Mike Piellucci
@mikelikessports.bsky.social
Sports Editor, D Magazine
| Co-host, 77 Minutes in Heaven | Alum: The Athletic, FOS, VICE | Best Sports Writing '22 | Holler at me: mike.piellucci@dmagazine.com
| Co-host, 77 Minutes in Heaven | Alum: The Athletic, FOS, VICE | Best Sports Writing '22 | Holler at me: mike.piellucci@dmagazine.com
Second helping of StrongSide! I wrote about Brandon Nimmo, a ball knower’s ballplayer, who will do a lot to help the Rangers whether or not he is slightly diminished
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Second helping of StrongSide! I wrote about Brandon Nimmo, a ball knower’s ballplayer, who will do a lot to help the Rangers whether or not he is slightly diminished
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The Mavs need a GM. Turns out I know a guy: our food critic, @reinhart.bsky.social.
Is he qualified? Not at all. But he has an eight-step plan to turn things around... or at least be marginally better at the gig than Nico Harrison was. You'll have fun with this
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Is he qualified? Not at all. But he has an eight-step plan to turn things around... or at least be marginally better at the gig than Nico Harrison was. You'll have fun with this
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November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Mavs need a GM. Turns out I know a guy: our food critic, @reinhart.bsky.social.
Is he qualified? Not at all. But he has an eight-step plan to turn things around... or at least be marginally better at the gig than Nico Harrison was. You'll have fun with this
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Is he qualified? Not at all. But he has an eight-step plan to turn things around... or at least be marginally better at the gig than Nico Harrison was. You'll have fun with this
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Nico Harrison got fired for basketball reasons. I'd bet some interpersonal reasons, too. But the biggest reason? Because fans refused to accept anything less.
Jake Kemp has the words you need to read on a city that would not be denied:
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Jake Kemp has the words you need to read on a city that would not be denied:
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November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Nico Harrison got fired for basketball reasons. I'd bet some interpersonal reasons, too. But the biggest reason? Because fans refused to accept anything less.
Jake Kemp has the words you need to read on a city that would not be denied:
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Jake Kemp has the words you need to read on a city that would not be denied:
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Also, I'll highlight this sentence, because I think it's important and I think people who aren't from here -- and even a lot who are -- don't say this enough to people who don't get why folks are still mad. It's probably the most important thing in the piece (but read it all plz)
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Also, I'll highlight this sentence, because I think it's important and I think people who aren't from here -- and even a lot who are -- don't say this enough to people who don't get why folks are still mad. It's probably the most important thing in the piece (but read it all plz)
Hello. I wrote about Nico Harrison, who should have just done nothing, and Patrick Dumont, who has a lot of work cut out for him.
Also contained herein: a smorgasbord of links to places & events where people chanted "Fire Nico." They had good reason to.
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Also contained herein: a smorgasbord of links to places & events where people chanted "Fire Nico." They had good reason to.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hello. I wrote about Nico Harrison, who should have just done nothing, and Patrick Dumont, who has a lot of work cut out for him.
Also contained herein: a smorgasbord of links to places & events where people chanted "Fire Nico." They had good reason to.
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
Also contained herein: a smorgasbord of links to places & events where people chanted "Fire Nico." They had good reason to.
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The great and fearless @boweman55.bsky.social wrote the Mavs piece everyone else will be writing in a few weeks: it's already time to shift the focus to the future. Don't believe him? Read the excerpt, then read the whole piece. It's sobering stuff.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The great and fearless @boweman55.bsky.social wrote the Mavs piece everyone else will be writing in a few weeks: it's already time to shift the focus to the future. Don't believe him? Read the excerpt, then read the whole piece. It's sobering stuff.
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Second StrongSide offering of the day: the great @tiffin.bsky.social joins @machinesports.bsky.social and I to talk Stars things both on and off the ice! Plus: CFB talk, Quinnen Williams talk, and I beseech the Rangers to fix their ninth inning situation.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Second StrongSide offering of the day: the great @tiffin.bsky.social joins @machinesports.bsky.social and I to talk Stars things both on and off the ice! Plus: CFB talk, Quinnen Williams talk, and I beseech the Rangers to fix their ninth inning situation.
