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Well done once again, @Raiders, amazing season ticket delivery. You outdo yourselves every year! #RaiderNation
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Frank Gagliano was a college quarterback.
After his career, he was hired to start a football team at a high school. While waiting, he coached track. They never started the football team.
Gags went on to become one of the greatest American distance coaches in history: 15 Olympians, 140 All-Americans, 43 sub-4 milers.
He passed away this week.
We often think that you've got to have done it or experienced it to coach it. Gags was never a runner. He just wanted to coach, the true essence of the word, helping people out.
“I don’t have golf clubs. I have a stopwatch." And like the best 'old school' coaches, he'd help whoever showed up.
I was a former high school phenom, struggling in college. Then I got a call from an unknown number.
"Steve. We've never met. It's Gags with the Farm Team. I just wanted you to know that you're great. Talent doesn't go away. Stick with it. You've got people who believe in you. If I can ever help, let me know."
He called a struggling 19-year-old out of nowhere, while running the best professional team in the country.
In an era where training got really complicated, Gags kept it simple. His philosophy was strength + speed, consistently for a long freaking time.
“Everyone has to be patient in development. Everyone has to enjoy the sport, have a lot of fun, and work really hard.”
More than the workouts, his real secret was the one every great coach shares. Relationships. His son Ralph put it best:
“As a track coach, you have very large teams, many participants, and he carried over the years very special relationships — not only with the great ones, but even with the ordinary athlete.”
He was still coaching into his late 80s.
“As long as my mind is in the sport for workouts, so I don’t deprive the men and women that I’m coaching, I’ll keep coaching.”
And this summer, at 89, when they named a national championship race after him, “I’m not a cocky man. I’m the guy that just coaches, and the athletes mean everything to me, everything.”
He was a coach’s coach. Someone who lost his first meet 112 to 15, and then went on to become an all-time great...despite never having run.
Because the point was to help people....even those he didn't coach.
RIP Gags.
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🇺🇸 Emily Venters leads the American women in Valencia!
Venters clocks a 1:07:37 PR at the Valencia Half Marathon, improving on her previous best of 1:08:48 set at the Houston Half in 2025. Venters placed 17th in Valencia.
Allie Ostrander follows as the second American in 1:08:55, also setting a new personal best 👏
📸 @dsnpics
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This is the least surprising thing ever. @CGJXXIII spit on me last year when we beat Chicago
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Rachael Rudel Best in Class at the 50th Boston 10K for Women, winning in a time of 31:12
Story: boston10kforwomen.com/2026/1…
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Tom DeLonge wrote "All the Small Things" in 1999 for a girlfriend who left roses on his staircase. The na na na's were a tribute to the Ramones. He made it deliberately simple so radio would play it, and it became blink-182's only top 10 hit, peaking at #6.
Then his life went places no screenwriter would pitch.
He married that girlfriend in 2001 and divorced in 2019. He quit the band in 2015 to chase UFOs full time, and for years he was the entertainment industry's favorite punchline. Except his company, To The Stars, released three Navy videos in 2017 that the Pentagon officially confirmed as genuine in 2020. By 2022, Congress was holding its first public UFO hearings in over 50 years, partly because a pop-punk guitarist refused to let it go.
Around the same time, his best friend Mark Hoppus was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. He beat it, and the scare put the band back together in 2022 after seven years apart.
So now it's October 2026. His hometown Padres are down 0-2 in the NLDS, facing elimination, and a packed Petco Park starts singing a 27-year-old song he wrote about roses on a staircase. He's standing behind the netting in a Padres hat, crying.
The girl is gone and the band broke up twice. The government eventually admitted he wasn't crazy. The three chords outlasted every bit of it.
He wrote the simplest song he possibly could, and it turned out to be the most durable thing he ever made.
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"He came into the office today and said 'I'm available to pitch [today], I'm available to pitch the next day and I'm available to pitch Game 5'".
- Craig Stammen on Michael King pitching the last two innings in tonight's win
I'm not delusional; the odds are against us, but it’s baseball. You beat the pitcher: sometimes it finds leather, sometimes it finds grass, sometimes you hit it too high and too far, and the ball bounces off a roof. One never knows.
September 4-27, we went 18-4 and had an 8-game win streak. One pitch at a time, anything can happen.
“Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
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This angle after the ball hits the roof shows how dramatic the trajectory alters the ball and where the fielder catches the ball on the warning track. The numbers are great and do hold weight, but I think common sense shows the entire story. The ball was going to be a HR.
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It only takes one pitch to get the crowd on their feet 🗣️ #NoTimeLikeOctober
