Dwight Jaynes

How does anyone justify a team that lost 8 of 10 weekend series getting into the postseason? How ? Kentucky

This is the thing. An advantageous seed sets up SEC teams to advance. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle along with inflated RPIs.

Do not wish me a happy Memorial Day. You cannot celebrate a nineteen-year wait for a flag-draped casket. My father’s cousin flew a hundred combat missions and died in a foreign jungle. Acknowledge the men who bought your afternoon in the shade. Read the full column here ⬇️

Kentucky was one and done in their conf tournament. They were 13-17 in conference. Mercer had 44 freakin’ wins with a 27 RPI. You can argue all you want about SOS, but isn’t the RPI supposed to reflect that? I’m so sick of SEC bias.

The NCAA selection committee appears to have genuine interest in addressing the issue. But for now, teams that manipulated the RPI margins came out ahead on Selection Monday 😬 More here: baseballamerica.com/stories/winner…

Earl Weaver's Ten Laws of Baseball ⚾️

Heard the entire sequence at the time, including the changes he wanted the team to make for him to stay. They did and he didn't.

This dude would annihilate Shaquille O'Neal. Annihilation.

"Mercer should have scheduled tougher to improve their RPI" Mercer's RPI: 28 Mercer's Non-Con SOS: 218 NC State's RPI: 51 NC State's Non-Con SOS: 242

Not the way it happened. A lot of people have said entirely different versions.

Dwyane Wade on playing against White/International players: “From the community I’m from, if I see a white boy I’m like ‘oh I got him.’ I don’t know him at all. It’s just a perception that he’s not better than me. He can’t be better than me. You’ll hear a lot of African Americans speak from that space. From a basketball standpoint that was the thought. International players are soft. Then I played international basketball, and got my ass kicked. I was like ‘oh no, they’re SKILLED.’ Their game is tougher. Actually, it’s our game that’s softer” (Via SKWEEK YT)

I’d loved to have been in the morning @espn @SportsCenter production meeting. “Hey did you guys see the Indy 500 finish? Amazing last lap! We’ve got to put that #1 in the Top 10” “I don’t know. I’ve got 2 English soccer highlights, a women’s lacrosse goal & an ultimate frisbee catch. Indy 500 probably won’t make it” Your program is a joke.

Since 1964, taxpayers have spent over $2 trillion subsidizing national transit. Highways continue to provide a better form of transportation and rely only on user fees for improvements, and it continues to be the backbone of mobility in Oregon.

First team, 1961-62: Chamberlain Baylor Pettit Robertson West

Not enough time or space for a cap tutorial here. If you are over the cap, you can stay over by keeping it.

Today’s Oregonian editorial finally said part of what needed to be said. But after the Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission meeting, heaven only knows what new fiscal wreckage the Peacocks & DSA economic dipshits will try to shove through with amendments. Despite the city’s chief financial officer warning councilors against diverting money from depleted contingency and reserve funds — money set aside for emergencies — a majority of city councilors passed several amendments that did exactly that, as The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Shane Dixon Kavanaugh reported. They also voted to tap Portland parks levy dollars to cover extra expenses on the assumption that the bureau can find the savings to do so. Such short-sighted finagling means the city will use one-time dollars to fund a range of ongoing needs, from a fire engine in St. Johns to the city’s small donor elections program that issues campaign contributions to candidates — including many serving on City Council. At the same time, a majority killed more defensible efforts by Councilors Steve Novick and Dan Ryan to trim their own and fellow councilors’ $1.45 million budgets which, Novick noted, exceed the budgets of each of the five Multnomah County commissioners. A proposal by Councilor Olivia Clark to backfill public safety cuts by using $10 million of police accountability commission funds — money that will likely go unused as the program is in its infancy — also couldn’t muster the votes to pass. At this point, I’m not sure anything short of a debt downgrade will shame them into reality. The truly alarming part is that the silent majority still doesn’t seem to grasp the scale of the damage being done — or worse, they do and refuse to speak up while these people drive the district straight into a financial wall. @MayorKWilson @mitch4portland @jamiedunphy @pnwpolicyangel @candaceforpdx @TeacherTiff4PDX @kanalforpdx @ oregonlive.com/opinion/2026/0…

🎶📺On May 24, 1986, Pet Shop Boys performed ‘West End Girls’ on ‘Soul Train’

Timeless classic.

AMEN.

LOL, it was explained at the time... Paul wanted to save the peace... by giving it to Turner they did that. That's why it was done and it has been explained a thousand times but people shy away from history. And the Parsons thing didn't go down that way, either.