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Sam Leavitt discusses the nearly intercepted ball at Auburn. "I didn't even see the guy. I saw a hand get thrown up, and thought we had a wide open sideline catch."

Obama, you are a CANCER to this country! You have the NERVE to defend Ilhan Omar and lecture Americans about political persecution when, YOU spied on Trump and were pulling the strings behind his political persecution and arrest! Let’s not forget the Russia investigation and the spying allegations surrounding your administration! And now you want to lecture Americans about targeting political enemies? GIVE ME A BREAK! You had eight years in the White House. Your time is OVER! SHUT UP and ride off into the sunset!

Surround yourself with people who see a flying car and say, "Awesome!" Not people who see a flying car and say, "It's not actually flying" or "I don't see the point." This post is not about cars :)

Where are the feminists now?

Iranian woman, 23, is sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social media post that 'insulted the prophet' trib.al/D9JpwVn

Re: "the fact there's 99 but the da refused to be sent more" The 6 page document was her statement. The separate 100+ page document was her interview, and interviews of others, along with investigative findings/evidence. All was sent to the DA, IAW Cornell's statement. The DA claims he never received them.

@MattMoscona , as he normally is, 💯 percent right and always has receipts. You should be critical of @finebaum who has been wrong multiple times, and reckless with his rhetoric…and the others like him.

I can't believe I am saying this, but I have to defend LSU and Lane Kiffin here. I don't enjoy it. Strip away the pearl-clutching and read the SEC's own complaint and Sankey's declaration. The conference seems intent on doing something regardless. Complaint ¶ 94 and Sankey ¶ 44: the CEOs will proceed "whether LSU renounces its intention to roster and play professional players on its football team, or not." Paragraph 81 goes further, saying the same thing whether or not LSU ever rosters anyone at all. That language was drafted to survive precisely what happened Tuesday night when LSU filled its roster to 105 and left no room for the pros. I get that it may succeed procedurally. It fails catastrophically as persuasion because it concedes that the expulsion has nothing to do with the conduct the lawsuit is about. So look at what is actually left. Kiffin's press conferences, his obnoxious halftime remark, his GameDay appearance, and LSU's supposed alignment with the Baton Rouge plaintiffs who hold that wacky, overbroad injunction. Compl. ¶¶ 77, 89-92. That is the gravamen. If the SEC disciplines LSU on that record, and asks a federal court to bless it, what it is really punishing is a public employee's speech about a matter of public concern. That is a First Amendment case. It just isn't the SEC's. It's Kiffin's. Fifteen of the sixteen members are public universities, and the conference is governed by their presidents, who are themselves state actors. Brentwood Academy v. TSSAA, 531 US 288 (2001), held that a private athletic association can be a state actor through pervasive entwinement with the public institutions that constitute it. Whether the SEC clears that bar is a serious question, and I wouldn't call it a foregone conclusion. But the irony writes itself. The SEC's entire theory depends on LSU officials being state actors, and the SEC pleads at ¶ 96, citing West v. Atkins, that Kiffin is one. Ironically, if not shockingly, that supplies the predicate for Kiffin's claim against it. Kiffin is a public employee criticizing his governing body's policy, which puts him on the side of Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 US 563 (1968) (teacher fired for a letter to the paper criticizing how his school board spent money, where the Court held a public employee does not surrender the right to speak as a citizen on matters of public concern, and courts must weigh that interest against the employer's interest in running its operation). If Kiffin pleads retaliation as a counterclaim, it will be a much, much better First Amendment claim than the one the SEC is asserting in its complaint. To be clear, I think LSU and Kiffin instigated this mess, and I think conferences can write product-defining eligibility rules. Alston did not bless such rules, but it did not condemn them either. Justice Gorsuch's opinion for the Court was careful to decide only what was in front of it — education-related benefits — and it left undisturbed the finding that some restraints preserving the line between college and professional sports can be procompetitive. The SEC has a real defense there, subject to the rule of reason like anyone else. I am on Team SEC. But the conference is missing a lot. It meets today to consider punishing LSU and Kiffin. It can punish a violation of its rules. What it cannot do is punish speech alone. After Tuesday night, speech is all that is left. LSU filled its roster to 105. No professional will play a down. The harm the SEC went to federal court to prevent never happened. LSU and Kiffin just talked about it.

