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Journalist/author/adjunct professor and, like Federer and Nadal, retiring tennis player after injury.

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Having had the same surgery after tearing my Achilles on a tennis court, I also made a remarkably speedy return. To walking.

06.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More winning

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DO πŸ‘ NOT πŸ‘ GIVE πŸ‘ PODCASTERS πŸ‘ PLANES πŸ‘

24.02.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Harvey Araton Urges Parents to Bench the Pressure and Let Kids Play - Local News Pasadena The real score in youth sports is friendship and joy – not NIL cash. The real score in youth sports is friendship and joy – not NIL cash.

We'd be in an even worse place in this country (if that's possible) without local news sites. Appreciate them.Support them. Honored to have Pasadena Local News write about my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game." localnewspasadena.com/g4sx

24.02.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Surely he was a great athlete in his day...

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Playing the percentages, I would say that they were lying then, lying now, and lying every moment of every day between then and now.

And they'll lie every moment of every day about everything until Congress does its job and stops them.

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Doug Moe, 87, N.B.A. Coach as Freewheeling as His Style of Play, Dies

RIP, Doug Moe, ABA original, NBA iconoclast. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/s...

20.02.2026 12:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Hidden Cost of Youth Sports: Insights from Harvey Araton - (5) Deep Threads w/ Dean Balsamini
The Hidden Cost of Youth Sports: Insights from Harvey Araton - (5) Deep Threads w/ Dean Balsamini YouTube video by Deep Threads with Dean Balsamini

Dean Balsamini hosted me on his podcast, Deep Threads, to talk my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game," the Knicks and which NBA team I quietly rooted for while I was writing columns for the New York Times.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yw0...

15.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat

It’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move.

Putin hasn’t canceled an election. Iran has regular elections.

It's competitive authoritarianism, where "democratic institutions & elections persist, but are hollowed out."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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funny to see this clip of an anonymous chud who needs white supremacy to feel like his life has meaning just after attending an event honoring a brilliant black scholar for her brilliant book

13.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 2374 πŸ” 290 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 6

AG or PR--what a freaking joke.

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photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

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Why Storytelling Shapes a Child’s Confidence, Identity, and Emotional Strength
Why Storytelling Shapes a Child’s Confidence, Identity, and Emotional Strength YouTube video by K3 Homeschool Foundations

Thank you, Shali Flint, for hosting me on her Foundations of Learning podcast to discuss my middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game." Enjoyed our discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCPp...

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For starters, him playing.

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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

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CNN is reporting the real reason Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre for two years is not for renovation: β€œthe Kennedy Center does not have a 2026/2027 season. There would not have been any programming to announce."

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He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

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Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an β€œimportant lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election β€” right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks

Probably nothing! πŸ™ƒπŸ₯Ά

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OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.

*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

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Thank goodness Djokovic closed that out. Couldn’t take one more closeup of Darren Cooper.

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MELANIA has been nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the FIFA Oscars

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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Don’t Make Bovino the Fall Guy for the Violence Trump Long Craved The White House is scapegoating Greg Bovino for killings in Minnesota. But Trump has spent years urging police brutality and mob violence.

Don't make Bovino the fall guy when Trump has been advocating for "unshackled" police since '89, urging violence against protesters & immigrants since '15 and turning violent rhetoric into policy as POTUS

My @washingtonmonthly.com look at Trump's long record

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...

28.01.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Idiot

27.01.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing we know she won't do: practice objective journalism, which she has never done.

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"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know.

This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

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Blue state teams....

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ICU nurse fatally shot by Border Patrol in Minneapolis cared for veterans Alex Pretti was kind and didn’t often discuss politics, friends and colleagues said. His family sharply disputed the Trump administration’s version of the shooting.

Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by Border Patrol Saturday, was a local intensive care nurse dedicated to caring for veterans.

β€œAlex wanted to make a difference in this world,” Pretti’s family said in a statement shared with The Post.

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I always wondered why the NYT made me address Jim Dolan as James L (and it wasn’t for Loser). Michael Jordan has a middle name and he’s far more important.than

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