Teams, gear, training and the outdoors, for people who actually play.
4 sites in the drawer
RiverDates shows how a US river is running right now against every year on record for the same calendar date, for anyone planning a float. Its 229 gauges were hand-picked from thousands — most rivers have a dozen, only one or two sit on floatable water — and it refuses to ever call a river safe.
Unrivaled is the home of the women's 3x3 league Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart built to keep top WNBA players competing through the offseason. Its inaugural players were given equity in the league itself, so the athletes on the roster are part-owners of what they play in.
FishingHelps scores how likely the fish are to bite today in any of 16,000-plus US towns, cities and lakes. Its whole forecast rests on solunar theory, which the site itself calls a folk model with mixed scientific support — an unusually honest thing to admit.
Tennisyard is an independent review site covering tennis strings, racquets and gear for people who actually play. No string gets written up before 20 hours of play and no racquet before 15 hours of matches, and every review has to name something the product does badly.
