There's something so great about elite on-ball defense. What a play by Nickeil Alexander-Walker.

The @tempobasketball.bsky.social head coach Sandy Brondello on Kiki Rice:

Scenes from @tempobasketball.bsky.social camp on Day 2.

Tiger Woods

Get ready to feel old (at least some of you)

The cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 29 years ago this week.

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Kiki Rice on what expectations she has for herself during her rookie season with @tempobasketball.bsky.social:

Kia Nurse on Kiki Rice.

Some first day practice thoughts from @tempobasketball.bsky.social Basketball head coach Sandy Brondello.

Some scenes from the first-ever @tempobasketball.bsky.social team practice.

Oral history of Avenue Road house that spawned comedy greats, featuring Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, others Over the years, 1063 Avenue Rd. would become the home and social hub of various people associated with "Godspell," the Second City Theatre, "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live."

Great @thestar.com piece on how 1063 Avenue Rd. in Toronto became the home and social hub of various people associated with “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live.”

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Training camp roster for the Toronto Tempo.

The training camp roster for @tempobasketball.bsky.social:

I thought this was a Red Cross post for a moment.

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Clarence Seedorf joins Fox as World Cup studio analyst SBJ has learned that Fox has hired Clarence Seedorf, the Dutch footballing legend, to work as a World Cup studio analyst this summer.

SOME NEWS: Clarence Seedorf will join Fox Sports
as a World Cup studio analyst. He joins Rebecca Lowe, Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Javier (Chicharito) Hernández as Fox enhances its coverage.

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A media-centric thing I'd watch for this year with
@wnba.com:

The Fever should be title contenders & Caitlin Clark will be healthy. Her absence impacted viewership last year in network windows where they would have gotten a really big number. Look for a viewership pop this year in those windows.

Fourteen (my God) years later:

If you are someone who opts not to attend this, which always makes the profession look like an out-of-touch, starfucking elitist group in my humble opinion, I pass along much respect.

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I get the frustration but you are doing vital work posting on this site.

I, for one, appreciate your patience.

She was a pioneer at Turner Sports and grew into a solid broadcaster. Happy to see this.

We taped this before the Russini resignation letter but if interested in our thoughts on what we thought would be the outcome.

The @tempobasketball.bsky.social is debuting its court tonight. Plus team officials speaking to fans. Interest is high. Good sign.

You can never have enough decent guards.

Tweet from @RyanDeto of Axios: BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being sold to The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the same nonprofit that owns the Baltimore Banner, sources inside a Post-Gazette meeting tell me. The P-G was set to close May 3 but appears now to be preserved. More details tk

Here’s some good journalism news (for once).

It's great. There is so much more stuff.

Dear Howard-
My fiancée went out last night and....

Oh, wait, you mean basketball questions. My bad.

This is the kind of stuff I would have killed for at Sports Illustrated back in the day-- real-time talk (and distribution) after a WNBA Draft.

Great job by these three who have always treated this sport with the journalism and entertainment it deserves.

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. @tempobasketball.bsky.social GM Monica Rogers said the first nine picks that went in the WNBA Draft were who her group thought would go in the first 8 or 9 picks. Not necessarily the order but those players.