@jblob95 @MercPurdy Salt Lake City too, big one that I forgot for a second.
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John Ryan
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John Ryan
@WorkishFromHome
Trying to stay calm. This seems like a nice place for that.
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@jblob95 @MercPurdy Vegas, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Denver, L.A. all care more about college sports. But if NCAA keeps its pricing scheme with no recognition of true demand, they’ll run into the same problem.
Also part of the equation here is travel costs (food/lodging etc) are way higher too.
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The Sweet Sixteen games also failed to sell out last year at Chase Center, with thousands of empty seats. Same issues. Prices too high, college hoops not as popular in the Bay as other places, teams from far away (Florida, Maryland, Texas Tech, Arkansas)
don julio@jblob95
@DarrenSabedra SJ doesn’t care about hoops. Should’ve been at chase center
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@DarrenSabedra Ticket prices. 100%. It will be the same situation at Levi’s for the World Cup.
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Either ticket prices were too high — even for one of the wealthiest regions on the globe — or the Bay Area isn’t as passionate about college hoops as it once was. Regional final in 07 between UCLA & Kansas in SJ drew 18,102.
Nathan Canilao@nathancanilao
Attendance for tonight’s Elite 8 game between Arizona and Purdue. 14,854.
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@BobPagesports @Jimfrombaseball Jim it’s really disturbing that you would retweet this racist garbage. It’s so far beneath you.
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@meredithllee @AustinScottGA08 Pretty clear indication of who Republicans really think is to blame for the airport situation
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🚨MANY House Republicans livid Senate passed a DHS funding deal without ICE and some CBP $ overnight and left
“A bunch of cowards. They didn't even take a recorded vote” @AustinScottGA08, a Rules Committee member, said
“This is not a done deal”
A BIG crisis facing Speaker Johnson- who is is still weighing several perilous paths forward and doesn’t yet have the votes for anything. Hardliners still pushing attacking SAVE and sending back to Senate. Johnson huddling with leadership now.
But House centrists are desperate to pass this TODAY.
“I hope they do,” Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa) told me
W/ @ktullymcmanus
politico.com/live-updates/2… @politico
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@PeterTwinklage Does this mean it was a real hack? Or they found some very bad porn searches and he has to say it was someone else?
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chat is this good?
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
DOJ OFFICIAL SAYS FBI DIRECTOR'S PERSONAL EMAIL WAS BREACHED BY HACKERS
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@malber @NicoleAuerbach It isn’t the reality everywhere. Duke’s five starters began their career at Duke. This is boring and you’re missing a very easy point I made.
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@WorkishFromHome @NicoleAuerbach Your point criticized player transfers. That's just the reality of all of college sports right now, especially programs in a rebuild like UM was.
And yeah acad standards are relaxed for athletes (as at all schools) but there've still been MANY who were turned down due to grades
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Dusty May: "I'll tell you what we say in recruiting — that we have what we feel is the academic profile of Stanford with the passion of SEC football for our athletic department as a whole, and usually those two things aren't merged."
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@malber @NicoleAuerbach You can absolutely judge their athletic department’s academics on that.
The whole “Michigan as an elite academic school for athletes” has always been garbage. It is an elite school for normal students but that’s irrelevant for football and basketball. Even moreso in this era.
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@WorkishFromHome @NicoleAuerbach That’s the new NIL reality of college sports. Unfortunately. Can’t judge a prestigious institutions academics on that.
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@rogoswami @semaforben @BrendanCarrFCC @semafor Carr knows those owners have the billions and the willingness to bribe the administration. This is a shakedown.
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NEW: @BrendanCarrFCC tells me @Semafor that the sports leagues are potentially jeopardizing their antitrust exemptions by putting their games behind YouTube TV/Netflix paywalls.
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@EricJMoser1 @krassenstein Totally normal and appropriate thing for the President of the United States to be bragging about.
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You’re treating a cognitive‑screening task like it’s supposed to be a math contest. That’s not what it measures, and you know it. Serial 7s isn’t a math challenge — it’s a quick screen for attention, working memory, and processing speed.
1. Attention
Can the person stay focused on a continuous mental task without drifting?
2. Working Memory
Can they hold a number in mind, manipulate it, and keep track of the sequence?
3. Processing Speed
How efficiently can they perform a simple mental operation under mild pressure?
That’s it. It’s a quick screen for cognitive function, not a demonstration of mathematical skill.
Well Dr. Brian, what do you have to say about that?
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BREAKING: At his cabinet meeting, Trump just bragged about how hard the mathematical equations of his cognitive test that he passed were.
FACT: The hardest mathematical equation on such a test is referred to as the “Serial 7s” Test:
You start at 100 and keep subtracting 7, out loud:
100 → 93 → 86 → 79 → 72 → 65 → 58 →
This is literally what he’s bragging about. My seven-year-old could do this.
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This is very bad & pointless for players, my column;
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
The 49ers and Rams will play Thursday, Sept. 10 at 5:35 p.m. PT at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia. Due to the 17-hour time difference, the 49ers and Rams will take the field Friday at 10:35 a.m. (AEST) in Melbourne, with the game airing Thursday evening in the United States.
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@ddayen Good story. California hasn’t moved on from the identity politics that most Dems realize is a dead end. People are candidates solely because they are black/Latino/Asian etc.
You see it in L.A. mayoelection. It’s impossible to be worse than Karen Bass has been, yet she is way up.
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I profiled Tom Steyer's campaign for governor in California, where risks of an all-GOP runoff are rising. I think 1 reason is state Dems don't really believe in politics, in talking to voters & responding to concerns. If nothing else, Steyer's doing that.
prospect.org/2026/03/24/tom…
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Boy athletes are repeating eighth grade in a "holdback" year to grow ahead of recruitment for college NIL packages potentially worth millions on.wsj.com/4rAVtEQ
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@Amockx2022 The White House is doing the old nursing home trick of giving Grandpa the phone and letting him think he is talking to whatever famous person he wants to talk to.
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@NicoleAuerbach Brian Ferentz and Chubba Purdy should throw the ceremonial tip-off
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GUYS I cannot believe Iowa is playing Nebraska for a spot in the Elite Eight!!!
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@theblockspot They got three of the top eight seeds in the country but yes people have been sleeping on them
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BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.
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@NicoleAuerbach Can definitely see why the power conferences wanted to duck them
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@KVanValkenburg For about five seconds I felt bad for Lisa having to listen to Lick 'Em Low Lisa but ... nah
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The Afroman Trial stuff did not disappoint. Highly encourage anyone to check it out if you have yet to do so and want to spent the next 20 mins laughing.
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