Steve McInnes

Husband. Dad. Radiohead superfan. Golf fanatic. Learning junkie. Guitar player. Enjoyer of life.

[Zlatan Ibrahimović @Ibra_official]

The studio will never forget

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

@FPL__Raptor Follow Mike bender on IG. He is a legend. Learn the pivot and you will be off to the races.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Kick off our title celebrations with Live From N5 🤩

Tune in now 📺 https://t.co/lfc3ReY5Kf

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

2.1M FOR THE WIN 🔥

[Royal Dornoch @RoyalDornochGC]

Blue skies over Royal Dornoch and that unmistakable sign of the season - gorse almost in full bloom.

If you’ve been here at this time of year, you’ll know the scent carries on the breeze… a soft hint of coconut and vanilla drifting across the links. It’s one of those small details that makes a round here feel all the more special.

A fine spell like this only adds to it. Always a brilliant time to visit.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.

A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.

164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.

Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.

The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.

The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.

Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.

The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.

The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

@BizNasty2point0 Way to stay classy in defeat. Unlike your obnoxious peers

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

@ryanwhitney6 Our game? You have no sniff.

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

Connor McDavid has been waiting for this moment — representing Canada in an Olympic gold medal game: “You have to learn from the bad times. You have to take something from it.

And what I took from it was this....

I don’t want to play golf. I don’t want to sit by the pool. I don’t want to be in the Bahamas. I don’t need a break, or a fresh start. I just want to be in Edmonton, playing hockey. I want to get back there again, whatever it takes. If that sounds like a robot, then I guess I’m a robot. But I see it differently. It doesn’t feel like work to me. It’s just the game that I love. Ever since I was a little kid, it’s been the same feeling…. It’s like every time you step onto a fresh sheet of ice, even if it’s at 5 o’clock in the morning, you’re just so excited for that Zamboni to come off and for that barn door to swing open so you can hop out onto the ice.

You hear that first crunch, and you just love it. I still love it, even when it sucks.

Every day is another chance, another opportunity to choose better. I really cannot wait for these Olympics. I’ll be bringing everything I’ve learned to Italy to represent my country. I’ve waited a long time to say that. I don’t think it will really hit me until I get over there. I was on the U17s the first time I wore a Canada jersey, and I’ve dreamt of this moment ever since. Pulling on that sweater, being in a room with the different generations of great players — Sid and Nate and Celebrini and all those guys. It’s such an honor, really.

I think best-on-best, country-against-country, that’s where hockey becomes something else. It reminds us of the shovels and the snow, the rollerblades and the roadrash.

I can’t wait to get in that room. I can’t wait to play more hockey.” https://t.co/7NUU6KAGOo

@cmcdavid97 | @HockeyCanada | @TeamCanada | @EdmontonOilers

[Eben Novy-Williams @novy_williams]

Get the 🔎 out. Here's the latest @Sportico valuations for all 154 team in the big five U.S. leagues:

🔴 @NFL - $7.13 billion average
🟠 @NBA - $5.51 billion average
🟢 @MLB - $2.82 billion average
⚫️ @NHL - $2.1 billion average
🔵 @MLS - $767 million average

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Forever proud of Lindsey Vonn. 🤝 #WinterOlympics

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Fathers, no matter how tired you are when you get home from work, remember this.

One day, they’ll stop asking you to play. And you’ll wish you were this tired again.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

A #birddivination from the peregrine falcon. Part of the deck of 100 (along with the story behind them) at https://t.co/xpo04XE701 and available as a stand-alone print at https://t.co/h4VomxpkkE

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Shoulder to shoulder. Raise the bar. Go again.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

🎤 London Burning - @Rudimental feat. Peter Xan and Idris Elba. A world exclusive.

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

@LiveFPLnet Your work is still legendary. Remember that things don't happen to you...they happen for you ;) Site looks great.

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

The most special round of golf in all of my travels 💯

[Royal Dornoch @RoyalDornochGC]

Spring has truly arrived in the Highlands! Here the 5th, 6th 7th and 11th holes on the Championship Course are framed by banks of golden gorse, bursting into colour and adding a dazzling edge to an unforgettable stretch of links golf.
📷 - @MattHarrisPIXs
#royaldornochlinks

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

Dear @RyanHoliday … can you please do a dedicated post that weaves the story of @McIlroyRory and his epic, resilient, win today at the Masters for the career Grand Slam? It was a stoicism masterclass and what a journey to climb this mountain. Please give this moment your pen 🙏

[Steve McInnes @steviemac7]

As a Mets and Doc fan. This is awesome.

[cllct @cllctMedia]

A moment 40 YEARS in the making 🙌

Dwight Gooden has a new centerpiece for his career collection, thanks to a certain Mets superfan.

(🎥 MLB / YT)