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Sunday, October 05, 2025

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35604915/49ers-legend-joe-montana-reflects-legacy-ahead-super-bowl

He regrets not learning Italian as a child when he moved around the ankles and knees of his relatives who parlo'd and prego'd away in the kitchen, a place where flour and water became dough. A few times as an adult he's tried to learn. Taken classes. Bought Rosetta Stone. It just never stuck. Even as he reaches an age where learning new things can hang just out of reach, he remains happiest when he's curious and engaged. It's clear his kitchen in San Francisco is a place where he engages with his ancestors. The old ways matter to him. Once during a commercial shoot at Ellis Island he slipped away to find his family's records. I can picture him in those archives, a public figure on the outside but inside still the boy trying to understand where he came from, why he wanted what he wanted, why he feared what he feared.
Yesterday she and Joe drove around the city with the windows down. They got to a stoplight and the person a lane over hurriedly rolled his window down, too. He had a few seconds' audience with Joe Montana. "Thank you for the great childhood," the man said.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45479651/new-york-yankees-aaron-judge-bronx-legends-red-sox

At the end of his life, Whitey Ford's Alzheimer's stripped him of the memory. The veteran baseball writer Steve Wulf once wrote an essay about him for a book about New York baseball. Later at a party, Wulf met Eddie Ford, who started showing him pictures of Whitey reading the chapter Wulf had written. Whitey Ford woke up every day confused and not himself, and he'd take that book and read about his own life with wonder and awe.

https://sabrasianbaseball.com/2025/07/15/how-to-follow-asian-professional-baseball/

Saturday, October 04, 2025

https://threefourco.com/collections/whitney

https://archive.org/details/homm-guide/mode/2up

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

https://chuwenjie.substack.com/p/my-life-as-a-dreamworks-tv-artist https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/finding-the-next-lost-what-is-an-operational-theme-and-why-dont-i-have-one https://www.storybreakdown.com/structuring-your-half-hour-dramedy-pilot/ https://creativetips4writers.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/understanding-levels-of-conflict-guest-blog-2-by-john-vorhaus/

https://video.whyy.org/video/how-history-ignored-women-in-baseball-7yzddt/