Dear Notre Dame by Marcus Freeman | The Players’ Tribune
We all know there’s something different about Notre Dame. We all know it’s something special.| The Players' Tribune
We all know there’s something different about Notre Dame. We all know it’s something special.| The Players' Tribune
Hannah Hidalgo has a message for Notre Dame fans: “I’m excited now for an offseason to get better. More than anything, I am excited to do it again at Notre Dame.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Jeremiyah Love has a message for Notre Dame football fans: “It’s time to use that pain, and use that love. And put it all toward one goal.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Texas Longhorns RB CJ Baxter pens a letter to his football family: “I’ve tried my best to look at my injury through the most positive lens that I can.”| The Players Tribune Feed
The Cardinals are building something special with their coaches, culture and players. This next chapter is for the ones who believed.| The Players' Tribune
On August 16, Sunderland’s eight-year journey back to the top tier of English football ended.| The Players Tribune Feed
I can’t change the world or my country, but with the help of the common ground that is football I can help make a difference in my community.| The Players' Tribune
The Philadelphia Eagles tackle and his fiancée, Kelsey, are kicking off summer at Lake Texoma with a brand-new RV, perfectly outfitted for long fishing days, quiet nights, and a welcome break from the hustle of the NFL season.| The Players Tribune Feed
Jordan Love in his own words: “Without that brotherhood of football, I never would have made it.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley’s daughter, Jada, leaves a heartwarming voicemail for her dad.| The Players Tribune Feed
To Philadelphia Eagles fans everywhere, Jordan Davis has one thing to say: “GO BIRDS!”| The Players Tribune Feed
Philly, here’s what we’re gonna need from you: Fly with us and just be you. Make this a place where our team loves to play and everybody else hates.| The Players Tribune Feed
Trae Young called the shots, as he welcomed Quavo onto his court for a competitive round of HORSE.| The Players Tribune Feed
Jalen Green says goodbye to the Houston Rockets: “H-Town, thank you for the love. For real, thank you.”| The Players Tribune Feed
VJ Edgecombe opens up about his journey from Bimini to the Sixers: “They will ALWAYS say, You can’t, you can’t, you can’t. They will be wrong.”| The Players Tribune Feed
T.J. McConnell on losing in Game 7 and where the Indiana Pacers go from here: “It was just f***ing devastating, man.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Kevon Looney pens a goodbye letter to the Warriors: “I’m Bay Area for life, no matter where I go.”| The Players Tribune Feed
We know that, when we’re on our game, we’ll beat any team in the league. Doesn’t matter what they do, what happens next is about us — it’s about H-Town.| The Players Tribune Feed
Alexis Mac Allister on winning a World Cup for Argentina, the brotherhood of Liverpool FC, and the legacy of Diogo: “Oh, it’s just football. How can we say that ever again?”| The Players Tribune Feed
Alexis Mac Allister habla del profundo significado de ganar un Mundial para Argentina, la especial hermandad que hay en el Liverpool FC y el legado de Diogo: “Ah, es sólo fútbol. ¿Quién puede decir eso?”| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of the Champions League Final, Beth Mead pens this letter to her mum: “I know that my mum will be watching down on us – her girls.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Four years ago, Alisson Becker lost his father. He pens this letter to his family — at home and at Liverpool F.C.: “I know that a part of my Dad is still here with us, too.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Cody Gakpo reflects on his road to Liverpool: “That’s the ‘story’ of our season in a nutshell. We built this brick by brick. And now, we’re in a good place to really challenge for the title.”| The Players Tribune Feed
At times, the negativity and criticism is out of control. It is not healthy. We are all human beings.| The Players Tribune Feed
Chet Holmgren went from buckets to Birdies. The NBA champ linked up with Chef Kevin Lee to get a taste of restaurant life — and help assist foster families along the way.| The Players Tribune Feed
Jalen Williams hears a special voicemail from his parents, Nicole and Ronald Williams.| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Lu Dort has a message for Oklahoma City Thunder fans: “This is about the opportunity that’s right in front of us ... right here in OKC, right here with you all.”| The Players Tribune Feed
This is the story of Ettore “Big E” Ewen: “I’m someone who didn’t have wildest dreams. I’m someone who, for the longest time, didn’t believe I deserved them.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Charlotte Flair wrote about…………. everything: “This isn’t for my haters. Honestly, this isn’t even for my fans. This is for myself.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Two years ago today, Josh Manson lost his mom to cancer. He honors her memory with this letter for her, and for those still battling: “She believed in living life to the fullest, in feeling. And I’ll always have that as a part of me, too.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Brad Marchand hears a special voicemail from his kids Rue, Sawyer and Sloane.| The Players Tribune Feed
