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It's rare that sports fans agree on anything. But everyone seems to be in agreement today: Duke got robbed this weekend. Dan Hurley and UConn have been flagrantly ignoring the rules for the entirety of the NCAA Tournament. Sunday was no exception. There were still 0.4 seconds on the clock. The game was live. Dan Hurley walked toward a referee on the sideline. He got in the official’s face. Then he pressed his forehead directly into the ref’s forehead. SI called it a “menacing forehead tap.” No technical foul was called. If it had been, Duke shoots two free throws. Down one. With an 86% free throw shooter at the line. Here's what actually happened and why this should be a much bigger story than it is. Braylon Mullins hit a 35-foot three to give UConn a 73-72 lead with 0.4 seconds left. It was the shot of the tournament. Nobody is disputing that. But in the seconds after the shot, Hurley walked toward a referee, got in his face, and pressed his forehead directly into the official's forehead. Sports Illustrated described it as a "menacing forehead tap." The clock still showed 0.4 seconds. The game was not over. A technical foul on a head coach for making contact with an official during a live ball is one of the easiest calls in basketball. There is no gray area. Contact with a game official is a technical. If it's called, Duke's Isaiah Evans steps to the free throw line, trailing 73-72. He shot 86% from the stripe this season. Makes both? Duke wins 74-73. Makes one? Overtime. That wasn't the only violation. When Mullins' shot went in, UConn bench players ran onto the court to celebrate before the game was over. They caught themselves and ran back, but they had already entered the playing area during a live ball. Duke's radio announcers immediately called for a technical. That wasn't called either. Two separate technical foul violations. Zero calls. In the span of 0.4 seconds. And here's what makes the Hurley part impossible to ignore. Three weeks ago, on March 7, Hurley was ejected from UConn's game at Marquette in the final second for getting in a referee's face. He was chest-to-shoulder with the official. Double technical. Ejected. The Big East fined him $25,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct. In the Sweet 16 against Michigan State on March 27, Hurley challenged an out-of-bounds call, got it overturned, and then sarcastically offered his glasses to the ref who got it wrong. Lip readers caught him asking about Lasik. Nothing was called. Two days later against Duke, Hurley was officially "warned" during the game for leaving his coach's box. Told to stay put. Then after the buzzer beater, he went forehead-to-forehead with a ref. Ejected and fined $25,000 at Marquette. Taunted a ref to his face at Michigan State with no consequences. Warned during the Duke game for leaving his coach's box. Then physical contact with a referee in the biggest moment of the tournament. The full breakdown of every missed call and what would have happened if any of them were made is here: itsgame7.com/news/duke-got-… UConn came back from 19 down. Mullins hit one of the greatest shots in tournament history. That part was earned. But two technical foul violations in 0.4 seconds, and neither one called, on a coach who was ejected for the same thing three weeks ago? That's not intensity. That's a pattern. And last night, it changed the outcome of a game.

@ChrisMartzWX Should also mention that the effects of hurricanes are more strongly felt nowadays because we’ve put so many more buildings and people in their path in FL. This also skews the perception

What you think doesn't matter. Because the reality is that hurricane strikes in Florida have decreased significantly since 1851. • 12 hurricanes struck Florida in the 1870s (the most in a decade on record) • ZERO hurricanes made landfall last year. • ZERO made landfall between Hurricanes Wilma on October 24, 2005, and Hermine on September 2, 2016, the longest lull on record in Florida. • Of the top 20 most intense hurricanes to landfall in Florida, 16 of them occurred more than 20 years ago, 12 of which were either in or before 1960.

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@statsowar This is a really cool visualization, thank you!

2026 Projected Depth by conference according to SP+

@actionxander @ChristinaPushaw The amount of times I’ve told people here “FWC does NOT fuck around.” I remember catching a group of teenagers digging up a turtle nest on the beach one night and I put the fear of god in them lol

I don't think people realize that FWC does not mess around. I can't even actively remove invasive spectacled caimans from the Everglades without either having a Conditional Non-native Species Permit (CSP) or calling it in and waiting for FWC to capture it and remove it themselves. The reason for some of these strict codes is to a) ensure the right people are handling the animal (it's dangerous) and b) reassurance for identifying the correct species. Can't jump a crocodilian thinking it's a caiman and it turns out to be a protected American crocodile. Here's a spectacled caiman found in an Everglades wildlife management zone. Photo sent to me by a photographer friend (Kym Clark).

Dang that ball really zips off his hand quick on that last throw 😮‍💨

@WhitePapersPol The mass migration from NY, NJ, etc. is a 10x bigger issue than foreigners imo 😅

Florida would look different without the post-1965 mass immigration that has accounted for 55% of population growth. Florida's population would be ~16 million as opposed to the current population of 23.4 million. The foreign-born population would be ~3.5%. Much lower than the real share of 24% Without mass immigration Florida would be ~70% White American, ~20% African American, and ~8-10% Hispanic American. Currently Florida is 50% White, 15% Black, and 29% Hispanic. We don't use the term "American" here because huge shares of these populations are post-1965 immigrants and their descendants. Mass immigration has serious demographic consequences that can only be resolved with remigration.

