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Welcome everyone to the Week 13 update of the 2022 True Sack Rate (TSR) metric where I study and chart every sack of the season from all defensive linemen. If you are new to the TSR, here are the final leaderboards from the 2020 season for edge-rushers and interior D-linemen and the 2021 season for both positions. In the past I’ve paid homage with the cover photo to the top two sack artists of all-time, Bruce Smith and Reggie White.

Welcome everyone to the Week 5 update of the 2022 True Sack Rate (TSR) metric where I study and chart every sack of the season from all defensive linemen. If you are new to the TSR, here are the final leaderboards from the 2020 season for edge-rushers and interior D-linemen and the 2021 season for both positions. In the past I’ve paid homage with the cover photo to the top two sack artists of all-time, Bruce Smith and Reggie White.

The Pearl Street Mile is a downtown-Boulder August tradition that usually draws multiple spectators I count as friends but, at the point the PSM rolls around, haven’t seen in a while. That’s why, after making my sole annual journey out of the house to watch other people run last Saturday, I decided to again suck it up and wander down to the event, reminding myself all the while that I wouldn’t have to do this again for another 365 days or so.

It’s easy to let the long NBA regular season wash over you, numb to the daily ups and downs of various teams and players across the league. But every so often, a result is so eye-popping that it cuts through even the dog days of early March. Such was the case on Sunday, when the Boston Celtics rolled all over the Golden State Warriors. Boston finished the first half on a 61-17 run (no that’s not a typo) and ended up blowing the doors off Steph Curry and company by 52 points, the third-most lopsided victory in the history of the NBA’s winningest franchise.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here. Thanks! Yesterday, U.S. News published its 2024 Best Law School rankings. For the 2023 rankings, the magazine radically overhauled its methodology, leading to a lot of movement. For the 2024 rankings, it largely adhered to last year’s approach, which explains why there was more stability this time around.

Hello Pizza Friends, Today’s post is a thrilling one: we’re talking dough storage and specifically the three types of vessels you need to ensure your dough stays happy at every phase of the pizza-making process. Let’s back up. When I first learned to make bread and pizza, I was taught to cover bowls of rising dough with warm, damp tea towels. For the quick-rising doughs I made for years, this method worked beautifully, the dampness of the towel allowing it to cling to the bowl, creating a sealed environment, and the slight heat of it, created a cozy one, too.

The 3:1 method. ‘One of the most simple and effective strategies to lose fat in an enjoyable way.’ - Me (& 1,000s of clients) Here is how it works. You structure your day like this… First 3 meals: Breakfast Lunch Snack These stay pretty consistent and focus on primarily whole foods, protein and nailing your fruit and veg intake. Make these meals as health focused as possible. I am not going to tell you what to eat for these meals as I want you to pick foods you enjoy but here is an example:

Welcome to the 1,070 new members of the curiosity tribe who have joined us since Friday. Join the 100,000 others who are receiving high-signal, curiosity-inducing content every single week. Thank you to all the subscribers that have joined me on this journey. 100,000 is an amazing milestone—but to be honest, I feel like we’re still at the starting line. Let’s go! Today’s newsletter is brought to you by Flatfile! Personally, I have spent enough time in spreadsheets to get my excel PHD.

this should have been a very easy newsletter to write. last year's took like, an hour! but i've never met a project i couldn't over-complicate, and what should have been a jokey little ode to some books i really liked this year evolved into a mild crisis about taste, identity-making, and the pleasing-but-not-effortless labor of reading well. i've suspected for years now that i lack taste. it's not that i don't have powerful likes and dislikes (oh, beloveds, i do) but that i don't have consistent enough likes and dislikes to constitute a legible aesthetic.