potential.

December 19, 2025

LOVB announces San Francisco franchise with ownership group led by Rebel Girls CEO Jes Wolfe

🏐

oday, LOVB announced the launch of a new franchise in San Francisco set to hit the court in January 2027. Rebel Girls CEO Jes Wolfe — a prominent LOVB media partner — co-led the ownership group with growth strategist Chantell Preston as they assembled a team of all-women investors, including Olympian and LOVB founding athlete Kelsey Robinson Cook.

December 18, 2025

NCAA volleyball semifinals steal the spotlight on ESPN

🏐

The NCAA women’s volleyball national semifinals are set for tomorrow on ESPN in the U.S. and TSN+ in Canada, and they couldn’t come at a better time: Volleyball is having a moment from youth leagues to the pros, but the college game is doing especially well with, ahem, spiking viewership and attendance. Sunday’s quarter-final round was truly bananas, so you’ll want to buckle up ahead of tomorrow’s semis — here’s what to expect.

December 17, 2025

Our way-too-early PWHL superlatives

🏒

December 17, 2025

What the LA Dodgers’ second straight World Series means for baseball

Sports News

What the LA Dodgers’ second straight World Series means for baseball

⚾

November 03, 2025

It’s been two days since the LA Dodgers topped the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in a thrilling 11-inning Game 7, securing their second straight World Series pennant. And that means two things: Your blood pressure might finally be returning to normal, and it’s time to dissect what the Dodgers winning back-to-back titles means for baseball.

Read Full Story

The GIST of It Podcast

Ep #517

How two torn ACLs are shaking up the NFL

December 16, 2025

Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify

’Twas a dark NFL Sunday.

Two major injuries rattled the league in Week 15. First, superstar Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL in the final two minutes of his team’s loss to the LA Chargers. But that wasn’t all: hours later, Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Micah Parsons went down with a non-contact knee injury that was later confirmed to be an ACL tear. Today’s episode of The GIST of It takes a look at how these devastating injuries will impact the NFL.