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Not really…..Coaches have relationships with refs and many don’t take acts and behaviors personally….

Breaking: NC State will be hiring Tennessee assistant Justin Gainey as its next men's basketball coach, sources tell @CBSSports. Gainey, 49, was one of the primary targets for the job and notably played for the Wolfpack from '96-00. He's been a high-major assistant since 2018.

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💻 @realchriswebber Has hating on Duke become extinct? Not if you talk a couple of Michigan Men: #MarchMadness

@RellDMC HD recruited Mullins hard as memory serves? You would know best?

What did we just watch?

@amynoelle24 😉🙃- #lawdhabmuhsee

Dan Hurley, you magnificent son of a bitch!

Great story

The phishing protection company got phished. 900,000 records. By a phone call. They "take your security seriously."

@patjames24 @DiamondHeels Great to see Cooper close that last out! Excellent work fellas - safe travels home. 💯

With their sweep of No. 23 Notre Dame, the @DiamondHeels have: - Their first road sweep of a ranked foe since March 2024 at Wake Forest - Two road ACC sweeps in a season for the first time since 2017 - Sweeps in their first two ACC road series for the first time since 2013

@homegymcoop thx Coop - images flyin' by in that clip. ;-) - do you have a youtube video that breaks down the building blocks of this setup? 💯

I constantly hear people say they’d build a home gym, but they park their car in their garage. Here’s a solution that allows you to do both.

Once a minor sports shoe brand, Onitsuka Tiger enjoyed some popularity decades ago before being subsumed into the lineup of parent company Asics. Today, though, it is back and stronger than ever. nippon.com/en/japan-topic…

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗧𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! #GoHeels x @WellsFargo

The White House App has OneSignal's full GPS pipeline compiled in, polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third party server.

A positive development for WNC. Thanks to team NCDOT.

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes gave an enthusiastic endorsement of associate head coach Justin Gainey, who is set to interview for the NC State job: "If NC State knew what I knew, they would be begging him to be their next head coach. Because he's ready not just for NC State, he's ready to be the head coach of the University of Tennessee or any school in the country."

I've read Will Wade's NC State contract. All 22 pages. And I've read The Athletic's reporting on his departure to LSU. Wade is in breach of his contract. It's not a close call. Here's why. THE CONTRACT Wade signed an employment agreement effective March 23, 2025, running through March 31, 2031. NC State paid him $2.5 million in salary, gave him $11 million to build a roster, and invested significant institutional resources in his program. In return, Wade made specific contractual promises. He broke them. THE NOTICE AND DISCLOSURE OBLIGATIONS (Section XIII.A) This is the critical provision. Wade "specifically promises, not to seek or apply for other men's basketball related employment prior to the natural expiration of the Term of this Agreement, under any circumstances, without first providing written notice to the Director of Athletics." But it goes further. Wade was also contractually required to "advise in writing the Director of Athletics of any inquiries or contacts exploring COACH's possible interest in or availability for other full-time or part-time employment." Those are two separate obligations: (1) a duty not to seek other employment without notice, and (2) a duty to disclose any contacts or inquiries. Wade violated both. Continuously. For months. THE TIMELINE @TheAthletic reports that discussions about Wade returning to LSU go back to last summer. Sources say "this has all been in the works." The Rousse-Schroyer-Wade trinity — all formerly at McNeese together — was coordinated across months, with Rousse becoming LSU president in November and Schroyer being named senior deputy AD on the same day Wade's deal was announced. During the ACC Tournament, the N&O's Shelby Swanson (@shelbymswanson) asked Wade directly about LSU interest. He denied it. Corrigan says he asked Wade the same question. Wade said no. And then there's this: it is rumored — though unconfirmed — that Wade purchased a house in Baton Rouge in February. If true, that would mean Wade was making a seven-figure real estate commitment to relocate to LSU's city while still under contract to NC State, still spending NC State's NIL dollars, and still looking Boo Corrigan in the eye and telling him there was nothing to discuss. If that's confirmed, it's not just a breach. It's a fraud. That's not just a failure to provide written notice. That's affirmative concealment of exactly the information the contract required him to disclose. THE DUTY OF LOYALTY (Section II.D) Wade's contract required him to "faithfully and diligently perform the Duties" and to "devote such time, attention, and skills to the performance of the Duties as necessary to meet the responsibilities of the position." If Wade was conducting back-channel negotiations with LSU while spending NC State's $11 million in roster-building money and meeting with Corrigan about next season's plans — all while planning to leave — he was not devoting his full time and attention to NC State's program. After the season, Wade went to Corrigan seeking a raise, more money for assistants, and increased NIL funds. If he was already planning to leave — and the timeline strongly suggests he was — that meeting was theater. He was either using NC State's counteroffer as leverage with LSU, or creating a pretextual record that Corrigan "refused to renegotiate" to justify his departure. Either way, that's not faithful and diligent performance. THE MISCONDUCT CLAUSE (Section XI.A(5)) The contract provides for termination for cause based on "misconduct of the COACH... of such a nature, as reasonably determined in the discretion of NC STATE, that would significantly offend the traditions and ethics of NC STATE or which brings significant discredit to NC STATE." Lying to your AD. Secretly negotiating with another school for months. Resigning by email through your agent. Using a public university's resources as a one-year audition for your next job. That's significant discredit by any reasonable measure. THE BUYOUT — AND WHY NC STATE LEFT MONEY ON THE TABLE Section XIII.B sets the buyout at $5 million before April 1, 2026, dropping to $3 million after. NC State reportedly settled at $4 million. Here's the problem with that settlement: the liquidated damages framework in XIII.B presumes an orderly departure — coach decides to leave, provides notice, pays the schedule. It doesn't contemplate a coach who spent months secretly negotiating his exit while deceiving university officials. Section XIII.A's written notice requirement functions as a condition precedent to the buyout framework. Wade didn't comply with it. NC State therefore had a colorable argument that its remedies weren't capped by the buyout schedule but extended to actual damages — the cost of a coaching search, roster attrition, lost recruiting momentum, the institutional resources invested in a roster Wade knew he was abandoning. NC State likely has a general release as part of the $4 million settlement. If so, that claim is gone. But it didn't have to go this way. THE BOTTOM LINE Wade's contract with NC State was well-drafted. It anticipated exactly this scenario. It imposed specific, enforceable obligations to disclose and provide written notice before pursuing other employment. Wade ignored those obligations while actively concealing his plans. He took NC State's money, spent NC State's NIL budget, made recruiting promises on NC State's behalf, apparently lied to NC State's AD, and then resigned by email through his agent on his way out the door to a job that had been, according @MattBaker @BrendanRMarks and @ralphDrussoATH , "in the works" for months. Whether NC State has the appetite to fight this is a separate question from whether it has the right to. The contract says it does.

