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Light it red babyyyyy 🐺❤️🐺❤️🐺

Me when my wife tells me to put my phone away at the dinner table

Being a hyperhidrosis human I fu**ing hate summerssss !!! 😤😤😤

So much for having Air Superiority

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT

Justin Gainey on taking over as the NC State head coach, per release: “I’m humbled and honored to be the head coach of the NC State men’s basketball program. This university helped build me as a player and as a person. To now lead it as head coach is truly a full-circle moment. There’s a responsibility that comes with leading your alma mater, and I embrace it fully. “We’re going to honor our tradition, represent this university the right way, and build a program our Wolfpack family can be proud of. This place means everything to me. I wore the jersey with pride, and now I’ll lead this program with that same passion, toughness and commitment to winning that defines the Wolfpack.”

One of our own 🐺 Welcome home, @CoachGainey!

This Summer, find your place in the universe. #Supergirl lands in theaters June 26.

You're looking at 12 shows with an average IMDb rating of 8.89 out of 10. Five of them sit above 9.0. HBO built this run across 24 years, and the whole thing traces back to a single business decision made in 1972. HBO launched on November 8, 1972. The audience was 365 people in a small Pennsylvania town paying $6 a month. The first broadcast was a hockey game. The entire company was built on one idea: you pay us directly, we show you movies and events with zero commercials. That "zero commercials" part turned out to be the most important business decision in TV history. When a network runs on ad money, it has to keep advertisers happy. Advertisers want huge audiences, which means safe content, which means shows where nobody says anything too real. That's how network TV spent decades cranking out predictable cop dramas and family sitcoms where every storyline wraps up in 42 minutes. HBO's money came from subscribers. They didn't care if a show made Coca-Cola uncomfortable. They cared whether it was good enough to keep you paying next month. So they handed writers and directors total creative control. The Sopranos put a mob boss in therapy for six seasons. The Wire spent five years inside Baltimore's drug trade where the cops are just as damaged as the dealers. Neither show survives a single pitch meeting at a network where Toyota needs to keep writing checks. The Sopranos premiered in 1999. By 2004, it became the first cable show ever to win the Emmy for Best Drama. HBO has now pulled in over 1,500 Emmy nominations and more than 220 wins. In 2025, they broke their own all-time record with 142 nominations across 20 shows. I think the spending gap is what really drives this home. HBO made House of the Dragon for about $20 million per episode. Amazon spent $58 million per episode on Rings of Power. Nearly triple the budget. HBO's show rates higher on IMDb. At some point the raw dollar amount stops mattering and the creative environment takes over. HBO figured that out before anyone else did. By the early 2010s, HBO was pulling in $1.2 to $1.5 billion a year in profit. From 365 subscribers at $6 each to 132 million worldwide today. Netflix sees the math clearly enough. In December 2025 they offered $72 billion to buy HBO's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance countered at $110.9 billion. A bidding war over a network that started with a hockey game broadcast to a few hundred living rooms in Pennsylvania. Fifty-three years ago, HBO bet that people would pay for TV worth paying for. Every show in that image is what happens when the bet keeps winning.

BREAKING: NC State is hiring Tennessee assistant coach Justin Gainey as its next head basketball coach, @PeteNakos reports. on3.com/news/nc-state-…

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BRAYLON MULLINS FOR THE WIN 😱 UCONN ELIMINATES DUKE IN THE FINAL SECONDS 👀 (via @MarchMadnessMBB)

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."

Leading. Hunter gatherer posture. Food secured. Rodhesian infantry length shorts. Generational run.

Recent unprecedented events have forced us to make some changes around here. #GoPack

@Chettset @ripthevillage @joeovies @giglio_OG

@ripthevillage @joeovies But I was told he wouldn’t even coach a game for the Tar Heels. 🤭🤭😆 you losing your shit over the Wade news too? @giglio_OG was in literal tears talking bout how Wade didn’t earn the right to take the V pic. Where was that energy 9 months ago when he took it

Boo Corrigan. OG Podcast listener.

Built for Raleigh

NC State AD Boo Corrigan: "I think Philip Rivers said it ... the Wolfpack ain't for soft people. We're going to go find a coach that understands who we are."

V: Don’t give up, don’t ever give up Will Wade: If you can’t win with a $10 million roster, lose three games by 25 points, can’t win a First Four game, realize you’ll never compete with Duke … give up and go back to LSU

@gabe_wiseman2 @BurnerPete2395 @MelvinGibsons1 @JonRothstein I think it’s more embarrassing for Wade, he couldn’t handle the pressure

@BurnerPete2395 @MelvinGibsons1 @JonRothstein Which makes this pathetic and embarrassing for nc state

Sources: LSU will officially part ways with Matt McMahon today and hire NC State's Will Wade as its next head basketball coach. Wade was previously the head coach of the Tigers from 2017-22.

@DonnellySports He would’ve got walked and then cry like a baby about how much his teams sucks.

Will Wade is leaving NC State before ever coaching a game in Cameron Indoor or the Dean Dome. #GoACC