Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! As we begin a season of reflection, I hope there is plenty for you to look back on from 2023 with gratitude. If there isn’t, I hope that there is some room and space for you to consider the idea that a bad year may become the
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Rockets’ Dillon Brooks Doesn’t Mind Being an NBA Villain
Call him a villain. Dillon Brooks doesn’t care. Say he’s arrogant, a bully, toxic to a team. He’s heard it, read it, doesn’t think much of it. “Everyone wants to hate on something,” says Brooks. Say he’s the reason for the Grizzlies’ first-round elimination from the playoffs last April, because early in
Did Stanford Fail Katie Meyer?
The debut podcast dropped just before Valentine’s Day 2022. Katie Meyer recorded it inside a conference room on Stanford’s campus, alongside her father, Steve. This episode, she hoped, would capture the desired tone of future editions of Be the Mentality. She’d feature young, ambitious, accomplished athletes and anyone who supported
Jalen Hurts Is The Most Intentional Superstar in Sports
On graduation day, outside the Barry Switzer Center, the air is heavy, thick, sticky, presaging the thunderstorm threatening to erupt. Traffic snakes through the streets lining the Oklahoma campus. Sweat spots polka-dot dress shirts. True love becomes sharing ever-dampening handkerchiefs with ever-more-desperate relatives. It’s early afternoon when an NFL quarterback
Philly Fans Rarely Embrace Their QB. But They Can’t Get Enough of Jalen Hurts.
It was pretty early on a Sunday morning in late October, and the Broad Street subway line was packed with fans heading down to Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia for the Eagles’ game against their cross-state cousins, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Some people were clutching coffee cups; others were throwing
Homers, Handshakes and Hoskins: The Long Road to the World Series
Julio Rodríguez Is Here to Save the Mariners
On Sept. 11, the Mariners trail the Braves in the bottom of the ninth. They’ve already blown a 6–1 lead in front of a rowdy, near-capacity home crowd. Many in attendance have returned to T-Mobile Park only recently, flush with cautious optimism born from knowing better while they reach for their maxed-out emotional credit