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Football/gymnastics guy (he/him). Podcaster and ATVS writer. 24. Accidentally part of the gymternet, no regrets there. Inconsistently confident in myself.
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"Plan to detain at least 5,000 people across a region stretching north to Baton Rouge and East into Mississippi, according to internal documents." per @nolanews.bsky.social
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"Plan to detain at least 5,000 people across a region stretching north to Baton Rouge and East into Mississippi, according to internal documents." per @nolanews.bsky.social
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
"That figure exceeds the number detained in Chicago and North Carolina, according to DHS tallies."
I own a lanyard/media pass holder for the 2020 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament because it was still on sale on their website around the time the league collapsed. It was the cheapest thing left in the store.
What is the most "obscure" piece of sports memorabilia that you own? Why do you have it?
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I own a lanyard/media pass holder for the 2020 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament because it was still on sale on their website around the time the league collapsed. It was the cheapest thing left in the store.
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Quick explainer as to how I can root for Duke football in the ACC championship game:
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Quick explainer as to how I can root for Duke football in the ACC championship game:
College GameDay sure did...
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
College GameDay sure did...
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I’ll keep saying this but this still feels nuts to me. That CFB coaches are making $10 million regularly and 5-star QBs — surely the most valuable assets in the sport — are at around $1 million
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I’ll keep saying this but this still feels nuts to me. That CFB coaches are making $10 million regularly and 5-star QBs — surely the most valuable assets in the sport — are at around $1 million
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
No other sport with salaries gives more money to coaches than players
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I'm going to say something I don't even think is controversial here: This is the best possible outcome to this story, bc ain't no way in hell that man should have charge of a dog
"Lane Kiffin had a dog just for PR purposes" is my Carl Hiaasen "I quit because Florida keeps making up real stories even I couldn't make up"
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm going to say something I don't even think is controversial here: This is the best possible outcome to this story, bc ain't no way in hell that man should have charge of a dog
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LED headlights and infotainment center screens are some of the worst things to happen to cars
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
LED headlights and infotainment center screens are some of the worst things to happen to cars
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“Lane’s a journeyman who will only leave you too”
Sweet child, welcome to major college football in 2025. Every single human in that football ops building, every coach, every player, every admin, is only in a transactional relationship with this brand.
Sweet child, welcome to major college football in 2025. Every single human in that football ops building, every coach, every player, every admin, is only in a transactional relationship with this brand.
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Lane’s a journeyman who will only leave you too”
Sweet child, welcome to major college football in 2025. Every single human in that football ops building, every coach, every player, every admin, is only in a transactional relationship with this brand.
Sweet child, welcome to major college football in 2025. Every single human in that football ops building, every coach, every player, every admin, is only in a transactional relationship with this brand.
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If youre equivocating about the actual fairness of the numbers of the grade of a paper that you managed 2 read because it was shared by the stochastic nazi terror org whose mission is to make colleges places unsafe for queers and POC might I suggest you've lost the fucking plot
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If youre equivocating about the actual fairness of the numbers of the grade of a paper that you managed 2 read because it was shared by the stochastic nazi terror org whose mission is to make colleges places unsafe for queers and POC might I suggest you've lost the fucking plot
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
HE ALSO LOST A FUCLOAD OF GAMES MORE RECENTLY THAN HE WON
Story on Michigan State hiring Pat Fitzgerald.
The feeling around MSU is the donors have re-activated for this hire. Even after the hazing stuff and Fitzgerald's final few years at Northwestern, he still won a lot of games.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
The feeling around MSU is the donors have re-activated for this hire. Even after the hazing stuff and Fitzgerald's final few years at Northwestern, he still won a lot of games.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...
Michigan State hiring ex-Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald: Source
NU settled a wrongful termination lawsuit with Fitzgerald in August, after firing him in 2023 over hazing allegations in the program.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
HE ALSO LOST A FUCLOAD OF GAMES MORE RECENTLY THAN HE WON
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None of this feels good!
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
None of this feels good!
