Marty Conlon’s Pivot Foot

@Sportico @WNBA @NBA This chart just proves WNBA franchises are overvalued. What point do you think you are making here? LOL!

👀 The @WNBA now has the HIGHEST value-to-revenue multiplier of ANY major sports league. At 13.6, the W surpasses the @NBA for the first time in the history of the league. Business is booming 💣

@Sudharsan_ak I have no idea why any grown man would ever watch women’s basketball. It is objectively bad.

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@Jesswtrx Blame the people and companies that have abused the system endlessly at the cost of American workers.

As an Iranian PhD graduate, I fully support background checks. But the #USCISPause has left my work authorization pending for months, stopping me from working and contributing to research and innovation. This is not security, it’s lost potential. #LiftTheHold

@aakashgupta One small correction, Lacrosse is no longer a country club pipeline sport. It is fairly mainstream at public high schools now and there is a fairly large pool of kids competing for athletic scholarships.

Let me explain exactly why parents pay $25,000 a year for youth sports their kid will never play professionally, because the math is more interesting than the headlines suggest. The $25K is buying admissions arbitrage at elite colleges. Run it both ways. Scholarship math first. The US has 8 million high school athletes. Roughly 7% play in college, 2% at D1. Total NCAA athletic scholarship spend is $3.6 billion across about 175,000 D1 athletes, mostly partial aid in the low teens per year. A family putting in $25K annually from age 6 to 18 spends $300K chasing a maximum return of about $80K. The expected value is a lottery ticket. Admissions math second. The SFFA v. Harvard trial disclosed that recruited athletes get admitted at 86%. The non-athlete rate sits around 5%. Even academically weak applicants jump to a 98% admit probability if recruited. A non-athlete with a 1397 SAT has roughly 0.08% odds at Harvard. The same kid recruited for crew has 70%+. The athletic hook is the largest single advantage in elite admissions, bigger than legacy or dean's list. Ivies don't even offer athletic scholarships. The value is purely the admissions ticket. This is what $25K buys. Year-round travel ball is the qualifier round for an admissions process operating on different rules than the one your kid's classmates compete in. The "country club sports" pipeline (squash, lacrosse, crew, fencing, golf) is a feature. Barrier to entry is the product. 90% of Ivy League squash players come from $30K-a-year private high schools. The math works because the alternative pool is small. PE arrived after the demand existed. Unrivaled Sports, Perfect Game, regional travel-ball roll-ups. Upper-middle-class parents had already turned youth sports into a class transmission mechanism. PE consolidated the supply chain and raised prices because the buyers were already there at $25K. $300K to convert a 4% admit rate at an Ivy into an 86% one. Plus the alumni network and pre-professional sorting that follows. That's the actual equation. The trade is rational at the top of the income distribution. Brutal everywhere else.

@kevin_barral Just to be clear, this man is paid millions of dollars to throw a ball.

Miami Dolphins quarterback Malik Willis threw out the first pitch ahead of tonight’s game against the Phillies. #Marlins #FinsUp

@Justinjpearson Stop being racist, Justin. Then try getting a real job for once.

This is a direct attack on Black political power and our community in Memphis — a community built by people who fought, bled, and sacrificed for the rights we have today. We’re not backing down!

DEFEND DISTRICT 9 — TAKE ACTION NOW! District 9! Trump just said that he and Bill Lee want to eliminate our representation in Congress. District 9 is the ONLY Democratic and ONLY Black-majority congressional district in Tennessee.

You could explain Halloween but that wouldn’t stop them from stealing from our children

@thehoffather I mean, this is exactly what Seattle voted for.

Seattle is once again a national embarrassment This time, thanks to Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson telling everyone to boycott Starbucks the day she gets elected, then Starbucks announces they are leaving, and when asked about capital flight, she says "bye" and giggles

@AngelShedeway So she is one of the good ones?

Paige Bueckers is way better than Caitlin Clark. She’s a dawg and is more versatile! She’s a great teammate and advocates for Black Women and Black causes too. That’s why the racists don’t like her as much.

@radphlegm Literally every person on X supports her and is sh*tting on him. What the heck are you talking about?

Notice how men are just treating this as a joke instead of crying about how false accusations ruin lives

@WhiteBballPains I miss when basketball had rules.

Real ones know this is clean 🫣

@ProvidenceMom17 @AlexandraLeslie @wpri12 So no then

@AlexandraLeslie @wpri12 Maybe, if it was easy in and out and extremely safe.

Would you buy your groceries at Providence Place? One of the mall's new owners wants to bring a supermarket into the shopping complex and said he has his eye on Costco. MORE: wpri.com/business-news/… @wpri12

@carolyn_phippen @ckuck @USCIS @UUtah Answer the question, Kuck

@ckuck @USCIS @UUtah I literally asked what I’m missing. Go ahead and educate me about why one state university would need to import 1,000 foreign workers in the space of a few years. And then explain why this is necessary to replicate thousands of times across our country.

It looks like, based on the @USCIS website, @UUtah has had 948 H1Bs approved since 2020? What am I missing here? Americans funding their own takeover.

@JobsNowPR @karch_andreas @bumbadum14 Silence from the good professor.

@karch_andreas @bumbadum14 Hi Professor, why are these PERM visa positions available at state universities? Are universities just making things up? Are you seriously arguing that in a nation of 340 million people there’s not a single person who can manage Workday or maintain facilities?

The H1-B system is being used for social media managers at these universities and you people are talking as if we’re deporting Einstein. Fuck off.

@Klinickal @jg_clutch_city @___koby___ Just proves how bad women’s basketball is.

@jg_clutch_city @___koby___ Yet she is an all American and a champion. Not to mention an all star.

Angel Reese is the only professional basketball player I’ve ever seen that has zero fundamentals. Not sure how you can be a PROFESSIONAL shooting layups from your hips

@CimSemaj @___koby___ Where is he wrong? Her shot release on layups is the lowest I have ever seen, including youth basketball.

@___koby___ Yo must not watch alot of basketball or your a hater

@PollySpin His job depends on bringing in H1Bs so of course he will game the system out of self-preservation. Amazing.

Why does an American University have "interim H-1B advisor"?

@tbancs22 @CarsonD33 Friar

Came across some interesting stats today thanks to @CarsonD33 There’s a reason when Kris and I were on scout team together we often beat the starters

@continentaltire @JobsNowPR

@JobsNowPR Correction: The Senior Sales Representative, Commercial and Specialty Tires role is active and legitimate. Our earlier statement was incorrect due to incomplete internal verification.

Either: Someone is filing a bunch of PWDs in their name (as a senior mobility specialist) and committing perjury by claiming to be working with the law firm EY Law LLC OR They maintain a separate job application process for PERM applicants in violation of the law

@phil_lyman @danerob09805283 @UUtah I know. I searched too. I was asking @danerob09805283 to provide evidence since he claimed this did post the job on their website.

They did not. I searched “software design engineer” on employment.utah.edu, it shows 27 jobs. The top result? A Graphic Designer. This specific position (the one in the Tribune ad) requires mailing a CV to a physical address or emailing jenn.bourdon@hsc.utah.edu. Is it deliberately hidden from the normal online system Utahns actually use? They can’t find qualified American grads from their own programs? Or is this slot being saved for an H-1B visa holder? Transparency matters. Utahns deserve a fair shot at these jobs. What do you think, @UofUtah?

Why is this job not posted in @uutah’s applicant tracking system so Utahns can easily find it and apply for it? 🤔 Is it being held for an H1-B visa holder? Do you think Congress should ban universities from using H1-Bs if they receive any federal funding?