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@Rosenberg_Mike

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Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated; unit chair emeritus, @si_union

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Michael Rosenberg
7 months
Last week, Michigan's regents discussed leaving the Big Ten if Jim Harbaugh was suspended without what it believes to be due process, source tells SI. ESPN reported the suspension 30 mins before the B1G informed UM. The Michigan-Petitti fight is on.
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@JeffPassan It’s on tv
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
He is 34. He has never been a head coach. Never hired anyone. Never fired anyone. Now he is replacing Coach K. My @SInow story on Jon Scheyer:
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
Imagine watching all these big-time coaches take blue-chip jobs and realizing last year you hired Steve Sarkisian.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Most American high school students fear it. Keegan Gregory lived it. Last November, he found himself face-to-face with a school shooter. This is the story of what happened next.
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1 year
A national sensation now. Iowa’s daughter forever. At the end of a game-changing month, I wrote about Caitlin Clark:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
I feel better knowing the Browns got a ringing endorsement of Deshaun Watson from Deshaun Watson.
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1 year
Firing Frank Reich and then being on the wrong side of one of the biggest comebacks in history is a special kind of football poetry.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
If you have months to defend your choices and still can’t do it, they are probably indefensible. On Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson and their blood-money grab:
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
People have no idea how hard it is for @AdamSchefter to publicly admit he had 4 unread texts
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Adam Schefter
1 year
Confirming Aaron Rodgers’ report:
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
Since signing KD and Kyrie, the Nets have won one playoff series and had stars request trades four times.
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After becoming a mother, with her playing days winding down, Alex Morgan decided to make the rest of her career about other people. One result: she is playing the best soccer of her life. My @sinow story:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and other golf stars have this in common: They are friends with Jimmy Dunne. I talked to him about LIV Golf and where the sport goes next:
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Michael Rosenberg
6 months
Our staff works so hard to carry on Sports Illustrated's tradition of great journalism. It's so disappointing when people* in our own company undermine our work.
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Sports Illustrated Union
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Our response to today’s story from @futurism reporting that The Arena Group has published AI-written stories by fake people under the Sports Illustrated name:
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
Jay Monahan will be in charge of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. Saudi Arabia's PIF can be the PGA Tour's investment partner, but it is not investing in the Tour directly. I talked to Jimmy Dunne about how, and why, golf's deal of the decade went down.
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A governor texting about "our cause." A grandmother who was easy to manipulate. Millions in welfare money misspent. Now: The looming possibility Brett Favre will be indicted. An inside look at what Favre did -- and how he did it.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
We have reached the "if I drop the ball I can go sit next to a heater" point of this game.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
To be fair, you go to Purdue to lose these kinds of games
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Michael Rosenberg
5 months
People in NFL circles think Jim Harbaugh is ready to leave Michigan. But people around Harbaugh believe he prefers to stay. On Harbaugh, Michigan, and what needs to happen next:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Some team is going to look past the allegations and trade for Deshaun Watson. It’s the way of pro sports. But spare us the BS about “due diligence.”
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Michael Rosenberg
7 months
Stolen signals, schools turning each other in, selective outrage. How Michigan and Ohio State weaponized the rulebook against each other:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
That was the absolute stupidest way for that game to end and we all should have seen it coming.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Last year, while other pros were angling for more millions, Tiger Woods had one goal: Get back to St. Andrews this week. He has never looked worse, but he has never looked better. Column:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
That game is not going to change Aaron Rodgers' opinion that the world is out to get him.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
I would like to meet the person who refused to get vaccinated until he heard Kirby Smart say Omicron is lined up for a blitz.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
I love how the NFL turns the draft into the most overblown spectacle of the year and then worries Kayvon Thibodeaux has too much personality.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
PGA Tour players are stunned, confused, and angry. Understandable. But soon they will realize: In one move, Jay Monahan brought in billions and killed LIV Golf. He will frame it as a win. Here is why:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Yes, it's absurd that the Bills never got the ball in OT because of the coin toss, but this offseason the NFL competition committee will hold an 11-hour debate and decide to swap the coin for a pair of dice.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Mike McCarthy has a .608 career winning percentage, a Super Bowl win, 10 playoff wins and 7 division titles ... and I don't know anybody who wants him coaching their team. Sports are strange.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
Grant Wahl was a wonderful, sweet human being with a tremendous heart. It came through in his writing and in any conversation with him. Shocking, devastating news.