If you're a security practitioner, you have a conversation to have on Monday. Not about Kash Patel. About your own executives. What's sitting in breach databases tied to their name, phone, personal email? With consent and scope, you can find out before an adversary does. Breach exposure checks on executive personal assets are a legitimate and underused tool. The exposure was real. The data was there. Your executives are only as secure as their least-protected personal account.

We are saddened by the passing of former head coach Kitty Harrison. A pioneer of Carolina Women’s Tennis, her legacy will forever be part of this program. Our thoughts are with her family and all who knew her🩵

Part of TeamPCP's success thus far has been the speed in which they operate. tl;dr teampcp doing lots of supply chains, exhausting, smash and grab passwords, runaway, really tiring Generally speaking, large scale supply chain attacks are quiet with the focus being silence and espionage. A notable example of this is SOLARWINDS supply-chain attack which was conducted by the Russian Federation. The goal is to discretely insert malicious code into a products update cycle. The payload would (under ideal circumstances) execute with specific triggers in place and BE QUIET. They don't want to set off any metaphorical alarms. You quietly watch and SLOWLY work. TeamPCP (as of this writing) has focused on information exfiltration (stealing sensitive data, primarily credentials) which is more akin to a smash-and-grab rather staying silent and watching what people are doing with their binoculars. A successful supply chain attack can be a DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) nightmare. Many organizations do not have an internal DFIR on staff, hence they consult with external entities. Suddenly with a supply chain attack you've got dozens of organizations contacting the same group of companies needing a forensic investigation launched. These DFIR's can take time with reporting, identifying victims, potential PII or sensitive documents stolen, cooperation with law enforcement and legal departments (or external law firms) ... it can take days, weeks, or (depending on the scope of impact and bureaucracy) months. And then suddenly there is another supply chain attack ... and then another ... and then another ... and then another ... with a total of 50 as of this writing. The best I can describe what I'm currently seeing is a "DFIR resource exhaustion" technique. If you've got only a handful of DFIR firms spread thin across a dozen of so companies and then ANOTHER supply chain attack happens AND THEN ANOTHER AND THEN ANOTHER, with some organizations potentially being hit multiple times, it's a nightmare come alive. TeamPCP (as of what we've learned thus far) successfully used a supply chain attack to pivot to other supply chain attacks. They're chaining chains. The concern now is they've performed 50 supply chain attacks in 8 days. Is there anymore coming? Has any other vendor failed to rotate their security credentials correctly? Is any company not cooperating? What data was stolen? How many companies are even impacted? How many are unaware of what happened? How much user PII was stolen? How were these other supply chain attacks conducted? The current prevailing theory is all of these supply chain attacks are the result of the initial Trivy supply chain attack, however (unironically) DFIR work must be conducted and more investigative work needs to be performed. It is dangerously to assert with high-confidence it is the result of the Trivy supply chain attack. If you're wrong, what if it's from something else we're not aware of yet? I'm sure not all details are public (yet). More information will come out eventually. This sort of DFIR work would take months but now it's a race against the clock hoping another doesn't occur. 2026 starting off strong.