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Frank “Gags” Gagliano, the Hall of Fame coach who guided more than a dozen Olympians across six decades, has died. He was 89.
Gagliano coached at nearly every level of the sport. As an assistant at Manhattan College, he helped the Jaspers win the 1973 NCAA indoor team title. He spent 18 years leading Georgetown, where his teams won 23 Big East championships and produced 140 All-Americans, and he was twice named national coach of the year.
At an age when most coaches retire, he became one of the country’s top professional coaches. He led the Reebok Enclave, the Nike Farm Team, Oregon Track Club Elite and, from 2010, the New Jersey-New York Track Club. His Olympians included John Trautmann, Steve Holman, Nicole Teter, Jonathon Riley, Nick Symmonds, Christian Smith, Julie Culley and Donn Cabral. At the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, Symmonds and Smith were part of the famous “Oregon Sweep” of the men’s 800m at Hayward Field.
A Bronx native, Gagliano was a quarterback at the University of Richmond, not a runner. He began coaching track in 1960 at Roselle Catholic High School in New Jersey, which had hired him with the promise of starting a football team that never came. In 1965, Roselle Catholic became the first high school to win both the DMR and 2-mile relay at the Penn Relays.
“I didn’t know anything about track,” he said in a 2014 interview. “But I accepted the offer because I really wanted to coach.”
Gags became one of the most influential coaches in American distance running. His philosophy was simple: strength plus speed. And when you hear “Hit it!” on the final turn, change gears.
Gagliano was inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2003. This July, USA Track and Field named the men’s 800m at its national championships in his honor.
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Think of what this did to careers of her competitors. For the Americans:
Moly Seidel should have gotten an Olympic silver and a NYC bronze.
Susanna Sullivan should have won World Champ bronze.
These people steal moments, money, and careers.
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This interview is incredible. Devin Cooley is essentially reading directly from TWoE: having fun as a step toward flow states, turning off the conscious mind for unconscious competence, the utter satisfaction of full immersion. You can learn this too: bit.ly/4uCzeQ7
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The entire stadium honoring the occasion. Verlander’s catcher, Dylan Dingler, there to support him the entire time in his full gear with the camera on his back—as if a catcher would want it any other way. His teammates, one by one, saying their goodbyes. And of course, young Genevieve, hanging on to her dad tight, as if to say, "Now you are coming with me, Dad."
It doesn’t matter if you are a baseball or fan or not, if you are a person with a pulse this moment will rock you.
Hang this scene in the Louvre.
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For most of his career, Justin Verlander pitched angry. It was his routine To step onto the field in full snarl.
In the last start of his career, his 7-year-old daughter walked out to the mound to take him out of the game.
He says she’s the reason he had one of the best seasons of his career at 39, when he stopped pitching out of anger and started pitching out of love.
Anger worked really well for most of his career. By the time of his surgery, he had Two Cy Youngs, an MVP, and three no-hitters. But after missed nearly two seasons after COVID and Tommy John surgery. Looking back this week, he said:
“Once my daughter was born and I went away for COVID and had Tommy John surgery and got to spend so much time with her and the family, it just really changed me to the core. To the point that when I came back in 2022 and tried to go back into my old routine, it felt fake to me.”
“So I started changing things. I would just use the love that she would give me. I would leave for the park and there was this little girl and it didn’t matter what I was going to do. I’m not going to put my headphones on and be angry after that. I can’t.”
Too often, we create a caricature of competing. We think, I’m wired this way...I need this...I can only do it this way...
The best competitors are both/and. They realize that as Olympic champion swimmer Ryan Murphy told me, “You need multiple sources of motivation.”
Sometimes, anger or intensity works. Other times, love, exploration, and joy. And they can change over a career or even shorter period of time.
There are multiple ways to the top. There are multiple ways to fuel the pursuit.
Verlander didn’t lose his competitive streak by letting go of the anger. “The competition. I love competing. I love preparing.”
