Mike Saunders

@Mike_M_Klotz There had to be a sensible middle ground between tractor tires and rubber bands….

More sidewall. Everyone else gets blocked and reported.

@CoachJWarner @trigonis30 Jason, when you understand the hypocrisy of organizing an entire ecosystem to profit from athletes, yet complaining when they seek fair compensation, comment back. I say this as a youth football coach for 12 years, and parent of two college athletes.

@mikesaunders @trigonis30 Mike when you commit your life to helping kids grow, develop and have opportunities in basketball…comment back.

Nobody is forced to go to my events. They are FREE to come & pay for the experience or NOT. They are a platform that increases value in them if they are talented. FREEDOM in the Market is a 2-way street. Not a smash & grab robbery. Athletes are receiving benefits, a scholarship

@Fal1899367 @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd Lambykins, again, check the map. If a team’s defense has broken down to the point where Clark has an open layup, there are bigger issues at play. She’s efficient finishing the tiny percentage of her shots in the paint *because* of those breakdowns.

@mikesaunders @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd Sweetheart, this is an embarrassing and ironic comment from someone who claimed that the MOST efficient guard at her size finishing at the rim was “a non-factor inside the arc”.

UConn is 38-0 for a reason and Azzi Fudd is absolutely clinical when the lights get bright. This Final Four rematch was over before it started because Dawn Staley has no answer for a healthy Fudd. If you thought last year was a fluke then you clearly skipped the film. Azzi Fudd is a walking bucket and UConn is officially back on the throne. Best believe the championship belongs in Storrs.

@Fal1899367 @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd I don’t have time to trifle with casuals, so your homework is to check stats of Carrington vs Clark, and for extra credit, look at Clark’s shooting map. Once you’ve done that, you may proceed.

@mikesaunders @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd That’s an adorable, insufficiently researched fanfic you’re writing babes!

@Fal1899367 @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd It actually does them a lot of good. Dijonnais Carrington clamps Clark regularly as do other long, aggressive defenders. She’s a non-factor inside the arc and less effective when pushed right.

@mikesaunders @WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd For all the good that does them

@trigonis30 The people arguing hardest to return to the old gray market are the middlemen who facilitated the under-the-table payments. Much bigger cut for them. Yes, it’s imperfect but a legal collective and clearinghouse is more upfront.

The previous system actually was better. lol The very best players got paid. Guys averaging 4ppg were not stealing money lol

@trigonis30 Is the NIL arrangement for one season? An academic year? Multiple seasons with a clawback provision? The collective sets the term of the deal, and few are exactly the same. Employee contracts are going to be fairer for both schools and athletes.

I agree with your "fair compensation" point. If somebody takes hundreds of thousands from a college. What is their obligation for accepting that $? When a normal person gets paid to do a job BUT does NOT do the job or does it poorly, what are the ramifications?

@Coach_Rick57 @trigonis30 All the middlemen and touts have been cashing in for years on the backs of players so it’s the height of hypocrisy to complain about NIL.

@trigonis30 💯 @trigonis30 has provided a very valuable platform that has elevated the stock of young prospects. His heart has always been in the right place of helping so many players

@WhiskeyJim08 @KingZahyd That’s fair. Raven didn’t shadow her that game and SC paid for it. Clark dissed her with the wave off and SSC remembered. Staley changed it up the next year and Raven shut her down. Now all teams defend her the same way in the WNBA

@mikesaunders @KingZahyd *Stopped Clark in 1 of 2 times cause CC def cooked South Carolina ass in the 2023 F4

@NathanPStrauss @MikeMcMahonCHN And no one would watch, so no chance at TV contracts that can help pay for other sports. Hockey is a niche sport and college hockey is even smaller.

@MikeMcMahonCHN this is exactly what i said in my article this week!!! Low 6 figures would put you in the upper 30% and 300K+ would be elite. And, for that money, you’re probably guaranteed a few NHLers at a minimum. Lol.

