Jason Langendorf

It's a wildly complex story, but I tried to make some sense of the (too-often misinformed) controversy surrounding Algerian women's boxer Imane Khelif at the 2024 Paris Olympics:

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Tomislav Ivisic, basketball player and public address announcer.

@CBSSportsCBB @wallyball Nah. This is just patently false. Stojakovic’s perimeter shooting has never come around. But he has excellent burst, footwork and finishing ability around the rim. That defenders don’t respect his jumper makes what he does even more impressive.

"He's not jacking threes from 25-30 feet like his dad! He's putting his head down and he's going into BEAST MODE and getting buckets in the paint!" @wallyball points out that Andrej Stojakovic is able to go by defenders because of the threat he poses as a shooter.

Floyd Mayweather says the Manny Pacquiao rematch will be an exhibition. My story: boxingscene.com/articles/floyd…

Illinois is back in the Final Four for the first time in 21 years. I had a few thoughts about how the Illini did it with a win over Iowa on Saturday: si.com/college/illino…

@arielhelwani Holy smokes. Itauma didn't just land a gorgeous knockout punch – he provided his own sound effects.

WHAT A FREAKING UPPERCUT FROM MOSES ITAUMA. WOW. Crown him. He is the one.

Be safe out there, kids!

His Denzel is impeccable. Unrealistic part is Denzel lowering himself to pitch these companies (which is crucial to the bit, for those of you in Rio Linda).

Yeah, but have you heard about our ballroom??

Houston bars, however much Busch Light you think you have, you do not have enough.

Rock-solid Illini content

Whoever did this in the elevator….its funny as hell…

The refs working Sunday’s game between Dan Hurley and Mick Cronin.

@darrenrovell @LevyRestaurants Now precisely one reason to show up at Addison and Clark

Here's your best new food item at an MLB ballpark this year: Chicken & Churros at Wrigley Field! (Source: @LevyRestaurants)

Mick Cronin seeing ucla having to travel to Philadelphia

@ryansongalia Basically, who is most famous who happens to play a bass?

This is a BS list because Larry Graham clears them all, and on what planet is Paul McCartney a better bassist than Chris Squire and Les Claypool? Gene Simmons shouldn’t be on a top 100 list, he absolutely sucks.

If you paid $400 to Live Nation to see Dua Lipa, you paid more to Live Nation than it paid in federal income taxes after making $145 million in profits. Live Nation is not only robbing fans blind, it's fleecing U.S taxpayers. 6 words: Break up Live Nation, tax the rich.

Conan O'Brien says he has "incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country" after traveling to Ireland and seeing his great-grandfather lived. "I went back to Ireland and I [saw] a great genealogist who said, 'I found where your great-grandfather’s home was.' The home is gone, but he found the little spot where he lived, near the Galbally Mountains. He said, 'I’ll go there and show it to you,' and I said, 'We’ll do it on camera.' "I was expecting to have these jokes loaded up; we had props and funny things we were going to do... But I got there, and I did not expect this because I'm not someone who wears my emotions on my sleeve, but I got emotional. It was very powerful. "This was a very small plot of land. He was a tenant farmer, so it wasn't his. He didn't have money, and he needed to move on because it wasn't working; probably not enough to eat, couldn't sustain. So, he left and went to America, and here I am a couple of generations later. "What's amazing to me is when you have that experience and you stand there, I have incredible empathy for people who have immigrated to another country. It takes an entire lifetime to go to a country where, often, people don't speak the language. They have to spend their entire lives just getting things started for the next generation; it's a whole lifetime that you're feeding into this process. "I was just thinking about this guy, whom I'll never meet, who had to do that. I think I was overcome by the fact that there's a lot of sadness in that story, and in a lot of these stories. People leave not because they think, 'Hey, I just want to go have fun in America.' They leave because they have to." (via Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Onions everywhere!