Love this

Yup. Spend enough time around softball and those types show themselves all the same. It’s a class thing, first and foremost.

Coach Yo and Carolyn Peck running a defense of Kim Caldwell over on the bird app. Almost as if the people who ✌🏻know nothing about Tennessee basketball✌🏻know something about the greater WCBB world. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Won’t someone think of the WNBA owners!” I did, and I’m curious if the next play by the NBA in this CBA battle is to squeeze out the folks that helped build the league.

Lol okay dweeb

A lot of ways to look at this. But my view is this actually plays into owners hands this late in the game. If you dropped this news a month or two ago it’s one thing. Now you just gave the WNBA the bullet to say “See! They are indeed getting money so Net Rev should be fine!”

I’ve covered women’s basketball for more than ten years and run an outlet that covers WBB exclusively.

Of course it didn’t. That isn’t up for debate.

If you’re gonna fire a coach for one bad presser than Tennessee deserves to suck forever.

I genuinely don’t know what Caldwell is supposed to do. Yeah, that locker room feels gone but I’m having a legitimately hard time bridging the gap between “she’s an asshole who’s lost the team” when the two instances of discipline are…kinda standard fare for a coach given the context?

Twitter really just became a place where media felt like the athletes they covered and they’ve been totally consumed by that feeling to the point where they’re codependent of the validation they get from their followings.

Vandy - Kentucky quietly is one of the best games I've watched this year. Sweet Sixteen, or even Elite Eight, type of vibes.

Again, there's two problems here... 1. Caldwell seems in over her head and built a roster that isn't great. 2. Barker is a flight risk and didn't last at the program synonymous with the happiest vibes in college basketball.

This Vanderbilt - Kentucky game is my kind of chaotic.

I still think you have to give Kim Caldwell another year but man...if you ride the season out like this AND you lose to Vandy in Knoxville? The powers that might be could see their status as best team in the state slipping and decide to pull the plug early.

We get at least another season and a half of Mikayla Blakes and Aubrey Galvan together. What a gift.

She isn’t wrong but using Janiah Barker, who has bailed on two programs and is about to bail on the third, is not the straw to break here.

Double boots this Sunday in the SEC! @tylerdeluca.bsky.social is in Norman for Oklahoma vs Tennessee while @aghaubner.bsky.social is in Nashville for Vanderbilt vs Kentucky. Come hang with us for a loaded Sunday live postgame on YouTube!

Holy cow what an unbelievable save

Well, I know what CBS will be doing from now on!

Where ordinary—or even extraordinary—athletes might be fueled by pressure, Alysa Liu simply doesn't feel any, ever.

The biggest tell on Pate from the start was his aggressiveness in fighting for his takes, which were the most milquetoast positions possible. My new rule of thumb is if that’s what you do in media, it means you don’t actually want people to hear your real takes.

Pate is such a loser and his ascent in CFB media was the clearest evidence of institutional rot.

Always funny that once every four years casual sports fans (not Rodger, to be clear) realize that capitalism — and private enterprise picking who to invest in based on which sports sell — is why our men’s teams usually stink in the biggest Olympic events lol

Come be a real life Ball-Knower with us! Moody College Auditorium (DMC 2.106 in the Moody College of Journalism on the University of Texas campus) from 2-4 pm on Saturday. Free admission!

I’m so proud of this. The Legendarium is coming to life and offline. If you’re in Austin, it’s free admission and a cool two hours of honoring some Texas women’s basketball legends with your favorite friends at No Cap Space! See yall this Saturday!

Really good pull because I didn’t even read it that way initially. Extremely revealing that the WNBA is implying that a raised rev share results in losses for THEIR teams but says nothing of other investors. Devil is always in the details!

I need some enterprising TikToker to make me a Fantastic Mr. Fox “wolf & fox” scene with this dog

You either die American or live long enough to see yourself become British, it seems.

What’s interesting is how people like to think of Cathy Engelbert as a uniquely rogue agent as WNBA commissioner but, when you read stuff like this, you realize her and Silver are actually walking much more parallel paths than initially thought. Lord help basketball fans everywhere.

Hahahahaha holy hell I am so happy we left when we did. If you’re a new writer wanting to build an audience, I’d still get started there. But the minute you extract what you need from their in house recommendation network…probably better to dip out than get subsumed by this stuff.

I got so annoyed with this whole WNBA CBA negotiation that I just started writing. The question I’m left with is this: if the concept of a gross revenue share is an existential threat to the WNBA, is the WNBA’s ownership structure and business model even sustainable at all?

The incessant need for AI to be accepted by leftists is basically the same extension of all right wing politics and Silicon Valley brainrot for the last two decades which is "we have all the power but you don't think we're cool and that makes us angry so we'll punish you for it until you like us."

Lol as if green energy hasn't been a fundamental pillar of a leftist politics for a decade.

I mean…we didn’t expect the WNBA to be like “oh yes, great deal. Let’s do it” did we?

Sydney Sweeney is really who we thought Glenn Powell was gonna be lmfao

I, for one, am curious what is interesting and successful about Bari’s publication from a media perspective outside of having the marketable skill of attracting capital injections from rich people.

I could not be rolling my eyes any harder. Eileen Gu’s allegiance isn’t to any one country but to Eileen Gu Inc. above all.

A new week brings a fresh AP Poll! Tyler brings you his thoughts on the full Top-25! youtu.be/kSR75OOsclY

The wojack bell curve is smart minds like Rodger saying "this is gonna be a disaster" on one end, Sacramentans whose inferiority complex has stopped them from doing anything of note the last 30 years on the other. And then me in between telling you all that this is a huge net good for the city lol

You live by J. Luke Wood and die by J. Luke Wood unfortunately. Some people don’t like his UFC style of self promo but the business metrics of Sac moving up are undeniably good to anyone who understands the dynamics of the region there.

I actually don’t think Wood’s numbers are as bunk as people think. Whatever people wanna say about G5 football, this is unequivocally gonna help the city in huge ways both financially and symbolically.

Managed to sneak mogul skiing into the column this morning!

Before his final Olympic race Mikaël Kingsbury thought about himself as a child, and when he listened to O Canada he thought about the whole of his life in skiing, and it all felt complete. The greatest freestyle skier in history wrote his perfect ending. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

I remember the pressure of a dual mogul race in a round of 32 at U.S. Nationals. That was as good as it got for me. I couldn’t imagine with Olympic gold on the line against your greatest rival with the whole sport on your shoulders. That’s just another day for Mik Kingsbury, man.

Cream always rises to the top in duals. What separates the top 3-4 guys in the world is they only ever really blow out of the course against each other. Hiroshima and Kingsbury is getting Wilt vs. Russell 1v1 in an Olympic final. Keep this event forever.

Oh my god Olympic dual moguls is every bit the beautiful disaster of an event that I thought it would be. Just absolutely brilliant stuff.

Crazy thing to see written. I remember when his first YouTube video went out when he was 14 and he’s doing stuff no one in the sport even fathomed yet from an air perspective. For mogul skiers, it was like watching footage of LeBron at St. Vincent-St. Mary’s. Would love to see him get one last 🥇

Glad for the city of Sacramento to make the Causeway Classic a legit FBS rivalry but whew this is STINKY

SOUTH CAROLINA HAS A 1-POINT LEAD OVER LSU AT HALFTIME! We will be live after the game to break this one down in its entirety! youtube.com/live/bEtPXaP...