Newmark's Door

Actually "great" and the vast majority I hadn't seen before. (6.5 minute video.)

Sportswriter Sally Jenkins eulogizes her late father, famed sportswriter Dan Jenkins.

He preferred brevity, loathed false sentiment, prized candor and humor above all character traits and was a free speech absolutist. Privately, he was a lenient, adoring and adored man. As great a writer as he was, I don’t know that you can say anything higher about a guy than that his children preferred his company to all others and his approval to all the credit in the world. I was so lucky to be his.

Short argument that yes, he really is.

I watched the ManU's 3-1 victory over PSG. I thought the handball penalty call was hugely silly, but that's part of soccer's charm. And Ole calling old Fergie "Boss" is charming, too.

Yes, imitating the Patriots would seem to be a better strategy.

Baseball season is soon coming again. (42.5 minute video.)

The snake shot.

The backup QB played a key role. (And proof again that Belichick is wise to keep his cards very close to his chest.)

It wasn't just Zion Williamson's. (Link courtesy of one of my wife's students.)

Derek Jeter's tribute to the greatest closer of all time.

In human history, more people have walked on the moon than have scored an earned run off of Mariano Rivera in the postseason.