
Brian Hamilton
Senior Writer at The Athletic
Senior writer for @TheAthletic. You can’t have a salad without the sauce. Email: brianhamiltonwrites at gmail
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton
OKLAHOMA CITY - To begin with, the Church of Thunder is not a church. There are a dozen pews, yes, but they were found on Facebook Marketplace. There is reverence, but it is aimed at the basketball game on a projector screen anchored to pallets of beer. This is why the people gather in a warehouse on Thursday. The biblical rains have passed. Time to praise and, with any luck, celebrate the local professional basketball franchise as it starts the NBA Finals about a mile away. Shai's will be done.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Even inside the opulent owner's suite at Covenant Health Park, there is only so much to do before a rain-delayed minor league baseball game on a Tuesday night. The Tennessee softball team already has discussed the ceremonial first pitch - someone suggested a pickoff throw - and rehearsed how record-breaking ace Karlyn Pickens can avoid an awkward hug with the Knoxville Smokies' mascot.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Brian Hamilton
11 hours agoJessica Chastain was a vision last night as she attended the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, which celebrates the latest achievements in the scientific and mathematical fields. The actor was one of many stars who showed up and out to the event, yet she left her impression on the red carpet in a …
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton
SAN ANTONIO - From the far corner of the Alamodome floor, Walter Clayton Jr. made one last play to take his team to Monday night: A loose ball, pursued and then saved back into play as time ran off the clock. The Florida star then stood there, stone-faced, clapping his hands while everyone else celebrated. No need to get excited. It was not his first resurrection project.
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Brian Hamilton
SAN ANTONIO - On May 2, 2010, Kyle Smith officially earned a long-awaited chance to run his own men's college basketball program. He was a military kid who played Division III hoops. He spent almost two decades on the sidelines at three different schools as an assistant. And, somehow, becoming the head coach at Columbia was the easiest part about becoming the head coach at Columbia. Smith moved to New York with a pregnant wife during the hottest summer in the city's history.
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