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UCF coach Johnny Dawkins reveals why his mission never wavers, even with the NIL era changing collegiate sports. A must-watch perspective on leadership and athlete care. #CollegeBasketball #NIL #UCF
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There’s gonna be 943 people at this game tomorrow
🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨 Ends tonight at midnight! 🎟️: uhcoogs.co/26AREACODE
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Load management games. Resting starters. Decreased stakes. Decreased urgency. Diluted regular season. Allowing a ton of losses. Conference championships gone. Bowl games gone. They’re going to jam 18 SEC/B1G teams in. A 7-5 SEC team will get in at some point guaranteed at the expense of an 8-4 or 9-3 small brand. 🔥 24-team Playoff 🔥 Anyone pushing this hates College Football.
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I think every single NL playoff team would win the AL this year
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MLB: We’re the oldest sports league in history. Fandom is passed down through generations like an heirloom. People can live their entire lives and only see their team in the playoffs a few times. There is such magnitude here. Also if you work at 1 pm on a Tuesday you’ll miss it
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Since 2024, Missouri has been ranked in @AP_Top25 poll in 32 of 39 weeks In that span, Missouri is 1-9 vs. ranked teams, w/only win vs. No. 24 Boston College in 2024
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Sam Bates retweeted
If Max Scherzer’s daughter ran out to the mound for his retirement
Kev
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CHARGE ON!! ⚔️
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If West Virginia-Virginia were played in Morgantown or Charlottesville, this would be a sold-out, electric on-campus environment. Instead, we get this at a sterile NFL stadium with no real connection to either program. College football belongs on campus. 📸: @SLight20
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Sam Bates retweeted
Inked through 2030 ✍️⚾ 🗞️ ucfknights.com/WallaceExtens…
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One of America’s most distinct cultural institutions is controlled by people who either don’t understand it or don’t care about it. The sport as we loved it is dead, all that’s left is a deep, hopeless nostalgia.
NEW: A 24-team playoff isn't just coming - it will drastically change the bowl system per @On3 👀 Bowls moving BEFORE the season. P4 teams refusing to play. Sponsors walking. A lot of unknowns Details: on3.com/news/the-bowl-system…
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25 years later, we will #neverforget911
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Sam Bates retweeted
Never forget.
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Welles Crowther was a former Boston College lacrosse player who had a trademark red bandanna. He was also working in New York on Sept. 11, 2001 when terrorists struck the World Trade Center. This is the story of how he led people to safety on that fateful day 25 years ago.
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Sam Bates retweeted
First Bounce was a movie 🤩
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On Childhood Cancer Awareness Day at Citizens Bank Park, this young fan got to round the bases and high five the @Phillies and @Braves pregame - right alongside Bryce Harper! 💛
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We need an investigation on this Michigan - Western Michigan game. This stinks of corruption. There was not a second left on that clock
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Sam Bates retweeted
Big 12 teams ranked by points scored in major bowl/CFP games since 1998 W Virginia - 156 Utah - 132 TCU - 131 UCF - 118 Baylor - 118 OK State - 98 K-State - 65 Cincy - 58 Houston - 38 Iowa St - 34 Ariz St - 31 Arizona - 30 Kansas - 24 Colorado - 16 BYU - 0 Texas Tech - 0
Cody Campbell in the new Texas Tech doc: "We’re not going to forget about that, and I don’t think they’ll forget about it either when we’re up by 40 and still throwing the ball in the fourth quarter. That’s where the retribution will come.” nytimes.com/athletic/7561151…
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Sam Bates retweeted
Rutgers invented college football in 1869 and has spent the last 160 years regretting the decision
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Sam Bates retweeted
Kawhi Leonard’s legacy with the Los Angeles Clippers: - Demanded the front office trade for Paul George, forcing them to part with every asset they had including a young Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - Missed 243 games in 7 seasons (equivalent of nearly 3 seasons) - 2019-2020: Blew a 3-1 lead in Western Conference Semi-Finals - 2020-2021: Clippers reach Western Conference Finals without him - 2021-2022: Missed playoffs - 2022-2023: Eliminated in the first round and didn’t finish the series - 2023-2024: Eliminated in the first round - 2024-2025: Eliminated in the first round - 2025-2026: Missed the playoffs, locked up by Draymond Green with the season on the line - Played just 35 playoff games - No championships - No personal Conference Finals appearances - Demanded the front office continue retooling around him, causing them to trade for James Harden and depart with even more draft capital - Collected nearly $350 million in salary - Circumvented the salary cap - Cost the Clippers a further 5 first round picks - Inflicted a $30 million fine - Inflicted suspensions on ownership and front office with no pay - A personal $700,000 fine - Had his uncle Dennis banned for life Possibly the worst free agent signing in league history.
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