Jake Appleman

Was once in a room with Jesse Jackson, Yao Ming, Dikembe Mutombo and Tracy McGrady. Didn't think too much of it at the time, but maybe the greatest room I was ever in?

El Levante UD lamenta profundamente la pérdida de Delia Bullido La periodista llevaba trabajando 25 años en el club de su vida al que dedicó toda su carrera profesional

She had a major hand in facilitating a few of the wildest days of my life. RIP www.levanteud.com/noticias/el-...

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Hopefully it gets better, but just...damn.

Need the Knicks to become the first NBA team to win the double because Knicks fans would absolutely never bring that up if it happened.

THIS IS GONNA BE LIKE WHEN MARK MESSIER LIFTED THE CUP!

Ian Eagle just used the phrase "it's giving" for an ad. So, in a sense, he was, generationally at least, Noah Eagle for split second.

*Takes time machine to 1992/93/94/95 to tell sobbing childhood self that it's going to be okay because one day the Knicks might win something called the NBA Cup against a juggernaut called the Oklahoma City Thunder*

Top Ten Golden Boot Contenders at the 2026 World Cup Top Ten Golden Boot Contenders at the 2026 World Cup

My guy @jakeappleman.bsky.social on the big soccer thing

Top Ten Golden Boot Contenders at the 2026 World Cup Top Ten Golden Boot Contenders at the 2026 World Cup

Ahead of tomorrow’s World Cup draw, I had a good time coming up with the Top Ten Golden Boot contenders for Complex. www.complex.com/sports/a/jak...

It was more enjoyable to take a bus 25 minutes outside of Madrid to do study abroad in Getafe than it is to watch Getafe FC play. And I mean that as a backhanded compliment to Getafe FC. #GetafeAtleti

13 - three way tie (Vicente Calderon - Atleti, Ciutat de Valencia - Levante, Sanchez Pijuan - Sevilla)

99 Miles to Philly cheesesteaks in the East Village…
The place that’s now Von showing ‘02 World Cup games in the middle of the night on a projector…
Subway tokens…
The smells of Shea Stadium and OG Yankee Stadium…
Williamsburg between gentrification and parody…
Mottsu…

If you gave me a time machine and sent me back to 2006 and told me that a kid eight years away from existing would be wearing a tee shirt version of that printed cover, I...might believe you because SLAM has that kind of juice?

I am "shooting around across the court from a 12-year-old kid rocking a 20-year-old Carmelo SLAM cover tee and not telling him that I'm profiled in that issue" years old.

A thing I think about sometimes is how P.J. Carlesimo would refer to the Sacramento Kings as "Sac" during pregame scrum interviews. He was so casual about it. Such a nonchalant and blasé use of "Sac". We need more of that in today's world.

This Clasico is really quite good. Nice showcase.

I didn't know "current and former shoot-first point guards" would be a societal diversion away from *gestures* "everything else"...and yet...

Ok, it's automated. It's not written.

Pat GPT is written exclusively in JoJo English.

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You gotta hand to them. They biffed it so bad, I can't even watch deGrom pitch.

We'll Always Have Linsanity: Strange Takes on the Strangest Season in Knicks History by Jim Cavan, Mike Kurylo, Seth Rosenthal, Robert Silverman, Ja (2013) Paperback We'll Always Have Linsanity: Strange Takes on the Strangest Season in Knicks History by Jim Cavan, Mike Kurylo, Seth Rosenthal, Robert Silverman, Ja (2013) Paperback [unknown author] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. We'll Always Have Linsanity: Strange Takes on the Strangest Season in Knicks History by Jim Cavan, Mike Kurylo, Seth Rosenthal, Robert Silverman, Ja (2013) Paperback

Jeremy Lin retired from basketball. Linsanity was a perfect stretch of time of basketball joy. You should read this great book on what this season was like for fans.

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Gary Cohen just referred to Gary Apple as “The Apple Man” and I really felt that.

Just patiently waiting for a club like Barca or PSG to break the possession barrier and end up with 101% possession one of these days. It's gotta happen sooner or later.

On the other hand, you don't gotta love whatever it is that Atleti is doing right now.

You gotta love Levante trying -- and so far succeeding -- at slowing visiting Barca down by water-logging the pitch. You know, because frogs are amphibious..

Yeah, just not going to be posting every week about this Atleti squad. Yeesh.

You know, this DAZN coverage isn't half bad. It's no Joao Pedro, but it works.

Joao Pedro? More like Oh Wow Pedro.

If Messi leads Miami to a comeback win, I will actually try Michelob Ultra.