Trying to Figure Things Out
So, someone asked me about Tiafoe’s girlfriend the other day. And honestly, my first thought wasn’t even about the answer. It just got me thinking about how hard it is to find simple, straight facts sometimes, you know?
It took me back to this time, maybe a year or two ago, I was trying to dig up some info on this old basketball player. Not a superstar, just a guy who played solid minutes back in the late 90s for a team I kinda followed. I needed it for this little personal project I was tinkering with, like a “where are they now” kind of thing just for my own amusement.
Man, what a rabbit hole.
First, I hit the usual search engines. You type the name in, and boom, a wall of stuff. But was it useful? Mostly junk.
- Old stats pages, sure, but nothing personal.
- Random forum posts from 2005 arguing if he was any good.
- Clickbait articles with titles like “You WON’T BELIEVE what [Player’s Name] looks like now!” – spoiler: they usually looked pretty normal.
I spent, seriously, like two evenings just clicking around. I tried different search terms. I tried looking up old team rosters, hoping for maybe a link to a local news article from back then. Found a few grainy photos, which was kinda cool, but nothing about what the guy was actually doing now. It was like he dropped off the face of the earth after his playing days.
It got frustrating. Like, this isn’t state secrets, right? It’s just basic info about a person. Why’s it gotta be buried under layers of ads and nonsense articles?
I eventually found a tiny mention in an alumni newsletter from his college, saying he was coaching high school ball somewhere in the midwest. That was it. Two nights of searching for that one little sentence. Felt like I’d run a marathon.
So yeah, when people ask about who’s dating who in sports now, like with Tiafoe, I just kinda shrug. You can probably find the answer faster than my old basketball player search. But you still gotta wade through so much stuff, speculation, fan theories, outdated info. It’s rarely just a simple “here’s the deal.” You gotta work for it, sift through the noise. Just the way things are now, I guess.
