“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues is celebrating his 46th birthday today. The 5-foot-3 guard, who played for four teams during his 14-year career, is the shortest player in NBA history. In this 1985 photo, Bogues measures himself against his Wake Forest teammates. (Susan Weinik/SI)
LIDZ: Wake Forest’s 5-3 Bogues is dyna-mite (2.16.87)
NEWMAN: Bogues proves size doesn’t matter (4.12.93)
GALLERY: Best Basketball Players 6-Foot-5 And Under
Muggsy!
Yo Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom, with a wombat.
photo by @petersagal, who helpfully tweets about his entire YoYoWombat experience here.
File under: images I never thought I’d see.
One of my favorite videos of all time. The ESPN book tells some backstory about the network trying to get Jimmy to appear and I recommend you check that out as well, you have no idea how sick he was while he was doing this. All you can sense is how much passion Jimmy had for life and the people in it.
I’ve seen this video hundreds of times and it still hits me just as hard as the very first.
Jimmy V’s 1993 ESPY Speech (by thevfoundation)
Growing up in Raleigh, my childhood was shaped in part by the presence of Jim Volvano. ”Never, ever give up.”
Via Soup
“In fact, that might make for a workable definition of the postmodernist era: an era when even the athletes were anguished modernists.”
—Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Steve Jobs’s Commencement Advice: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs shares three stories from his life and offers a moving meditation on death at Stanford’s commencement in 2005. The full transcript is available on Stanford’s site, where these words in particular stand out:
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Via The Atlantic
