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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! 🥂

#emmy awards #thanks 2023

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the last 16 months have been great for me btw

#life lately #houston marathon #chicago marathon #wayde van niekerk #grant holloway #sanya richards ross #world athletics championships #oregon 2022 #elaine thompson herah #shelly ann fraser pryce #shericka jackson #houston astros #2022 world series #lebron james #miami hurricanes #final four #lsu tigers #national champions #emmys #monaco grand prix #monaco gp #lewis hamilton #max verstappen #miami heat #premier league

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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.

#world athletics championships #budapest 2023 #sha'carri richardson #lsu tigers #track and field #athletics #team usa

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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.

#i was here #serena williams #us open #tennis #team usa #nike #okay back to crying now

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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.

#sha’carri richardson #usatf #world athletics championships #team USA #track and field

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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)

#march madness #auburn tigers #lsu tigers #vanderbilt commodores #houston cougars

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

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OBJ, SUPERBOWL LVI

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Don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champion

How to set an Olympic Record: fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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In my opinion, she shouldn’t have been allowed to compete. 

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) deemed Valieva eligible to compete, contrary to the beliefs of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). I believe the CAS’ ruling further taints the competition, considering the results will remain pending until the IOC’s investigation concludes weeks, if not months, from now. It sends the message that clean is subjective. It shrouds the events in controversy, and even robs potential medalists of their moment to receive their medals on site. More profoundly, Valieva will have to live and skate with the doping stigma for years to come. 

After covering Sha’Carri Richardson’s case last year, I will again echo The New York Times:

“The antidoping rule book is getting thicker and more nuanced, making it more complicated for clean athletes to follow every rule. Drug-testing technology has grown more sensitive, meaning that small traces of banned drugs — perhaps ingested by consuming tainted food — show up in results. Yet athletes and their handlers continue to offer outlandish excuses for missing or failing drug tests, making it tough for antidoping authorities to ease up on any part of their quest to keep sport clean.” In this situation, however, it feels as if the efforts to keep clean sports are all for naught and that even the athletes involved are not being protected. 

This scandal comes amid the 20th anniversary of yet another ISU-involved scandal at the Olympics. This also comes amid the Russian Olympic Committee (formerly organized as Olympic Athletes from Russia) unable to compete under the flag of their home country until December 2022 as a result of a state-sponsored doping scandal. 

#world anti-doping agency #beijing 2022

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Virgil Abloh opened an exhibit and launched an IKEA collection the same year as his diagnosis. May he rest peacefully. 

From his Instagram 

Yes, that is Serena’s 2018 US Open tennis outfit.

Cool preview of the exhibit.

Virgil Abloh’s “Figures of Speech” opens to the public November 12th.

#virgil abloh #rest in peace