Naoko
@NaokoFunayama
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Love good stories, pretty pictures. 📺 + ⚽️🏒⚾️ 🏀 etc. On Twitter in very small doses.
Joined April 2009
Red Sox legend Tim Wakefield made a World Series-winning career with the knuckleball — but hadn’t known that in a 20-minute pitching clinic over a decade ago, he inspired one determined teenager who ended up going pro. Here’s HER story. #wcvb
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This clip 🤣
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A new calendar for a global league. Beginning in 2027, Major League Soccer will adopt a summer-to-spring season format — a historic evolution in the league’s competition calendar. Details: https://t.co/YOlzd4oGDB
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The #SportsEmmys Award for Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event goes to Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (@NBCSports @peacock).
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🚨 Episode One Out Now! 🚨 Abby & Naoko chat with ESPN’s Michele Steele about confidence, reinventing your career, and longevity in sports media. Don’t miss this! #WomensLeaguePodcast 📺 https://t.co/XYCRx6YuHM 🎧 https://t.co/z6hNxXIgfi
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Patrice Bergeron greets Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid after the #4Nations victory. He says to Crosby: "You just keep winning, huh?"
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McDavid, of course. But man oh man Binnington. This tourney was FANTASTIC!!! Can’t wait for Milan Cortina 2026 💫
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First USWNT start ✅ First USWNT goal ✅ What a night for Ally Sentnor 🇺🇸 (via @USWNT) https://t.co/jI6NClfcrF
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Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani reaches 50-50 in spectacular style @FabianArdaya
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Congratulations to Judd Sirott, the new voice of the Boston Bruins on NESN. A seamless transition and a perfect fit! A good man, a good friend, and a guy who has left his thumbprints on every rung of the ladder. I’m happy! So should be all the members of the Bruins Tribe.
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Massive stuff today!! Watch Noah Lyles, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, and Team USA compete for gold LIVE at 1 PM ET. Catch every big moment during Primetime in Paris tonight at 8 PM ET on NBC & Peacock. #ParisOlympics
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Stephen Nedoroscik is a GENERATIONAL INSPIRATION. 🥹 (via The Athletic)
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Wow, the Olympics have been AWESOME and today is no different 💫 It’s a star-studded night as the women of Team USA go for gold! Watch Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, and Sha'Carri Richardson compete during Primetime in Paris tonight at 8 PM ET on NBC & Peacock. #ParisOlympics
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Absolute MUCH WATCH today ~ see the women of Team USA dominate LIVE on NBC & Peacock! #ParisOlympics
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Thank you to @toucherandhardy for the chat this Boston AM! Gonna leave this mind-blowingly awesome Olympic moment here … barrel and celly that are both insanely tremendous and leaves a truly iconic photo. Check it out!! *You can see the replay on @peacock
Brazilian former world champion Gabriel Medina wowed the surfing world with a spectacular tube ride that achieved a 9.90, the highest single-wave score in surfing's short history as an Olympic sport.
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Seriously … WOW!!! You have got to catch this again in PrimeTime. This was THRILLING!!! @NBCOlympics at 8pm ET! #ParisOlympics
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The gymnastics has already been sooooo good!! Today you can watch Simone Biles and Team USA go for gold in the Women’s Gymnastics Team Final LIVE at 12:15pm ET! Or catch every big moment during Primetime in Paris at 8pm ET on NBC & Peacock. #ParisOlympics
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