On Thursday, I had an all-sports Impromptus, heavy on Stan Van Gundy and Jim Caldwell. (The former is the coach of the Detroit Pistons, and the latter is the former coach of the Detroit Lions.) (Odd sentence, right?) A friend of mine sent me a clip of Van Gundy dribbling — here. He is teaching players how to do it. I almost fell out. The guy still has “handles.”

In that same column, I had a note about Jo Jo White, the great Boston Celtic, who just died. A reader wrote me to say that, in addition to being drafted by the Celtics, White was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys. And the Cincinnati Reds. (For the uninitiated, that’s basketball, football, and baseball.)

What an athlete. (Also, White was a Marine, and would be inducted into the Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame.)

Do you know who Charlie White is? He is the American figure skater — an ice dancer — who partnered with Meryl Davis to win the 2014 Olympic gold medal. He is married to another skater, Tanith Belbin White.

He tweeted that he liked my sports Impromptus — Charlie White is a Michigander — but he wondered why people like me so often include mentions of Reagan in our articles. I said something like this: “Look, not all of us get to hang out with Tanith and Meryl. We have to have something to hold on to.” He allowed that this was fair.

P.S. I have done a Need to Know with Mona Charen. Lady-like, she says “ess-hole.” I let it all hang out.

P.P.S. The late Florence King did not like the way we punctuated here at NR — we write “Charles’s birthday,” for example, and not “Charles’ birthday.” (That is the first rule in Strunk & White, by the way.) She condemned one of our editors as “an apostrophe-ess-hole.” Not bad. Extraordinary, actually.