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StrongSide: The Show is back with the great David Moore!
We dissect everything about this Cowboys season - including when he thinks they'll win a Super Bowl again - and @machinesports.bsky.social and I chat Mavs-Stars, Mark Aguirre, and more.
Prep your ears!
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We dissect everything about this Cowboys season - including when he thinks they'll win a Super Bowl again - and @machinesports.bsky.social and I chat Mavs-Stars, Mark Aguirre, and more.
Prep your ears!
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October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
StrongSide: The Show is back with the great David Moore!
We dissect everything about this Cowboys season - including when he thinks they'll win a Super Bowl again - and @machinesports.bsky.social and I chat Mavs-Stars, Mark Aguirre, and more.
Prep your ears!
www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
We dissect everything about this Cowboys season - including when he thinks they'll win a Super Bowl again - and @machinesports.bsky.social and I chat Mavs-Stars, Mark Aguirre, and more.
Prep your ears!
www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
Good afternoon! I wrote about the big Dallas sports divorce and that it doesn’t matter which team is right when the city clearly has made its choice. So now Dallas has no choice but to keep the Mavericks—and that’s a rough position to negotiate from:
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October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Good afternoon! I wrote about the big Dallas sports divorce and that it doesn’t matter which team is right when the city clearly has made its choice. So now Dallas has no choice but to keep the Mavericks—and that’s a rough position to negotiate from:
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I'm sure absolutely nobody will take objection to David Moore's position that the Cowboys should stand pat at the trade deadline. No anger at all.
But hear the man out:
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But hear the man out:
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October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm sure absolutely nobody will take objection to David Moore's position that the Cowboys should stand pat at the trade deadline. No anger at all.
But hear the man out:
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But hear the man out:
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The Stars have looked like a different team in each of their first five games. What do we do with that? Let the great @tiffin.bsky.social sort through what we know so far:
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October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Stars have looked like a different team in each of their first five games. What do we do with that? Let the great @tiffin.bsky.social sort through what we know so far:
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Hey, hi, hello. I profiled Dirk Nowitzki for the cover of our October issue, and we talked about everything from TV to taking business classes to the Mavs.
Also, we got him to dress up like Ron Burgundy. Here is visual proof.
Go buy a copy! I can't wait for you to read it.
Also, we got him to dress up like Ron Burgundy. Here is visual proof.
Go buy a copy! I can't wait for you to read it.
September 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hey, hi, hello. I profiled Dirk Nowitzki for the cover of our October issue, and we talked about everything from TV to taking business classes to the Mavs.
Also, we got him to dress up like Ron Burgundy. Here is visual proof.
Go buy a copy! I can't wait for you to read it.
Also, we got him to dress up like Ron Burgundy. Here is visual proof.
Go buy a copy! I can't wait for you to read it.
Good morning. I wrote about the final Iron Skillet game for the foreseeable future, and why that absolutely sucks.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Good morning. I wrote about the final Iron Skillet game for the foreseeable future, and why that absolutely sucks.
