Before he got to Michigan, Dusty May started working with a former high school principal and education expert who has studied the cognitive science behind high-performing teachers.
It speaks to a larger idea: the benefits of coaching like a teacher.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...
On his new country-rock disco-funk record, Sturgill Simpson compares his dick to a lollipop, rails against ICE and oligarchs, celebrates his marriage, initiates an orgy, endures a spaceship ride with Katy Perry, and "weaponizes his autism to shit out an opus." My review:
the new Sturgill dropped on youtube this afternoon.
youtu.be/QKHGmFvzjJ4
Many Olympic champions report the same experience: A gold medal doesn't feel as good as they think it will.
I wrote about decades of social psychology research, the "arrival fallacy," and why we’re all so bad about predicting what will make us happy:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
On Drake Maye and the 'younger sibling effect.'
It's not just conventional wisdom — people with lots of older siblings are disproportionately represented at the highest levels of sports. Researchers have spent years looking for the reasons: www.nytimes.com/athletic/701...
this piece offers interesting insight into Sam Darnold, and some beautiful vulnerability from Max Browne, the quarterback rival who lost his job to Sam at USC. I enjoyed it.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...
There is so much more football in the NFC game than in the AFC one. As someone who mostly watches football to see punts go out of bounds I can't say I care for it.
Steve Nash. Clayton Kershaw. Patrick Mahomes.
Pro athletes love ping pong and science suggests there’s a reason why.
@rustindodd.bsky.social on the surprising case for table tennis as a brain-training tool 🏓
www.nytimes.com/athletic/690...
Stoicism isn’t a buzzword for Fernando Mendoza.
The Indiana QB’s habits — discipline, delayed gratification and preparation over outcomes — reflect an ancient philosophy now guiding a title run.
Absolutely definitive video analysis of Renee Good killing here. Look at the image framed in red.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Rustin Dodd HOF Ballot (8): Abreu, Beltrán, Félix, Jones, Pettitte(+1), Manny, A-Rod, Utley
Ballot #169 is from Rustin Dodd. He votes for the 8 players with the highest vote shares so far. Seven holdovers are joined by Andy Pettitte (+26)
Via The Athletic: www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...
Tracker: tracker.fyi
Bob Weir, sitting criss-cross, holding a guitar. Text reads: "1947-2026 Bob Weir Founding Member of the Grateful Dead Dies at 78. Photo by Mark Sullivan/Getty Images"
Bob Weir, who was a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78. His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution. trib.al/kC31x5R
Bob Weir was the man.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzig...
Indiana is ... breaking away.
My mom and I watched the Seymour Hersh documentary, White Christmas, The Thursday Murder Club, and It's a Wonderful Life over the last week. Would recommend all.
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
Via @rustindodd.bsky.social
"I reached out to Holly Rowe with a simple question: What has she learned about joy?"
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
Article on Shaka
"Smart likes to preach “Giannis posture” — everyone in the program must have the body language of Giannis ... — so he struck a deal with Ighodaro. For each time he dropped his head, every member of the staff was going to do a 1 minute plank"
www.nytimes.com/athletic/680... ($)
“Nearly two months after he started hypnotherapy, he went on a vacation with his family and realized he had forgotten to buckle his seat belt for the entire flight. It felt like a breakthrough.” - Rustin Dodd, a senior writer for Peak
From @theathletic.com: For more than a year, Danny Higginbotham tried to cure his fear of flying. He tried medication and acupuncture. He sipped alcohol on the plane. “The worst anxiety ever,” he said.
Then his wife asked: “Would you ever consider hypnosis?” nyti.ms/3Lbggyt
Archival photo of Jim Valvano in a gray suit and red tie, wearing a basketball net around neck after winning an NCAA game. Quote reads: "Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say." Attribution reads: "Jim Valvano, a legendary basketball coach from North Carolina State, during a 1993 speech"
From @theathletic.com: At the 1993 ESPYs, legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano delivered one of the most powerful speeches in sports history. The message remains indelible, an emotional tour de force on life, death and hope. nyti.ms/45pjbLB
My friend Josh Sharpe helped free a man from prison after two decades for a double-murder he didn't commit.
The story is chronicled in a new book, The Man No One Believed. It's an important look at the justice system.
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
