The John L. Pitts Initiative

"A more fundamental reason why humans accepted cats in their homes is that cats taught humans to love them. This is the true basis of feline domestication." – John Gray, from his book "Feline Philosophy."

Once seen, cannot be unseen.

LONG POST 🚨🚨 Here's my breakdown of LSU's bold 2 year approach: How much it will cost and what success they need to make it worth it. Focus on CFB, MBB, WBB and Baseball. Cost: $200M Investment over next 2 years (Buyouts, salaries, new hire, NIL for Rosters) What each sports needs to do to make it worth it over 2 years: CFB: 2 Playoff Bids, 1 Deep Run MBB: 2 Tournament Bids, 1 Sweet 16 Run WBB: At least 1 Final Four Run BSB: 2 CWS bids, 1 Title Run LSU's doesn't need all 4 to hit, just 2/3 but Football HAS to be 1 of them. If you hit 2 of 3 those goals with Football, you'll bring in around $100M in direct sports revenue. Booster/Donor surge: Estimating $100M in donations over 2 years. Tuition: Turning LSU into national brand vs state brand Out of state students 2022: 32% Out of state students 2024: 40% If you grow that by 8% again: $50M extra. Media Value: LSU already Top 3 (If not #1) brand in college space. If this works, LSU likely grabs additional $25M in Media exposure: So here's the math.... $200M investment: If plan works: $100M in Athletic revenue $100M in Donations $50M in Tuition bump + (25M in Media Value) $250M payoff on $200M invested So it can absolutely payoff, but football has to hit 2 year benchmark or everything falls apart.

More correctly, biological men are banned from competing against biological women. Makes sense.

Working on a fun project for Masters week but I need your help! If you’ve been, I’d love to hear your story (big or small)! What it meant to you and what you remember most about that day! Would love any photos too! Dm me if you’re interested!

Major League Baseball is producing/distributing games for nearly half of baseball this year. Their combined rights fees will be close to the Dodgers’ TV revenues: Brewers Cardinals Diamondbacks Guardians, Mariners Marlins Nationals Padres Rays Reds Rockies Royals Tigers Twins.

There you go.

Rick Pitino, with a very wry smile, opens his presser today in D.C.: "We're excited to be at the home of Georgetown. We've been here before."

Socialism fails because you can't calculate without prices. Mises destroyed this fantasy in 1920 — central planners literally cannot know what to produce or how much without market signals. Venezuela burned through $1 trillion in oil wealth. The Soviet Union collapsed despite controlling half of Europe. What about the incentive problem? When you divorce effort from reward, productivity craters. Why work hard when your neighbor gets the same paycheck for doing nothing? (Cuba's sugar harvests dropped 75% after collectivization.) Private property rights create the feedback loops that make prosperity possible. Every socialist experiment ends the same way: shortages, corruption, and people fleeing to capitalist countries. The Berlin Wall kept people IN, not out.

Duke became the first P4 school to win their conference football championship game and men’s & women’s basketball tournaments since the inception of football league title games. How? University funding like never before. “We do not want to be left out.” yhoo.it/487OBa8

Tom Brady told @sherman4949 that he explored the possibility of coming out of retirement and returning to the NFL, adding that the league did not “like that idea very much.” More: espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…

Every day the headlines are like "another top Iranian regime leader killed" and "another Muslim country threatens war against Iran", and here in the west the Experts! are writing pieces about how Iran is winning because Trump isn't doing it how the Experts! wanted.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed two years ago today. The fact that a replacement isn't expected until 2030 is a good occasion to reflect on the defects of blue-state governance--which are intentional. My latest in @WSJFreeEx

One of the great and terrible unforced errors in public discourse. Unreal.

Not a Monty Python skit.

Jesus Calls On Followers To Eat Filet-O-Fish Sandwiches For 40 Days To Prepare For His Crucifixion buff.ly/nKEApqP

Soon countries that use hydrocarbons will be sending aid to help countries with renewable energy.

This is the wildest part of this: the coach they have hasn’t even been formally fired. LSU’s resources have routinely dug them out of being completely volatile in the admin.

“You sunk my battleship!”

The same demographic that, at that age, watched Lawrence Welk. Kids, ask your embittered grandparents.

Four of the top 7 selling jerseys, and 5 of the top 12, are Dodgers players