New #Pawd! Cougar MBB drops 100+ on ASU, looks to a re-match w/real implications up in Lubbock & football's '26 transfer portal class talk. PLUS, swim & dive's strong Big 12 meet showing & tennis starts its '26 spring season with 3 big road Ws. Apple: shorturl.at/sKv2k Spotify: shorturl.at/zm43p

I live in Texas. Oh no, somebody's going to hate me because of the politics of my elected representatives who I voted against. Gee, I've never experienced that before. How will I ever survive?

Bitch-ass coward doing bitch-ass coward things

Started my morning by having some lunatic driving a big-ass pickup switch sides of the road and come driving right at me going the wrong way during my commute. Had to swerve to narrowly miss him. So that got my blood flowing.

I think the moment I fully lost it with American elite culture was when there was a no-shit bipartisan panic attack over Colorado throwing Trump off the 2024 ballot because of this stipulation

Today in 1968, University of Houston Men’s Basketball team beats UCLA in the televised Game of the Century in the Astrodome.

I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.

I'm so fascinated by the Miami RedHawks. 19-0 but kenpom has them ranked #94, with their best wins being #62 Akron and #122 Bowling Green. No top-100 teams left on the schedule. They're gonna present such a fascinating test case to the ncaa committee if they keep winning.

Having faced all 3 teams this month (on the road), Arizona State MBB head coach Bobby Hurley was asked (by Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle) his thoughts on Arizona, BYU, and Houston Cougar Men's Hoops:

I think even Kelvin might have a hard time finding anything to be mad with about the first 8 minutes

Not the worst thing going on rn obviously but seeing a bunch of people I like and respect post stuff like this is making me feel even crazier. The President of the United States just said we shouldn't have a midterm election! I can be mad about Venezuela and ICE and also this!

The guy who said he wouldn't leave office if he lost the election (and meant it despite everybody blowing it off) is now saying we should cancel elections and everybody is blowing it off. What could possibly go wrong?

I have felt intuitively that Houston men's hoops' hot start to Big 12 play was especially exciting, not just because they're winning, but because they're winning in a sustainable manner, by dominating the number of extra possessions. So I checked the numbers... (mini-thread)

i don't want to hear another word from walz or frey until they order their respective police forces to round up all federal agents and escort them to the border, period.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

New #Pawd! Recapping a big 3-0 Cougar men's hoops week w/multiple wins over in-state rivals, football's latest exciting transfer additions, previewing the '26 tennis season & checking back in on women's hoops' tough start to Big 12 play. Apple: shorturl.at/YFCz0 Spotify: shorturl.at/zHsqQ

If you won't bring severe consequences for these relentless crimes against humanity, if you won't even consider it, if you won't even try then what is the point of you? Not just as a politician; as a human being.

Had to go find this post after randomly remembering Tounde Yessoufou on Saturday acting like he had just won the national championship after hitting a 3 to give Baylor a 3-2 lead. His next points came with 5:55 left in the game, cutting Houston's lead to 66-39.

I've donated my time and money to your presidential campaign in the past @warren.senate.gov but holy hell this is a completely, totally, utterly, comprehensively, wildly unacceptable answer. The people of this country need better leadership than whatever the hell this is.

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Houston has won 36 of its last 38 Big 12 games. It will probably be a long damn time before anybody puts up that kind of run again in a conference this good. As in, might not happen in my lifetime. Hard to overstate how lucky I feel getting to be a fan of this team.

Houston has 1 home loss since joining the Big 12. Baylor has 3 home losses *to Houston* since Houston joined the Big 12.

Houston's kenpom projected Big 12 record has gone from 12-6 to 14-4 over the course of their first 3 conference games

Beating the stuffing out of the teddy bears in their own building: fun

Baylor had 14 points in the first 4:50. Only 20 points in the 23:16 since.

Let's go Coogs

"More than five years later, I still find the Democrats’ 2020 heel turn on policing to be one of the most despicable acts of political cowardice I have witnessed in my adult lifetime," writes @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

Every time I read anything about how this country treats Americans born in US territories, I lose my mind a little bit and this is no different. Excellent work by @boltsmag.org

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I would say it answers those questions, not raises them

For me, the most difficult part is often the lies.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/living-in-...

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

"Hell yea, great take, Bret Bielema" is not a thought I expected to be having this morning but here we are

Kingston Flemings is who everyone thought Darryn Peterson would be this year.

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

Still in a state of disbelief and wonder about the last several minutes Kingston Flemings played last night.

TSU hosts Prairie View in hoops on March 5th. UH doesn't play that day. Can't recommend strongly enough you come out and support our 3rd Ward neighbors, that game *always* slaps.

Kingston Flemings is that guy.

Kingston Flemings is just an absurd player

FINAL: Houston 69, Texas Tech 65. Christian Anderson hit a 45-foot three to beat the buzzer for the final score. That's Anderson's only 3-point bucket in the game (1 for 5 from 3). Flemings: 23 pts (9/19 fgs - 2/6 3s -- missed his first 4); 3 rebs; 5 asts. #collegebasketball #big12basketball

Kingston Flemings is that guy

Great win. Love this team. Big 12 basketball rules.

KINGSTON FLEMINGS OH MY GOD

Also, while playing hoops in high school, I got an opposing player ejected. We were up big late, he was talking shit to my teammate, so I got real close and whispered in his ear, "scoreboard, motherfucker". He shoves me a bit, I go stumbling back looking completely shocked, he gets tossed.

Houston Cougar softball vs ECU, Coogs batting, runner on 1st. Batter shows bunt, misses on a high pitch that clipped the catcher's glove and goes to the backstop, runner advances, until the ump makes a late, bad call that the ball was foul tipped. Everybody is yelling, I'm yelling, and like a scene

Had so so so much fun talking Coogs with the guys!