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@KDJmedia1 At least Mike White separates the term private schools vs Catholic schools. Albertus and Ursuline are far from private as some call them around here.

Keep an eye on what's happening in Pennsylvania athletics. A state many NY admins point to when defending the current system here could be on the verge of a major restructure.

@ImCollegeSoccer I read it differently than you. It looks to be 4 years of competition with 5 years eligibility. There does not appear to be an extra year of competition.

NEWS: NCAA President Charlie Baker told ESPN today that he’s “pretty optimistic” that the new aged-based eligibility proposal will happen. The DI Board of Directors met today and will recommend to not implement this rule retroactively for graduates/exhausted eligibility. “If you’ve used up your eligibility, you’ve used it up,” Baker told ESPN of the tenor of the discussion. -@PeteThamel #CSTruth The Good: It will eliminate a lot of older internationals and limit recruiting agencies scamming kids. It will Limit kids from transferring a lot. The Bad: It will limit college opportunities for high school kids. The transfer portal will be used heavily for the 5th year grad student. The D1 dream will become more difficult!

@KDJmedia1 @SecOneAthletics I thought there were 3 options? Stay the course, examine potential revisions or separate? Are there more options to vote on than that? Isn't the Section One vote just 3 options? Is that considered "a lot" as well?

Put out a lot of options, split the voters, lean on the inner circle and get to “stay the course” is exactly how this was drawn up. People want change, but since they can’t agree on what it is - no change will happen. @SecOneAthletics will continue to enact change on its own.

@kbkshaw @hoopsmbd This is exactly what needs to happen. And then reduce the number of public school classes back to what it was.

@hoopsmbd the NYSPHSAA (along with the CHSAA, PSAL, & NYSAIS) will ultimately be forced by the courts to dissolve and the courts will require the creation of the NYISAA (having a model exactly like in New Jersey [NJISAA]) with a separate statewide post season format (Public & Non Public)

This has the potential to get messy and it's a result of the state dragging its feet on the issue.

@kbkshaw @KDJmedia1 I agree that the state should create a non-public classification. But what if they don't? Are you saying these four schools in Section One should never have the opportunity to compete in a state playoffs? I believe that's where the lawsuits will come.

@KDJmedia1 Like I have said for years, while all of this will ultimately go through the courts, my feeling is that the highest court will end up ruling that ALL Non Public Schools will be required to play ONLY Non Public Schools in the playoffs (just like in New Jersey).

🚨 MAJOR NEWS IN SECTION 1 🚨 A proposed Amendment to the Section One Constitution will "make non-public schools ineligible for postseason play." Those schools - Albertus Magnus, Ursuline, Keio and Leffell - can compete in a non-public sectional playoff. But no opportunity for @NYSPHSAA playoffs. The Athletic Council will vote next week and needs two-thirds majority to be passed. NYSPHSAA won't move to make this seismic change - so @SecOneAthletics is attempting to take matters into its own hands.

@CoryBearor @TD_ONeill @KDJmedia1 If Section One is going to restrict the opportunity to play in the state playoffs, they will be sued. Why is your child afforded the opportunity over others? If the state will not make a non-public class, are you saying these kids should be discriminated against?

@TD_ONeill @KDJmedia1

Rory in 2021: Said flying private is a “detriment [to] the world that we live in." Rory in 2026: I take day trips on my private jet to play at Augusta National to prepare for The Masters Rory McIlroy is such a hypocrite.