Meredith Gaudreau remembers the John she knew: “Thank you for the very best years of my life. Thank you for making us a family. Thank you for being my best friend, my favorite person, the man of my dreams.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Two years ago, Jimmy Hayes passed away. His brother, Kevin, wrote this for him: “You were the best. You were everybody’s hero. We will never stop telling your story.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Mental health, and what we know about it, is evolving and so must the ways we treat it.| The Players Tribune Feed
Mark Briscoe and the Pugh family share the story of how The Briscoe Brothers built a dynasty over a 20+ year career filled with barbed wire, love, and tragedy. | The Players Tribune Feed
Off the field, Kellyn Acosta is inspiring change in his community one step at a time: “What defines you is not the praise you receive in the spotlight. It’s the small things you do in the dark.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Jonathan Tah says goodbye to Bayer 04 Leverkusen: “You rarely get a second chance to say goodbye. I guess I must be one of the lucky ones in football, because I’m getting that chance now.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Last September, Manchester United and England midfielder Ella Toone lost her dad. She wrote this for him: “This is my first try at really talking about it.... But I wanted to write this, for anyone grieving and feeling alone.”| The Players Tribune Feed
When you're faced with adversity, there are no shortcuts. You can't go around it.| The Players Tribune Feed
This is Ronald Acuña Jr.: “It’s the story of my life and how I came to be an Atlanta Brave — the hometown that I love, my path to the majors, the ups and downs, the dark times that I have faced. The things reporters never ask me about.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Arda Güler goes deep on his journey to Real Madrid: “I want to lead the way for a new generation of Turkish players.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Kelsey Mitchell opens up about losing her father, finding strength in her Fever family, and the WNBA season that changed everything: “This was one of the hardest seasons I’ve ever been through.”| The Players Tribune Feed
FROM THE LOGOOOOO, Caitlin Clark! The walking highlight reel joins the pod.| The Players Tribune Feed
After 14 seasons, Allie Quigley says goodbye to the WNBA: “I love knowing that these next generations of players are just going to get to play in better and better and better versions of the W.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Tyrese Haliburton on leaving Sacramento and going to Indiana: “Even though I’m sad about leaving a team and city I love, I’m also excited for what comes next.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Taylor Twellman knows talent when he sees it.| The Players Tribune Feed
Naomi Girma pens a letter to Katie Meyer: “There are friends, and then there are true friends. Katie Meyer was a true friend, in every sense of the word.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Cam Johnson’s taking on a different kind of challenge: conquering his fear of bugs.| The Players Tribune Feed
Aliyah Boston ahead of South Carolina’s NCAA Tournament journey: “The goal is a national championship.”| The Players Tribune Feed
WE BACK liiiiiiive on location! You hearing this? Live ON LOCATION, y’all! And who better to kick off this new season of Knuckleheads than Easy. Money. SNIPER.| The Players Tribune Feed
From the court to the dance floor. Atlanta Dream's Allisha Gray teams up with instructor Terresa Fields for a crash course in line dancing.| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of Sting’s last match at AEW Revolution, Darby Allin pays tribute to the wrestling icon: “I didn’t just get to meet a hero, I got to find out he’s a hero worth having.”| The Players Tribune Feed
This is the story of Eddie Kingston: “I have been everything in this life. I have been an angry kid. I’ve been a depressed teenager. I’ve been an addict.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Mikaela Shiffrin on her PTSD diagnosis: “This pain … this was a new one for me.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Michael Penix Jr. pens a letter to GMs ahead of the NFL Draft: “As a QB, my job is to be an elevator. I need to uplift all those around me so that they too can be at their best.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Shit happens. Sometimes it really is just as simple as that. I play basketball for a living. And sometimes when you play basketball, you get hurt.| The Players Tribune Feed
Steph Curry joins the Knuckleheads podcast.| The Players Tribune Feed
Andrew Farrell from the New England Revolution is showing that true impact goes beyond the game: “When you go home that night, you know that for a few minutes that day, you meant something to someone. ”| The Players Tribune Feed
Roman Bürki opens up about failure, rejection and mental health: “I was literally too anxious to play football.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of the WNBA draft, Hailey Van Lith’s dad, Corey, leaves an emotional voicemail for his daughter.| The Players Tribune Feed
