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Never give up.

Greatest sporting match I’ve ever seen.

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🏆 RG2025 Final | Alcaraz def. Sinner (4-6 6-7 6-4 7-6 7-6)

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Coco Gauff defeats Aryna Sabalenka 6-7(5) 6-2 6-4 in the final of Roland Garros, Paris, 2025 to win her second Grand Slam title.

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2023 was an incredible year.

I started this blog in 2015 with dreams of being on TV. This blog opened the door to incredible opportunities, including owning this little statue that means so much to us in the industry.

I’ve worked behind the scenes at tbs and TNT for six years. This is my first win as part of the crew for Inside the NBA.

Work keeps me busy, so I don’t post often anymore, but I want to thank all of you for your reading and sharing posts throughout the years. Thank you for making Tumblr a fun community to help get my dreams off the ground.

A little blog goes a long way. Cheers to 2024! 🥂

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the last 16 months have been great for me btw

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I don't post on here often anymore, but what a redemption story for Sha'Carri Richardson.

I regret not seeing her at Eugene in 2022, and not making the trip to Budapest this year, but what a moment! I wrote once that she needed to go back in the lab, and she emerged better.

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Rena’s Army forever

Onward!! 💪🏻🐐🎾

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Venus and Serena turned pro during my infancy. It has been one of the great honors of my life to watch Serena on TV and on Apple products all these years. Thanks, Serena.

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Abby Steiner runs fastest 200m of 2022 to earn National title, trip to W…

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Jamaican National Athletics Championships: Shericka Jackson Completes 100-200 Double

Jamaican National Athletics Championships: Shericka Jackson Completes 100-200 Double

Shericka Jackson delivered on her promise to produce something special in the women’s 200m with a world-leading 21.55 seconds (0.0m/s) on Sunday’s final day of the Jamaican National Athletics Championships. Jamaican track stars produced the third-fastest event ever at the world team trials in the national stadium at Kingston, with Jackson completing the 100-200 sprint double impressively. After…

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Mood

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I watched the first day of the USATF Senior National Outdoor Championships/Team USA Worlds Trials.

We gotta hold Sha’Carri accountable.

11.31 is unacceptable by her standards. I don’t think she was running this at Texas Relays in high school.

She faces more scrutiny than the average track athlete. A controversy has defined her pro career—I get it.

But we gotta hold her accountable.

Her starts are where her race needs the most improvement, but this performance—and in the first round at Worlds Trials—is unacceptable. No offense, but Jenna Prandini should not be neck and neck with her most of the race.

Her season best last week was a 10.85. This is the first Worlds on US soil and you’re the face of USATF.

And this is the result. Now you’re tweeting on the couch like the rest of us.

The first thing is to reset the mental and get back in the lab. This is the time to be forged in a fire between the hammer and anvil. LeBron didn’t stay in a hole after losing the 2011 Finals. Venus and Serena have pushed through criticism on the daily for almost 30 years. Lolo continued to qualify for the Olympics and Worlds after 2008 (and won two Worlds titles), and she was barraged time and again about clipping the hurdle. Gotta back up your talk of being one of the fastest in the game. Adversity is what makes champions.

The next thing: all criticism is not bad criticism—learn how to filter it. Work on the start in the indoor season. Work on the start in the outdoor season. Get on Twitter more sparingly—going back and forth with random strangers isn’t going to count compared to experience on the track.

Third: when chasing a championship, you can’t be too high on the wins and too low on the losses. Covering Golden State all these years taught me that.

If anything, Saturday night makes me all the more nervous for her. While she won the 200 at the Armory last week, she may still be mentally frazzled, since we’re going to talk about this for two days.

But I need her to get in the lab and really bring it for Budapest 2023 and Paris 2024.

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March Madness is here! Here are my official picks for all four tourneys (though I did go overboard and filled out a bunch more)

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Not the outcome anyone wanted but it was definitely a game to remember.

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OBJ, SUPERBOWL LVI