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

This is: Matthew Perna (seen in a red sweatshirt) on January 6, walking peacefully inside the Capitol building for only 14 minutes to protest the overthrow of his government on November 3—after being invited in by Capitol Police, no less. Matthew pleaded guilty to the initial charges, believing he would face 6–12 months in prison. Only after pleading guilty did the domestic terrorists within the Department of Justice inform Matthew that they would seek a TERRORISM enhancement to his sentence, increasing his potential sentence to 9 years in federal prison. Just four days after receiving this news, Matthew went into his garage, put a fucking rope around his neck, and hung himself. In other words, they deliberately went after Americans and brought down the full weight of the U.S. government, including a death sentence, to prove a point—that November 3 was the ‘most secure election in U.S. history’. Now you’ve got a judicial whore in a black robe who just slapped G’ddamn Ilhan Omar—Abdul Abubakar Ali—with a mere one-year sentence for MILLIONS in stolen tax dollars, after he lied about providing 1.3 million meals. And he’ll be out in just a couple of months for being a good felon. So, the question is, where the fuck is the United States Justice System? Damn you, the state media—every single one of you.

I've been holding back on this, but I'm just gonna let loose... So many of these "protestors" here in Asheville NC have had their lives DRAMATICALLY improved by President Trump. Trump's FEMA resolved 80% of ALL open Hurricane Helene cases Biden left sitting 116 days... in 5 DAYS. Trump's DOT gave nearly $2 BILLION to fix roads and bridges in WNC, which is the largest Emergency Relief allocation in federal highway history. Trump's DOT reopened I-40 in 5 months. Everyone said it would take years. Trump's HUD approved $1.4 billion for Helene housing recovery so fast that even Democrat Governor Josh Stein publicly thanked him for it. Trump's USDA delivered $221 million directly to WNC farmers who lost everything. Trump gave NC 6 full months of 100% federal cost coverage — one of the longest in FEMA history. The same people driving on rebuilt roads, drinking clean water, living the comeback... are out here protesting the man who made most of it happen. JUST GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!!! It's not that hard. He knew you hated him before the storm. He knew that when he landed in Asheville. And guess what? HE SHOWED UP AND HELPED YOU ANYWAYS!!!!!! And today you grabbed your little sign and costumes, got in your little Subaru, you drove on those rebuilt roads, over those rebuilt bridges, passed rebuilt houses and rebuilt parks, to protest a man who helped your city. You look stupid, out of touch, and insanely ungrateful.

Take a moment and thank your Dad for all that he does. 5 years old - Dad knows everything! 7 years old - Dad knows. 10 years old - Maybe dad doesn’t know?! 12 years old - Dad doesn’t know. 14 years old - Dads gone crazy! 16 years old - Can’t take dad seriously. 18 years old - What does dad know?! 22 years old - Dads talking rubbish! 24 years old - I know more than dad! 26 years old - Dad seems to know some things after all. 30 years old - Think I should ask dad about this?! 40 years old - It’s amazing how dad went through all this! 45 years old - Dads been right all along. 50 years old - If dad was here, I could have learned a lot from him. Your father is the only man who's proud to see you doing better than him. #CSTruth