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Nathan Eovaldi pitches tonight, so I wrote about how his special, potentially all-time season is just another plot point in journey that continues to blow past every reasonable expectation. I don't think there's been a Ranger career quite like his:
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August 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Nathan Eovaldi pitches tonight, so I wrote about how his special, potentially all-time season is just another plot point in journey that continues to blow past every reasonable expectation. I don't think there's been a Ranger career quite like his:
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Good morning. I wrote about the Rangers’ trade deadline moves, and how a franchise whose identity is rooted in hitting decided to bet everything on its pitching
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August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Good morning. I wrote about the Rangers’ trade deadline moves, and how a franchise whose identity is rooted in hitting decided to bet everything on its pitching
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Good morning. I wrote about the great expectations of Cooper Flagg, who won’t be asked to help the Mavs win as much as launder the reputation of a team in turmoil. That’s a whole lot to expect of an 18-year-old. But he’s better equipped than most to try:
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June 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Good morning. I wrote about the great expectations of Cooper Flagg, who won’t be asked to help the Mavs win as much as launder the reputation of a team in turmoil. That’s a whole lot to expect of an 18-year-old. But he’s better equipped than most to try:
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Jake Kemp on the lottery -- and Cooper Flagg, and Nico Harrison, and hope, and Dallas -- as every bit as good as you'd expect. Drop what you're doing and read this right now:
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May 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Jake Kemp on the lottery -- and Cooper Flagg, and Nico Harrison, and hope, and Dallas -- as every bit as good as you'd expect. Drop what you're doing and read this right now:
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www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
Let's talk about George Pickens, who could be awesome or a disaster, and why this is a refreshingly vintage Cowboys move no matter the outcome.
Column:
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Column:
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May 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Let's talk about George Pickens, who could be awesome or a disaster, and why this is a refreshingly vintage Cowboys move no matter the outcome.
Column:
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Column:
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It’s playoff time, which means time for What We Saw, What It Felt Like. Here’s Jake Kemp and I on last night, when the Mavericks reminded everyone that the players on the floor do not give up easily
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April 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It’s playoff time, which means time for What We Saw, What It Felt Like. Here’s Jake Kemp and I on last night, when the Mavericks reminded everyone that the players on the floor do not give up easily
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Good morning. I wrote about being in the American Airlines Center last night and how Luka Doncic was remembered on his terms, not the Mavericks’. Because if this showed us anything, it’s that Dallas is still his city, even though isn’t.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good morning. I wrote about being in the American Airlines Center last night and how Luka Doncic was remembered on his terms, not the Mavericks’. Because if this showed us anything, it’s that Dallas is still his city, even though isn’t.
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I asked Jake Kemp to write about how he's feeling going into tonight, and he produced one of his best pieces ever. An absolute must-read ahead of a basketball game unlike anything we've seen in Dallas
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April 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I asked Jake Kemp to write about how he's feeling going into tonight, and he produced one of his best pieces ever. An absolute must-read ahead of a basketball game unlike anything we've seen in Dallas
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Happy Opening Day to all who celebrate, which at StrongSide means letting @zcrizer.bsky.social write about Bruce Bochy and remind people why he's as great with words as Bochy is winning rings. Stop what you're doing and read this.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Opening Day to all who celebrate, which at StrongSide means letting @zcrizer.bsky.social write about Bruce Bochy and remind people why he's as great with words as Bochy is winning rings. Stop what you're doing and read this.
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I am so bored of this Micah Parsons discourse, apart from one thing: the delicious irony of anyone around the Dallas Cowboys -- a team that does not prioritize winning -- accusing a player of maybe, possibly doing the same.
So I wrote about that:
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So I wrote about that:
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March 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I am so bored of this Micah Parsons discourse, apart from one thing: the delicious irony of anyone around the Dallas Cowboys -- a team that does not prioritize winning -- accusing a player of maybe, possibly doing the same.
So I wrote about that:
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So I wrote about that:
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Every now and again, you get blanket reminders around the trade deadline that people are uprooting their lives. @seanshapiro.bsky.social did an awesome job getting Matt Duchene (among others) to open up about what that looks and feels like. Awesome work here.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Every now and again, you get blanket reminders around the trade deadline that people are uprooting their lives. @seanshapiro.bsky.social did an awesome job getting Matt Duchene (among others) to open up about what that looks and feels like. Awesome work here.
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Good afternoon. I wrote about the local basketball team again. The piece is titled "The Mavericks Must Stop Acting Like Enormous Dweebs Toward Their Fans."
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February 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Good afternoon. I wrote about the local basketball team again. The piece is titled "The Mavericks Must Stop Acting Like Enormous Dweebs Toward Their Fans."
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www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...