The latest updates from TMM Basketball: book chapters, blogletters and games. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:45:46 +0200 https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-14 "You lose and lose and lose and lose... and someday, baby, you win." Before Ellen Etchingham deleted her Theory of Ice blog from the internet – which used to be the kind of thing that got folks really, really angry – she wrote my favorite ... Shirtdoku Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-14 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-12 Imagine that there was only one game, a single pastime for everyone on Earth, and because of humanity's lack of imagination everybody had to watch it all the time. The nightmare I'm describing is what normal life is like in most of Eastern Europe, an... Shirtdoku Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-12 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-09 It's a small crossover percentage, but I'm fully aware that there are indeed some Oceanic Pleasenjoyers out there in the TMM audience. Our big birthday is coming up soon! So we've finally updated the website for ou... Shirtdoku Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-09 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/36 SFTBG Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/36 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-05 "Supporting the women's revolution in Iran cannot be reduced to photos or speeches," said Marjane Satrapi in January 2025 while refusing la Légion d'honneur, France's version of British knighthood. “When you have people who are fighting for... Shirtdoku Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-05 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-02 The last time I talked to Dan McQuade was on May 5, 2020. I was in a Korean pandemic hotel for Chinese businessmen. He was, as always, in Philadelphia. Because of the 13-hour time difference, we didn't exactly talk-talk. We passed a Google Doc... Shirtdoku Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-06-02 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-31 I live on the fourth floor. My balcony overlooks a courtyard with a central Mediterranean-style fountain that used to hold water, or so I'm told. On warm nights, the quadrangle is filled with happy children, and the way to be named King Of The Kidz i... Shirtdoku Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-31 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/33 SFTBG Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/33 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-28 It's the final week in May, which means it's also the first week of Roland Garros. France doesn't have four different military holidays like America does, much less a Memorial Day, so it's easy to lest-we-forget that RG was a real actual dude. He was... Shirtdoku Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-28 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-25 Why is Europe not an Asian peninsula? A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders came out about a year and a half ago, and it quickly became one of my top books of the 2020s. If you've read it already, and/or if I Shirtdoku Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-25 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-22 "Not enough people know about The Lawnmower Man Meets Space Jam guest-starring actual NBA stars." This is the only English-language review for Amazing (2013) currently on Le... Shirtdoku Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-22 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/32 SFTBG Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/32 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-18 For years I've been working on a correction to an old neo-Kantian hypothesis from the 19th Century – if sports journalism isn't going to make be rich, this most certainly will. I believe that the Shirtdoku Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-18 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/28 SFTBG Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/28 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-15 "Tunisian Spotify?" I asked incredulously. "What in the damn hell is that?" He smiled, adjusted the espresso cup in its saucer, then spread his hands wide as if holding an invisible globe. "It's Spotify." A skilled comedian's beat, exactly 2.156 seco... Shirtdoku Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-15 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/9 SFTBG Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/9 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-11 Back when I was spending winters in Belgrade (or rather, back when it was safe for foreigners to do so), I went to a lot of basketball games. There was at least one EuroLeague matchup every weekend, a couple of Adriatic League midweek tilts, and U18... Shirtdoku Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-11 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/24 SFTBG Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/24 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-07 For me, today was the type of Christmas that only comes around once every ten years. That's right, it's time for me to renew my U.S. passport. If you've never had to do this in another country, here is how it works. First, you book an appointment on ... Shirtdoku Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-07 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/30 SFTBG Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/30 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-04 On Sunday evening, Internationizale Milano clinched the 2025-26 Serie A title with three matches to spare, and as such are the footsoccer champions of Italy for the 21st time. (It's actually the 20th time, if you know you know, and I say this as a fa... Shirtdoku Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-04 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/23 SFTBG Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://tmm.ba/a/scenes/23 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-02 If you're alone in your own home and you brew a cup of tea for yourself, you're either old or British... or old and British. This is what I believed for most of my adult life. Then, somewhere around my 47th birthday, I realized that there were... Shirtdoku Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-05-02 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-30 I've read a few books since, but the one I haven't been able to get out of my head is Us v. Them by Ronen Givony, which the jacket copy sells as a "sweeping and in-d... Shirtdoku Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-30 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-27 I was up late watching the ice hockey playoffs the other night, as one does, and I saw the Penguins beat the Flyers in Philadelphia to stave off a four-game first-round sweep. "We're going bac... Shirtdoku Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-27