Re: 24-team CFP. The reg season & non-playoff bowls are already a joke, esp now that all the best players opt out. Every school's fan base has that ONE rivalry game they care about, that's it. My Alma mater (Mizzou) & the team in my town (UVA) play 4 cupcakes in Aug/Sept, praying that... (cont)

No D. Fox, Spurs shoot 30% from 3, only get 16 from their bench, Caruso plays like Curry (8/14 from 3), it goes to double OT w/ way less depth and Spurs still won. By 7. At OKC. Good luck, Thunder (and Knicks or Cavs) #nba #wcfinals #spurs #okc #nbaonnbc #insidethenba

I would love to see a stat about what % of possessions Wemby doesn't even touch the ball vs say, Jordan, or Shaq or Barkley or Kareem. Esp. when the person guarding him is a foot shorter!? And if he gets fouled, he can actually make FTs! #nba #wcfinals #spurs #okc #nbaonnbc #insidethenba

Every time this happens to the ACC, everyone talks about how weak/soft etc the ACC is. I'm ready to have that talk about the Big East. #FinalFour

One last rant & I'll sit back & watch my brackets get busted. I didn't care much at 1st glance, but looking at the Top 25 rn, how do they get seeding & regions wrong every year? No one wants to see St. John's & UConn play a 4th time. Or Florida & Vandy, AGAIN. Just swap those 2 5 seeds! ⬇️

Mr. Bracketology Lunardi himself admitted the other day on PTI there should be a First Four for each region. How SMU & Auburn are even under consideration is baffling. My Missouri Tigers are deservedly on the bubble, but I would've rather had them play a win or go home game vs Iowa or Santa Clara...

Better yet, let's have the 1-bid smaller conferences just play their conf tourneys in Nov. so we know who's going to the #BigDance. Then they can spend the other 30 games playing the guarantee games that make them big $$ from the Power 4 schools that want "easy" wins 🏆🙄🤨 #MarchMadness

And now for my annual plea for a Bubble Tournament instead of conference tournaments. Take the 32 teams that are reasonably in the running for 13-16 seeds. All the Bracketologists have decoded the Top 48, who can then sit back & watch. Play 8 games at MSG, 8 games at Staples next Thurs-Sun. ⬇️

He had 0 as in, ZERO field goals vs 2 7-footers UVA in 1st half last wknd (11 FTs, most of which were gifted by the refs). He better figure that out real quick in the next few months otherwise he'll be the next...Carlos Boozer. 40% 3pt shooter who makes...1.5/game. 🙄 www.espn.com/mens-college...

Mizzou 2nd half vs TN: 47 UVA 2nd half vs NC St: 58 I will take that for about...9 more games 😁😜💪 #ACC #SEC #BigDance

Still a bit perplexed as to how at least 2 analysts on ESPN picked NE (not as surprised with the former Pats picking them on NBC). Seattle barely lost (and could've easily won) 3 games. NE played 2 (!) upper tier games (both vs Bills), went 1-1 then in playoffs got a dream draw & still... (1/2)

Trump has made (almost) 4 billion dollars by this point in his second term. How? : Planet Money www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

What a story. I remember being excited to see what he could do at UVA, and then after 1 year he was gone. Hope he wins the Heisman & who knows, maybe a natty while he's at it. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Took me a minute (emotionally & technogically) to get this together, but RIP Todd Snider. Here's my interview with him in 2019. 🙏🏼 youtu.be/DE6OY2sfKi8?...

Sad state of affairs when so much media tries so hard to convince us all these meh NFL QBs/teams are worth watching. The whole tri-state area knows the Giants & Jets 🦨. Even w/ the nickname, division title for 1st time in forever, 60 (!) HRs + several tight races & MLB drama is an afterthought

#MIZ www.espn.com/college-foot...

"For nearly four months, the U.S. government withheld the identities of the men it deported and barred them from contacting their families or lawyers." $6 million for this! ‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison describe abuse www.npr.org/2025/07/27/n...

What a British surgeon is seeing in Gaza www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...

Album of the Year Vibes #JesseWelles youtube.com/playlist?lis...

But there are non-P5 teams that HAVE to win 3 games in 3 days to get to Field of 68, even if they dominate their league for 3 months. A bubble tourney the weekend before Big Dance is the way to go. Imagine 16-32 win or go home games instead of 32 $$ grab conf tourneys www.espn.com/mens-college...

Saddest movie plot ever...except it's really happening. www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g...

Has anybody ever won an NBA title with only 2 guys over 6'6? Asking for a friend #NBAFinals

History made by Bob Pollard's alma mater! 1st #1 national seed (Vandy) to not make it to regional final. Go Raiders! www.espn.com/college-base...

Giannis was the 15th pick, SGA was the 11th pick (and got traded twice). Luka was the 3rd pick & got traded for a 6'1 guy who's somehow even worse on D. Jokic was the 41st (!) pick. Halliburton was the 12th pick & got traded. Best of luck to all picking unknown 18-20-yr-olds in the 2025 #nbadraft!

