the athletic gave a comment about their freelancer freeze...

but it doesn't hold up under scrutiny. let's take a look.

So, hi! There are many, many more of you here than were here earlier this week. That feels like a lot of pressure, which I will try to live up to! A lot of you subscribed after reading my piece on The Athletic pausing the work of their WNBA freelancers. That story took two weeks to report, and I’m glad it resonated with so many of you.

Today, I have a fo…