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Why Florida is letting Sumrall coach these games is beyond me (unless he made it a condition of taking the job, which, my goodness how far Florida has fallen)
New Florida coach Jon Sumrall will finish the season with Tulane, through the American championship game and potentially the College Football Playoff.
So Tulane vs. North Texas for a CFP bid, with two head coaches who have taken other jobs.
So Tulane vs. North Texas for a CFP bid, with two head coaches who have taken other jobs.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Why Florida is letting Sumrall coach these games is beyond me (unless he made it a condition of taking the job, which, my goodness how far Florida has fallen)
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I just want to put on these silly little tailgates and not have people hate my program reflexively
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I just want to put on these silly little tailgates and not have people hate my program reflexively
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I feel so bad for the players
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I feel so bad for the players
From the Mitchell Center on the campus of the University of South Alabama, it's some women's basketball! @sickoscbb.bsky.social @pregameempire.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From the Mitchell Center on the campus of the University of South Alabama, it's some women's basketball! @sickoscbb.bsky.social @pregameempire.bsky.social
LSU is hiring Brian Kelly again.
WE LITERALLY DID NOT LEARN A FUCKING THING.
WE LITERALLY DID NOT LEARN A FUCKING THING.
This happened multiple times. I think it says a lot about a person the way they treat people lower on the ladder than them. I took it personally, which may be a mistake in this business, but fuck him. Also he’s never actually won anything.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
LSU is hiring Brian Kelly again.
WE LITERALLY DID NOT LEARN A FUCKING THING.
WE LITERALLY DID NOT LEARN A FUCKING THING.
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Translation: They're going to nickel and dime the second lines
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Translation: They're going to nickel and dime the second lines
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And, look, I know this is cops. But this should not be legal at any workplace. Something tells me this is not a pro-worker mayor we've elected here.
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
And, look, I know this is cops. But this should not be legal at any workplace. Something tells me this is not a pro-worker mayor we've elected here.
This is why I don't get why LSU is so dead set on hiring him.
This happened multiple times. I think it says a lot about a person the way they treat people lower on the ladder than them. I took it personally, which may be a mistake in this business, but fuck him. Also he’s never actually won anything.
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is why I don't get why LSU is so dead set on hiring him.
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I, for one, enjoy fucking with Ole Miss on the way out the door. He’s already embraced the LSU culture more than Kelly ever did
you better be bringing doughnuts if I gotta listen to you explain why you’re leaving for an LSU team that’s .500 against us since you took this job
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I, for one, enjoy fucking with Ole Miss on the way out the door. He’s already embraced the LSU culture more than Kelly ever did
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The ACC should 100% miss the playoff altogether if Duke is league champ
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The ACC should 100% miss the playoff altogether if Duke is league champ
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“The misogyny at the heart of the gender wage gap runs deep. Where sports reporting should be illuminating and challenging that misogyny and holding the powerful owners to account, much of it instead only adds to the discrimination WNBA players face.”
Time and time again the media reports from the owners point-of-view in the WNBA labor negotiations. Time and time again journalists offer no evidence supporting NBA claims.
If something is not supported by evidence, it is simply an assertion. It is not a fact.
fair.org/home/sports-...
If something is not supported by evidence, it is simply an assertion. It is not a fact.
fair.org/home/sports-...
Sports Press Covers WNBA Negotiations From Owners’ Point of View
Too many news reports have catered to owners' interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players' union and the league.
fair.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“The misogyny at the heart of the gender wage gap runs deep. Where sports reporting should be illuminating and challenging that misogyny and holding the powerful owners to account, much of it instead only adds to the discrimination WNBA players face.”
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Every hour Lane Kiffin makes LSU wait erases one loss from the number he’s allowed, I don’t make the rules.
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Every hour Lane Kiffin makes LSU wait erases one loss from the number he’s allowed, I don’t make the rules.
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Lane Kiffin is trying to win over the media by procrastinating on a deadline
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Lane Kiffin is trying to win over the media by procrastinating on a deadline