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Louisa Thomas
@louisahthomas
staff writer. Author of 3 books, including Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams. Co-editor of Losers.
Joined March 2009
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This to me is the best detail of the piece, and the one that seems most germane for the growing future of women's sports: champ team *became a team* not through mini golf or wine tastings or whatever but through...talking trash.
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“I felt it in my soul in the summer when we were playing pickup. Everybody was talking crazy to each other. That’s when I knew we’ve got some hoopers on the team.” si.com/college/2023/0
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I keep checking my feed to make sure I'm streaming live and didn't accidentally click Caitlin Clark's highlight reel instead
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Wrote about Lillard, scoring, stars, heroes
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Wrote about Lillard, scoring, stars, heroes
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One moment, between Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout, made baseball seem like the most spectacular, joyful sport there is, writes.
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In which my baby also makes his podcast debut.
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Hang Up and Listen w/@stefanfatsis + @louisahthomas on what went wrong for UNC and other March Madness matters, what's going on with Lamar Jackson, and Gary Lineker vs. the BBC (w/@NickMiller79) slate.com/podcasts/hang-
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What I enjoy most about the reception of the beginning of my Odyssey translation is how often it's misquoted. People don't realize it's iambic pentameter, if they don't read past the first line or two. So they misquote it so it doesn't scan.
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“If you had asked the ball, perhaps, to describe the women’s final of the Australian Open, between Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka, it might have reported more of the same: a beating,” writes.
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I wrote about the Australian Open’s fantastic women’s final
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There may finally be China’s sought-after successor to Li Na in Qinwen Zheng. But is pro tennis in China finished? My piece for
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.: “He was doing what he’s done countless times, and what we’ve seen countless times, too—hoping, on some level, that nothing would go wrong, but knowing, on some level, that it could.”
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October 31, 1994: Venus Williams, 14, wins a match on the WTA Tour, in Oakland.
January 2, 2023: Venus Williams, 42, wins a match on the WTA Tour, in Auckland.
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“We are at an inflection point in sports,” writes. This year, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo likely played in their last World Cup; Roger Federer and Serena Williams announced retirements; and a new generation follows closely behind.
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“We are at an inflection point in sports,” writes. This year, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo likely played in their last World Cup; Roger Federer and Serena Williams announced retirements; and a new generation follows closely behind.
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I never met Grant Wahl. But it will be impossible for me to watch this game between Argentina and France without thinking of him, and how he always had the sense not only of what the story was, but what it would be.
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I ended a year of writing about sports by writing about a year of endings in sports.
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Tell me what I’m missing, and other med experts: new fancy therapies sound nice, but…isn’t the obvious answer, keep your nose warm? Ie, wear a mask (of any type)?
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Brittney Griner is coming home. I wrote about her remarkable story a few months ago:
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Wrote about Kyrie et al
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An excerpt from my forthcoming book:
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“The temptation is to think that winning cannot coexist with dysfunction, or that winning is a sign of some kind of nobility, of behaviors and attitudes that are morally good,” writes. “And none of that is really true.”
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Epic stat from Eno just now.
Aaron Nola has thrown 10,000 fastballs in his career. 9 of them have been 96 mph or greater. 3 of those 9 were thrown to Austin Nola.
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Get the boys more sticks! Lots of fun talking losing alongside (not to mention Sidney Crosby and more)
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If losing meant nothing, no one would care.
There can only be one Stanley Cup winner, and the Avs quest to repeat starts NOW. 
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wrote about Tua and the NFL + concussions
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this ain't right.
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