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Previously an award-winning journalist in Oregon and Washington. Golfer. #GoDucks

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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

This is incredible www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

13.03.2026 02:01 👍 547 🔁 110 💬 49 📌 13

the WNBA and its PA are approaching a pact based on mutually assured destruction. this is the sloppiest shit i have ever seen on both sides

12.03.2026 18:59 👍 60 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

one-loss Miami is probably going to make the NCAA Tournament with one of the last at-large spots but I am going to sharpen my pitchforks and wooden stakes and head to the NCAA selection committee headquarters just in case they mess this up on Sunday

12.03.2026 17:10 👍 167 🔁 15 💬 11 📌 3

No team has ever won 29 or more games and been left out of the NCAA tournament.

No eligible team with two or fewer losses has ever been left out of the field.

And then there's *THIS* edge of the field.

Guessing 31-1 Miami (Ohio) lands on the 10 or 11 line. Interesting seeding case.

12.03.2026 17:20 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

needless to say any other country hosting a sporting event would have hosting privileges stripped instantly if their leader said this about any athlete

12.03.2026 17:56 👍 972 🔁 189 💬 11 📌 1

thinking of the west bloomfield, michigan jewish community and hoping everyone stays safe.

12.03.2026 18:06 👍 1326 🔁 176 💬 9 📌 1
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An inside look at NFL scouting reports, and the scouts who create them An NFL scouting report can range from traditional sentences to a series of color-coded messages, shorthand terms and emoji-like tags.

Before a player is an NFL draft pick, he is the subject of a scouting report.

These, and the scouts that build and evolve them, are the DNA of a roster.

I spent the combine talking to scouts about how they write the reports that shape their teams - and the draft: www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

05.03.2026 13:55 👍 77 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 5
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Here is a list of everybody Miami (OH) TRIED to schedule in men's basketball this season Don't blame the Redhawks for not having enough big names on their schedule. They tried to add plenty of them...and I've got the proof.

Today’s @mattbrown.bsky.social newsletter might be the clearest, most useful demonstration of the power dynamics in college basketball (and college sports in general) that I’ve ever seen.

Schools in power conferences exclude everybody else, and then blame them for their own exclusion

05.03.2026 13:59 👍 277 🔁 77 💬 7 📌 17

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

05.03.2026 15:13 👍 4216 🔁 966 💬 63 📌 21

Someone saw some fresh polling this morning

05.03.2026 15:43 👍 564 🔁 62 💬 12 📌 0
On behalf of Brian’s family, we want to express our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming outpouring of support, messages, and contributions over the last 24 hours.

At this time, our priority is Brian’s wellbeing. We are taking a necessary step back from the public eye to allow him to focus fully on his recovery in private. While he looks forward to engaging with you all again very soon, his health and his family remain the current priorities.

Thank you for your continued patience and for being such an incredible community. Please keep Brian and his family in your prayers.

— Team McGinnis

On behalf of Brian’s family, we want to express our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming outpouring of support, messages, and contributions over the last 24 hours. At this time, our priority is Brian’s wellbeing. We are taking a necessary step back from the public eye to allow him to focus fully on his recovery in private. While he looks forward to engaging with you all again very soon, his health and his family remain the current priorities. Thank you for your continued patience and for being such an incredible community. Please keep Brian and his family in your prayers. — Team McGinnis

And for the record, I’ve been running long before this, and yes even after breaking my arm standing up for what I believe in. It’s only made me more determined. Anger is real, and so is resolve. Take care.

And for the record, I’ve been running long before this, and yes even after breaking my arm standing up for what I believe in. It’s only made me more determined. Anger is real, and so is resolve. Take care.

A message from Brian McGinnis, the firefighter and Marine veteran who was forcibly removed and injured by officers during his anti-war protest at the Capitol

05.03.2026 15:57 👍 3166 🔁 903 💬 36 📌 37

among other things, it's very very funny to imagine Trump having granular knowledge and strong opinions about various obscure Iranian regime figures possibly in the running.

05.03.2026 16:32 👍 2383 🔁 332 💬 254 📌 33

Not great, Bob

05.03.2026 03:21 👍 111 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0

At root this is the most depraved thing about right wing evangelical Christianity: asking god for forgiveness is about meaning it and proving through your actions that you mean it, not “God whispered to me that I’m all good so shut the fuck up about it already lol”

05.03.2026 01:00 👍 931 🔁 196 💬 44 📌 35

Devin Askew was in Cade Cunningham's recruiting class and is somehow still playing college ball on his fifth team in six seasons. I asked the other almost 40-year-old on press row if his Villanova teammates call him unc and two students next to us looked at me like I was the oldest man in the world

05.03.2026 01:52 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

WHOA. Camp East Montana in El Paso opened in August and quickly became the deadliest ICE facility, with infamously terrible conditions.

Now ICE is closing it, just as they plan to open up a detention camp nearly three times larger in a converted warehouse just outside El Paso.

05.03.2026 00:08 👍 749 🔁 425 💬 12 📌 10

This is psychotic behavior by Sheehy. My goodness

04.03.2026 23:33 👍 7846 🔁 2848 💬 867 📌 247

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

04.03.2026 22:48 👍 4388 🔁 1268 💬 32 📌 69
Note to Readers

Today’s New York Times Magazine, containing an article about Lou Holtz as coach of the New York Jets, was printed before Holtz decided on Thursday to resign.

Note to Readers Today’s New York Times Magazine, containing an article about Lou Holtz as coach of the New York Jets, was printed before Holtz decided on Thursday to resign.

One of the funniest things Lou Holtz ever did was quit the Jets the same week that NYT Magazine was doing a story on him being the coach of the Jets

04.03.2026 22:58 👍 201 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 1

Pure godless evil.

04.03.2026 22:44 👍 6901 🔁 1047 💬 232 📌 39

Absolutely ridiculous that Republicans (minus Paul, plus Fetterman) all lined up to defend Trump's ability to do an end-run around Congress and just start a war unilaterally. Cowards.

04.03.2026 22:34 👍 2064 🔁 386 💬 29 📌 14

(appearing in my weekly spot on my friend's TV show) i never wanted a public life
(appearing on Joe Rogan, again) i yearn to live in solitude, away from the cameras
(filming my own Netflix documentary, about me) oh! to be free from the fetters of fame! why must the public hound me so

04.03.2026 21:13 👍 853 🔁 112 💬 9 📌 2

Lou Holtz was fired as head coach at Arkansas because he kept taping campaign ads for Jesse Helms.

He was too racist for Arkansas. In 1983.

04.03.2026 21:41 👍 1769 🔁 454 💬 49 📌 22

this is not what i will remember lou holtz for. i will remember him as a racist trump supporter who always talked like he had three marshmallows in his mouth at all times

04.03.2026 22:16 👍 349 🔁 40 💬 6 📌 2

“I never really wanted to live a public life” - Aaron Rodgers on the Pat McAfee show one week before free agency

04.03.2026 20:15 👍 1321 🔁 75 💬 158 📌 78
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

04.03.2026 17:40 👍 13501 🔁 4967 💬 543 📌 295

Huh. This is the same thing they said about an ICU nurse who took care of veterans and was a beloved member of his community

04.03.2026 18:36 👍 511 🔁 69 💬 10 📌 0
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Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

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