Zak Keefer
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Zak Keefer
@zkeefer
Senior writer @TheAthletic, adjunct professor @IUMediaSchool.
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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This piece on Coach Kerr from Wright Thompson is extraordinary. Everyone who is interested in good writing, good craft, or good coaching should read it and savor it. My god is it good.
espn.com/nba/story/_/id…
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This is incredible
(Hat tip to the @Colts for ripping themselves on the losing streak in Jax and the Tyreek Hill issue from last year)
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JUST IN:
#Indy500 Grandstand sellout for second consecutive year!
350,000 fans are expected to attend the race next week.
@WISHNews8 @wrtv
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Iowa is hiring longtime NFL offensive coordinator Tom Moore (Peyton Manning's OC with the Indianapolis Colts) as senior consultant to the head coach and offensive advisor. Moore, who is 87, played QB at Iowa in the late 1950s.
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A year ago, just as his podcast was blowing up — before he'd partner with @TheAthletic and win a Pulitzer — I profiled @PabloTorre , the Harvard grad who bombed the LSAT, couldn't quit journalism, then grew tired of ESPN's constraints.
nytimes.com/athletic/63295…
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From @TheAthletic: The Pulitzer for audio reporting went to the staff of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” for an investigation into how the Los Angeles Clippers seemingly evaded the NBA’s salary cap by funneling money to a star player.
Watch the series on YouTube: nyti.ms/4uwljLp
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"You were wondering if guys were coming out to get autographs or coming out to officiate the game."
— a former NFL head coach on replacement officials in 2012
Is an encore coming this fall?
I tracked down some replacement refs to relive the chaos:
nytimes.com/athletic/72053…
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I don't write longform stories very often.
But three months later, I'm still endlessly fascinated by Curt Cignetti and national champion Indiana.
Read it for free: The story of their journey to the top.
nytimes.com/athletic/72463…
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Extra timeouts. Free challenges. Awful spots. Fuming coaches.
One ref -- a diehard Saints fan -- fired hours before reffing a Saints game.
Replacement refs could be on their way back. Was 2012 as bad as we remember?
Hear it from the refs and coaches: nytimes.com/athletic/72053…
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The offers that came the Rams’ way at 13 were “soft."
Had the Rams not taken Simpson, the plan was to go with an offensive skill player ...
More on LA's process that led them to Round 1's surprise pick:
Nate Atkins@NateAtkins_
Inside the bold business bet the Rams are placing on Ty Simpson: From a year-long secretive planning process to the draft war room conversations that led L.A. to see this QB as a way to become more aggressive in pursuit of a Super Bowl: nytimes.com/athletic/72311…
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Inside the bold business bet the Rams are placing on Ty Simpson:
From a year-long secretive planning process to the draft war room conversations that led L.A. to see this QB as a way to become more aggressive in pursuit of a Super Bowl:
nytimes.com/athletic/72311…
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Great stuff from Jori inside the Browns’ draft room 👇🏻
Jori Epstein@JoriEpstein
On walls of Browns draft room, 5 displays flash real-time databases. What positions & picks await team on board? What trade values are fair? Odds top target is available next pick? I spent Round 1 embedded with Browns, where logic & data guide decisions👇 sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/in…
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Inside the Rams’ thought process behind the Ty Simpson pick.
Why TEs are still trending - with an added twist.
Why teams fall into draft patterns.
Draft classes I totally loved.
…And more inside this years NFL Draft:
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Way-too-early 2027 Mock Draft
(I think this group will live up to the hype)
nytimes.com/athletic/72343…
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An NFL heel? @MikeSilver goes inside the Ravens' draft — and tumultuous last few months — with GM Eric DeCosta.
Ravens owner Steve Biscotti: "I said, 'I understand the firestorm you’re walking into.’ ... He's the one that takes the bullets."
nytimes.com/athletic/72327…
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Did the Bucs get the steal of the draft? Do we really believe Sean McVay? And a look at the Raiders' plan to sit Fernando Mendoza behind "a mature adult."
For @TheAthleticNFL: What we learned from the 2026 draft nytimes.com/athletic/72302…
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Power ranking my favorite draft classes 1 through 32.
nytimes.com/athletic/72262…
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