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@WilliamShatner Denny Crane…

I had lunch with their Princess on First Contact Day. She definitely made first contact if you’ve seen the picture! 😉

@BillSimmons Vrabel... 😂

As always it’s an honor to be on the boat!

@WilliamShatner When is Boston Legal day? That was some good Sh*t, man! You and James - that was legit great TV!!!

BTW, did you notice Han what’s his name posted TWO DAYS ago “May the Fourth…”‽‽‽ 🤷🏼 What’s he too good to post on Monday like everyone else?😤🤣

@NevadaSportsNet Probably 25 wins not including NCAA or NIT

A way-too-early look at Nevada basketball’s 2026–27 depth chart⏳🏀 How many games is this squad winning? 👀

@Sputnikburke @NevadaSportsNet It’s a good team post NIL, but 2018-19 was very very deep

@NevadaSportsNet I’ve been a fan for 40+ years, and I don’t remember the Pack ever having a team this deep.

@ByChrisMurray As you know, money always wins

Yuck.

@Coach_Yac Well I guess the reason we pick a 7th rounder in the fifth round is because we don’t have any later picks. But we could have traded back for all these picks

Thoughts on the 49ers selecting OL Enrique Cruz Jr with possibly their final pick in the 2026 draft?

@Coach_Yac Another 1.5 round reach. I guess we will see if these guys pan out. Hard to believe the team saw this guy best on the board

How we feeling about the 49ers selecting OT Carver Willis with the 127th pick in the draft?

@Coach_Yac First pick that wasn’t a massive reach

How we feeling about the 49ers selecting Oklahoma DT Gracen Halton with the 107th pick in the draft?

@Coach_Yac All 3 picks were reaches. Good picks maybe but 1/2 to a full round+ too early.

Thoughts on the 49ers picks through Day 2 of the NFL Draft? RD 2: Pick 33 - De'Zhaun Stribling, WR RD 3: Pick 70 - Romello Height, DE RD 3: Pick 90 - Kaelon Black, RB

@Coach_Yac Reach. Any trade back would have resulted in same pick later plus more

Faithful, what are your thoughts on the 49ers selecting WR De'Zhaun Stribling with the 33rd pick in the draft?

@Mitch_Seattle Biggest reach of the draft (so far)

Has there ever been a 32nd pick that had a better chance to win substantial immediate playing time for a reigning Super Bowl champ than Jadarian Price? #Seahawks

@MaioccoNBCS Trade back again. Other teams will covet what they think they missed. 49ers need more pics. There are 18 1/2 hours to get the best deal for a team that really wants someone that the 49ers don't need.

49ers options for No. 33 overall: WR Denzel Boston S Emmanuel McNeil-Warren DE T.J. Parker DE Cashius Howell DE R Mason Thomas G Chase Bisontis

@ByChrisMurray Chris, am I wrong to be quite excited about this? This feels pretty great!

Ex-Reed High star TJ Coulter, who led junior-college players in scoring this season with 27.8 ppg, has signed with Nevada, he tells NSN. "It's always been a dream to play at Nevada. Having the opportunity to come home and play is really, really cool." nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters…

@Coach_Yac He took a step back last year after incredible rookie season. But he is 23, runs a 4.33 40. On rookie contract for at least 2 more seasons plus one team option. I'd take him for that first round pick. espn.com/nfl/player/sta…

Should the 49ers trade pick #27 for Brian Thomas Jr?

@Coach_Yac They are not good at this. Trade it for more picks

On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you in the 49ers hitting on their first pick in the draft?

@orsonscottcard But since it did go to Bugger world and since Ender did follow the trail from the Giant "corpse" through the end of the world to the mirror to the insect queen, I'm glad that "Ender in Exile" exists so I can see what happens next. :))

@orsonscottcard Funny you should post this now. I'm 55 and I just read EG for the first time. I loved it. If anything, I thought it could use some more detail and lengthening while on Eros. And if anything, I thought the novel could have ended there without the trip to Bugger world.