I still say Zak-Dhani-Sean-James would be fun tour, even if they play a bunch of originals and/or non-Beatle covers and/or like 1 Fab 4 tune a night. NY, LA, London, Paris, Tokyo. 5 gigs, that's it. Call it the Fam Four. Make a doc out of it. Thank you and good night... variety.com/2025/music/n...

NBA Playoffs, conspiracy edition lol: League superglad LA-GS is not a 1st rnd series, will be 2nd rnd once they both win 4 games. OKC should beat DEN or LAC but might not LA vs DEN/LAC/OKC will yield high drama CLE-BOS is only acceptable East outcome Get ready for Lakers-Celtics Vol. 13

I'm sorry but whoever says Packline D & wearing down your opponent by taking :29 to then get great shots on offense (aka Tony Bennett ball) is hard to watch compared to whatever that rugby match I just watched was...A for effort, D for execution. #MarchMadness #FinalFour 24% on 3s, 36.9% on 2s 😵

Only 7 Wooden Award winners since the 1st one in 1977 have won it all (men's college bball). That's 7/48 (14.58%), not counting 2020 #MarchMadness #FinalFour 2 in the 80s, 2 in the 90s, 1 in the 00s, 2 in the 10s, 0 so far in 20s.

The only times Houston has given up 70+ this year: L to Auburn L to Alabama L to SD State Crazy 2 OT W at KU hitting 2 3s in final :08 of 1st OT L to TX Tech (OT) W vs Gonzaga in 2nd round (Zags finish on 11-5 run down 11 last 4 min) Duke held to 67 tonight 👀 #FinalFour

I know the ultimate goal is to get primetime ratings $$ on the West Coast, but it's almost 1am EST. Non-gamblers East of Purdue aren't watching this. How's that East coast ad $ after midnight? Start earlier so hoops fans of all ages can see it live #MarchMadness

So much for a national TV return to Miami. 5 starters making $90 mil combined have 2 points each while bench scores 30 in about the same amount of minutes. That's some Championship mettle! Looks like that Jimmy B (and Luka for Lakers too) shine is wearing off... #NBA

This tournament has to have some kind of record for margin of victory. Hardly any under 8 points! #MarchMadness

30 for 30 voice: What if I told you 1 nine-seed, 1 ten, 1 eleven & 1 twelve would win today? No 13s, 14s, 15s or 16s. I don't feel like my bracket % would be much better lol #MarchMadness I actually picked the 9 & 10 in most of my brackets & go #Drake all the way now!

Nothing says #MarchMadness like turning off the game of the team for whom you've rooted all year (and most of the last 35 years) before halftime 🙄 🤬

#Bracketologists (whose argument keeps them in biz btw) say that Conf Tourneys are the chance for bubble teams to win their way in to #MarchMadness. The last 32 spots of 64 could easily have an elimination tourney this wknd instead. Injuries to Flagg & Mizzou's Mitchell in meaningless games stink.

How do you know it's March? The 2 teams I root for (UVA & Mizzou) both lost, played great 1st halves, lousy 2nd halves. Only VA teams to win were VCU, VT & ODU Liberty, GMU, Norfolk St, Richmond, Hampton, VMI, JMU & William & Mary all lost. 4 of those are either 1st or 2nd in their league. #cbb

Saw this on Good Morning America this morning. What a great use of taxpayer $$ Also just watched God + Country this morning, highly recommend (on Peacock, Tubi & more...for now) abcnews.go.com/US/criminal-...

Ty Jerome +34 in 21 minutes. De'Andre Hunter +21 in 29 minutes. In Boston. Got down 25-3 to start. Tatum had 46, Brown had 37, Cs lose by 7. #NBA Love Hauser (another UVA Hoo) too, but why is he guarding Mitchell late instead of...anyone else? Jrue (out tonight) is their glue.

Huh? It's your guy (Curry) who started all this. Jack it up from any/everywhere. Stick your butt out & call it a "screen." Would anybody know DG or care what he says if he had been drafted by Charlotte? This is like Brady bemoaning bubble screens & pick plays 🙄 #nba www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

@jessewellesbsky0.bsky.social hittin the big time www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/a...

Great job by my friend & neighbor Ryan on this Tony Bennett tribute piece shown yesterday at the JPJ halftime ceremony (they had to cut the joy part in the middle for time I guess): www.instagram.com/reel/DF03-vP...

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

Has #ESPNGameday ever gone somewhere that's lost 3 in a row? The ISU game isn't even on a network, it's ESPN+! Shoulda gone to #Mizzou (0 #SEC Ws last yr, Top 15 this yr w/ 4 Top 16 Ws) or even AZ who has been on 🔥 Those 2 host 2 of the 3 both-teams-ranked matchups today #MIZ