As recently as 2019, Como were playing in Serie D, the lowest rung of Italian professional soccer. Over the past few years, the club made a steady climb towards the top. And yesterday, after a 1-1 draw with Cosenza and Venezia's 2-1 loss to Spezia, Como clinched its first promotion to Serie A since 2003.
Striker Alessandro Gabrielloni joined Como in 2018, after a bankruptcy and recapitalization landed the club in Serie D. He's scored 63 goals in 202 matches in his seven years in blue. And at a time when professional athletes get accused of not caring, he showed how wrong that can be in the agonizing seconds before the final whistle yesterday.
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this, from the nyt today, is an excellent lede: "Justice Clarence Thomas denounced on Friday “the nastiness and the lies” that have shadowed him in recent years as public scrutiny has mounted over his wife’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election and luxury gifts he has accepted from billionaire friends."
For all the "Cheers" aficionados here in the tree fort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNHD_RyoL8
fc st pauli coming up to the bundesliga for the first time in 13 years.
Happy Mother’s Day to all who observe.
i guess you guys don't like joy. my bad.
We want downer shit, Rob.
I watched the documentary Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists over the weekend. Curious as to OBXDave's take on either the doc or the subjects themselves. I enjoyed the film quite a bit, good stuff with a lot of these two guys' powerful journalistic offerings on display.
Hey Whit, I very much enjoyed the Breslin-Hamill doc, as well. At the risk of filibustering, it's a terrific peek at previous generation, Noo Yawk City newspapering in particular, and big city newspapering in general.
I gasbagged for the blog when Hamill died back in Aug. 2020 and touched on some of it, that his passing was a reminder of a time when just about all big city papers had metro columnists who took the pulse of the town and its denizens. I can't offer any insight beyond the doc that those guys were freakin' stars; Hamill was a little more poetic and Breslin more punchy and straightforward, which is its own kind of poetry.
I'm not a New Yorker and I was just getting started in the biz when they were in their heyday. I read them, and others, from a distance and often sat in awe and wondered: how did they do that? Being exceptional at that job requires a rare mix of knowledge, empathy, confidence, humility and curiosity. Oh yeah, and the ability to put vivid, compelling sentences together. Plenty of folks today write well, but too few who connect with average people and tell their stories.
I foolishly omitted one essential component for a quality newspaper columnist: to put vivid, compelling sentences together *quickly.* A skill, perhaps a gift, all its own.
just learned that tony hawk’s son graduated with the university of colorado’s class of 2024. really wish my kid was more on top of these things. these student loans aren’t gonna pay themselves.
That OBXDave post about Pete Hamill is here.
Our A/C has been replaced. $7k+ later hurts the wallet but will definitely make for a more enjoyable summer. In case you're keeping score at home thats two new bathrooms, new flooring throughout the house (insurance helped with the bathrooms and flooring but not all the way), new A/C duct work and an entire new A/C unit so far this year. I'm gonna need a break on home improvements. And possibly a second job.
lisa bluder has a cromulent sense of timing
saw my first cybertruck in the wild this morning. that was...something.
Was it Squeaky? Cybertrucks are awesome.
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