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@rockytfs @OutsideIn850650 @MegRemSoftball She was intentionally trying to hurt the batter. Instant ejection. Same call when a runner lowers a shoulder or takes a knee to the catcher’s head at the plate. Intent to injure.

@OutsideIn850650 @OyeBenji @MegRemSoftball The catcher was not trying to throw to third. It’s obvious from both video angles what she did. She may have gotten an out call by umpire, but, should be ejected and suspended for malicious intent.

There is a right way to play this game and a wrong way and this is 100% in the wrong. I don’t care that the batter moved back out of the box- you don’t intentionally step back to throw at her head, as hard as you can, from about a foot away. I don’t want to hear “you don’t know it wasn’t intentional.” Save it. The runner at 3rd is about a half step off 3rd. The way the catcher is positioned to throw, that throw is going towards the 3rd base fence. The most telling part though? No one checks on that batter and catcher gets a high five right after from her coach. The batter ended up with a concussion. This is completely unacceptable and has no place in this sport.

@OutsideIn850650 @MegRemSoftball Sorry, she was trying to hurt the batter. I grew up playing hockey in the 70s/80s. This chick gets annihilated every runner that comes home and gets beaned every at bat. FAFO. The player at the end of the bench earns the next start by taking her out of the game.

@MegRemSoftball There are rules for a reason. If the batter had stayed in the box this wouldn’t have happened. Catcher used the batters lack of discipline to get an extra out. The coach is at fault.

@makerefsai Pre-NIL college hoops was great.

It’s 3 am and im thinking about the most underrated ending to a game.

@NovaStarting5 NIL era sucks. It’s not college basketball, it’s pro ball with no contracts and few rules. Bares no resemblance to the game we grew up with and loved when we were at Villanova. I feel sorry for today’s students who have no idea what it was like to be a part of something great.

Seems like we've lost everyone besides Perkins and Hodge. Literally the same position as when we lost Neptune, just we've added Evans, Royal, Adam O. Trusting the staff but still stinks.

@LangmanVince It was written in the 80’s

I almost forgot that one of Bruce Springsteen's biggest hits that he wrote! was a creepy song about how much of pedophile he was!

@Geniustechw Hair dryers raised internal skull temperatures an average of 2 degrees F which resulted in increased endorphin production.

High School in America, 1988. People seemed way happier. What changed?

@ray4tesla Who pays the lawyers when FSD kills someone? Will they go for the kill shot and class action for a hundred billion and shut it down or will they settle for yearly payouts in the 10s of billions and keep it going? First rule of parasites is to not kill the host. Yearly payouts.

Chinese influencer Li Chi flew from China to California for the sole purpose of experiencing Tesla FSD firsthand. Here are his impressions: “Flew 25,000 km — half the globe — just to personally experience Tesla’s smart driving and compare it with Huawei’s smart driving. I’ll skip the detailed process and go straight to the conclusion: Under normal weather and road conditions, Tesla’s vision-based routing is first-class. (I didn’t get a chance to test in foggy conditions.) In certain scenarios, Tesla outperforms Huawei. For example, when activating smart driving, Tesla can reverse to avoid a vehicle parked on the left, then go around it and rejoin the road ahead — quite impressive. Route selection capability is also top-tier. It doesn’t just follow conventional routes but can take shortcuts through residential roads. Acceleration is crisp and decisive, without hesitation… In short, Tesla FSD is improving very quickly. Physically removing the steering wheel would already present no real obstacles. I hope China will soon allow Tesla FSD to operate domestically, enabling earlier adoption of L3 and encouraging competition with local manufacturers.”

@BarstoolBDevils Poorly coached freshmen one/doners blow 19 point lead, panic, turn it over, give up a wide open in rhythm three, lose the game to a veteran squad. Turn the roster over to another crop of 5 star freshmen and try again next year. Rinse and repeat.

First off, it was a 40 foot Hail Mary. Slim was not on the ball. If he jumps up to contest and fouls him, Evans blows the game Second off, professional espn accounts crucifying kids like this is only reserved for Duke players Would never see this if Evans went anywhere else

@HouseofDukeHL With Flagg, Boozer and starting lineup of NBA draft picks. He’s had the most talent in the country handed to him.

Scheyer won the natty as Duke player. He took over for arguably the GOAT in college bball w/o any head coaching experience & has had Duke in contention each of his 4 years with historic seasons. Zero scandals. Bleeds Duke. Still learning, of course. Wouldn’t trade him for anyone.

@TheHerd @colincowherd It’s stupid. Use ABS to call balls and strikes. Period.

"You're adding a dramatic gameshow feel to it! There's so much money in sports now, you've gotta get the call right!" @colincowherd thinks the ABS replay system is another successful innovation for MLB

@EricSpracklen New York City has a larger budget than the entire state of Florida. Ask your socialist mayor to fix your own damn streets.

American cities are literally crumbling while we are spending billions every day fighting a war in Iran. When will we end the madness and put America first?

@GoKnights_Go @lowstakesdre Same as tennis. Took a couple years. Full time Hawkeye is the best.

@lowstakesdre it’s coming but of course they have to bring it in slowly for some reason

Why even have the umpire decide ball/strike at this point? The two misses here were extremely close, human eye won’t ever be perfect. Why not make it 100% computerized? Zero error.

@DonaghyTimmy @CBSSportsCBB @MattNorlander What are you talking about?! Why does all talent have to go to Duke?! F•ck Duke! Hurley is New Jersey, Big East born and bred. The last 10 years Big East has twice as many Natty’s as the ACC, Duke has zero. Duke gets an NBA lineup every year and is ESPN’s team.

