Rising on Substack this week: Sports

Two signals nobody else shows: the writers picking up new recommendations from other publications, and the ones climbing the leaderboards between my reads. Follower growth joins them on Nov 7, once there's a week of daily readings.

Category Any size Under 10k followers 10k to 100k 100k or more Recommendations read 6 days ago

Most new recommenders, last 30 days

Publications that started recommending each writer in the last 30 days, by Substack's own start date, with 12 weeks of context. Big writers collect recommenders fastest; pick a size to see who's rising among writers like you.

Zach Lowe

31k followers · #7 Sports Bestsellers

54+ in 30 days · +1 in 7 days 54 in all

54 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Marc Stein

73k followers · #11 Sports Bestsellers

+9 in 30 days 64 in all

11 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Nick Kehoe

32k followers

+7 in 30 days 54 in all

15 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Business of Sport

7.2k followers · #97 Sports Bestsellers

+7 in 30 days 25 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Greg Cote

2.1k followers · #19 Sports Rising

+7 in 30 days 14 in all

14 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Tyler Dunne

44k followers · #10 Sports Bestsellers

+6 in 30 days 59 in all

12 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Pablo Torre

67k followers · #49 Sports Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 58 in all

16 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Tom Pelissero

7.9k followers · #2 Sports Rising

+5 in 30 days 14 in all

14 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Joe Crann

6.4k followers · #46 Sports Bestsellers

+5 in 30 days 35 in all

9 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Joe Posnanski

92k followers · #5 Sports Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 60 in all

6 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

John Canzano

65k followers · #1 Sports Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 56 in all

7 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

Swiss Ramble

49k followers · #26 Sports Bestsellers

+4 in 30 days 61 in all

13 new recommendations over 12 weeks.

New recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live. Outlined weeks are incomplete: Substack lists only a publication's 50 newest recommenders, so for busy writers older weeks can't be counted, and a 30-day count marked + is a floor.