I’m biased, but hockey seems like a better investment for institutions at this point. Mid-majors don’t have $500k to spend on point guards. You could have a $500k budget in hockey and compete nationally near the top of rev-share.

@John81162404 @SamMonsonNFL He was hurt his first year in Dallas. Only played part of the season and didn’t have much of an impact. He ended up being an all-pro the rest of his time in Dallas…

@SamMonsonNFL He was awesome, but also was over hyped by the time he got to Dallas The truth was somewhere in the middle. But in his prime, as a pure cover corner, one of the best ever

I'd love to see modern coverage numbers charting Deion Sanders' career to find out how much of the legend is myth and how much was real.

@Rich_MillerTime @SamMonsonNFL Bad take not grounded in reality. He made the Pro Bowl nearly every year he was in Dallas based on his coverage skills. He got hurt his first year there and had a down year but he was a legitimate no fly zone until the early 2000s

@SamMonsonNFL I watched him live in 90's. He was great in his one year with SF in '94 but by the time he got to Dallas in '95 he was pure hype and overrated. Had the name and the pizzazz but he was a solid player and that was it. Finesse, non-existent vs the run, and overrated as a cover guy.

@ahack3tt89 @trigonis30 Agree 100%. Sports are a major economic driver for communities but the people making money off athletes (like the OP) seem to lose their enthusiasm for capitalism when fair player compensation is discussed. Yes, NIL needs rules but going back to the 1990s isn’t the way forward.

If you’re in Indy for the Final Four, look around - the city is packed. People aren’t here to watch students go to class. Athletes create real value — for schools, brands, and communities. Now they’re being compensated as fairly as possible, at true open market value. If a school wants to field a team without paying athletes, that’s their choice. But like any business, those decisions have consequences.

What legal right does anybody have to play college sports? The College Sports deal is: you get a free college scholarship and you can play in our organization pursuant to our rules. Nobody is forcing anybody to take that deal. If it's not enough, don't go to college

@NILnotNLI This is unenforceable posturing meant as a distraction. Jingling keys must have hit so hard when you were younger.

Our President's Saving College Sports Executive Order has been released. It is the exact guardrail NCAA college sports needs. Now, ​the sue-first lawyers want to protect their cut, but we're talking about massively taxpayer-subsidized nonprofit American universities. This isn't pro sports, no matter how much they want it to be. ​This protects the 99% of all college students who participate in college sports who don't get handed extra salaries 🇺🇸💪 whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…

@goodbreffis This routine is completely unnecessary. Just wash as normal, dry immediately, and wipe with a light coat of oil. That's it. lodgecastiron.com/pages/how-to-c…

How do you clean your cast iron?

Peanuts in Coke is one of the most accidentally perfect food pairings in history, and the chemistry explains why this guy can't go back. Coca-Cola sits at pH 2.5, roughly the same acidity as stomach acid. When you drop roasted peanuts into that, the phosphoric acid partially denatures the surface proteins on the nut, releasing free glutamate. You're generating umami in real time inside the glass. The salt on the peanuts suppresses bitter taste receptors on your tongue, which amplifies your perception of sweetness without adding a single gram of sugar. Coca-Cola already has 39g of sugar per can. Your brain registers it as even sweeter because the salt is clearing the noise from competing flavor signals. Then carbonation does two things. CO2 dissolved in liquid forms carbonic acid, which triggers pain receptors (TRPA1), not taste receptors. That mild irritation resets your palate between sips so you never get flavor fatigue. Every sip hits like the first. Second, the bubbles physically agitate the peanut surface, accelerating the protein breakdown and glutamate release. The longer the peanuts sit, the more umami you extract. The fat content seals it. Peanuts are 49% fat by weight. Fat is the only macronutrient that activates CD36 receptors, which your brain interprets as richness and satisfaction. Mix that with sugar, salt, acid, umami, and carbonation and you've accidentally triggered every major reward pathway in the human taste system simultaneously. Georgia farmers in the 1920s did this because they needed one hand free while working. They stumbled into the optimal salt-acid-umami-fat-carbonation loop a century before food science could explain why it worked.