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Colder than Sub-Zero

Liberty wrestling coach Mark Marinelli resigns after 19 seasons dispatch.com/story/sports/h…

. @LSUfootball @Lane_Kiffin says two things in particular can poison a coaching staff - egos and agendas. These things then trickle down to players, who will have a hard time buying into a team concept preached by the coaches. "I was too much about credit to me." #LSU

The 2026 Champions Dinner portrait. #themasters

Kirk Cousins gets it

@JoeNord_ They don’t make them like J Robinson anymore

Men like J Robinson don’t come around very often. It’s been a great privilege, an honor, and one of the great fortunes of my life thus far to have gotten to know him, learn from him, and love him. youtu.be/dRUdHhFnQqQ?si…

I worked J Rob camps. Not as many as others and J wasn’t around as much when I started but what struck me was the number of fathers who did the camp and then brought their sons to camp. Some of them young. Just so they could meet a man that impacted so many lives.

J Robinson was one of the most interesting, innovative and influential figures in wrestling history. I appreciated so many things about J — his background and story, how accessible and candid he was with the media, what he stood for, the thousands of lives he helped shape through his intensive camps, his outside-the-box ideas, and the quotes I can still hear him saying: “I’m not very smart, but I can take what other people do and make it work for me.” “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” “You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.” One-on-one interviews with J often morphed into philosophical conversations. He challenged you to think. Sometimes I felt J would take a contrarian stance on something he didn’t even believe in, either to make you consider another point of view, to gauge the strength of your conviction on the matter, or maybe just because he appreciated a good debate. "Sometimes the problem I have is shutting my mind off," J told me in 2007 for a story I wrote about him when I was writing for ESPN (PDF below). "It continually spews out ideas and thoughts. There are a hundred projects I'd try if I had the resources." J crammed a lot of life into 79 years. He was an Army Ranger who served in Vietnam, a 1972 Olympian, Dan Gable’s right-hand man during the construction of the Iowa dynasty and the guy who turned Minnesota into a perennial power with teams known for toughness and discipline. J was also a guy who — at the age of 55 and after 28 knee surgeries — climbed 14,162-foot Mount Shasta to win a bet with his assistants after the Gophers won their first NCAA title in 2001, and a guy who years earlier went to Oregon with plans of rounding up a couple wild mustangs and wound up renting a semi to haul home 36 horses and two buffalo. "With the horse deal, I asked everybody about it and they said, 'No, don't do it. You don't have anywhere to put them,'' he said. "I listened to people and after a while, I said, 'Here's something I've always wanted to do.' I went and did it and it was one of the most fun experiences of my life." Kyle Klingman and I had the chance to spend a few hours with J one summer afternoon in 2019. True to form, J was incredibly generous with his time, telling stories and reflecting on the lessons he learned — and instilled in others — over nearly five decades in college wrestling. A few of those soundbites are captured in the clips below.

Minnesota wrestling mourns the loss of legendary Gophers head coach J Robinson. Rest in peace, Coach.

I asked Dan Hurley about how his Catholic faith shapes him as a coach. "My faith, in tough times, gives me the strength to endure the difficulties, the challenges that life presents... it gives me a humility to not celebrate these great successes and to live with humility."

Holy crap @abbyhornacek getting suplexed like this on live TV and hopping up to close the segment is a heck of a comeback.

I asked Tom Izzo about the viral clip of Charles Barkley defending his coaching style by saying people have gotten too soft. Izzo: "Now we're supposed to just hug and kiss everybody... Accountability is going to be big until I leave."

Your circle is either your power or your poison, choose them wisely.

Via @TheDaily_Coach on Coach K building Culture: “Repetition was the mechanism, just as players repeat shooting drills, teams repeat behaviors, and those behaviors become habits. Then habits become culture.” #Powerful #Culture #Winning

Tom Izzo will go down as one of the last, if not the last genuine program builder in D1 basketball. Guys stay, develop, and get rewarded. Complete opposite of what college athletics has become everywhere else.

Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot. "You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in." "That's the American way - except America has gotten soft." You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn. It starts with showing up and earning it every single day. No shortcuts...Just hard work. (🎥@CBBonFOX )

Kim Mulkey responds to news that former #LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri was fired at South Carolina

@Seth_Duckworth And he can do it for almost any sport.

I know Quint Kessenich gets a lot of criticism every year at the NCAA tournament. I get it. But in his defense, I do a lot of post-match interviews for high school wrestling in Oklahoma. It's a little trickier than people realize.

Highway officers couldn’t catch a runaway cow… so they called real cowboys

@Jason_Borrelli @TheCoachSentes I’ve written a lot of thank you note. Your dad is one of the few to write a thank you note for a thank you note. I thanked him in person. I didn’t want to continue the cycle. Stamps are expensive.

Congrats, Dad! From #BorrelliBuilt to #CardinalCaliber to #AmericanMade, your values have made an impact far beyond just Central Michigan! See you in Cleveland!

Iowa OL 2019 current NFL salaries: Tristan Wirfs $28M/y Tyler Linderbaum $27M/y Alaric Jackson $19M/y