But he found a different path, a different perspective, that felt more authentic to him as family changed him. And it still worked.
“I would leave for the park and there was this little girl and it didn’t matter what I was going to do.”
He still cared. He still competed like hell. But the start was no longer a verdict on who he was. He had unconditional love, win or lose.
Today, we saw the last start of a generation and type of pitcher we might not see for a while. A throwback of sorts. And he battled injury to come back to Detroit for one final start, 5.1 innings, 91 pitches. 6 strikeouts.
And his daughter, Genevieve Verlander, walking to the mound to take him out of the game.
Asked what he’d remember about that final Cy Young at 39, he said: “I will always kind of remember this Cy Young as looking back at the growth of me as a father and as a person.”
His career started with him pitching angry. It ended with his daughter walking him off the mound.
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We looked it up, @markalfordkc.
Gas prices are up. Grocery prices are up. Housing costs are up. Healthcare costs are up.
Stop gaslighting the American people.
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Let us just click expan–––oh my god
Trump has pardoned the following people charged with fraud:
—George Santos, wire fraud
—Ross William Ulbricht, fraud with identification documents
—Rod R. Blagojevich, 8 counts of wire fraud under color of official right
—Brian Kelsey, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Devon Archer, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Trevor Milton, securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jason Galanis, 2 counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud; investment adviser fraud
—Ozy Media, Inc., conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud
—Carlos Roy Watson, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; aggravated identity theft
—Michele Fiore, 6 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; wire fraud
—Scott Howard Jenkins, conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving Federal funds, honest services mail fraud, and honest service wire fraud; honest services mail fraud; 3 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Julie Chrisley, 5 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Todd Chrisley, conspiracy to commit bank fraud; 5 counts of bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Lawrence S. Duran, conspiracy to commit health care fraud; 11 counts of health care fraud; conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks
— Michael Gerard Grimm, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns
—Marian I. Morgan, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 7 counts of wire fraud; 5 counts of transfer of funds taken by fraud
—John G. Rowland, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Charles Overton Scott, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Glen Casada, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 4 counts of honest services wire fraud; use of a fictitious name to carry out a fraud
—Cade Cothren, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 6 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr., health care fraud
—Joseph Lewis, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; 2 counts of securities fraud
—David Gentile, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jacob Deutsch, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud
—Adriana Isabel Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Andres Enrique Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Julio M. Herrera Velutini, 2 counts of honest services wire fraud
—David Levy, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Hollie Ann Nadel, conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud
—Mark T. Rossini, honest services wire fraud
—Wanda Vazquez Garced, honest services wire fraud
—Terren Scott Peizer, securities fraud
—Timothy S. Smith, conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service
—Stephen E. Buyer, 4 counts of securities fraud
—John Dougherty, 24 counts of wire fraud; conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and federal program bribery; 7 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Joshua L. Davis, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Matthew Sidney Geouge, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Adam R. Kidan, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud
—Spade K. Bailly, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Clean Air Act
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The national average diesel price just spiked to over $5.90/gallon for the first time ever in recorded history.
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Today, we’re taking a moment to recognize the people who help care for your national parks and make so many park experiences possible.
To the park employees, past and present, who have dedicated their time, skills, and passion to these places: thank you.
#NationalParkWeek
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Karoline Leavitt on Trump's war with Iran, March 2026:
"This operation will result in lower gas prices"
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Sunrise from one of Rocky's more subtle but beautiful locations. Big Meadows with Nakai Peak in the distance. Hiking the west side of RMNP gives you the solitude you need on a Monday morning. If you camped at the backcountry site here you probably recognize this location as well.
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Day 2 Preview of Eldora's Fall Fest 🍂 The AlpenRun Trail Running Race is BACK on September 20!
That’s right, we’ll have dedicated 5k and 10k courses! Following the race, we’ll have a party on the Timbers deck.
Sign up to race today! bit.ly/455R7Mj






























