Pat Summitt Accepts Ashe Award At ESPYs
on 12/7/12
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Let me make something clear: Pat Summitt’s dignity is unassailable. ... It’s fair to say that the stigma of the diagnosis has been harder on Summitt than the actual effects of the disease. ... What’s more difficult is being treated as if she is sick, as if she can no longer have a valuable purpose, as if it’s necessary to talk around her instead of to her, as if she doesn’t know her own mind.
(via Washington Post) , adding: "There is nothing in her condition to prevent her from still doing what she does best, which is to teach kids how to do things the right way — 'how to commit,' she says — and show them how much more they have in them than they realize. The rest she will make up as she goes along."
MORE: "Find me another basketball coach who transformed and legitimized her sport more than Summitt. Find me another basketball coach whose legacy exceeds hers." (Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com)
MORE: "Find me another basketball coach who transformed and legitimized her sport more than Summitt. Find me another basketball coach whose legacy exceeds hers." (Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com)
In Praise of Pat Summitt
on 18/4/12
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Pat Summitt Steps Down
on 18/4/12
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After a storied 38-year career, Pat Summitt is stepping down as head coach of the Tennessee women’s basketball team to become a coach emeritus with the program. Lady Vols associate head coach Holly Warlick will be named the new head coach.
(via GoVolsXtra.com)
REAX: "Along with the 8 NCAA champ and 18 Final Fours is this: Every player who completed eligibility at Tennessee under Summitt has graduated." (CBSSports.com's Tony Barnhart)
REAX: "Along with the 8 NCAA champ and 18 Final Fours is this: Every player who completed eligibility at Tennessee under Summitt has graduated." (CBSSports.com's Tony Barnhart)
Celebrating Pat Summitt
on 27/3/12
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So if you have seen that Summitt stare, whether in person or on TV, you get it. Her white-hot flame might be dwindling, but the spark has caught. It burns through hundreds of former players, and their players, and one day, it will burn through their players’ players, too.
(via Yahoo Sports)
MORE: "We don't know for sure now what Summitt's future holds in basketball. But we know the past is overflowing with the most profound kind of success. Monday night and always, that's what we celebrate." (Michelle Voepel, ESPN.com)
MORE: "We don't know for sure now what Summitt's future holds in basketball. But we know the past is overflowing with the most profound kind of success. Monday night and always, that's what we celebrate." (Michelle Voepel, ESPN.com)
For their endurance, for their adaptability, for their genius for hatching from adversity even more success and for their willingness to take up causes beyond the comfort of their own campuses—indeed, for modeling what it means to be public diplomats as well as great coaches—we honor them as SI's 2011 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year.
(via Sports Illustrated)
From SI's Alexander Wolff: "The career victory numbers -- 1,075 for her, 907 for him, totals that leave every other male and female coach in Division I basketball behind -- only hint at why Sports Illustrated has chosen Mike Krzyzewski and Pat Summitt as its 2011 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year." (Click the cover image to read Wolff's full intro.)
Pat Summitt: Last Word (For Now)
on 25/8/11
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This is not a fight you win. That is the saddest thing about it. This is a fight you make because the fight is worth making. ... Root like crazy for the Lady Vols, people. You'll never do a better thing in your sports fan's lives.
(via Boston Globe) , whose father and four siblings all suffered from Alzheimer's, with the kicker of a typically brilliant (and admirably brief) take on Summitt and Alzheimer's. He finishes:
"Oh, and send the Alzheimer's Association some money, too." (Here's the link if you want to do just that.)
"Oh, and send the Alzheimer's Association some money, too." (Here's the link if you want to do just that.)
Sports x Steve Jobs
on 24/8/11
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Steve Jobs wants to stay as chairman. Hard not to think of Pat Summit's announcement this week, her efforts to continue coaching.
(PaidContent's Staci Kramer)
BREAKING NEWS: Steve Jobs steps down as CEO of Apple, to be replaced by Kerry Collins.
(FootballOutsiders' Aaron Schatz)
Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO to accept the third-string QB position with the Denver Broncos.
(SportsPickle's DJ Gallo)
As @kolumka points out, new Apple CEO Tim Cook is an Auburn alum. Win the BCS title and get the keys to Apple, good year for him.
(CBSSports.com's Bryan Fischer)
Even Brett Favre thinks Steve Jobs retires too much.
(CBSSports.com's Will Brinson)
Whatever. I never even *worked* at Apple, and you don't see anybody writing news stories about *me*.
(Grantland's Brian Phillips) (via Twitter)
(PaidContent's Staci Kramer)
BREAKING NEWS: Steve Jobs steps down as CEO of Apple, to be replaced by Kerry Collins.
(FootballOutsiders' Aaron Schatz)
Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO to accept the third-string QB position with the Denver Broncos.
(SportsPickle's DJ Gallo)
As @kolumka points out, new Apple CEO Tim Cook is an Auburn alum. Win the BCS title and get the keys to Apple, good year for him.
(CBSSports.com's Bryan Fischer)
Even Brett Favre thinks Steve Jobs retires too much.
(CBSSports.com's Will Brinson)
Whatever. I never even *worked* at Apple, and you don't see anybody writing news stories about *me*.
(Grantland's Brian Phillips) (via Twitter)
Pat Summitt "Is Going to Fight"
on 24/8/11
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Summitt is going to fight this monstrous illness with humor, with an iron will, with everything she can symbolically get her hands on to throw at it. When she says she's not going to allow there to be a pity party for her, you better believe it. What she means is, "I'll kick your &$$ if you try to feel sorry for me."
(via ESPN.com)
