Sydney Thomas Returns to Spotlight Playing Celebrity Poker

Sydney Thomas, the 22-year-old model who gained fame during the transG era, has returned to the public eye. She now plays poker against other celebrities.

Thomas remains in the early phase of her career, testing paths in modeling and acting. Her agent seeks spots like an Adam Sandler movie or a lingerie team alliance with Sydney Sweeney. She has worked as a boxing ring girl, but that offered no long-term prospects. Suggestions include placing her behind home plate at Dodgers games, in Rams suites, at the World Cup, or throwing a first pitch at a Cubs game. The ideas echo a 2010 playbook when internet models tossed first pitches at Cubs games to enter pop culture.

Sydney Sweeney and Livvy Dunne have formed an alliance as their lingerie war with Victoria's Secret heats up.

Last night, after mowing the lawn and taking out trash, the writer's wife called in panic over a van that wouldn't start. At the ballpark where their son practiced, she had left the van in accessory mode for 90 minutes, draining the battery dead. The writer had posted a pickle jar meme on Facebook that day about women needing men sometimes.

Danica Patrick impressed the MAHA crowd with tennis as her new fitness workout, plus bat dogs and meat.

On ESPN's PGA Championship coverage, John in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, complained at 5 p.m. on the first day about nonstop talking. The writer caught coverage around 10 p.m. after jumping the van and chores. He praised Smylie Kaufman on Golf Channel for smooth explanations of the course and Thursday conditions. Kaufman stays cool, calm, and collected. The writer likes Golf Channel's relaxed Happy Hour bit with him, noting less live content elsewhere.

Screencaps readers discuss Costco crowds, especially weekends when crowds thicken. Chris A. avoids Saturdays, Sundays, and now Fridays. His Tuesday morning trip was packed despite semi-retirement scheduling. He welcomes the return of Jones sausage patties, ditching bad Kirkland ones, perfect for sausage, egg, and cheese muffins. The writer agrees and shops at 6 p.m. Saturdays when people tire out, or off-hours otherwise.

Mike T. in Idaho found Costco Canada still sells polish dogs for $1.50 Canadian, or $1.09 USD.

Tennessee keeps country roots despite California influx. Mark in Tennessee says the Franklin Noon Rotary Club's annual rodeo, now the largest east of the Mississippi, grosses over a million dollars and nets $400,000 to $500,000 for charity. It's the 75th event; he has worked 36 straight. Three nights of hard work for a good cause, and he can say this ain't his first rodeo.

Liberals discuss making rec ball great again. Jon C. shared a newsfeed item on legislation to regulate travel ball, calling for parents to act like adults. Mike T. sent a Substack from John Canzano railing against private equity in youth sports. Canzano calls for stopping the money grab, skyrocketing costs, predatory profit squeezes like mandatory hotels, streaming fees, apps, and high fees pricing out low-income families. The scene has become a vulture's paradise.

Ivanka Trump has angry liberals on alert in an amazing dress, amid Waffle House chaos and meat.

The writer notes he has screamed about youth sports issues for three to four years, ahead of others, getting 10 daily emails on Wendy's. Brandon in NKY recalled coaching his son's Knothole T-Ball, fun days keeping boys from sand piles or dandelions. Travel ball ended camaraderie; games felt like exhibitions without rivalries or titles, just hot 12-hour Saturdays at treeless complexes. He urges keeping rec ball strong, as memories remain after graduation. Make Rec Ball Great Again, sponsored by Brandon.

Readers react to Thursday's Rachel Pizzolato column. Christopher T. praised it but wanted mention of her caregiving for her mom with early-onset dementia. Steve in Clarkston, Michigan, called her perfect: SI Swimsuit model beautiful, fixes cars and plumbing, brainiac on MythBusters, won international science-engineering bronze at 18, invented injury-reducing football helmet.