Kenny Smith
@kennysmith
Adventuring with @laurensmith.bsky.social. Cyclist, reader, swimmer, diver, builder. On the side: professor of sports communication and media, professor of communication studies. Formerly: news and sports.
Love that I have to change my passwords every few months, use Duo, follow this ever-growing list of onerous criteria, and the form won’t show me what I’m typing in as I go. Can we please send this to Instructure and Canvas?
This is, obviously, NOT more dangerous than people being killed in bike lanes. “‘There are a lot more dangerous things happening in those bike lanes, with e-bikes and e-scooters,’ Bochetto said. He said a girl on an e-scooter crashed into a light pole near his house, captured by security cameras.”
I’m just saying, @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social had the song of the summer last night, and if you weren’t there to see it, your summer is now officially lacking.
Also on the second day of our safari at Kruger National Park, South Africa, we saw: Lion Impala Zebra Giraffe Lilac-breasted Roller Burchell’s Starling Elephant Kudu www.kennysmith.org/wordpress/bl...
After today’s muggy 15-miler — no kidding, my *helmet* was sweating — it has been 134 miles since I’ve had to clip out and put a foot on the ground. This meaningless streak will, at some point, be ended because some motorist doesn’t know how stop signs work. #bikes #cycling #LetsGoRideBikes
Minimal experience, but quick to violence, loved confrontation, so, of course, qualified. An “addled racist” said NYTimes’ Howell Raines. Crying scapegoat, Lingo ran for sheriff of Jefferson County (where much of this story is focused). He lost. He died of “a heart ailment” in 1969.
Much of the statue was carried off and melted down. A few fragments survived, like these at The Museum Of The American Revolution in Philadelphia, which notes that battlefield musket balls have been found matching the composition of lead and tin. The statue was sent back to the British in anger.
Beyond even the nuance in this incredible well-told story, the occasional human insight, the glimmers of social realization, things that read like an actual spiritual conversion, is fascinating. It doesn’t happen to everyone, and certainly not at the same times, but there are these moments …
We should remember that a 12-year-old in this story is 75 years old today. Living memory.
One of the things that people told themselves, and one of the things McWhorter repeats now and again, is that the real problem was one of peer pressure. People didn’t want to be ostracized from their class and people because they treated others with kindness or decency or fairness. Which …
In the south of France today the tarmac was 140°. They are putting lye on the road to deal with tar and whatnot seeping up to the surface. Yesterday they banned fans because of nearby wildfires. My Climate and Sport class definitely needs to happen.
Not enough people are talking about this. Please note number eight, Belgium. Please note number 16, USMNT. One team was always better than the other. The outcome was perhaps more one-sided, but hardly unexpected.
John Temple Graves II considered himself “a professional southerner” which had a particular cheerleader meaning at the time. time.com/archive/6604... He was a regionally syndicated morning columnist for a while, but found his copy dated by the afternoon. The timing of his death was something.
If it feels familiar that’s because it has been used before. If it has been used before and used again that means it works.
So it is going over so poorly that a guy who will take credit for anything is distancing himself from it.
One of my favorite things in global soccer is watching Brazilians sing their national anthem. Such zeal! Such pride! Norway's anthem was only recently adopted as such. Nevertheless ...
This part fascinates. I had never heard of this audit. (I mean, why would you?) But growing up and working there, I’d always heard people stewing in that outside perspective and wondering how to overcome it. Smyer commissioned this, waited ages for it, and then fired the firm that sent this in.
This tale is full of curious and odd and frustrating little circular ironies. That was by design, of course, even on an ad hoc basis.
I’m sure some poor overnight, holiday, Fox producer thought they were being cute with this, but that’s the most cringe thing since the last Downfall meme. Can’t wait to see what @thedailyshow.com does with this.