BOYS BBALL: Keith Diebler is retiring from coaching boys basketball. Diebler racked up over 400 wins including the 2005 state championship across nearly five decades. He told his team Wednesday morning. My exclusive story (Jeremiah Diebler): sanduskyregister.com/news/511287/ke…

Buckeye basketball, more than football, was my first sports love. It’s beyond cool to see it led by a kid from Northwest Ohio who went to my parents’ high school. He made it fun again. LFG.

'Sometimes you miss it, miss people saying, 'Che, you’re doing things poorly!'

I spoke to Sebastian Driussi about the differences between playing at River & in MLS, what drives him & what #AustinFC must do to make 2024 a success after a frustrating 2023.
mlssoccer.com/news/sebastian…

Can’t recommend this interview enough. My favorite of 2024 so far, and it’s a high bar.

Been digging through my clips lately for writing samples, but I realized that I often view my own work with biases. So, I’m asking a selfish question:

What’s your favorite piece that I wrote, or one that you happen to remember for whatever reason?

BUCKEYES 🏀

Is this the same man who printed out and laminated predictions? Or the one who used to quote my articles almost verbatim when responding to questions?

“You know me by now.” Lmao. I can almost see his grin as he was saying that. Love it.

Scoonie 🐐

I’m not sure how Jake Diebler got that performance out of this group, but it looked like Ohio State basketball for the first time in 2+ years. Northwest Ohio is smiling today. What a win!

Was just happy to be out on a 60 degree day in February, so the fact that this was the first of three birdies feels like a good omen for 2024.

Ha. All I remember from that day is stress and sweat. Our livestream went haywire and another English outlet got an exclusive. All turned out fine, but it’s crazy what those days look like behind the scenes.

Yep. Not sure anything will ever beat this tbh. Especially if you followed MLS pre-ATX, it felt surreal.

I had my run-ins with the FO over a few of them, often trying to work with them to confirm/deny half-baked reports or rumors. Claudio never played that game.

But I remember Djitté being a big moment for The Striker because the club gave us a semi-exclusive.

Curious, what was your favorite way that an #AustinFC player signing was announced or reported?