Colby Hale

Basketball/Baseball/Track Coach. BJJ Blue Belt.

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

UFC with more AI slop! 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

Tough shot by Brunson but how is that not a travel?

[James Gunn @JamesGunn]

Fit check. Live from the set of Man of Tomorrow.

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

Sports gambling is lame.

[Curt G @curtgOK]

I still enjoy watching sports. I've grown tired of hearing people talk about sports.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

I hesitate to share this but maybe it needs to be shared. When coaches fail kids, someone should speak up.

Twice in the past two weeks, 4 girls, all freshmen & sophomores, made nearly a 3- hour round trip to train with me in the parking lot of Dryden Elementary, across from my house.

The girls run at a small school. They are talented. Their MPHs (Dashr Silver): 18.9, 18.7, 18.6, and 17.9. Their verticals (OVR): 25, 24, 22, 19. Solid athletes!

After the first session, parents said the workout was the first positive experience of the season. The girls wanted to do it again.

Problem #1: track practice should not be consistently miserable. 🥴

The girls told me that their meet warmup was to run two laps as a team. I showed them how sprinters warm up. When they asked their coach if they could try a new warmup, the coach made them run a mile. 🥴

They think their best chance to qualify for state is the 4x1. (Remember, they are all underclassmen.)

I had them practice handoffs. They had been taught some crazy things:

1) Run in middle of lane (no inside-outside lane ownership) 🥴

2) Baton stayed in right hand (no R-L-R-L). 🥴

3) One “go mark” at only “5 short steps” (measured to be 12’) 🥴

4) They had never been videoed doing an exchange 🥴

I taught them how to do it right, hoping their coach wouldn’t find out and punish them with a two mile run. Our go mark was 16’ with a bang step (first step down at mark). I videoed every exchange. I maintained their upsweep technique. They looked GREAT. ⚡️

The girls were free to train yesterday because they didn’t have practice on the Monday of Sectional… because the boys team had a meet. 🥴

For Sectional tomorrow, I wish they weren’t all required to do 4 events. Wish they could concentrate on 4x1 and 4x4 (they have a chance in both). One girl is entered in 4x1, 4x2, 300h, and 4x4. Never have I entered a boy in those 4 events, let alone at a Sectional. Another has to run 200 and 4x4 back-to-back. 🥴

It’s sometimes hard to support the work of other coaches.

Kids get one chance to do high school sports.

[Matt Reeves @mattreevesLA]

Indeed, it is. ❤️

[chess24 @chess24com]

As Vishy Anand said at the start of the tournament, "It's not like the 1st year or even the 1st decade" Magnus Carlsen has faced the problem of defending his sky-high rating!

[GILBERT BURNS DURINHO @GilbertDurinho]

It was great 12 years 25 fights 5 main events!
Thanks @ufc and all the fans! 🙌🏾🙌🏾

[UFC Roster Watch @UFCRosterWatch]

❌ Fighter removed: Gilbert Burns

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

Playoff basketball is so physical it’s like a different sport.

[Rick Pitino @RealPitino]

It's not often you coach a group of young men that care so much for each other and gave me every ounce of perspiration they had in them. Loved every day I was with them. Thank you Men!!!

[Trilly Donovan @trillydonovan]

Ben McCollum is 54-16 (.771) as a Division I head coach.

He's 449-107 (.807) lifetime across his career.

WINNERS WIN.

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

@nothowardeisley @CBKReport He was turning them down.

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

Can never count out Ben McCollum

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Somebody born in ‘33 was 45 in ‘78. That's gotta be some sort of record.

[NFL @NFL]

TRADE: Jets trading QB Justin Fields to Chiefs. (via @tompelissero)

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Some of us never forgot.

[Colby Hale @theapemma]

Exhaust the limits of the possible.

- Pindar