Rapinoe's World Cup has to be up there with the greatest all-time talk-and-back-it-up performances in sports history. Tangle with a President and win World Cup and MVP? A socially conscious athlete pilloried for patriotism? No one will *ever* be Ali, but there's Ali in Rapinoe.
“It’s going to look weird if the NHL commissioner is sitting outside in the hedges.”
“Well...put a hockey net there.”
“A hockey net, in the hedges?”
“Yes.”
we tend to overemphasize on-air yakkers but tv sports is often an art; this shot sequence (altuve rounding first, Chapman smiling ruefully, the silouette of streamers) is produced, framed and assmbled in real time and is masterful. the folks that do this are incredibly skilled.
A great moment in “Apollo 11” is when NASA announces the heart rates of the astronauts during the launch.
Buzz Aldrin was...88 BPM.
A stone-cold American legend.
50 years ago today, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins and I launched into space on a mission of enormous importance. God bless the 400,000 Americans who helped us get to the moon and back. Together, we Americans can do anything! Never forget July 16, 1969!
#Apollo50
Steph Curry has entered the Roger Federer Zone, in which there's no such thing as a hostile crowd and it's a party wherever he goes, because it's beautiful to watch, and you're not sure if you'll ever see someone play like this again.
New column:
remember the 1st year of “the real world” on MTV: how quaint and weirdly earnest it was, and then in later seasons the casts figured out the way to get attention was to be loud & absurd and the show became unwatchable and toxic. I think about that all the time with social media.
A decade ago, I spent time with the Jonas Brothers for a magazine story.
With a Jonas comeback underway, I went back to see them for the first time in years.
Now they drink and cuss and order caviar.
I enjoy this version of the Jonas Brothers.
What if Silicon Valley could create a news product that could be delivered once a day, full of verified reporting and storytelling and discussion. In an ideal scenario, you could go to the front door, or wander out to the driveway in your bathrobe, and there it would be.
Stop treating sports owners like royalty and/or deities.
AND CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAMES!
“Mr. Kraft” and the Sports Owner God Complex
New column for the
@WSJ
:
BREAKING NEWS: I just finished a 30-minute interview with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.
It’s his only UK TV interview & will air on ITV exclusively on ITV.
You won't tell your grandkids about Roger Federer's tennis trophies.
You'll tell them how it felt to watch Roger Federer play.
No one played the game more beautifully.
Roger at Retirement. New:
There's an insidious notion that some sports media are "rooting against sports to return." It's an absurd claim to make about a field already demolished by games shutting down. Reporters are looking at plans & asking fair questions. It's not "rooting against." It's reporting.
New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution, stemming from a raid on a day spa in Florida. Here's how Kraft became a billionaire
Why did UCLA gymnast
@katelyn_ohashi
's floor routine become the viral video of 2019 so far?
A lot of reasons. She's great, the routine was great, the music's great, the world is on fire and we crave some good news.
But mostly: Joy.
For
@WSJ
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55 dead at nursing home in my neighborhood. 30 dead at a nursing home in my hometown.
these are loved ones, spouses, parents, grandparents...and their loved ones can’t properly mourn.
let’s try to cool it on all the amateur epidemiology on here.
great sports moment: 21-year-old Biniam Girmay, from cycling-mad Eritrea, wins Gent-Wevelgem and becomes the first Black African to win a prestige cobblestoned classic.
just the beginning for a great rider
Celtics are a total pleasure under Stevens and will be stacked next year. Sixers are already stacked and might make the Finals. Knicks may want to reincorporate as a furniture store.
small thing but I thought
@royceyoung
was tremendous on ESPN last night: measured, informed, exactly the right tone. a surreal story, optimally covered.
I went to go see the one and only
@chrissyteigen
with a theory:
Chrissy Teigen is the Last Likable Person on the Internet
(Except to President Trump, who's blocked her.)
My Chrissy manifesto for
@voguemagazine
All I want is for a college basketball coach to say:
"I make $5 million per year. The NCAA will get $1 billion simply for TV rights to this year's March Madness. This "corruption" is merely what happens when you shut off a valve of a market economy."
I am not holding breath.
wonder if Nevada does the old magazine writer deadline trick: if Friday afternoon is OK isn’t first first thing Monday also OK. Which basically gets you Tuesday.
I spoke to LeBron James about the power of bicycles.
And it got *dorky.* Cannondale, Huffy, Mongoose, commuting, Critical Mass, whether or not he's tried clipless pedals, hybrids, spandex...
LeBron James: The Bicycle Interview. For
@WSJ
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