Bill Belichick could have been fishing off Nantucket today but no

Monster paragraph from NYT editorial writer German Lopez. Simple, obvious, powerful, haunting. I could read it 1,000 times, and just might. Perfect. Bravo, man. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...

Ron Turcotte was strong and dignified. He lived at the very top of his game and then was dealt a terrible blow. And he suffered. Two years he said this to me: “[Secretariat] pops up in my head sometimes. But then I really want to be going back to riding .... and that’s impossible.” Godspeed RT.

Godspeed DWL

D. Wayne Lukas retired this week at age 89, and entered hospice care. He was unlike anything racing had ever seen: Audacious, obsessive, unparalleled... determined to find and train fast horses at the expense of nearly everything else in life. One of a kind. www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing...

Tomorrow (May 30) is the 50th anniversary of Steve Prefontaine's death. During the 2012 Olympic T&F Trials in Eugene, I went to the site of the crash that killed him and wrote this story. The larger themes are unchanged. www.si.com/more-sports/...

Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby and put its beleaguered sport in a time machine. Winning trainer Bill Mott back in the mud, like 2019, but "This one was better." Game story from a cold, sloppy Derby 151. www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing...

Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby and put its beleaguered sport in a time machine. Winning trainer Bill Mott back in the mud, like 2019, but "This one was better." Game story from a cold, sloppy Derby 151. www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing...

Derby Day repost on this one.

Journalism is not only the Kentucky Derby favorite, he is a modern symbol of resilience, chased from his home by wildfires, only to return, undeterred and unbothered. The name ain't bad, either. My story from Southern California. www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing...

The best horse racing writing of his generation.

Journalism is not only the Kentucky Derby favorite, he is a modern symbol of resilience, chased from his home by wildfires, only to return, undeterred and unbothered. The name ain't bad, either. My story from Southern California. www.nbcsports.com/horse-racing...

Figure skater Max Naumov lost his parents/coaches in the Jan. plane crash. Now he holds onto the memory of their last minutes together, and remembers his father’s favorite motto: “We Must Fight.” www.nbcsports.com/olympics/new...

I like @washingtonpost.com . I have good friends who work there and do excellent, impassioned journalism. I don't know if I should keep subscribing or reading. And that is a bummer and a measure of Things Going On.

SNL 50 is the best of us

Some words about -- and from -- Lindsey Vonn and skiing at age 40 on a partial knee replacement. www.nbcsports.com/olympics/new...

If Eli Manning gets in, his first thank-you call should be to David Tyree.

Back to the college football beat: The sport has always been top heavy, and creating December/January Madness is a big ask. But it also thrives on outrage, so the current meltdown is on brand. All is well. Column for @NBCSports.

40yo Lindsey Vonn 14th in a World Cup Super-G in St. Moritz. .38 from Top 10, .85 from podium, 4th and 5th in 2 sections, starting w/bib 31 (bad snow). *With a partial knee replacement.* Even if this is her ceiling, it would be right in the hunt for Team USA in Cortina. Pretty amazing.

Very appreciated. If it's good enough for Nack, good enough for Murray, good enough for Red Smith and Damon Runyon; and good enough for my friends Privman, Hovdey, Rees, Hammond, Jerardi, and Fast Eddie Schuyler... it's plenty good enough for me. www.racingmuseum.org/about/news/t...

In a gambling system it is not the gamblers who are enriched. We know this, right?

So Belichick signs a big contract, hires a GM to write checks, evaluates free agents, and reverts to boring press conference persona. This is different from an NFL job how?

Annapolis

Thinking: 1985, 3 Big East teams in the Final Four. With Looie's passing this weekend, all three coaches gone. Milepost for a lot of fans (and journalists).

The NFL has spent 14 years aggressively legislating to make football less violent and dangerous. But you just can't legislate the entirety of human football behavior.

I wish my old friend Mike Tyson wasn’t fighting tonight