THE GABE

Every single person who reads this has the same batting average as Joc Pederson.

ICONIC. The costumes, the casting, the amount of extras and live animals. No green screen. They don't make movies like Ten Commandments anymore.

Not about bashing individuals here, but Jay Bilas has done more to destroy our unique, world-class collegiate athletics system than nearly anyone. Particularly when he spouts the tired nonsense we all saw earlier today. ​He became social media famous by basically searching the NCAA website and turning that into a crusade that is dismantling one of the best educational opportunity programs this great country has ever seen, all under the fake guise of "player advocacy" (that he knows really only benefits a select few). ​He ignores the fact that universities are quite literally bankrupting themselves to avoid irrelevance in this horrible, unsustainable new system he helped create and keeps pushing. ​As said here often, Division 1 Basketball & Football fan distrust and dissatisfaction are at an all-time high, and his tired reliance on TV ratings does nothing to fix the massive discontent. ​EVERYONE hates the current NCAA trajectory, except for the few like Bilas who profit from this chaos. ​He's apparently using his massive platform to provide legal cover for a unionization push from which he will undoubtedly financially benefit. ​College sports belongs to the schools, students, and the fans, not to the lawyers trying to bill their way into the headlines.

The people who thought we needed a Chainsmokers concert in between Final Four games are the same ones who think we need to expand the NCAA Tournament.

the best part about having teenagers is you can leave the house in the morning and come back at lunch time and no one knows you even left the house.

Those games in the women’s final four set women’s basketball back 65 years. We didn’t realize what Caitlin gave us.

PSA: Accountants do more than just file 1040 tax returns and bookkeeping. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

20 years ago, a man screamed his own name into a microphone and ruined everything. It became one of the most famous moments in internet history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ A group of players in an online game called World of Warcraft had spent several minutes planning a complicated raid. Timing, positioning, survival odds. One player calculated their chances of success at 32.33 percent, repeating. The whole time, one of their teammates wasn’t listening. He’d stepped away from his computer to reheat some chicken. When he came back, he ignored everything, screamed his character’s name at the top of his lungs, and charged straight into the fight alone. Everyone followed him in. They all died in seconds. “Leeroy, you are just stupid as hell.” “At least I have chicken.” The clip spread across the internet before “going viral” was even a phrase. It was referenced in South Park, How I Met Your Mother, and an article in a military journal. The game’s developer added the character as an official figure inside the game. His name became shorthand for anyone who ruins a plan by doing something reckless. The whole thing was staged. The group admitted years later it was a scripted re-enactment of something that had actually happened. The cameraman said: “We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real. We thought it was so obviously satire.” The player behind Leeroy Jenkins is a guy named Ben Schulz. He repairs industrial lighting for a living.

So all that sportsmanship stuff goes out the window for Geno when he loses his first game of the year? Got it.

I showed up a Cali boy. I am now an Oklahoma man. Norman, you made me. OU, you made me. Whatever comes next, I carry all of it with me. Boomer Sooner! 🤍

Coach Venables gave me something I didn't expect. A chance to give back through SOUL Mission. Four years pouring into young men. Watching them grow. Reminding them that football is the vehicle, not the destination. That work changed me more than it changed them.

Ten years. I came to Norman in 2016 as a kid from Fresno who wanted to prove something. I had no idea what God had planned. Five Big 12 Championships. Three College Football Playoff appearances.

Just remember when you watch the Final 4 from inside a football stadium there isn’t a single person that works for the NCAA that cares about the fan let alone the student athlete

NEW: President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order regulating college sports, @PeteNakos reports✍️ Athletes will have one free undergraduate transfer. Details: on3.com/news/donald-tr…

@SBJ OU basketball inevitably being the 77th team

NCAA leadership is expected to finalize an expansion of the men’s and women’s tournaments to 76 teams soon after this year’s tournament 🏀 The proposal would add eight games to the First Four, with 24 teams playing in an opening round before advancing into the main bracket. Via @YahooSports | ow.ly/yNgb50YCTv2

In 1988, a simple Little League song about the kid in right field captured the pure, carefree magic of childhood and love of the game. Who knew Pizza Hut had marketing skill like this

Going to send client a copy of their tax return as follows, odd pages as separate upside down JPGs as text messages. Even pages as individual HEIC to email. Bill will come as 40 separate $15 invoices of which only half can paid by ACH, 3 by CC, the rest cash or check only.

Oklahoma and Colorado are heading to overtime in Las Vegas OU blew a 7-point lead with 1:41 to go

@JoshMCallaway They did not bring this home

Oklahoma leads Colorado 69-66 with 3:28 to go in Las Vegas Colorado has not made a shot in nearly 8 (!) full minutes OU has to find a way to bring this home