The latest updates from TMM Basketball: book chapters, blogletters and games. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:09:13 +0200 https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba https://tmm.ba https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-08 When it comes to being on the correct side of history, war powers and immigration and whatnot, Spain is kind of on a hot streak lately. The country's prime minister is a socialist – the real pragmatic kind, none of that Brooklyn layabout podcaster ... Shirtdoku Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-08 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-06 Nothing happens without desire. While I was away working in Italy, which was six weeks and also an eternity ago, I found a pristine hardcover first edition of Italo Calvino's Shirtdoku Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-06 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-01 "If it ever gets that far, you know what number 100 has to be." I did. TMM's artistic director and production designer – a/k/a Dr. Puzz, a/k/a Princess Pleasenjoy, a/k/a Muhammad Allie, a/k/a NBA A$ian Lola Bunny – is the Jane Naismith of this ga... Shirtdoku Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-04-01 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-30 On a sun-dappled park bench, or maybe over cups of coffee, I could sit down with you and explain how artificial intelligence works. It would be a friendly conversation, I'd modulate my delivery to fit the flow of your follow-up questions (so as not t... Shirtdoku Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-30 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-28 Feel old yet? In the early 2010s, this was one of the first proto-meme image macros, engineered to inflict early retirement anxiety on Millennials in their mid-twenties. Shrek and Monsters Inc. were a decade past, and Hilary Duff... Shirtdoku Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-28 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-25 The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics represents what college basketball was supposed to be: fair, all-inclusive, the kind of amateurism that pays expenses but doesn't line pockets. James Naismith co-founded the NAIA tournament... Shirtdoku Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-25 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-24 If you were born in the palindrome vortex between '68 and '86 – and if you're still reading TMM in the year-of-our-lord 2026, you absolutely were – then everything you know about the 1979 NCAA Division I basketball championship comes from ... Shirtdoku Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-24 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-22 Why D3? Let's rephrase the question: Why D1? The "top level" of the National Collegiate Athletic Association is the college basketball that sucks now... Shirtdoku Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-22 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-20 Does this look like a road? Can it really be true that it "starts here," at the junction of Interstates 70 and 75, and then does it "end here", in a different city than last time? The NCAA Tournament is run by dim oafs, by the kinds of men who... Shirtdoku Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-20 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-18 Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. Lord Tennyson sure didn't know shit about tennis, a sport that treats those two impostors just the same. Emma Raducanu is the 65th best player on the WTA Tour. She's won a gra... Shirtdoku Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-18 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-15 Word came down on Friday that the Big XII Conference, the first college league to conduct championships on an ASB GlassFloor, went Shirtdoku Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-15 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-03-14 We were wizards back then, powerful wizards, practitioners and protectors of immense magicks. We were powerful and sexy wizards, ripped torsos and chiseled abs hidden beneath flowing capes of midnight blue. A handful of silken cloth, a torn-away robe... Blogletter Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-03-14 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-11 Is 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) a musical? It's not as ridiculous a question as it sounds. Imagine that you've never seen any of the four entries so far in Danny Boyle's Shirtdoku Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-11 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-09 When a men's Division I college basketball team goes undefeated during the regular season, and it plays in a conference that doesn't have its own cable television network, there's no time for celebration. Don't sew up that banner for the rafters just... Shirtdoku Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-09 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-07 It's somewhere around that typical time of year, when we check in on one of the first basketball franchises anywhere in the world to plonk down a big suitcase of money on a conference room table and buy ... Shirtdoku Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-07 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-04 Women. In the beginning, mankind couldn't figure out exactly what they were. After thousands of generations, men collectively realized that the survival of the species depended on having them around. Women started doing organized sports in the... Shirtdoku Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-03-04 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-03-01 With less than a minute left in regulation, down by 27 points, the team in the black shirts needed the ball back. Their head coach paced the sideline, waiting impatiently as the other team ran the clock down. Then, when the idle 20-foot heave came, o... Blogletter Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-03-01 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-24 MILAN – Hush now! The American actress is speaking. She's older than she was back then, aren't we all... but she still looks great, doesn't she? She is wearing what appears to be several black dinner napkins sewn together, a slinky evening gown tha... Blogletter Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-24 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-22 MILAN – She moves slowly, right foot and then the left, side to side. Faster, faster, the intensity is increasing, she's casting shapes. She's taking her passion and making it happen. She's a maniac on the floor, and she's dancing like she's never ... Blogletter Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-22 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-18 MILAN – Red is right. Blue means left, because neither of those words start with R. Forget that as soon as you read it, because the human mind isn't quick enough to remember which end of a slalom gate to go around. Split-second differences rely on ... Blogletter Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-18 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-11 MILAN – After four Olympic days, the repetition becomes routine. I speed my way north from the venue zones on the M3 metro, ascend a sleek escalator to street level, stride into the twinkling darkness of Zone 9. There's an all-night Carrefour with ... Blogletter Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-11 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-08 MILAN – The skiathlon: a Winter Olympic event in search of an identity. Until 2010, it was called the individual pursuit; this made it sound like a misunderstood hobby, like bog snorkeling or bee wearing. Biathlon was already taken. The winter tria... Blogletter Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-08 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-06 MILAN – The App knows. The App has your personal details, because The App stopped working if you didn't tap-type them in. It knows your timezone and your local TV schedule, and the App wants to sell you an 85-inch TCL screen. If you are in Milan or... Blogletter Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-06 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-04 MILAN – The first Winter Olympic Games took place 28 years after the modern revival in Greece, and it took less than half that time for them to experience a first existential crisis. A global athletic federation can manage and organize national tea... Blogletter Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://tmm.ba/blogletter/2026-02-04 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-02-02 You can't seem to get anything done in 2026 America unless you present yourself as a wronged party. You won't overcome obstacles unless you frame your position as an uphill underdog struggle for basic human rights. "In my view, our constitution and l... Shirtdoku Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://shirtdoku.fun/2026-02-02