Carol Smith

50% Wildflower. 50% Mermaid. Wholehearted believer. Don’t forget your jacket! :)

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

Got a heart lost in kindness, A mind that's mostly mindless. ~Bob Schneider

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Everyone remembers MJ’s shot...

But the timeout before it - that's when Dean Smith won the game.

Roy Williams called it the "greatest timeout in the history of sports."

Here’s exactly what Dean Smith told his team.

It's the 1982 national title game and UNC trailed Georgetown by 1.

Dean Smith called timeout.

As the players walked to the bench, Roy Williams saw fear in their eyes.

For the first time all year, he thought: "Oh my gosh… we might lose."

But Coach Smith didn’t flinch.

He knelt down and calmly said: "This is exactly where we want to be."

Then he laid out each scenario - confident, clear, composed:
Look for the lob.
If it’s not there, drive and kick. Miss? We’ll get the rebound.
If they rebound, we foul and they won’t make the FTs.

In less than 60 seconds, Smith had shifted the energy.
• Fear turned to focus.
• Panic turned to poise.
• Doubt turned to belief.

The players left the huddle locked in. Then Coach Smith turned to MJ and said:

"Michael…if you get it, knock it in."

You know the rest...Jordan got it, pulled up, and drained it.

UNC took the lead. Then James Worthy sealed it with a steal, and UNC won the national title.

MJ's legend began - but it wasn't just the shot. It was the belief before the shot.

This is a masterclass in pressure leadership.

Your team will mirror your body language, your tone, and your belief.
1: Your team feels your energy.
2: Confidence comes from clarity.
3: Great leaders steady the room.

Dean Smith didn’t just draw up a play - he passed them poise.

📌The quotes from this post come from Roy Williams' interview on the Way of Champions podcast.

A must-listen for all coaches, leaders, and athletes out there.

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

Caleb Wilson's NBA preseason debut:

15 points
6-15 FG
3 rebounds
2 assists
1 steal

Only the beginning.

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

Caleb warming up on the United Center court for the first time.

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

PSA: The Bulls are back tonight!

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[The Steady State @steadystate2025]

@Mollyploofkins International Observers from OSCE have been invited to see our elections for more than 20 years -- and allowed us to demonstrate to the world our free and fair elections. Why does the Trump Administration not want the world to see how we vote in America?

#holdfast #corruption

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

@HawkEmDownChris Moneyball

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Raise that banner, boys

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

@BananoJrMHM It was so beautiful! Thank you for playing!

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

BUNCH OF CHAMPIONS

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

I swear every time I work in the yard some a*hole mosquito illuminates a buffet sign.

[MLB @MLB]

She's got her dad's arm 😮‍💨

Justin Verlander's daughter Genevieve tossed a perfect first pitch!

[MLB @MLB]

The moment Pete Crow-Armstrong joined the 40/40 club 🔥

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Cal Raleigh gave Rick Rizzs a retirement present today.

To understand why it matters, you have to understand what Cal Raleigh does with a chest protector.

Most catchers wear whatever the equipment guy hands them. Raleigh treats his like a billboard, in the one place on a baseball field where a camera is pointed for three straight hours.

In August of last year the Mariners played the Little League Classic in Williamsport. Raleigh had an idea and told his girlfriend, Hannah Shimek, who designs these things for him.

"It was like, make a catcher's chest protector with baseball cards on it."

Then the team's VP of major league operations went and collected actual childhood baseball photos from the families of every player and coach on the roster. Rawlings printed them onto the chest protector, laid out like a sheet of baseball cards.

He caught a major league game in Williamsport wearing his teammates as twelve year olds.

That is what he does. He has done a patriotic one with a hidden World Cup nod in it. The man communicates through catching gear.

So today, on the season finale of his show, he gave Rick Rizzs a custom one.

Rizzs has called Seattle Mariners games since 1983. He spent 25 years next to Dave Niehaus. He came back from a brutal stretch in Detroit and never left again. He is 72 years old, he has been the voice in the car and the voice in the garage and the voice on the back porch for two generations of this state, and he announced in January that this is his last season.

Kirby Arnold put it right. Rizzs has been the franchise's direct line to its fans through every high and every low, and there were a lot more lows than highs.

And the catcher, who is now the face of this team, said goodbye the only way he knows how.

He put him on the chest protector.

The full episode airs tomorrow at 4 p.m. on the Seattle Sports YouTube channel.

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

@Mo7ammed_jawad6 Sending love and care

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

@corylav I’m sorry for your loss, Cory. Such kindness and grace in the memories.

[Stormy @StormyCanes]

I didn't vote for you

[Cubs Zone @CubsZone]

PETE CROW-ARMSTRONG HAS PASSED BILLY WILLIAMS FOR THE MOST HOME RUNS BY A LEFT-HANDED HITTER IN CUBS HISTORY WITH 43!

[Carol Smith @CarolSmitty1]

@atrupar @WhatleyNC He is awful.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Iowa City they built the children's hospital next to the football stadium, and they put a window on the twelfth floor that looks down into the field.

That window was designed that way on purpose. So the sick kids could watch.

For a while, that was the whole story. A window.

Then in 2017 somebody put an idea on a fan page. What if, at the end of the first quarter, everybody turned around and waved at them.

Seventy thousand people do it now. Every home game. The players do it. The coaches do it.

The other team does it.

Think about what that is. A stadium full of people who spent all week talking about how much they hate each other, and for one minute they all turn their backs on the game and wave at a window.

Later they wanted a new song for it, so they put it to a vote. The fans voted to hand the choice to the kids in the hospital instead.

I have stopped trying to explain your country to people at home.

I just tell them about the window.

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Cardinals have a new celly