In all my years of broadcasting, I'd never gotten emotional on air until tonight. It was impossible to hold back the tears. Jack Piccione of Tappan Zee lost his father suddenly last Sept. 1. Matthew Piccione died of a heart attack minutes after playing pickleball with friends. He was 51. Over the last three years, I got to know Matthew Piccione fairly well. One day back in 2023, he asked coach George Gaine for my number so he could call me just to say thank you for calling out Jack's contributions during Tappan Zee's championship run. Jack was a role player who averaged maybe 5 points a game as a freshman. But he started and never came off the court. "I know he doesn't score a lot of points," Matthew Piccione said. "But you are one of the only people who appreciates what he does for the team." Matthew Piccione kept a very low profile at games and reinforced in his son to be the emodiment of all the things that make Tappan Zee basketball different than any other program in the state. Play unselfish. Defend. Be coachable. Defend. Draw charges. Pass. Sacrifice for your teammates. And, of course, defend some more. Nobody in the history of Tappan Zee basketball since I have been covering has ever played that role better than Jack Piccione. He's the best best defensive player in the program and is on an elite level of players I've been around in Section 1. When Matthew died in September, I worried about Jack. I wondered what his senior season might be like. The person most responsible for instilling and reinforcing the values that made Jack great was now tragically gone. Tonight, Jack Piccione scored 5 points in the Section 1 Championship game. FIVE. Yet not only did his team because of his performance, I had the honor of handing him the MVP Trophy to prove it. In the final 90 seconds of the game, I shared the story of Matthew Piccione and his passing. You will hear the emotion in my voice. It's genuine, not because of any relationship I had with him. You just can't be a sports parent and not relate to loving your child and always wanting what's best for them. Because here's what I am going to tell you. And I really want all parents to read this and remember it: Your kids' youth - not just athletics, but all of it - is short and it's precious. You don't get this time back when it's over. It goes way too quick. And some don't even get to see it to the end. You have a choice: You can spend this period of their lives stressing about how many points they score, what awards or accolades they receive, begging people to vote in the online poll for Player of the Week, emailing the coach and complaining about playing time or lamenting the number of shots they get in a game. Go ahead. You can make all of that important for yourself and your child. Trust me, you won't be alone in doing so. Or you can do what Matthew Piccione did. Sit in the stands and enjoy watching your children compete. Teach them that it's team above all else, stress what it means to sacrifice and ensure them that, when you do those things and have success, the feeling of hanging a banner will far exceed any of the personal accolades think are important. And, sadly, God might choose that you won't be around to see it all anyway. Matthew didn't get to give his son a hug after he won tonight. And Jack didn't get to see the pride in his father's face. Think about that. If you are a parent, try to put your child in Jack's shoes. If God forbid your child was confronted with the same tragedy, you'd want them looking back on this sacred period of their lives the way Jack will forever recall them with his dad. Tonight was complete validation for Jack Piccione and all of the things his father always told him. Jack scored 5 points and won the MVP on his way to becoming the most decorated basketball player in Tappan Zee history. Nobody has ever won more in a TZ uniform than the most unselfish player they've ever had. He wouldn't trade his career with anyone, either. Take a moment to listen to myself and Pleasantville coach Nick Bonura from tonight's @SportsEngine broadcast of @TZeeAthletics @TZhoops

.@CharlesCWCooke absolutely crushed it in response to Peggy Noonan's WSJ column lamenting the Washington Post layoffs... "The press — and the Post specifically — did not 'wobble' during Covid or George Floyd. It proved itself completely unfit for purpose. It did not provide 'reliable information'; it became an organ of propaganda. It did not check the hysterics among us; it amplified them. It did not question the transient judgments of the establishment; it set them on a pedestal and declared them to be synonymous with Science and Democracy." nationalreview.com/corner/unfortu…

@SecOneAthletics @amhsboyssoccer @AMHSFalcons @NYSPHSAA @MaxPreps @PrepSoccer @nysswa @GirlsSoccerAMHS @AMHSOfficial @Quaker_Sports @GreeleySports @NRockathletics @lohudsports Albertus Magnus moves on to the Class AA semifinals! 1 Goal by Alexis Diaz 2 Goals by 📸 Katie Murphy 1 Goal by Bella DiMuccio

@SecOneAthletics @amhsboyssoccer @AMHSFalcons @NYSPHSAA @MaxPreps @PrepSoccer @nysswa @GirlsSoccerAMHS @AMHSOfficial @Quaker_Sports @GreeleySports @NRockathletics Goal @GirlsSoccerAMHS! Katie Murphy makes it 2-0 Falcons with 20:27 to go!

@SecOneAthletics @amhsboyssoccer @AMHSFalcons @NYSPHSAA @MaxPreps @PrepSoccer @nysswa @GirlsSoccerAMHS @AMHSOfficial @Quaker_Sports @GreeleySports @NRockathletics Katie Murphy scores her second goal of the game with 2:44 left in regulation! 3-0 @AMHSFalcons

@JesseKellyDC Dr. Jesse, have the media and history books been lying to us and was Nixon actually a great president?

What if Catholic bishops spent $3 billion on Catholic schools?

A little late.... but here it is. The best women's soccer players in @NCAADIII youtu.be/e022aExC1BU?si… via @YouTube

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