Sen. Kennedy has a word for Greg Sankey, the SEC, and Tennessee Chancellor Donde Plowman #LSU #SEC #Sankey #Kiffin

Tiger Stadium -- Jordan Ross Pick-Six

LSU's Tiger Stadium is just Different! #LSU #Clemson

The loudest football game I have personally recorded was 120.0 decibels. Death Valley tonight. 129 Unprecedented in my experience tracking.

FIFTEEN TO NOTHING, ONE ABSTENTION People are asking how you throw a school out of the SEC. Here is the actual answer, and then the reason it does not apply. The bylaws require a vote of the member institutions. Historically three quarters. That is twelve of sixteen. There is no cheating clause. No trigger. No formula. Expulsion is a business decision the other members take for whatever reason they like, which is why it has never once happened over rule breaking despite Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Tennessee, LSU and Kentucky all having served probation. The conference punishes with money instead. Withheld revenue, championship game bans, censure. And SEC distributions run past fifty million a school, so it bites. Now the situation, which is not what people think it is. Judge William Jorden of the 19th Judicial District in East Baton Rouge Parish issued a temporary restraining order stopping the NCAA from enforcing eligibility limits on a group of athletes. The case started with former LSU linebacker Jack Pyburn and now covers thirty three athletes across multiple sports. The argument is that players who enrolled in 2022 and burned four years should get a fifth under the NCAA's own new age based eligibility policy. The SEC responded by voting fifteen to nothing to penalise any school that rostered those players. Coach suspensions. Fines in the millions. LSU abstained. Plaintiffs then added the SEC and Greg Sankey as defendants, the judge blocked the conference from enforcing its penalties against covered schools, and on Saturday the SEC announced it will comply with all applicable court orders. So nobody is defying anybody. The SEC made a rule, a court enjoined the rule, and the SEC is obeying the court. That is the system working exactly as designed and you cannot expel a member for following an order that binds the conference too. And it is not just LSU. Texas has Cole Hutson practising after two NFL minicamps and a state injunction. Kentucky is expected to sign Mark Mitchell, who played NBA summer league. LSU has Dae'Quan Wright, waived by Cleveland, and Zxavian Harris, formerly of the Saints. Two LSU soccer players already took the field against Arizona under the same order. Kiffin is simply the fastest man in the room, which has never once been in dispute. The preliminary injunction hearing is Thursday the third. LSU hosts Clemson two days later. Here is what I actually think. This is not cheating. It is the amateurism structure dissolving in real time, in fourteen different courtrooms, and everybody in Birmingham knows it. You cannot vote out a school for obeying a judge. You can only write a rule that survives one, and the SEC has not managed that yet. Fifteen to nothing, and one school abstained, and that one school is the only one that read the room. 🦋

I'm not an LSU fan. I do like @Lane_Kiffin and wish he'd come to Florida. Caveats aside - I said it early and I'll say it again...hate on Lane and LSU all you want, but he saw where the puck was going and made decisions based on the reality of what was happening. For anyone to believe that players could sue the NCAA and win then be denied by the SEC or any other conference was simply denial. Hopefully this craziness gets fixed in the offseason. For now, let's get excited about college football being back.

My understanding is that the SEC and Greg Sankey will comply with all applicable court orders, including those in Louisiana. This portion of a newly issued order should be sufficient to give schools comfort with rostering athletes despite threatened penalties. SEC is a Defendant.

Hello Mrs. Owens, You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk." He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it. You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it. You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days. You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater. You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu. You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name. And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely. Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him. So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath. Every single one failed. I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow. The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts. I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.