@CBSSportsCBB @MattNorlander Stop making excuces, it’s 2026 show some grit like college football analysts Stop making excuses Ain’t no “But at the same time”🥱 Hurley on the way to his 3rd title in recent yrs…. With Way less Talent Hurley Deserves Duke Position…. Would be so great for the sport

"No matter how loaded your roster is, you are guaranteed absolutely nothing." @MattNorlander on Duke falling short with Cooper Flagg and Cameron Boozer in back-to-back years

@CBSSportsCBB @MattNorlander According to this dope an excuse for not winning a natty is “one year he had a starting 5 that all got drafted and had to rebuild a roster”.

@stevemagness They’re freshmen who will be gone next year. Duke fields one and done teams of NBA players every year. Talented but perpetually inexperienced.

With 10 seconds left, Duke was up 2 with the ball. All they had to do was hold the ball. They passed. And one was deflected. A clutch three and UCONN wins. But...why throw the pass? Under pressure, our brain betrays us. Part of it goes offline. It's one of the cruel things in all of sport: First, some context on how insane this was. Duke led by 19. Number one seeds were 134-0 all time when leading by 15+ at halftime in the NCAA tournament. 134-0. Braylon Mullins, the freshman who hit the 35-footer with 0.4 seconds left, was 0-for-4 from three before that shot. Nothing about what happened should have happened. We tell athletes to "rise to the occasion." That's a lie. Under extreme pressure, you don't rise to anything. You fall to your defaults. The latest neuroscience explains why: When pressure spikes, your prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning, decision-making, and overriding impulse, starts to go offline. Stress hormones like norepinephrine and dopamine flood the system. At moderate levels, they help you focus and lock-in. But past a threshold, the PFC starts to shut down. Attention flips from thoughtful "top-down" control to "bottom-up" control, where whatever stimulus is in front of you captures your attention. It's less thinking and planning and more impulsive reacting. Hartogsveld and colleagues tested this in 2020. They stressed participants out and measured whether they could override trained habits when the situation changed. Stressed participants committed significantly more "slips of action," performing the trained habit even when it was no longer the correct response. Stress made them default to what they'd practiced most. It's the cruel paradox of choking. Your most practiced behaviors take over precisely when the situation demands something different. Duke needed to do nothing. Literally hold the ball. But everything a basketball player has ever practiced is telling them to make a play. In this situation, get past midcourt to avoid the backcourt violation. When our PFC is off-line, we lose that impulse control to tell us, wait a minute, context demands something different! Research shows that we often try to compensate for the pressure by trying harder. We start forcing things or trying to micromanage the situation to deal with losing a bit of control. Inevitably, this backfires. So you get this terrible contradiction. The PFC goes offline and you lose top-down control. But whatever executive resources remain get directed at the wrong thing, overmonitoring your own movements. You start consciously controlling things that should be running on autopilot, and the whole system jams. Don't believe me, try to do simple math when you are moderately stressed or fatigued, such as mile 15 of a marathon or the 6th 400m repeat of the workout? Any runner will tell you, it's hard to do 26 minus 15... Now, add the pressure of millions watching, and see how your brain works. There's no perfect solution. You've got to feel for the Duke kids. This close and have it ripped away. But that's why when preparing for a high pressure situation there are a few solutions. 1. Inoculate Yourself Train in environments that simulate pressure as best you can. Up the ante, use exercise as a stressor to challenge decision making. Visualize it. Michael Phelps visualized a "problem tape" of what to do if it went wrong. Create simple If...Then scenarios. A mental playbook of sorts, like a QB that knows to dump it to the RB if pressure comes. 2. Copy Pilots. They have checklists and slogans for emergencies (Aviate-Navigate-Communicate). It simplifies the priorities directing them what to focus on and what actions to take when their brain isn't working. Tell your brain where to focus and what action to take. Coaches need to make it simple and explicit. When the pressure is on, treat your athletes like a toddler. Because that's how their brain is kind of working...

@BizNasty2point0 We just need to suffer through this until it’s full time ABS and we can reward hitters for zone discipline and increased offense by not forcing swings at questionable pitches so as not to “leave it up to the ump”. Arguing calls and showing up umps with challenges is WWE crap.

What baseball has done with pitch clock and ABS is unbelievable. One of the most traditional games making adjustments and it rewarding the fans. Just smart stuff and the online interaction from ABS can’t be denied. Bravo Baseball.

@Sadie_NC Johannesburg, SA. The Small Street Mall and Van Brandis St. are shown in the video. Looks like a nice place.

Can you figure out which city this is? Hints are all over in the video. 😳😳

@RealJayWilliams NC’s in the last 10 years - Jay Wright and Dan Hurley 4, Duke 0. Talented veteran players, extremely well coached, will win.

The fastest way to expose yourself as a casual? Call Scheyer a choker. Coach K - 16 yrs Bill Self - 15 yrs Roy Williams - 17 yrs John Wooden - 16 yrs Jay Wright - 22 yrs Izzo - 5 yrs John Calipari - 20 yrs John Thompson - 12 yrs

@RealJayWilliams Those coaches built programs and graduated players. Scheyer had no resume, gets the Duke job, walks in with number one recruiting class with lottery picks every year, has ESPN adopt them as their own team, has you carrying their water all season. No comparison.

@RealJayWilliams Scheyer gets the top recruiting class every year, the Boozers, Cooper Flagg, and still loses. He starts multiple freshman every season on a one year stop over to the pros. ESPN promotes Duke as their own team and has ex players like you announce the games. F*ck Duke.