New @AuburnFootball Head Coach Alex Golesh (@CoachGolesh) explaining what a good culture "feels like" is a masters level leadership course:
🌱 Culture isn’t what’s written on the wall, it’s what people feel when they walk through the door. Every interaction between players, coaches, staff, administrators, and support personnel either strengthens or weakens the the quality of the work taking place. Energy is contagious, and culture spreads through daily behavior that people can see, hear, touch, and feel. Positive energy leads to positive gains.
🔄 The environment you create often determines the outcomes you achieve. Standards, relationships, communication, and trust shape the trajectory of a program long before wins and losses ever show up on a scoreboard. If you build an environment that includes joy in the work, making doing more or better the trendy thing to do, and rewarding progress and accountability in a way that makes people feel valued, you'll see all of those things manifest to the court or field as well.
🤝 People do their best work where they feel connected, valued, and energized. If individuals dread the environment or the people around them, performance obviously suffers. Great cultures don't just produce better results, they make people excited to contribute to them! Your team's players can't afford to waste days not excited to go into the building in the morning. But you have to create that excitement.
Every organization becomes a reflection of the environment it repeatedly tolerates, reinforces, and rewards. 🪞
The Texas athletic department has now won 71 national championships in its history. Eighteen of those titles (or 25.4%) have come since Chris Del Conte was hired as the Longhorns' athletic director in December 2017. #HookEm
The way you interpret reality determines how far you can go within it.
Your beliefs either expand your possibilities or quietly restrict them before you even begin.
I'm saddened to hear of the passing of Rick Adelman. Brilliant coach who really changed the game. He coached the Rockets from 2007-2011, including Houston's 22-game win streak. He also was drafted by the Rockets in 1968. That 2008-09 team was such a fun one to watch. RIP, coach.
Mike Tirico told me his secret.
It wasn't talent.
It wasn't luck.
It was what he does on every flight home.
A few years ago, I met him at a restaurant bar in Indianapolis during the Big Ten tournament. One of the biggest voices in sports.
He didn't lead with his résumé. He introduced himself. He asked questions. He cared about every person in the room before anyone cared about him.
Eventually, I asked him what made him great.
He said after every game he calls, on the flight home, he pulls up the broadcast and watches it back.
Listens to his own voice. Hunts for the misses. The dead air. The calls he wishes he could have over.
Every game. Twenty-plus years in.
He wasn't born world-class. He worked his way there one flight at a time.
The best in any room are usually the ones still grading themselves the hardest.
World-class isn't a personality.
It's a habit.
It was an arranged marriage! We were fighting so much leading up to our wedding day 29 years ago that we asked ourselves why are we getting married. We didn’t even like each other at the time. But we knew God brought us together for a reason. We knew He arranged it and we were supposed to go through with it. We were being obedient more than we were following our feelings. Today we celebrate 29 years of marriage and it’s the best decision we ever made. I thank God for my wife and this life. Feelings come and go but God’s love and our love for each other has endured. Relationship Grit!
Caught my wife doing laundry and stopped her immediately. I said, “Babe, it’s Mother’s Day. You don’t do chores today. Go sit down and relax; these clothes will still be here tomorrow.”
I’m such a good husband.
Somewhere in New York City, a kid sat by a big old radio, pencil in hand, listening to John Sterling, writing down every score, picturing every pitch, every swing, every roar of the crowd.
And when his voice rose, “It is high! It is far! It is gone!”, that kid jumped like they were right there in the Bronx.
He gave that kid a seat their parents could never afford.
That was the story of thousands of kids across New York City.
That voice, that feeling, that connection to the game, it will never be replaced. Rest in peace, John.
Is this the look we are going for in 2026: Texas Governor Allan Shivers was a noted segregationist and used the power of his office to resist implementation of Brown v. Board of Education. Shivers dispatched Texas Rangers to prevent integration, led by Captain Jay Banks, who, in addition to threatening to arrest Black students, refused to take down an effigy of a Black man hanging by a noose at the entrance of Mansfield High School.
