Ben Jones

@chrisw96722402 @Tazerface16 this is very good

@Tazerface16 @BW_Jones

I would now like to illustrate the problem in the Strait of Hormuz with this crude graphic...

Respectfully, the military buildup took weeks and weeks. For an analyst to not even think about this possibility is... neglectful.

Watching full blown global conflicts on Twitter is the craziest experience of modern life. War, war, Alabama lands 5 star, F1, Auburn Loss, Epstein, war, Georgia player arrested, missiles.

Subject to the requirements of the service.

@Ben_Baby Kind of love that his bio has multiple inconsistencies in style (numerals vs words, state abbreviations) and an obvious grammatical error in the last sentence. "He received by journalism degree at Temple University." AI is not coming to save him. cleveland.com/staff/cquinn/

Chris Quinn needs to take a few laps. Saying reporters AT A NEWSPAPER do not need to write is fundamentally dense. Advance wants AI to do more work than they can afford/are willing to pay real people. Nothing more, nothing less.

@ChuckCulpepper1 Very sorry to hear this, Chuck. I hope even grander adventures are ahead. I'll look forward to your next story, wherever it's written, whoever it's for.

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days. The brain tore through the datelines from 17 countries and 43 states, the three World Cups, the four Olympics, the 10 tennis majors, the 20 golf majors, the 11 men's Finals Four, the 28 College Football Playoff games, the 10 Kentucky Derbys, the tour of Jordan-Oman-Kuwait-United Arab Emirates, the 46 days in the peerless Australia -- I mean, come on, really? -- the depth of the beauty of South Koreans, and those times when I looked in the mirror (briefly) and saw a lunatic. Maybe the looniest would be covering a game in Seattle on a Friday night, then a game in Clemson on that Saturday night (with Lamar Jackson on the field looking even more dizzying than usual). Or was it the Boise on a Friday night, the students swimming into the frigid river for a goal-post chunk after midnight, then the one hour of sleep, then the Indianapolis on a Saturday night? No, wait, wait, it had to be this: Novak Djokovic winning the French Open in Paris on Sunday early evening, then U.S. Open golf preparations starting on Tuesday . . . . . . in Los Angeles. Non-deranged people might find such a sequence unfair; for whatever metabolic reason, I just kept giggling. Well, something surpassed all of that, somehow. To be part of the Washington Post Sports department was to be a part of an exemplary human experience, a rarefied collegiality, a beacon of collaboration and a near-bewildering scarcity of envy. For just one thing, I never, ever thought, way back last century, that I'd inhabit a world and a staff where everyone would treat my husband as one of the group, where a deputy sports editor would say, in a kitchen, near the end of a holiday party, "Alfonso! Come over here and hug me!" All of it reinforced that on the medal stand of life, human collaboration deserves a spot and maybe even the gold, for its curious capacity to bolster seemingly all 35 trillion of our cells. I love these forever teammates all so much it probably annoys them, and they call to mind a relic of a show always worth unearthing. It's Episode 168 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," the episode she titled, "The Last Show," when the WJM newsroom staff works a final news show and has a last group hug, and Mary wishes to emote, and Lou wishes not to emote, but then Mary gives a stirring speech and then the ever-gruff Lou relents and, in a quaking voice, says something resonant all the way clear into February 2026: "I treasure you people."

A wholesome offseason adventure in Japan for #AZCardinals defensive lineman L.J. Collier and Dalvin Tomlinson.

@tommydeas so sorry for your loss, Tommy

RIP Canelo. You were the best boy.

These are the only 3 MLB players I can find who accomplished this. Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax (Dodgers/Walter Alston) Ross Youngs (Giants/John McGraw)

Happy to have someone check me here but I believe the most recent players to accomplish this are Terrell Davis (Broncos/Mike Shanahan, 1995-2001) and Tim Duncan (Spurs/Gregg Popovich, 1997-2016). Chipper Jones (Braves) was close to pulling it off with Bobby Cox. Truly rare.

Might only interest me, but if Steelers DL Cam Heyward were to retire, he could join a rare group of players to make the Hall of Fame spending their entire career with 1 head coach. Only other current NFL player with a good shot is probably Travis Kelce.

@Todd_Spence The most realistic part is the pilots insisting on wearing their flight suits to the ceremony instead of their actual uniforms.

@ToughSf The start date is also wrong here; the Alaskas were completed later in 1944 than USS Missouri.

@ToughSf Virginia and California class cruisers were both over 10,000 tons.

The US Navy has not introduced a single dedicated cruiser hull since USS Long Beach, a nuclear prototype in 1961. It did not produce a single >10,000 ton surface combatant between the Iowa-class battleship Missouri in 1944 and the Zumwalt-class failures, last one in 2018.

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@TJWalkerRadio Was it Zadarius?

Can anyone name Stoops’ first commitment? 👅

If you were wondering, $140 for the hoodie and $120 for the joggers. nike.com/t/tech-mens-fl…

It always looks better on the model than when you try it on.

@BDHerzinger @cdrsalamander High-speed rail in the US is just a farce. I can fly round-trip, nonstop from DC to Chicago for $200. They want to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars over decades so I can take a train for $150? Come on. Look at California. Even with public support they can't get it done.

Wait...no. You have to complete the Jacksonville to Orlando to Miami line. Also, if you don't connect Atlanta to Dallas via Memphis and then on to El Paso...you're just not thinking right. You also need a connecting line from Raleigh to Charlotte. And Kansas City should give you an option to branch to Denver or Oklahoma City.

Fix the shipyards. Build more submarines.