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The bones of the run-and-shoot offense were created in Middletown, Ohio in 1958 by longtime coach Glenn “Tiger” Ellison. The high school had a football team since 1911 and they never once had a losing season. But in 1958, that streak was on the brink. They were halfway through a 10 game season and found themselves sitting 0-4-1. Ellison was an old school football coach. In his book Run and Shoot Football: Offense of the Future, he says motto was “Hit ‘em so hard and so often with so much that they simply cannot stand up in front of us!

Good morning! I’ve got so much great news for you this Wednesday, my friends. Hope you enjoy! The folks from Premiere Enterprises—the amazing team behind the award-winning oyster and cocktail bar Maison Premiere in Williamsburg have opened Tigre, a stunning new cocktail-only lounge on the Lower East Side [105 Rivington Street, New York].  I had a chance to check it out last night and was enchanted by the entire experience. You’ll find it behind a heavily graffitied-door guarded by a handsome sweetheart named Monroe.

Welcome to the third edition of The Internet Inside of My Mind, a weekly gathering of the most absurd and sometimes mundane things on the Internet. Except this week, it’s just one topic, and it’s not absurd at all. On Wednesday, news of the passing of Irish singer, songwriter and activist Sinéad O’Connor spread across both traditional and social media. Among that coverage were stories of her generosity and advocacy, about time and resources sent to charitable causes and how she repeatedly used her platform to stand up for other disenfranchised people.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci.🧩 TIL, courtesy of Khalidi, that that viral “I have the coronavirus, that’s why I don’t have a voice” video is maybe...fake??? —Kate On TikTok, Farha Khalidi answers questions no one asked her.  “Do masks work?” she reads from her phone, voice scratchy and lazy, in a video posted early in September. “No, they don’t. My boyfriend wore one every day and he still got me pregnant.

My past two newsletters have examined the topic of forgiveness. Two weeks ago, I wrote about forgiving friends and family who made pandemic choices different from our own. Some strong negative responses to these ideas prompted me to suggest last week that forgiveness may at times be “incomprehensible,” but that doesn’t make it impossible or unimportant. Forgiveness is challenging, and forgiveness matters personally and politically. I thought the topic merited one more engagement, so I reached out to my friend, Tim Keller.

Welcome back! This is a new Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. Here’s our agenda today: For those just finding us — you can sign up to get our weekly Sunday issues right in your inbox: Sign Up Now, here we go! The Boy and the Heron is Studio Ghibli’s biggest opening ever at the American box office. It reached first place in the country over the weekend — right now, estimates have it above $12 million.

I have so many problems with Twitter! Or at least the corner of Twitter that is most visible to me. I just think it’s a really toxic place, and that there’s no way to “win” the fights I keep compulsively getting into there. My many hours on Twitter, in addition to (I think) making me feel twitchier and just generally worse than I would if I weren’t on the platform, rob me of time I could spend catching up on all the work I am behind on due to my disorganization and tendency sometimes to overextend myself.

Get 35% off for 1 year Follow us on Twitter: @AlexC_NJD, @NJD_OnTheRush Locker clean-out day came earlier than any of us wanted. Players spoke yesterday, with general manager Tom Fitzgerald and interim coach Travis Green speaking today. We'll cover those tomorrow, but for today, let's recap some notable items from what the players had to say.  Most of us could tell Timo Meier was not healthy earlier in the season, but he confirmed as much yesterday.

I can hear the groans now. “Can you please shut up about Tin House, for the love of all that is holy?” The answer to that is NO, NEVER. In part because I feel like I owe a behind-the-scenes look to all the readers who upgraded their subscriptions, booked a Tarot reading or straight up donated to help me get there. Shroud it in a cloud of mystery? That feels disrespectful.