Shivers then authorized the Mansfield Independent School District to send its Black students to Fort Worth, Texas. By doing this the school district had effectively ignored a federal court order for integration.
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I picked up a hitchhiker last night. He thanked me and asked me how I knew he wasn't a serial killer. I told him the chances of two serial killers being in the same car are astronomical
Thank God for the ball that saved my life!
Tore my acl the last play of conference championship game my senior year. After being projected 1-3 round pick, then I rehabbed got in the 2 deep with phins tore it again 7 months later in camp. After being in sports illustrated, & on espn first take about my life story. Got put on injury settlement & released through the rehab process screw came out of my knee and had another knee surgery. The next year decided to coach fell in love with it. But hearing family members and friends say i quit on my dream, use me for money, talk bad about me. I decided to give it one more shot, I ran 4.2 and 4.3 for scouts thought nfl team was gonna sign me then the lockout happened, so I decided to go to Canada because I needed reps and wanted to get back on field. I tore my acl the first practice bc some goofy assistant wanted to see me do 1v1’s after practice. I had a horrible surgery experience spent time icu, mind you I was alone no family no friends. I called on God in that hospital said Lord if you get me out of here I promise to help every kid I come in contact with! People laughed at me I was broke, broken hearted, depressed lost, confused but I had breath in my lunges and wanted to help kids I went back and started coaching kids on crutches I didn’t even have a vehicle kids would come pick me up. (My friend at the time got my car impounded when I was in Canada.) All the woman who loved me left. I took the money I had saved & got a small loan from grandparents and started the coaching journey at west valley & harker school. The nfl called again I decided to not go for a workout but that was my dream & after 6 knee surgeries on my right leg in 4 years I decided to stick with Gods plan!
No person, place, possession, alcohol, pill, can help you when you are going through pain you need a real relationship with God - prayer & my daughter Mariah carried me through that darkness 99% only love you when it’s sunny. Thank God for the ball that saved my life!
Last year on Ash Wednesday, viewers in Portland, Oregon, saw something rare on their nightly news: CBS affiliate KOIN 6 anchor Elizabeth Dinh sitting behind the desk with a quiet cross of ashes marking her forehead.
In one of America’s most secular cities, Elizabeth spent the day pondering whether she should wipe them off before going on air, as she was nervous about the reaction she might get. At the last moment, she chose not to hide - a simple, defiant act of faith broadcast across Oregon.
A cradle Catholic raised in a Vietnamese home in Texas, Elizabeth’s faith was shaped by her mother, a woman who dreamed of becoming a nun but entered an arranged marriage at 15.
Though Elizabeth never strayed far from her roots, her true conversion came later - in her 30s, forged through suffering and grace.
In 2010, she was diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy, a brutal kidney disease that left both of her kidneys failing. Her husband, Kevin, stepped up without hesitation and gave her one of his, ultimately saving her life. Later, the couple faced another heartbreak - the loss of a baby early in pregnancy.
Through it all, Elizabeth leaned on her Catholic faith, finding in prayer the strength to keep standing before the camera, smiling, telling stories that matter.
When she chose to wear her ashes on television last year, it wasn’t about making a statement; it was about honoring God, who had carried her through each valley. It was a quiet “yes,” spoken through courage and humility.
Now 45, Elizabeth continues to be very vocal about leaning on God and her faith during the turbulent times in her life, even attending local Catholic events as a speaker, such as a Young Catholic Professionals’ Executive Speaker Series that she headlined in February 2026.
To the young adults listening that night, she offered a simple but powerful truth: rather than questioning God’s plan, she chose to trust it completely.
This year, she plans to wear her ashes again.
So if you’re in the Pacific Northwest, tune in to KOIN 6 News on Ash Wednesday, and you may witness a small, enduring symbol of faith shining through the evening broadcast.
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Your Mom leaving you in the grocery checkout line while she ran to grab another item was peak panic attack. As you inched closer to the register sweating bullets 😫