Mike Piellucci

5 days ago | dmagazine.com | Robert Tiffin |Mike Piellucci

The playoffs are complicated. Each series is its own story, and each game is its own chapter encompassing a dozen moments and plot points. But the playoffs can also be simple. Each of those moments, those plot points, falls into one of two buckets: the things we observe and the emotions they inspire within us. That’s what we’re here to talk about. What We SawThere are undeserved losses, and there are fortunate wins. In Game 2, the Stars decided to test the limits of their misfortune.

5 days ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Mike Piellucci

he bull riders bow their heads in prayer before climbing into the chutes, because when death is potentially eight seconds away, a prayer can’t hurt. Each rider knows someone who has lost his life on a bull, just as he knows that the risk of dying here—on a quiet, dusty ranch off U.S. Highway 287 in Sunset, Texas, population 586—is no different than it is in the din of a packed arena on tour with Professional Bull Riders, better known as PBR.

6 days ago | dmagazine.com | Mike Piellucci

he bull riders bow their heads in prayer before climbing into the chutes, because when death is potentially eight seconds away, a prayer can’t hurt. Each rider knows someone who has lost his life on a bull, just as he knows that the risk of dying here—on a quiet, dusty ranch off U.S. Highway 287 in Sunset, Texas, population 586—is no different than it is in the din of a packed arena on tour with Professional Bull Riders, better known as PBR.

6 days ago | dmagazine.com | Robert Tiffin |Mike Piellucci

The playoffs are complicated. Each series is its own story, and each game is its own chapter encompassing a dozen moments and plot points. But the playoffs can also be simple. Each of those moments, those plot points, falls into one of two buckets: the things we observe and the emotions they inspire within us. That’s what we’re here to talk about.

1 week ago | dmagazine.com | Mike Piellucci

Do you remember the Joey Galloway trade? How about the swoop for Roy Williams, Wide Receiver Edition? Surely the Amari Cooper deal, no? One or more of these probably retain office space in a cobwebbed corner of your brain, if only for the glaring Cowboys of it all. Each one was so perfectly post-Super Bowl Dallas, dead in line with Jerry Jones’ stated desperation to navigate his team back to football’s apex.