Michael Clubb

Graduate on Friday ✅ Cover the Kentucky Derby on Saturday ✅ 📸: @markcornelison & @GraceHollars

@StefanCaray @hochman The West Park pizza from Felix’s Pizza Pub in Dogtown is something I still think about regularly.

Since I’ll be spending a lot more time in St. Louis, I’d love to hear from you guys: Where are the best spots in town? What are the places I need to try and things I need to do this summer that are can’t miss experiences? I’m so pumped to get there and try it all!

@dgoold @StefanCaray I’ll second that Gramophone recommendation

@StefanCaray The zoo is free. The art museum is free. Don't overlook South Grand's food and Tower Grove Park walks. Mud House for coffee. Gramophone for sandwiches. Hi-Pointe, Chase, or Alamo for movies. The pizza at Black Thorn is not free, but goodness it's worth every penny.

The amount of institutional knowledge the DMN is losing by laying off the multiplatform desk can’t be put into words.

Lou Holtz’s funeral service has begun at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Marcus Freeman and Brian Kelly are in attendance. @SBTribune @AustinRHough @MikeBerardino @tnoieNDI @SBTsports

@SeanMoodyNews I take it back, this has been incredible racing so far!

@SeanMoodyNews It’s the first race under the new era of regulations. Unfortunately, it seems these new cars are pretty awful. Drivers are having to lift off the gas early into braking zones in order to recharge the hybrid battery and the battery depletes quickly causing them to lose top speed.

Couldn’t tell you a single thing about F1 racing, but now that it’s on Apple TV and it’s in Melbourne today, I’ll check it out! Assuming I know absolutely nothing, what should I know going in?

@SeanMoodyNews @AdamBurnistonWX Also, Drive to Survive is great entertainment, but don’t treat it like a documentary. It is well known that Netflix edits it in a way to make more drama than there may have actually been. Using driver radio messages from completely different races, using misleading footage, etc.

@AdamBurnistonWX @MichaelClubb4 Okay, just discovered the Drive to Survive series and starting there. First surprise - these are teams? How does that work during the race - swapping out drivers during pit stops?

@SeanMoodyNews @AdamBurnistonWX There are 11 teams. Used to be 10 but Cadillac has been added this year. Each team has two cars so no driver swaps, just one driver per car. They do help each other when the opportunity arises but for the most part it is every driver for themselves.

@SeanMoodyNews @AdamBurnistonWX I really enjoy watching along with @MattP1Tommy. They do live watch alongs on YouTube/Twitch. Their podcast after every session also helps me keep up with some of the behind the scenes stuff. They are more entertainment than news but it’s a good time.

@AdamBurnistonWX @MichaelClubb4 - are there particular drivers that are ones to watch? When I was in Melbourne last month, Oscar Piastri’s face was on every Grill’d burger location. I thought it was some kind of chef collaboration until I did a bit of Googling 😄

@SeanMoodyNews @AdamBurnistonWX Merc was a second faster than the next fastest manufacturer in qualifying yesterday. Lando Norris won the championship last year. Verstappen is starting near the back after crashing in quali. He’s considered by some (including me) to be the best driver in the world right now.

@SeanMoodyNews It will still be really interesting to see how the season goes and how the teams navigate the new regulations. To me, following all the behind the scenes news in between races is sometimes more interesting than the races themselves.

Tributes already started at the Lou Holtz statue outside Notre Dame Stadium. @SBTribune photographer Michael Clubb snapped a couple photos of people honoring the late coaching legend southbendtribune.com/picture-galler…

Hundreds of our members have been laid off without rhyme or reason. Those who remain are reeling. One of our own started this GoFundMe. If you are inclined, feel free to share or donate. gofund.me/f0f6a0b8d

Among the “art” folks are Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalists, designers, graphic editors and reporters, video journalists, photo editors, project editors, developers, illustrators, producers and team leaders. This isn’t a strategy for the future or for new audiences.

Many incredibly talented visual journalists lost their job in today’s Washington Post bloodbath. I had a sinking feeling when Matt Murray said “art teams” will be consolidated on the all staff zoom that it was gonna be bad for us. WHO STILL SAYS “ART TEAMS” 🫠

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I’ve seen a few posts about this now and photog Jabin Botsford’s instagram bio now says, “Former Staff Photographer at The Washington Post.” This is a very sad day.

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days. The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic. Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . . . . . in Los Angeles. Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling. Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells. I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026: "I treasure you people."

In a few days’ time, all eyes will be on Milan for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games! From ice stadiums in Milan to the slopes of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Getty Images’ team of 84 photographers and editors will be capturing the heart of the action across all ceremonies and events alongside sponsor activities throughout the Games – with some taking place in sub-zero temperatures. Take a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into a sports photographers bag to get the shot at the Winter Games – from camera equipment to the gear protecting them from the elements. “I grew up in North Minnesota so I’m very familiar with cold weather. While most of the events I’m covering will take place indoors, the Opening Ceremony will take place outside. The trick is to layer and keep your spare camera batteries in a warm pocket. The cold drains the camera batteries quickly, so it takes a little bit of planning and extra equipment to get through a cold weather assignment.” – @ElsaGarrison “For me, everything is new, and I learnt how to ski specifically for the Olympics. I have carefully planned my luggage and equipment, such as skis, ski boots and all the essential technical mountain accessories required to do the job effectively.”  – Mattia Ozbot “At the Olympics, as is the practice in most European ice hockey arenas, heat seems not to be an option. I start with super warm Ugg boots and two pairs of battery-powered boot warmers to last through the longest three-game days, a base layer of fleece lined pants, a long-sleeved battery heated base layer with a wool sweater on top, then a battery heated fleece over all that. I also have a few hat options to choose from when I’m there” – @Bruce_Bennett Stay connected to Getty Images for unique, specialized content you won’t get anywhere else, and join us in celebrating the beauty of sport and the power of imagery to move the world ➡️lnkd.in/eQuwdnPt #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026

One more post as I sit on a plane waiting to finally fly out of Orlando