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts.  My short story “Ender's Game” was rejected by Ben Bova at Analog back when that was the top market for a sci-fi story. Ben gave me feedback. He thought the title should be “Professional Soldier” and he said to “cut it in half.” But I knew he was wrong on both points and submitted it to Jim Baen at Galaxy. He sat on it for a year, and responded to my query with a rejection. There was some kind of explanation, but I don't remember what it was. I concluded at the time that Baen's comments showed that he had barely glanced at the story. So … I got feedback both times, but it was not helpful. I looked at Ben's rejection again. What was it about the story that made him think it should, let alone COULD, be cut in half? Apparently it FELT long. What made it feel long? Now, post-Harry Potter, I would call it the quidditch problem. I had too many battles in which the details became tedious. So I cut two battles entirely, merely reporting the outcomes, and shortened another. In retyping the whole manuscript (pre-word-processor, that was the only way to get a clean manuscript), I added new point-of-view material to the point that I had cut only one page in length. So much for “in half.” But I already knew that my manuscripts did not need cutting — if it wasn't needed, it wouldn't be there in the first place. Even the battles were still there, but instead of showing them, I merely told what happened (so much for the usually asinine advice “show don't tell”), which kept the pace going. Those changes made, I sent it to Ben again. I did not remind him of what he had advised me to do. I merely told him I liked my title, and said, “I have addressed your other concerns,” which was true. I figured he wouldn't remember what his exact words had been. My answer was a check. That revised story was the basis for my winning the Campbell Award for best new writer. Did Ben's feedback help? Yes — but his specific advice was not right, and I knew it. On my next two submissions, Ben hated my endings, and I revised as suggested. The fourth submission he rejected outright, and the fifth, and I thought, Am I a one-story writer? I went back to Ender's Game and tried to analyze why it worked. Then, deliberately imitating myself, I wrote “Mikal's Songbird.” Ben bought it, and it received favorable mentions. I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stories. And THAT was how I built a career, not by self-imitation, and not by following editorial suggestions. I did get wise counsel from David Hartwell on my novel Wyrms, but that was on a book that was already under contract, and it was story feedback, not style. I got wise counsel from Beth Meacham, too, on various books over the years — but again, only on books that were under contract. I also received appallingly stupid advice from the editor of my novel Saints, which temporarily destroyed the book's marketability; after that, I was allowed to go back to my original structure and save the book — now it's one of my best. Editors don't know more than you about your story. They especially don't know why they decide to accept or reject stories. YOU have to know what your story needs to be, and take only advice that you believe in. Your best counselor on a story nobody bought is TIME. Let some time pass and then reread the story. Don't even think about why it Didn't Work. Instead, think about what DOES work, and then write it again, a complete rewrite, keeping nothing from the previous draft. Find the right protagonist and begin at the beginning — the point where the protagonist first gets involved with the events of the story. Be inventive — the failed first draft no longer exists, so you're not bound by any of your earlier decisions. THAT is how you resurrect a good idea you did not succeed with on your first try.

@ByChrisMurray this doesn't make me sad at all!!! espn.com/video/clip/_/i…

Nevada has signed Houston transfer Cedric Lath, a 6-foot-9, 265-pound center who played in 66 games over four seasons with the Cougars, recording 28 points, 59 rebounds and 16 blocks. nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters…

@AJamesMcCarthy @HailMaryLogs So all three had separate slurry pumps (and his worked)? Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

@HailMaryLogs Isn’t it hinted at in the book right before the explosion? Grace is in the middle of making a note to include spare slurry pumps as in testing they were shown to malfunction in certain conditions. They probably starved to death.

After the movie, one question keeps coming up: what exactly happened to the other two Hail Mary crewmates? The film doesn’t explain it, and the book doesn’t either. But in an interview, Andy Weir confirmed he knows the answer and is keeping it secret, possibly for a sequel.