Greg @MurphyGreg

@IraSchoffel The class of 1988 wants their extra year, judge!

@latsondheimer How about both?

@DoctahDean Kinnon Tatum went Brick Tamland on that poor RB.

@Super70sSports Massimino, Carnesecca, Pitino, Carlesimo, and I'm pretty sure Boeheim was a fake name given to him by the witness protection program.

The European mind is slowly starting to comprehend SEC football. This was absolutely insane today!

@EddyElfenbein That’s effectively genocide of the lactose-intolerant. You are such a fascist

Fenway skies.

Much has been said by racists, politicians, and racist politicians (like Bo French) about Indians and UT Austin admissions. I thought I should shed some light so their racism could be slightly more intelligent. I'm a brown kid. I grew up in Frisco, went to a massive Texas high school, and went to UT. I would wager that the kids in this picture and I have practically the same background. Like me, they probably went to a massive, pressure-cooker suburban Texas high school, and survived the gauntlet to earn their admissions. These aren’t foreigners. State law requires 90% of UT's freshman class to be Texas residents. 75% of those in-state seats go to automatic admission on class rank. These are Texans. Texas, for better or worse, is one of the few meritocratic college admissions schemes in the country for a school of its caliber. The rules are simple. Today, the top 5% of a public school's graduating class is automatically accepted. There is nothing to game. You can’t fake being a competitive rower or have some consultant write your essays for you. There isn’t anything to steal; it’s all there on the table to compete for. And the competition starts the moment the bell rings for your first period of freshman year. You are ranked in your class every single year, for us, #1 to #450. You knew exactly where you were, exactly how hard you had to compete. My year was even less competitive than it is today. The top 6% made the cut, so that’s an all-out war for ~27 kids to get auto-accepted into UT. So we worked our butts off. Here's what my life was like, starting in kindergarten. Every summer, before the school year started, I had to finish the upcoming year's math textbook. I sweated over getting As, even in elementary school. One funny memory is walking to my parents' room, crying, to report my first-ever 89 on a report card. I did Kumon, my least favorite thing in the world. I still hate that weird half-smile that is their logo. I went to math and science competitions, where I always lost, and came home crying again. (Quite the crybaby, wasn't I!) And everyone else around me worked just as hard. Actually, a lot of the kids worked much harder. I know people who took extra classes (zero period) just to boost their GPA. Who routinely slept 5 hours a night to nail every assignment they had after band practice. Who were distraught when they got a 98 instead of a 100. People who stopped doing things they loved, like sports or arts, because those classes dragged down their GPA. People put their entire life force into getting into this school. I wasn't even in the top 10% of my class. The competition was too good. I wasn't disciplined enough to hang with them. I got in as one of the 22.5% of admits who are at-large Texans. These are American kids who earned their way into this school in the most American way possible. Competition. They were told the rules, they competed, and they got the number. And on Saturday they were in that stadium in burnt orange, screaming their heads off, like every other Texan at DKR or around the country. I can’t feel anything but pride for them. That they get to live the dream that so many of us dreamt growing up! Kids like this have helped improve UT’s standing on the national stage. They made it out of the pressure cooker and placed well in Finance, Big Tech, and more recently, startups. They meaningfully contribute to the economies of our state and country. You should be proud of them too. Overall, this seems like a meritocratic (albeit flawed) way for Texans to be admitted to our state’s flagship school. It’s racially blind. But politicians like Bo French are asking for something different. They want the student body to rebalance racially. Surely they aren’t advocating for affirmative action, are they?

Bo French @bofrench

a month ago

I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.

8K 5K 56K 54.1M 5K

@NFLonFOX @MikePereira That is the dumbest thing I've heard since the end of Western Michigan's win 9 days ago.

@SInow @UMichFootball *

@ePasadenaNow Bless them and keep them. A peaceful and family-filled High Holy Days for them.

Firefighters at the World Trade Center site raise an American flag over the rubble for the first time. Photographer Thomas E. Franklin captures the dramatic moment.

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@MattHayesCFB Only in the B1G, as far as we know.

@heitner @JayBilas Why do you say “wrongly”? Those paid athletes got everything they expected when they went to college - and more, financially. There was no promise of 5-for-5 so there is no “wrong” just an absence of a special unexpected benefit

Lobster Rolls > Crab Cakes 🗒️: bit.ly/4qVhbnk

Remarkable statistic: Prior to Western Michigan, college football teams were 110,352 - 0 when leading after the end of regulation, dating back to 1869.

@PaulPabst Michigan is going to take 3 replay reversals to beat IDLE on October 10.

@PeteThamel The judge in Baton Rouge is elected and might as well wear the tiger head while on the bench. These cases ought to be decided before a Brown University graduate in a courthouse in Providence - then it'd be about the law and facts and not silly things...

@ByPatForde And the dozens of fans watching from the stands - on a cool night - are overjoyed

@HiMyNameIsSeton With you. Postpartum depression is real. And we men need to get with the game