Bill Murphy

Army Veteran.
Retired CPD.
Former Ball Coach.
Sarcastic.

[🥎 Marist Softball 🥎 @RedHawkSB]

team 24 forever ❤️🖤

[Marist Football @RedHawkFB]

⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰

It’s Time!

#Family // #HonorGloryFame // #115th

[Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1]

Mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza hits the mark on CPD perfectly:

"I have full faith and confidence in our Chicago Police Department; they are the best of the best. What we don't have is an administration on the 5th floor that believes in holding criminals accountable."

"We have to let them (CPD) do their job."

Well done, Ms. Mendoza.

[🥎 Marist Softball 🥎 @RedHawkSB]

Thank you to all our parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, and admin for rallying behind this team this year ❤️🖤

[Marist HS Athletics @HonorGloryFame]

For a trip to the state championship.

🥍 Marist vs. York
🕒 3pm
📍 Hinsdale Central HS (5500 S Grant St, Hinsdale, IL)
🎟️ https://t.co/dkjdCUBJcJ
📺 https://t.co/JaoEVXc6aw

[Marist HS Athletics @HonorGloryFame]

RedHawk Softball: 2026 Super-Sectional Champions!

[Marist HS Athletics @HonorGloryFame]

IHSA playoff schedule for the RedHawks⚾🏐🥎🥍

Be sure to check back in throughout the week for schedule updates!

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Marist HS Athletics @HonorGloryFame]

We would like to extend a special thank you to George Kottaras '26 for being a Marist Athletics Public Address Announcer the last four years. Since 2023, George has been the PA Anouncer for 17 RedHawk teams, across all levels.

Thank you, George, for your hard work!

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Here's what they've normalized and are trying to reinforce with the Jaxson Dart situation:

Black people can be offended by what white people believe. But white people can't be offended by what black people believe.

It's legal to love and worship Barack Obama. It's illegal to love and worship Donald Trump.

Unsustainable.

[Coach🍀Murf🇺🇸 @Coach_Murf]

Fuck yeah!!!!

Welcome to Plainfield, Home of Aidan Connors, State🏆👟Champion

Beyond proud of my Godson/Nephew

2️⃣State🥇Championships🏆his Senior🎓Year

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Abdul Carter says he has a “responsibility” to address Jaxson Dart’s political opinions. Why? Everyone can share their own opinions. Carter didn’t do that. He attacked Dart’s opinions. And now he’s doing it in uniform at work, which Dart never did. Moron.

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

NY Giants QB Jaxson Dart refuses to back down after introducing President Trump, saying he was proud to do it and that his love for America and his family’s military service made the decision an easy one. 🇺🇸

Good for Jaxson. 👏🏾

@SNYGiants

[Marist HS Athletics @HonorGloryFame]

It's a rematch for the state championship.

🏉 Marist vs. La Salette Academy
⏰ 2:45pm
📍 Morton West HS - 2400 Home Ave, Berwyn, IL

[Bill Murphy @50Murf]

@Libs_OfChicago Blame all the lazy bastards in Chicago couldn't drag their asses off the couch & vote. U got saddled with this incompetent clown — put in office by the most brain-dead, excuses for citizens this side of nowhere.

U reap what U fucking sow.

Glad I got the hell out of there 🫡

[Marist Football @RedHawkFB]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Thank you to all the coaches and programs that stopped by 115th this spring to Recruit the RedHawks!

#FAMILY // #HonorGloryFame // #115th

[Marist HS Chicago @MaristChicago]

𝒪𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶 𝑅𝑒𝒹𝐻𝒶𝓌𝓀, 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒶 𝑅𝑒𝒹𝐻𝒶𝓌𝓀.

Congratulations to the Marist High School Class of 2026! The Marist family is so proud of all you have accomplished and all that you are going to achieve. The future is bright!

Graduation blog: https://t.co/KVdNVwdKKl

[Dapper Detective @Dapper_Det]

🚨BREAKING: 21 people shot, including children across Chicago so far this weekend, mass shooting last night & 5 police officers hospitalized after being mowed down by an 18-year-old at a teen takeover on the West Side.

Chicago is a total war zone ruled by Democrats.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

NONE of his scary predictions have come true.

Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.

Here's why we are not doomed:

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Sec. of War Pete Hegseth ENRAGED the left with his words at West Point:

"You can't throw your pronouns at the enemy."

"Social engineering and woke ideology are fine for Harvard. Silly — but fine."

"On the battlefield, there is NO PLACE for them."

#thinblueline #lawenforcement