Becky Hammon, San Antonio’s Assistant Coach, will most likely be the first to break it. She was a finalist for the Portland Trailblazer job that went to Chauncey Billups.
“Please don’t hire me to check a box, Hammons requests.”That’s the worst thing you can do for me. Hire me because of my skill sets and coaching, who am I as a person, hire me for those.”
The title of Ruth Whippman’s newest essay is “What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human”. I’ve long been perplexed by why my female students are, on average, so much more successful than my male ones. Whippman’s insights strike me as the beginning of what inevitably is a multifaceted answer.
The heart of the matter, according to Whippman:
“The lack of positive people-focused stories for boys has consequences both for them and girls. In the narratives they consume, as well as the broader cultural landscape in which they operate, girls get a huge head start on relational skills, in the day-to-day thorniness and complexity of emotional life. Story by story, girls are getting the message that other people’s feelings are their concern and their responsibility. Boys are learning that these things have nothing to do with them.”
I refuse to conform to the ‘wrong year’ crowd.
I’m awarding #24 the Olympic Spirit award and #27 the Defying Gravity award. Maybe adding a steeple hurdle that you have to clear would spice up the long jump?
Another thing, if we have to keep track of medals by country for some reason, shouldn’t we adjust for population? If we did, this would be the Top 21.
Penny Oleksiak, a Canadian swimmer, now has one gold, two silvers, and four bronze medals. Tuesday, she tweeted this.
Shortly afterwards, she added this.
WOAT. . . worst of all time.
If you’re a parent of school-aged children or a teacher, do your best to nurture, not crush young people’s dreams.
The Olympic Race Walking 50k is on the telly. Slow pace, winning time projected to be just under four hours. Dig these world records. As a runner, I can’t scare a single one now or in my prime whenever that was.
“Rihanna is now worth $1.7 billion, Forbes estimates—making her the wealthiest female musician in the world and second only to Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. But it’s not her music that’s made her so wealthy. The bulk of her fortune (an estimated $1.4 billion) comes from the value of Fenty Beauty, of which Forbes can now confirm she owns 50%. Much of the rest lies in her stakein her lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, worth an estimated $270 million, and her earnings from her career as a chart-topping musician and actress.”
He’s abused his power. Repeatedly.
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