Ishmael Johnson
@yeahlikethebook.bsky.social
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@sportsdayhs.bsky.social
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Almost forgot to mention this on the Skye Blue app. I'm
@dallasnews.com
's new senior writer covering HS sports. I start Monday, in time for football state championships. Let's have fun.
about 2 months ago
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it happens every six months or so but nice to see the internet realizes kevin o’connor is a dumbass with a smooth brain who sits in elon musk’s mentions hoping to be noticed
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jasonisasmith
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If all the conferences had the Rose Bowl’s level of “fuck you we’re the *Rose Bowl*” we would still have the hyper local idiosyncratic beauty that makes CFB special
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Baffling that the Rose Bowl gets ridiculed for tradition when its arrogance is what keeps it from being overrun by the contemporary sports media ecosystem. Elitist? Absolutely, but I’d rather it be self-sustained than just another Thing that’s taken over the sport. TLDR: Sunsets rule, actually.
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The only positive from that Orange Bowl is that we don't have to see people retconning that BYU team. Good team, not a playoff team.
16 days ago
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Texas Tech running a weird propaganda Heisman campaign for their second (possibly third) best defensive player instead of the LIVING NUKE MISSILE AT EDGE THAT COULD'VE ACTUALLY BEEN A FINALIST is a weird wrinkle that should be talked about more.
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North Texas has made its first splash hire in state champion head coach Ray Gates.
#txhsfb
#GMG
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North Crowley head coach Ray Gates joining staff at North Texas
Gates was widely seen as one of Texas high school football’s fastest rising stars.
https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2025/12/17/north-crowley-head-coach-ray-gates-north-texas/
about 1 month ago
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“Nobody ever heard of that name in the history of the world.” It turns out the coach that “nobody ever heard of” could be the one to bring Allen back to AT&T Stadium. Me on Lee Wiginton restoring Allen:
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Coach Lee Wiginton led Allen back to the state semifinals. Can he take them all the way?
Allen’s state semifinal against Duncanville offers the program a chance to reclaim its place among the cream of the crop in Texas high school football.
https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2025/12/10/coach-lee-wiginton-led-allen-back-to-the-state-semifinals-can-he-take-them-all-the-way/
about 1 month ago
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My advice to Texas Tech is to campaign your Most Outstanding Player next time. Sayin over Smith stinks though.
about 1 month ago
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Story on North Forney four-star Legend Bey trying to get his release from Tennessee after reportedly being pressured by family to not sign with Ohio State.
#GoBucks
#GoVols
#txhsfb
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North Forney’s Legend Bey will reportedly seek Tennessee release, sign with Ohio State
Bey, who is still 17, was reportedly pressured by his family into signing with the Volunteers over the Buckeyes.
https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2025/12/04/legend-bey-tennessee-ohio-state-recruiting-north-forney/
about 1 month ago
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Rodger Sherman
about 1 month ago
Today in Schism: Robert Griffin III claims the committee is “persecuting Christians” by ranking Notre Dame ahead of BYU
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Alex Kirshner
about 2 months ago
There is a real chance that a number of people who follow me on Bluesky could score TDs from the 1-yard line behind Texas Tech's line against Big 12 defenses. Those of you who bench 225+ and squat 300+ would have a nonzero shot at it. Are Heisman voters this gullible? Maybe?
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Alex Kirshner
about 2 months ago
This is the most shameless thing I've ever seen in Heisman campaigning. So bold that I respect it unironically. This guy is not even the best player on Texas Tech's defense and they are feeding him goal-line TDs in a ploy to distract Heisman voters
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Bless
@alexkirshner.com
for calling the Tech/Rodriguez Heisman campaigning what it is on the new SZD.
about 2 months ago
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Almost forgot to mention this on the Skye Blue app. I'm
@dallasnews.com
's new senior writer covering HS sports. I start Monday, in time for football state championships. Let's have fun.
about 2 months ago
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Hard Drive
about 2 months ago
Rockstar should cancel GTA 6 and just make a Red Dead game starring Hangman Adam Page instead
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D Magazine
about 2 months ago
A jam-packed fifth episode of StrongSide: The Show from
@mikelikessports.bsky.social
and
@machinesports.bsky.social
joined by
@yeahlikethebook.bsky.social
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Talking the Local College Football Golden Age With Ishmael Johnson
A jam-packed fifth episode of StrongSide: The Show.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/11/talking-the-local-college-football-golden-age-with-ishmael-johnson/
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Mike Piellucci
about 2 months ago
New pod! The dude
@yeahlikethebook.bsky.social
joined
@machinesports.bsky.social
and I to talk all things local college football, from UNT to SMU to TCU. 30 years from now, this episode will be Mike Marshall's origin story in becoming a UNT megabooster:
www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...
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Talking the Local College Football Golden Age With Ishmael Johnson
A jam-packed fifth episode of StrongSide: The Show.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/11/talking-the-local-college-football-golden-age-with-ishmael-johnson/
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People thinking that was a trans joke, and not a joke about parasocial losers, need to reexamine themselves and ask why the trans community is what came to their mind in that scene.
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about 2 months ago
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My latest for
@dmagazine.bsky.social
is over what SMU needs to happen to make it back to the ACC Championship, featuring a Lionel Hutz reference:
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
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Here’s What Must Go Right for SMU to Return to the ACC Title Game
It won't be easy, but it is doable.