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U.S. Soccer
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U.S. Soccer Statement On The Passing Of Grant Wahl:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
In one sentence, John Madden could convey that he loved football as much as anyone in the world, but also that he didn’t take it too seriously. What a rare gift.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Matthew Stafford was the best player on the field in that game, and it wasn’t close.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Matt Fitzpatrick’s US Open win isn’t just great for him. It is great for golf. On a grinder who embodies the game, at a time when too many others miss the point:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Urban will respond by trying to release Lambo and somebody will have to explain he already did.
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Jonathan Jones
2 years
Former Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo tells @NFLSTROUD that Urban Meyer kicked him during an August warmup this preseason
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
The Bucs might have the best defensive coordinator in the league and just left the most prolific receiver in the league open on 3rd and 20. Sometimes I think all of football is an exercise in overthinking.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Imagine being a Black assistant NFL coach, working for years in the league, wondering if you'll ever get a chance to be a head coach, and then seeing this.
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Adam Schefter
2 years
Breaking: Colts are naming their former six-time Pro-Bowl C and ESPN analyst Jeff Saturday as their interim head coach. Saturday has been a consultant for the team, is in its Ring Of Honor, and also was head coach for the Hebron Christian Academy football team in Dacula, Georgia.
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Michael Rosenberg
10 months
Phil Mickelson apparently lost close to $100 million gambling … then complained the PGA Tour was misspending his money. Golf is still paying for it. Column:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
I am so happy we agreed to a fair deal. Thank you to everybody who supported us, and to the great @JennyVrentas for leading us from start to finish.
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Sports Illustrated Union
2 years
🚨 SPORTS LABOR NEWS: WE HAVE A DEAL! 🚨 Two years after forming our union with @nyguild , we have agreed on a contract with @SInow and @The_Arena_Group management which, once ratified by our members, will protect our workplace and our journalism.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
This answer was pure genius.
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Michael Rosenberg
7 months
There might eventually be good reasons to punish Jim Harbaugh. "Other coaches are mad" is not a good reason.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
My feeling on anti-vaxxers is that it’s not funny at all if they get Covid, but it is hilarious if they fly halfway around the world for a Grand Slam event and get sent home.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
Lions-Vikes announcers just said TWICE that "everything is on the line." I cannot think of one thing. They are playing for zero marbles.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Packers are setting up for a game-winning field-goal block by the Niners
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
The penalty at the end of Bengals-Chiefs made me think about NFL punishments that don’t fit the crime. So I propose a solution:
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
I’ll be at the bargaining table today with my colleagues to fight for the fair contract we deserve.
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Sports Illustrated Union
3 years
With all due respect, the real 2021 Sportspeople of the Year are the editorial staff of SI, who showed grit, determination and perseverance working this year without a contract. We deserve a fair deal, now.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
We need a play clock for live interviews.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
Don Shane showed how to combine professional excellence with a friendly, caring, down-to-earth attitude. Wonderful man. Condolences to his family.
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WXYZ Detroit
1 year
Longtime Channel 7 sportscaster Don Shane has died at the age of 70, 7 Acton News has learned. Don spent 23 years at WXYZ and no one had more fun on the air or covering our local teams.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
If you have read anything great on SI in the last few years -- and I think our staff has done a lot of great work -- Adam almost certainly had his fingerprints on it. The best of the best.