@isaac_saas These fake social “litmus tests” are the ultimate virtue signal. I promise the shopping cart thing doesn’t bother store employees like you imagine it does because you’re out of touch. Most actually kind of like retrieving them, it’s like a little break to go outside

A crying baby on a plane is an even better litmus test than the shopping cart. If it genuinely makes you angry, you have no empathy. No compassion. No soul. No ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes. You are the epitome of what's wrong with the modern world.

I love when bums from irrelevant programs do this because they feel on top of the world while displaying how small and poor sports they are. Notice how Gator players never do the equivalent of this. Says everything about who you really are

Gators were up 62pts, 2min to go. Look how dialed-in our bench players still are in this moment. Starters were still hyped & engaged too. Todd Golden is an elite coach because he has all our guys playing like we’re down in a championship game no matter what

Crazy

After 18 unanswered point by Florida, Prairie View’s coach is asked what they need to slow the Gators down and he said “we need some help from the Lord” I’m crying lol go Gators!

@EudaimoniaEsq And ever worse… they’ll fly to your state to escape NY and never shut up about how much better it is there and why can’t your state be more like NY

I maintain that the single most insufferable thing about New Yorkers is that they bewilderingly try to claim everything. This transcends politics—all New Yorkers do this. Yes, everyone has coffee. Everyone has convenience stores (nicer than your “bodegas”). Everyone has what you have and it’s usually cleaner and cheaper!

@MattStewartTV This is who Mike White has been basically his whole career. Anyone surprised by the result can only blame themselves at this point

Bulldogs season ends in infamy. 25 point loss to St. Louis is UGA worse ever NCAA loss. Tops last season’s 21 point loss to Zags. Thats combined 46 pts in 0-2 NCAA losses consecutive years. Making tourney is great but what does it mean if not competitive and worse embarrassing?

@AndersPicks BRO that Gators AI slop logo is a crime

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@CoachSwit Travel ball absolutely crushed my love of the sport as a kid. I had the leading batting stats in my county when I quit for good because I dreaded everything about travel

Travel baseball has turned into: Pay tons of money to play. Pay to travel. Pay to stay. Pay to watch your own kid. And somehow… this became normal. Will it ever change or just get worse?

@KNIGATOR @NickKnudsenFB A true patriot 🐊 🫡

1 foot in Georgia 1 foot in Tennessee so I chomped them both 🐊🔶🔷

@mohamed79605550 @AttorneyF_ Every verse of the Bible isn’t “revealed by God” in the same way Muslims think the Quran is. This is a quote spoken by Moses to the Israelites in the context of a war But if you’re an idiot or dishonest you’ll think this is God instructing Christians to kill women & children

@AttorneyF_ Your god revealed this right? Numbers 31:17–18 "Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

A Christian can say, “Christianity is perfect, Christians aren’t,” and rest easy, cos the standard of the faith is Christ Himself; who, notably, is also regarded as sinless even within Islamic theology. In that sense, the entire claim of Christianity stands or falls on a person whose moral perfection is central to the story. God anchored the faith in Christ rather than in some abstract or imagined ideal. On what comparable basis can a Muslim say Islam is perfect? The model of the faith is Muhammad, whose life includes actions that are morally troubling; marrying a 6 year old, marrying his adopted son’s former wife (who was also his cousin), participating in violent campaigns, and taking captives as concubines. If the perfection of a religion is tied to the life of its exemplar, that contrast raises serious questions about the standard being held up. So perhaps someone will say the perfection of Islam lies not in the life of its founder but in the ideal itself; submission to the one God. But what exactly is perfect about that ideal? The claim, at its core, is that God is one, He is great, and therefore human beings must submit. But submission by itself carries no intrinsic moral beauty; power can demand submission whether it is righteous or not. By contrast, the Christian ideal is not merely that God is one and must be obeyed, but that God loved the world and acted within history to redeem it. The center of Christianity is not a command to submit but a story of self-giving love: the Father sending His sinless Son to bear the weight of human sin so that those who were estranged might be reconciled and even adopted as sons and daughters. In that vision, the highest reality is not simply divine power but divine love, and obedience flows from gratitude rather than mere obligation. This is what perfect theology looks like. 👍🏾

@BRamseyKSR I think I know what it means!

Kentucky isn’t the place for moral victories. I get it. However, THREE TIMES isn’t a fluke. Kentucky is the ONLY team to play Florida within single digits since 1/24…and the ‘Cats have done it THREE TIMES. I’m not sure what it means…but it means something.

@jubileemedia @piersmorgan @PiersUncensored Says her claim that Charlie wasn’t about free speech is credible because she led an organization dedicated to shutting his speeches down 🤡

Piers Morgan shares his thoughts on Charlie Kirk #charliekirk #piersmorgan #surrounded #jubilee @piersmorgan @PiersUncensored