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/11/smu-football-acc-championship-scenarios
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Mike Piellucci
2 months ago
In which
@yeahlikethebook.bsky.social
makes an A++ Simpsons reference to convey the state of the ACC as SMU tries to get back to the conference title game. Required reading for Mustangs and CFB sickos everywhere:
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
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Here’s What Must Go Right for SMU to Return to the ACC Title Game
It won't be easy, but it is doable.
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/11/smu-football-acc-championship-scenarios/
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Rhett Lashlee mentioned that he doesn’t know if any team has done what SMU’s currently doing since joining the ACC. My latest column looked into seeing if he was right, and why it matters:
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
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SMU Is Off to a Historic Start in the ACC. Why the Streak Matters - D Magazine
The Mustangs have yet to lose a conference regular-season game since joining the ACC last year. That's a big deal for a number of reasons.
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/10/smu-mustangs-acc-undefeated-streak/
3 months ago
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Mike Piellucci
3 months ago
A lot of SMU milestones have gotten attention since 2024. Relative to those, its perfect record in ACC regular season games hasn’t.
@yeahlikethebook.bsky.social
dove in to see just how historic the streak is, the biggest challenges to it, and how much it matters
www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...
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SMU Is Off to a Historic Start in the ACC. Here’s Why Their Conference Win Streak Matters.
The Mustangs have yet to lose a conference regular-season game since joining the ACC last year. That's a big deal for a number of reasons.
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/10/smu-mustangs-acc-undefeated-streak/
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I think unfortunately college football is the one space where you can brand the most powerful man on a campus abusing his power over a subordinate as quirky and something a university holds as a point of pride.
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3 months ago
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HANGMAN PAGE
4 months ago
fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
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New byline dropped 🤞🏿
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4 months ago
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HANGMAN PAGE
4 months ago
nothing says ‘its fall yall’ like bees buzzin around on your goldenrod while the strawberry bushes you planted nearby just absolutely fuck off right back into the waterlogged clay into which you placed them
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Dropping in to say I made the dumbest edit for Texas State QB Brad Jackson. 🎧: Westside Gunn - Dr. Britt Baker
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4 months ago
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My bad. I forgot Notre Dame was playing vs Mario Cristobal. It's never over.
5 months ago
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Matt Brown
5 months ago
Lots of talk on this website about how Jeremiyah Love is nowhere to be found. But friend, can I tell you about a kind of love that will never abandon you during a big moment? That's right. God's love.
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Why the fuck is Mike Denbrock either not running a healthy Jeremiyah Love OR using a hurt Jeremiyah Love as a decoy and not running a healthy Jadarian Price?
5 months ago
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Brandon Thurston
6 months ago
Here's what Janel Grant's lawsuit against WWE and Vince McMahon alleges about Brock Lesnar. (These pages contain detailed descriptions of alleged sexual abuse by McMahon and what Grant says was his attempt to traffic her to Lesnar during a contract negotiation.)
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I heard the bad company did something bad because folks will keep watching no matter how many bad things they do? Big, if true.
6 months ago
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Parker Molloy
10 months ago
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Someone tried to make this man out to look like a deviant a few years ago.
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6 months ago
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HANGMAN PAGE
6 months ago
thank you for everything. i dont have the words to do the feeling justice because i havent slept in four days but ill try to find them by wednesday
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Some people said Timeless Toni Storm was a joke gimmick and was burying her. Don’t forget that.
#AEWAllInTexas
6 months ago
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Justin Carter
7 months ago
If you’re a person who hires people, this is who you should hire.
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Popping in just to deliver some “fun” news. My time at Dave Campbell’s is up. Got word this morning, the day after our team killed the magazine cover reveal. So goes the shifts of a legacy outlet going corporate. Any work opportunities , writing, editing, social, hit me up:
[email protected]
7 months ago
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HANGMAN PAGE
8 months ago
happy pride month, i would show you a pic of a rainbow of flower blooms but some asshole rabbit chomped them all down in one night so now i dont know what to do. will the bee balm come back? should i eat the rabbit? are all of lifes pursuits in vain?
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Oh brother, look what YALL did.
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8 months ago
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I'm so happy that Sinners exists because now y'all can stop pretending that Lovecraft Country was good. Ryan Coogler gave us real deep south/Delta horror.
8 months ago
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Just poppin in to say the new Architects album is perfect
10 months ago
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TDE Wrestling
10 months ago
The end.
#AEWRevolution
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There are people who think AEW’s done Toni Storm a disservice lol
11 months ago
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Jessica Luther
12 months ago
College football coordinators are now making $3+ million/year. This is a school. LOL
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That crowd reaction the entire time. Toni has been the most consistent thing in AEW for over a year now.
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12 months ago
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Ryan Nanni
about 1 year ago
it's time for the Dallas Cowboys to bring in a game changer: Liz Cheney
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Just make Gutfeld press secretary and let’s cut the brakes already
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about 1 year ago
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Peter
about 1 year ago
fundamentally this is what Trump administrations are all about: the guys. there will be new guys every week. they will startle you, you'll be astounded by them, and then as quickly as they appeared they will fade into an indistinguishable mass, leaves on the forest floor.
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