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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 14d

Ahem.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 18d

Something I never once said for my first several decades. The Lions are an excellent watch.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 20d

Never be tricked into thinking you might care about your alma mater's football team again.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · 24d

Two cheers for chatbots. johngasaway.substack.com/p/chatbots-c...

Chatbots can be a knowledge accelerant

"The log cabin and hard cider campaign" as AI test case

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Aug 19

The equivalence of interest to me was equally punitive intentions harbored by each enforcement body. Obviously filming the signals of future football opponents isn't equivalent to banging a rubbish bin to signal a changeup. Knowing the pitch is perhaps the highest-WAR cheat in team sports. Cheers.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Aug 19

The NCAA enforcement era spanned 74 years, from February 19, 1951, to August 15, 2025.

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College sports as the Iraq War

From despotism to anarchy

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 16

At first sight years ago my pronunciation of WAB defaulted to rhyme with cab, dab, or jab, not mob, sob, or lob. Happy to bow to the usage of the crowd, but let's get clear on this and not have another GIF thing.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 16

Late to this bandwagon but this is irresistible storytelling on a topic so big it can get missed. Somewhere Joan Didion is smiling.

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He Claims He’s the ‘Sports Betting King.’ What Are the Odds?

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kenpom @kenpom.com · Jul 14

Chatted with Eamonn about some stuff (mostly expansion but also the country folk music scene). Give it a listen! I'm excited about what this group is doing.

Will Warren @statsbywill.bsky.social · Jul 14

Happy @basketunderreview.bsky.social opening day. Would you like to hear @eamonnbrennan.bsky.social and @kenpom.com talk NCAA Tournament expansion? I assume you would. (Presented by Homefield!!!) open.spotify.com/episode/4gSV...

The Basket Under Review Podcast: S1E1 - A Conversation with Ken Pomeroy

Basket Under Review Podcast · Episode

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kenpom @kenpom.com · Jul 14

With 2 people, it wasn't a roundtable just a table, but nonetheless a fun convo about the merits of expansion, which itself may get tabled for another year.

John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 14

I hosted a roundtable discussion with everyone who agrees with me that we should expand the tournament.

Perhaps you'll be persuaded by what @kenpom.com‬ and I say. If so you'll boost our club's membership by 50 percent. johngasaway.substack.com/p/ken-pomero...

Ken Pomeroy and I still believe

No, really, expand the field

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 14

I hosted a roundtable discussion with everyone who agrees with me that we should expand the tournament.

Perhaps you'll be persuaded by what @kenpom.com‬ and I say. If so you'll boost our club's membership by 50 percent. johngasaway.substack.com/p/ken-pomero...

Ken Pomeroy and I still believe

No, really, expand the field

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations! Can't wait.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 8

Find someone that loves you the way my very excellent and kind onetime fellow scribes love 68.

Did not see this coming when 68 happened.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jul 1

Good soup-to-nuts rundown by @nauerbach.com on what this historic day means for college sports.

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NCAA’s new revenue-sharing era dawns with hope for change and questions about the future

The revenue-sharing era will be transformative for college sports. But its future is anything but certain.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 24

I feel your pain, Tyrese.

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My Achilles heel is my Achilles

Empathy for Tyrese Haliburton

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 23

Hope I’m wrong but hate seeing that snap.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 11

Like its subject "Long Promised Road" is both excellent and quite sad. (Also yet another instance where Springsteen's interviewed and is tres insightful about a very, very different musician's work.)

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Stream Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road documentary | American Masters | PBS

Explore the life and career of Brian Wilson, the legendary singer, songwriter and co-founder of The Beach Boys.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 11

In honor of Brian Wilson: BBC all-star cover of "God Only Knows," including Brian Wilson.

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God Only Knows - BBC Music

YouTube video by BBC Music

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Kevin Pelton @kpelton.bsky.social · Jun 6

The easiest way to hurt your rebounding differential is to force a lot of turnovers.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 6

With posts in the last week on the greatness of editors, econ 101 for NCAA tournament expansion, and James Madison, it's generally acclaimed as leading Substack in the greatness of editors/bracket expansion/Madisonian space. It's free. You should subscribe.

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Now and Again | John Gasaway | Substack

American political history served with my choice of side dishes. Click to read Now and Again, by John Gasaway, a Substack publication.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 3

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Bracket economics 101

Tournament expansion and its discontents

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · Jun 3

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · May 30

Also said almost word for word in 1984. The 75-year-and-counting explosion in baseline media rights values of course dwarfs any marginal gain to be had from another game or three. A big beautiful straw man.

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Media Exec on March Madness Expansion Idea: ‘Chump Change’

“I believe CBS and TNT will offer them zero–or a de minimis amount," another executive said about the NCAA potentially adding more schools.

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · May 30

This is after all what occurred the last time the field expanded significantly. (From March.)

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Keep March mad

On preservation and risk

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John Gasaway @johngasaway.bsky.social · May 30

If it comes to pass this will raise near-universal hackles that may then be forgotten entirely and forever as of the 2026 Sweet 16.

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Baker sees value in expanding March Madness

NCAA president Charlie Baker sees value in expanding the NCAA tournament by a handful of teams and wants to reach a decision in the next few months.

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