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Tomorrow, Nate Oats will coach Alabama in its first ever Final Four appearance. Just ten years ago, Oats was coaching a Detroit-area high school basketball team. He taught math on the side. "If I had a full-time job as a Division III head coach, I would have been really happy," Oats told CBS Sports this week. "I wanted to coach basketball as a full-time job. Never thought I'd be able to get into Division I.

Of course I remember the first time I read the greatest rock biography ever written. The year was 2009. I was still in the Army and had just recently transferred from Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX to Fort Lewis just south of Tacoma, WA. I hadn’t even been there two weeks however, when I was told to re-pack my rucksack and immediately catch a flight south to the National Training Center smack dab in the Mojave Desert for a month-long, pre-deployment exercise with my new unit.

“One afternoon, when I was about to turn 5, my mom was holding me by the hand as we walked by “Lucarelli,” one of the 2 record shops in my hometown in Puglia. This one was special since records were sold alongside turntables, speakers, fridges and stoves. Among the record covers on display in the window I saw her: she had her signature golden bob, a fuchsia flower pinned to her black, shimmery, billowy-sleeved, semi-sheer blazer, and her gaze seemed to be directly looking at me as she stood under triumphant “Raffaella” sign.

Greetings, everyone! I’m excited today to be running my first full-length audio newsletter for free subscribers. This was an experiment, to see how I liked it (it was really fun, but a lot of work!) and to see how you like it (I welcome your feedback!). Today’s topic is one I’ve been asked about many times: RIE parenting, the approach to parenting made famous by Janet Lansbury. Is there a good reason to think it’s a smart parenting strategy?

In less than four months Tesla will hold its 2023 shareholder meeting and we shareholders will be asked to cast our votes for four of the eight current members of the Board of Directors, who are up for reelection this year. You can do it like me, and just go by emotions to be convinced of their excellence: Watch Robyn Denholm never give Becky Quick on CNBC what the journalist was after, listen to Ira Ehrenpreis discuss with JB Straubel in 2013 Tesla’s story at Stanford’s GCEP Symposium, discover James Murdoch’s marshmallow test to detect willpower, or go straight to Joe Gebbia’s Instagram account.

There are many things that warm my cockles. I love the fresh breeze on a summer day, the smell of sushi being prepped at a high-end sushi bar, and taking trips to Mitsuwa Marketplace or a local H Mart.  However, few things make me happier than seeing misogynists get exposed for being complete frauds. It’s like being able to drink fine tea served with finger sandwiches topped with caviar—exquisite.  As my TikTok followers might already know, I’ve been really digging deep into the Fresh and Fit podcast downfall.

Today, I’m doing a deep dive on the rare DKNY/NYC book from 1994 that has captured my heart. This piece includes an interview with Trey Laird who was the creative director of the book and the executive vice president and corporate director of Donna Karan International until 2002, as well as one of the lucky owners of the book, Geoff Snack. The book, photographed by Peter Lindbergh, is as entertaining as it is an essential lesson in brand building.

Word recently came down that the Buffalo Bills will not be adding a red throwback helmet this season. I was surprised by that news — in part because I get the impression that there’s been a fair amount of fan demand for the red lids, and also for a few other reasons that I’ll get to later in this article. Since the red-lidded chapter in Bills uni history has been the subject of a lot of interest and discussion lately, I decided to do a deep dive on it (just like I’ve done for the teams with new throwbacks this year), even though it’s not being brought back in 2023.

A few weeks ago I took an in-depth look at the Denver Broncos’ 1997 uniforms, which remain the most radical uni redesign in NFL history. One of the readers who posted a comment on that article was Kevin Cearfoss, who asked if I could do a similar deep-dive treatment for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ “creamsicle” uniforms. I liked that idea, especially since the creamsicles are finally returning to the field this season as a throwback, so here we are.