mark golberg

just a bald old ball coach, livin life 140 characters at a time

[Mike Hoffmann @MikeHoffmann]

Luke Falk shared a Mike Leach story that stopped me cold:

Two kids. One rich. One poor.

Every training camp, Coach Leach told his team about these 2 kids.

The rich kid has two choices.

Get soft. Get entitled. Expect everything handed to him because he was handed more.

Or take the resources, the coaching, the opportunities, and compound them into something greater.

The poor kid has two choices too.

Say nobody gave him anything. Blame the world. Make his circumstances the reason he never became what he could have been.

Or outwork everyone in the room.

Luke said the locker room had both. Kids from wealth. Kids from nothing. Kids with every advantage. Kids who scraped for every inch.

Same choice for all of them.

Ownership or victimhood.
Fuel or excuse.

The rich kid can waste the head start or build on it.

The poor kid can drown in the deficit or weaponize it.

Greatness doesn't come from where you start.

It comes from which kid you choose to feed.

Credit to @coachlukefalk for continuing to share golden nuggets about Coach’s legacy

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

An Iowa High School Girls basketball game had an ending you need to see to believe

This is March.

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

Hockey belongs to America

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@Lechler76 Nooooooooo

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

Un written rule in North Dakota basketball- if your up over 20 points in regular season pull the press off. I never pressed past 20 points in 10 years coaching basketball at every level (7 varsity). You proved your point, have the kids work on something else

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

So I have surgery to plug a hole in my heart today I was born with, I was born a Vikings fan so there is a link there. Alot of people have asked me if im nervous, my answer is no cause all I gotta do is sleep. Now if they told me I had to run 5 miles nonstop, THEN id be nervous

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

you forgot letting the clock run out during the first round of 2003 draft

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

We might not all be Vikings fans, but we should be grateful they exist for giving us some of the most hilarious moments in NFL history

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@GuruFantasyWrld Same. 10 team League, I traded for every 1st round pick in 2027, 6 this year. Team record is 1-11 🤣

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@PhilMackey Kirk or Jameis

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@VikesCentral kirk. would love jameis though

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@VikesCentral Gus Frerotte used to throw for more yards in 1 play than JJ does in a whole game

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@SwiftYouTube_ Marcus Robinson

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

if there's anything you do today, watch the LA Rams kicker kick, and thank me later

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The FBI is holding a press conference right now on the details around this morning's sports gambling bust.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. Current and former NBA players and coaches Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones have been arrested.

2. This was an illegal gambling and sports rigging operation that spanned years across 11 states. In total, 30 individuals have been arrested (13 mafia members).

3. The case involves La Cosa Nostra (the Italian mafia).

4. Charges include illegal gambling, wire fraud, and extortion.

5. There are two separate indictments. The first involves six defendants accused of participating in a sports corruption scheme that exploited insider information involving NBA players and teams. The defendants leveraged their connections to place prop bets based on confidential insider information, winning tens of thousands of dollars per bet.

The second indictment involves 31 defendants charged with participating in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. The FBI says they used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.

6. The two cases are separate, but there are three overlapping defendants, including former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.

8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.

9. Teams that were bet on during the sports gambling scheme include the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Raptors.

10. The rigged poker games occurred in the Hamptons, Miami, Las Vegas, and Manhattan.

11. The poker scheme targeted victims who were lured to participate in rigged poker games by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes. These athletes included Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones.

12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the "quarterback" — then sent that information to someone at the table.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

14. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquire a rigged shuffling machine.

15. The sports gambling investigation is called "Operation Nothing But Net," while the poker investigation is called "Operation Royal Flush."

16. The FBI has been working on this investigation for four years, with victims losing at least $7 million.

17. One specific victim lost at least $1.8 million.

18. The FBI reviewed thousands of hours of video evidence and executed more than two dozen search warrants.

These are just accusations at this point. I am just pointing out details from the FBI's investigation.

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[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

I will never understand the fake hurt hamstring celebrations

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

how the fuck could someone say this

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

MSNBC just speculated the Charlie Kirk shooting could have “been a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.”

I have no words for how awful these people are.

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

the losses are what makes the wins special

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@MrBeast 911

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@SteeleTroy5 Not good

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@SleeperNFL The impossible has been done, I traded for all ten 1st round picks in our 10 team dynasty league. 2027 Better be the best draft class ever!

[mark golberg @CoachGolberg]

@SteeleTroy5