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Adam Duerson
1 year
A layoff thread, 1/1 Folks, I’m done. I’ve joined the esteemed ranks of *former* @SInow editors—a brilliant and vast group whose members have each deserved better, but who were PAID (!!) to think and dissect and parse and nitpick. Imagine that. It was surreal to the last second.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
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Mark Long
2 years
Darrell Bevell confirms that Urban Meyer left the Jaguars facility after practice yesterday and never returned, leaving staff to prep without him. Heard they were in the dark as to where he was and what was happening.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 months
It has become quite clear that Authentic Brands Group can make a big profit on Sports Illustrated AND keep producing great journalism … but only if the journalists are still around!
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Sports Illustrated Union
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Sports Illustrated does not exist without us
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
After the Boston Marathon bombing, he was hailed as a hero cop. Ten years later, Dic Donohue studies why so many people don’t trust cops — and says of policing: “Everything can be done better.”
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Michael Rosenberg
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I’m walking to my car behind someone in a Bob Probert jersey. Bless this city.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Congrats to @JennyVrentas , but really, congrats to @NYTSports . You’re getting the best of the best.
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NYTimes Communications
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We're thrilled to announce that @JennyVrentas is joining @nytsports as a general assignment reporter working on enterprise and investigations.
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Michael Rosenberg
3 years
First QB to throw it through a hula hoop and into a dog’s mouth wins
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Defense is gassed. Go for two, then have Brady vaporize Stafford
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Michael Rosenberg
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Scottie Scheffler just said he likes Bruce Springsteen. 8,000 words from @StevePoliti to follow.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
As I've always said, never play cornerback on roller skates
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Michael Rosenberg
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“How did Virginia ever win the national championship?” “Well, in the Elite Eight, they got to play Purdue.”
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
“I’m going to text him: Hey, I’m pumped you’re playing, but I want some kickbacks if you take a cart.” I talked to Casey Martin about Tiger Woods and the road ahead:
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
The myth that Tom Brady was not the starter at Michigan will apparently live on forever. Even Robert Kraft believes it!
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Michael Rosenberg
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@jessica_smetana I wouldn’t trust a person who lives in LA and has seven fireplaces.
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Michael Rosenberg
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I don't know a ton about Jasmine Carson but I think her nickname is "Spike Albrecht"
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Michael Rosenberg
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My @SInow Daily Cover on sportswashing, a practice that is more than 2,000 years old:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
If the Snyders do sell the Commanders, the new owner should change the team name again. It’s a lousy name that will only remind people of Dan Snyder. Full cleanse!
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
As I wrote yesterday, forcing a sale is much harder than a lot of fans realize. But also: Nobody should have to work for a man who thinks he is entitled to drop the n-word.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Strong column by @Herring_NBA on Robert Sarver's lack of contrition -- and why he is unfit to own an NBA team:
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Michael Rosenberg
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"All parties," including PIF, "absolutely" want the PGA Tour to be the "clear leader" in men's pro golf. NewCo is tentatively being called PGA Tour Enterprises. I talked to the two men filling in for Jay Monahan about what's next:
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
We at @si_union support our @ReutersGuild colleagues in their fight for a fair contract.
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Reuters Guild
2 years
More than 300 @Reuters journalists across the United States are stopping work today for a 24-hour walkout. We do not take this decision lightly, but we’re prepared to avail ourselves of all our legal rights to secure the contract we deserve.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
It's amazing how one mistake can ruin a person's reputation. Think of how different Dan Snyder's life would be if he hadn't decided to be a complete jerk for his whole adult life.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
I will stay on Twitter if they add an upside-down check mark to any commenter who didn't read the story.
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Michael Rosenberg
2 years
Why do TV channels still have numbers? Put them in alphabetical order. Much easier. Thank you.
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Michael Rosenberg
1 year
The summer after he graduated from high school, Jimmy Butler didn’t know if he would even get a chance to play college basketball. I talked to the people who knew him then about the first signs of something special:
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