Fascinating Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸 facts:
The printed copy on the right actually pre-dates the more well-known, handwritten copy on the left, which wasn't produced or signed by John Hancock and other members of the Continental Congress until weeks AFTER July 4, 1776. 🧵
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FIFA sources confirm there is no mechanism to appeal a World Cup red card in their Disciplinary Code. Which seems quite surreal. But it means Balogun will not be able to play Belgium.
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The sordid Sorsby saga has produced multiple ironies and left more questions unanswered than answered. The chief question remains is this: how, pray tell, did he get that injunction? That is the part no one has answered. Where was the likelihood of success on the merits? The balance of equities? The public interest? Maybe there is a defensible answer buried somewhere. From the outside, it looked uncomfortably like college-athletics home cooking.
And I am not laughing. Rulings like this do real harm to the public's confidence in a fair, impartial, and independent judiciary. This era of college athletics has exposed a judicial rot— courts now willing to enter sweeping orders that reshape private athletic associations, contracts, conference governance, and competitive rules.
Nor am I ready to call this saga over until I see a dismissal with prejudice. The NCAA remains enjoined. Sorsby's move toward the NFL supplemental draft may make the practical problem disappear, but it does not erase the order.
College athletics has become a lawless marketplace of panic, money, and self-interest. Courts are supposed to be the institution that reins in that kind of disorder. When they instead bless it, accelerate it, or indulge it with extraordinary relief, the damage extends far beyond one athlete or one case. It erodes public confidence in the judiciary itself. That is the most troubling part of this saga.
Addiction is real. So is recovery. I wish Brendan Sorsby the best.
The supplemental draft is normally reserved for players who are not eligible to play in college. For now, he is eligible to play, per a Texas state court ruling.
If he applies, he may now need an exception from the NFL.
An unprecedented situation grows more fascinating.