Jewell Loyd says goodbye to the Seattle Storm: “I’ll continue to carry the spirit of Seattle with me wherever I go.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Chiney Ogwumike shares her thoughts on the WNBA’s bright future: “From being the target of jokes, to putting up juggernaut numbers. Women’s basketball is shining.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Before UConn takes the court for the national championship game, Paige Bueckers’ little brother, Drew, left his sister a touching message.| The Players Tribune Feed
Cason Wallace stops by the Knuckleheads to chop it up with Q and D. The two-way guard talks about how his brother put the game in him, why he almost chose Tennessee over Kentucky, and how the Wildcat fan base will prep him for the league.| The Players Tribune Feed
This is for all the Indiana Pacers fans, from Myles Turner: “Indianapolis, Indiana is the basketball capital right now. We really do this in Indy. The game runs through us.”| The Players Tribune Feed
To all the NFL general managers, Ashton Jeanty wants you to read this before the draft: “I truly believe I was born to do this.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Jack Bech wrote this letter to his older brother, Tiger, who was killed in the New Orleans terrorist attack earlier this year: “We’re going to the NFL, Tiger. We really, really did it.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Dylan Strome loves playing for the Washington Capitals: “I thought I might never get to this point — where I might never be on a team like this, in a city like this. I don’t take any of this for granted.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Sebastian Aho knows the Carolina Hurricanes have what it takes to win the Stanley Cup: “I can promise you one thing, Raleigh: Close isn’t good enough.”| The Players Tribune Feed
On a sweltering July day in Tampa, a number of the NHL’s coolest and most beloved mascots gathered for a pool party that no one will soon forget.| The Players Tribune Feed
One of the reasons I’ve made it as long as I have in the league is because I specifically know I’m not an All-Star.| The Players Tribune Feed
From Back Bay bites to baseball nostalgia, ride along with World Series champ Kevin Millar as he shows pitcher Patrick Sandoval the Boston spots where winning isn’t just a goal—it’s everything.| The Players Tribune Feed
This is Bobby Witt Jr.’s journey, in his own words: “Imagine being 14 years old and the expectation is to make the big leagues. Not the dream, the expectation….. I wanted so badly to be great. So I wanted to do whatever it took.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Jackie Bradley Jr. says thank you to Boston: “I could never have imagined how the next 10 years would unfold.”| The Players Tribune Feed
When I came to this city, I didn’t know if I had a future. Now I have a home.| The Players Tribune Feed
Please remember: Duck boats don’t have bathrooms. Not in 2004. We won’t be ready for that yet. Find a tennis ball can.| The Players Tribune Feed
When Garrett Wilson and Jaxon Smith-Njigba talk Wide Receiver U, it’s not up for debate. The two former college stars lay out their case for why they believe Ohio State is the true Wide Receiver U.| The Players Tribune Feed
Before the Heisman ceremony, Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty receives an emotional message from his Auntie Godmom Lin.| The Players Tribune Feed
Jack Sawyer and Ohio State are one win away: “Time to go out there and play OUR f***ing game.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Ahead of the College Football Playoff, Riley Leonard has a message for Notre Dame: “The odds have been against us for months now. But we’re done being afraid of anything.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Mikaela Shiffrin on losing her dad and the real nature of grief: “Some days, it’s so hard to put one foot in front of the other. That’s grief. That’s being a human.”| The Players Tribune Feed
Derek Jeter pens a letter to his younger self: “You’re going to live out your wildest dreams. You’ll be a Yankee. A champion. Even a Hall of Famer.”| The Players Tribune Feed
As a kid, in one way or another I was always runnin’ to somewhere … or from something.| The Players Tribune Feed
Mental health isn’t just an athlete thing. What you do for a living doesn’t have to define who you are. This is an everyone thing.| The Players Tribune Feed
Ronnie Stanley: “Football wasn’t my only, or true, purpose, but my vehicle for making the world a better place — something I believe should ultimately be part of everyone’s main purpose in life.”| The Players Tribune Feed
In pinstripes, Jazz Chisholm Jr. found his joy in baseball again. He’s ready to become a New York legend in his own way with the Yankees.| The Players Tribune Feed
Lu Dort: “C’est une opportunité en or qu’on a devant nous. On est presents, avec vous, prêts à faire quelque chose de spécial.”| The Players Tribune Feed
This week’s Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles welcomes on MVP, two-time NBA champ, and future Hall of Famer Kevin Durant.| The Players Tribune Feed
This is Iga Świątek: “My story isn’t like a lot of other athletes.”| The Players Tribune Feed
For Alex Pereira, fear is his ally inside and outside of the octagon. This is the story of how he learned to control it.| The Players Tribune Feed
England forward Alessia Russo hears a message from her mom, Carol, at the World Cup.| The Players Tribune Feed
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