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Managing editor for @reason, award-winning sportswriter, and author of "Free Agent" newsletter. @UofR alum. Michigander. Husband to the lovely @KellanHowell.

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The Sindex: Gas Prices Rose 29% in 2 Months After Trump Went to War With Iran

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The Sindex The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more. | In February, President Donald Trump might not have had red-hot economic numbers to point to, but at least he could say gas prices were down 7.3 percent since he took office and annual inflation was at just 2.4 percent. Then Trump started a war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz closed, and chaos engulfed a big chunk of the world economy.
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How the U.S. Can Win a World Cup Original

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Sports Plus: Should Folarin Balogun have been allowed to play? The simple fix for red card suspensions. | (Steve Faber/Cal Sport Media/Newscom) Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Don't forget to take the trash out this week, or you might end up in Jordan Spieth's way. A week after I was licking my wounds because of Germany's upset loss in the round of 32, I'm licking my wounds again today because of America's loss in the World Cup round of 16—again.
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The World Cup Experience Lives Up to the Hype

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Your humble newsletter writer is on his way home from a World Cup road trip as we speak, so today's newsletter talks about that experience. Then I borrow from a book excerpt that Reason just published about the history of sports betting. I think you'll like it! The last section has my latest podcast appearance.
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