Beau Bollinger

Another Cleveland Collapse. #Cavs #LetEmKnow

Donovan Mitchell disappears? ✔️ James Harden sucks the life out of the offense and plays 0 defense ✔️ #Cavs lose the game they should have had. #LetEmKnow

Why is Harden guarding one of the most dangerous on ball guards in the league? So stupid

@REFLOG18 @Browns

@Browns downfield duck 🦆

downfield dot 🎯

....and the lead is gone. Going to be the theme with that bullpen. #GuardsBall

I think we’ve lost the plot on youth basketball. It’s probably happening in other sports too, but basketball is the world I know. Growing up, basketball was the neighborhood game. All you needed was a ball and a hoop. It was simple, accessible, and we’d play for hours without thinking twice about it. I’d call myself a pretty good high school player. I started on a solid team and loved competing. AAU wasn’t really part of the equation back then. I played in a few tournaments with friends, but everyone understood what it was. If you were elite, you played for Indiana Elite or Spiece. If you weren’t, you just kept hooping where you were. There wasn’t this pressure that you had to be in it. Now it feels like the entire model has flipped. Kids from kindergarten through high school are paying thousands just to be on a team. And if you want to play, there’s always a team ready for you because there’s money to be made. But it doesn’t stop there. Parents are paying $60/head every weekend just to watch. Some places are charging for parking. Tournaments are partnering with hotels and requiring teams to stay there just to participate. Then you show up and games are running an hour behind, officials are barely engaged, and someone’s parent is losing their mind over playing time. Somewhere along the way, the focus shifted. This isn’t about saying AAU is all bad. There are real positives. Kids get exposed to different competition, build friendships, and experience things they wouldn’t otherwise. But it’s hard to ignore what it’s becoming. For a lot of kids, this isn’t building a love for the game. It’s turning it into a transaction. A schedule. A bill. And that’s the part that feels off. It would just be nice if the kids were back at the center of it all.

With these types of comments. I want names. #CBJ

Bowness: "These guys, they don't care. Losing is not important enough to them. It doesn't bother them. How can you go out and play like that? I should have done this a month ago. But this is why we are where we are. This is why we're out of the playoffs. That kind of effort."

Big money for big saves! 💰 A huge thank you goes out to @ADS__Inc, who joined us tonight to present a donation of $22,000, representing a total of 2,095 saves, to the CBJ Foundation in honor of the Between the Pipes platform. We thank you for your continued contributions!

MKC on her annual "#Browns Radar" tweetstorm

Never doubt the Villain.

@JKQVLPap @EastDistrictAB @OHSAASports Congrats Scott! Tremendous honor and well deserved. Glad I have gotten to work with you!

Humbled! I along with every Official has to have a Hall of Fame family! A family that understands the sacrifice and commitment it takes. I’ve been blessed and thankful! I’ve worked with tons of partners worthy of this honor! Thank you for all of them @EastDistrictAB @OHSAASports

@JimRudloff @Aportzline Maybe a little hungover

@Aportzline And Z come home healthy.

USA wins gold for the first time in 46 years. Jack Hughes wins it, with a primary assist from #CBJ Zach Werenski

@kurtschooley No. Someone else replied and apparently my response wasn't an actual response.

@BD40OSU Did you just respond to your own tweet to provide support your initial tweet?

What Jake Diebler has done to Devin Royal should be considered criminal. #Buckeyes

@ZachFleer270 Kid does a great job on getting to the basket. Can never finish unless its inferior competition

Tilly blowing the layup, jogging back on defense, not being in position to help his team in transition and then complaining about not getting a call on the last possession 👎👎👎

@SamBlackburnTR He's a great kid who plays hard. I respect and like him. Diebler has really put him in a bad spot.

@BD40OSU I’ve always loved how hard he plays daring to his days at Pick C, but he’s definitely a man without a position. He has proved to be effective when used correctly. If he had a good big to get him matched up on 3s and 4s who can defend, he can be lethal with his versatility.

I sincerely hope that someone in that OSU presser asks what, if any, adjustment was made to get Mobley and Royal going in this 2nd half. Because if they did, it was a God-awful tactic.

What's it like be an #OHSAA basketball official? Follow along in A Day in the Life of an official! youtube.com/watch?v=RKzL_F…