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Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Glenn Reynolds on the Gathering Storm. He's not wrong.

- What parents are prepared to do. Sadly true.

- The four biggest NCAA failures shape college sports today.

- Welcome to Proto-Town. Hopefully it's a welcome to the future.

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- Dan Wetzel: NCAA tournament expansion is bad, but it's happening.

- From the archives: The history of A1 sauce.

- Some interesting WW II history.

- Charlie Baker: Congress must secure the future of college sports. After watching the blatant money grab of playoffs expansion in basketball and football - I don't think the NCAA is in the position to ask for anything from the public.

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- Pro sports run on socialism. College sports should take the hint.

- Is Western Europe Suicidal? He's not wrong.

- Jonathan Turley: The Roberts Court ends a "sordid business." I have a dream!

- Next chapter in Iran conflict opens: Operation Freedom.

College Football Thoughts

Some offseason college football thoughts and observations.

Was having these thoughts anyway and thought I may as well as jot them down and share on Substack.

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- Dan Wetzel on NCAA college eligibility. We are entering a strange new world.

- From the archives: Sahil Bloom's most powerful life hacks.

- More on the Jon Gruden lawsuit against the NFL. The gears of justice are grinding slow on this one.

- Funny because its true.

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- Excellent point, "Maybe Arizona can LeBron James on the bench for its Final Four push if he wants to play with his son Bryce"

- The walls are closing in on Tim Walz. Try telling the state worker that loses his job because fraud took all the money his unemployment was Trump's fault.

- Michigan State's Tom Izzo says latest college trend may drive out more coaches.

- Utah blew it with Kyle Whittingham, all to Michigan's benefit.

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- Ross Dellenger on the NCAA's House settlement being approved. "College athletics is officially entering a new world."

- Obama's library has become a billion dollar embarrassment. 

- Peter Attia: The importance of lung cancer screening - even if you never smoked.

- Dan Wetzel: How the spoils of the NCAA settlement will be divided. Call it whatever you want - it's still pay for play.

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- Ross Dellenger on the Department of Ed's ruling on NIL. Was this an unforced error by the Biden Administration on the way out the door?

- The five smallest nations by GDP in 2025

- From the archive: the real life Rat Patrol

- Team finds huge aquifer atop the Oregon Cascades. 

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- Good news on Global Equality. Inequality is shrinking and it is capitalism that gets the credit. Still not perfect but getting better. (HT Steve Landry)

- Fill the tub. Good advice.

- NCAA reaches anti-trust deal. Supposedly Division 1 schools could have up to 790 scholarships with up to 105 for football.

- The Constitutional Case against Exclusionary Zoning. (HT Steve Landry)

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- The NASCAR-ization of college sports is on its way.

- Niall Ferguson: We All Soviets Now

- Morgan Housel on Quiet Compounding. Like the Great Sequoia metaphor.

- Exit Willie Mays. Should be highlighted that Willie Mays spent 2-years in the military in the 50's while he was in his prime.

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- NCAA, Power Conferences agree on $2.8 billion settlement. College sports will never be the same.

- If you can't follow these simple instructions you don't deserve a vote.

- How Apple, Google, and Microsoft can help protect children.

- Merrick Garland's ultimate test of principle. Thank God Garland was never nominated to the Supreme Court.

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- Is an NCAA settlement near? Do some schools actually want the NCAA to go bankrupt?

- Judge Merchan probably wants to pull a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of this whole Trump trial in light of Michael Cohen's testimony. But like Pilate - history has already passed judgement on him.

- Interesting (but long) review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. Have that book on my list to read and have to movie it up.

- Robin Williams on Joe Biden. Williams died years ago.

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- Tucker Carlson Episode 99 on Ukraine

-  College sports leaders in talks to settle anti-trust NIL lawsuit. Sounds like the people who actually have to pay the bill are sick of the NCAA always losing in court.

- Ncuti Gatwato to be new Doctor Who. Surprised the show is still on the air. Haven't watched in years.

- The Nostalgia Machine. Songs from any year you chose.

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- NCAA loses ability to enforce NIL rules. The NCAA is dead.

- What white privilege?

- The two flags of Iwo Jima (thanks Mark)

- Fani Willis and Nathan Wade (illegal) Friends with Benefits. Wonder if anyone convicted using those cell records by her office now has immediate grounds for appeal.

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-  "How will we pay for this?" College leaders ask regarding the new NCAA proposal.

- VDH on how were the universities lost? Make student loans subject to existing bankruptcy laws would be a good first step to get universities to provide degrees that are actually marketable. Who's going to hire a green, antisemite Diversity major? 

- Jonathan Turley on Joe Biden's " I did not have relations" with "those people" moment. The whole family is guilty as sin.

- Reportedly Columbia University has updated their logo.

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- Not sure about you but I'm rooting for Joe Kennedy "the praying coach"

- UNC's Mac Brown on the NCAA

- Jimmy Buffett's obituary in the NY Post. Wish I was at the Margaritaville in Hollywood FLA getting drunk on Landsharks watching college football. Think that's what he would have wanted.

- Ross Dellenger on how the ACC added Stanford, Cal, and SMU

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- Sabrina Pasterski has been called the "next Einstein and is definaely a name you should know. Sorry about how the article repeats itself but still a name you should be aware of.

- Podcast on Jordan Peele. Worth a listen.

- The Free Press says the NCAA has a "hot girl" problem. No they have an NIL problem. Now that the Cavider Twins are no longer playing basketball they're not making NIL money - they're just making money. That's the problem.

- Vindman pitched $12 million scheme to profit off the Ukraine war. As Glenn Reynolds would say. "Tar and feathers is too good."

Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Do I want the present moment to be my friend or enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with life." - Eckhart Tolle

"The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America." - Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

"A year from now, you will wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

NIL Lawsuit Targets College Sports TV Revenue Dating back to 2016

A lawsuit has been filed against the NCAA, top college sports conferences, and Notre Dame seeking damages from TV money earned by those parties dating back to 2016 (the furthest back allowable). The lawsuit is claiming those parties kept athletes from earning NIL (name, image and likeness) money during that period. There are "more than 7,000 athletes in football, men's basketball or women's basketball who would be entitled to damages" under the lawsuit.

The NCAA doesn't have a good track record in these lawsuits and the damages here could reach into the billions. This is a lawsuit to keep an eye on since it could really change the dynamics of college sports and potentially bankrupt some schools (do you think those schools wisely invested that TV revenue?).