Cabo Verde!! 👀

Men are traditionally thought of as providers for their children. But a report that interviewed thousands of fathers found them embracing another role.

“We do this with passion, with love because we are from (a) very small country.” Vozinha, a 40-year old goalkeeper became a World Cup star today, and then he cried. For his country. For himself. For his family.

I want all tres leches, know what I mean?

Why do American soccer commentators treat soccer like it’s geometry? Like it’s a science. Soccer is art. It’s dance. It’s joy expressed in tight spaces with other people. It’s supposed to be “look, ma! See what I can do!”

@zeets.bsky.social Balogun has scored twice. The “power and pace” articles are being written as we speak

Peak Nigerian behavior

Scoring in soccer is hard. Scoring at the World Cup is even harder. Son Heung-min is going through it right now

The Rams did what?!!

According to my desk calendar, today’s date is May 18 😬

Read this book in 2019 and enjoyed that Defector wrote about it

The Ravine was so loud!

So much rightness in one thread

Threw some thoughts together open.substack.com/pub/munaosis...

I am still working through Sports Illustrated’s “ The Top 100 Sports Books of all Time.” I have read 90 of them and it introduced me to so many great authors I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. We are losing recipes!

but more specifically the purpose of the exercise that is Higher education ... Beyond "Get good job"

Great piece. He wonders why families don’t care as much about test scores. I think it’s because they care more about postsecondary access which aligns more closely with grades

It’s a small thing but conversations about educational policies, unions, school resources, etc., rarely mention school counselors. Even among people ostensibly advocating for educators. School counselors are out here understaffed and helping students carry the burden of harmful policies

In my experience, school reform tends to not empower student, family and community voices. My kingdom for solutions that actually include the people who have to live the reality everyday

To expand on this, I have been fortunate to carve out space in this field to do the type of work that I want to do. I am grateful for the people that helped me get there

Folks are carrying around so much anxiety from everything that’s going on. It shows up in so many ways. And we don’t acknowledge that enough

When I taught at Columbia Law I was paid $3600 a semester.

Mainooooooooooo

I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates. We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to. andscape.com/features/bla...

“This is one of life’s great frustrations. I think a lot of times we want people to be things they’re not capable of being” - Craig Melvin Experiencing this reality will shake you.

I wish that folks who discuss and create educational policies spent more time in schools. Some of this discourse definitely doesn’t match the reality on school campuses. There’s a lot of misinformation and fear mongering

Air Yama

This was beautiful. Joe Daymond demonstrates how to show love and respect for a culture without appropriating it. It should be required viewing for everyone working in education

@itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social surprised Mystics didn’t go UCLA again. I thought they were collecting the set

Kiki Rice to the Toronto Tempo at 6. Had her as high as 5, but the UCLA run continues.

The Mystics select Lauren Betts at 4. What a get.

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

Thinking about Jordin Canada, Monique Billings, Charisma Osborne, Kennedy Burke, Michaela Onyenwere, Japreece Dean and all the other great players who built this UCLA program over the last 15 years. It’s been a long journey and so many people made this possible for this amazing team.

Cori Close on winning a championship and then turning to the offseason: “Well, the transfer portal just got easier.”

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Dawn Staley on UCLA’s Gabriela Jaquez: “Hard matchup … she’s relentless.” Says you come in the game knowing what she’s gonna do and she does it anyway.

Dawn Staley on UCLA today: UCLA is quality team with very experienced players … From last year to this year, they played determined last year, but they played determined this year … and they took advantage of it.

All gas, no brakes the whole way. They have meant so much to me.

I said WE BACK UP!

#UCLA’s NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NUMBER 126. We are in tears. Coach is smiling up there. Those magical four letters. I have no other words right now. #GoBruins 💛💙🐻

UCLA Women’s Basketball is in the championship game for the first time in the NCAA era

Lauren Betts postgame #marchmadness #wbb #ncaawbb #uclawbb #gobruins

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We’re going to start a dialogue

He’s the boogeyman (celebratory)

Bomani is joined by DJ Wally Sparks for another episode of Time Machine Tuesday! - Breaking down the state of West Coast rap in 1996 - Why Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg needed each other - Tupac's transformation into the ultimate rap star Live Now 📺: youtu.be/uJ7S7Mr0X4E

Today's #MathJoy Stop saying what black and brown kids can't do. This is a campus that is all black and brown from the kids to the teachers on the south side of Houston. Look at this growth from one interim staar test to the next for 6th and 7th grade. I'm so proud of them! #iteachmath