Mark Hubbard

“Short Putter Guy” and Nick Faldo’s favorite PGA Pro, Colorado native, SJSU Spartan, @MGMResortsIntl @LOCALiQSports @hubspeanuts @TRUElinkswear @incentadviseinc

[Mark Hubbard @HomelessHubbs]

@JDCLASSIC @PGATOUR 163. New high score. Possible WD…

[Mark Hubbard @HomelessHubbs]

@BigDriveEnergy @cbseric I dunno looks like him to me

[Mark Hubbard @HomelessHubbs]

@hicasamadim 72

[Flagg Mavs @FlaggMavs]

Take me back man. Adam Silver has ruined the game I loved

[Mark Hubbard @HomelessHubbs]

@DNVR_Sports Yes

[Clarence Hill Jr @clarencehilljr]

This is not basketball

[D-Line (Denver Man) @DLineCo]

Hey, Colorado sport fan. If I told you the Avs would easily win the Presidents trophy, make it to the WCF, the Nuggets would get the best season ever from Jamal Murray and and another MVP level season from Jokic, AND the Broncos would have the best record the NFL and make the AFC championship, you would take it right? WELL FUCK YOU ITS A TRICK.

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

SGA just fell down on the shot completely UNTOUCHED

This is the most SHAMELESS basketball player I've ever seen and the refs keep letting him get away with it

[Joseph Bien-Kahn @jbienkahn]

Tom doing the lord’s work here. No more OKC fan excuses. Your dude is a mathematically confirmed flopper…

[Lucas Navarrete @LucasNavarreteM]

Single-handedly ruining the game of basketball. Truly a disgrace to the sport.

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

Stuff like this is an integral part of OKC’s identity.

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

this is just SHAMELESS 😭

[SLY SLOORK 💛💙🇫🇷💙🤍 @Sloorklegend]

Pour moi c'est bien plus grave que le coup de coude de Wemby contre les Wolves. C'est 100% intentionnel et tu peux le blesser pour tout le reste de la saison comme ça.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Kit Harington just confirmed that the most expensive character in TV history is now narratively worthless. And nobody's connecting the math.

Jon Snow generated an estimated $501 million in HBO subscription revenue based on screen time alone across eight seasons. He appeared in all 73 episodes. He was the emotional center of a franchise that produced $3.1 billion in subscription revenue and $6 billion in profit for Warner between 2015 and 2018. HBO came to Harington and said: build a show around this character. They spent two years trying. Two years of scripts and development on the single most bankable name in prestige television. And the guy who played him for a decade walked away and said "nothing excited us enough."

Think about what that means. HBO could not find one story worth telling about the character who carried the most profitable drama in cable history. The reason is sitting right there in the Season 8 finale. Benioff and Weiss wrote Jon into exile beyond the Wall with no political ties, no conflict, no relationships, no unresolved tension, and no source material to pull from. They gave him the narrative equivalent of a closed bank account. Every possible sequel has to start from: man stands in snow with no motivation, no antagonist, and no connection to the world that made people care about him.

Now look at what's actually working. House of the Dragon: set 200 years before the finale. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: 100 years before. The Aegon the Conqueror series: even further back. Sea Snake, 10,000 Ships, same direction. Every single surviving Westeros project runs away from Season 8's ending. The one attempt to go forward died in development.

1.7 million people signed a petition to remake that finale. HBO lost over half its 18-49 audience within a year of the show ending. And Benioff and Weiss rushed those final six episodes reportedly because they had a Star Wars deal waiting. They lost the Star Wars deal too.

Kit said he looked at photos from Season 8 and saw himself exhausted. He was. Everyone was. The show that averaged 43 million viewers per episode in its final season was running on fumes creatively while setting viewership records, which is the most dangerous combination in entertainment. Record audience, collapsing craft. The gap between those two lines is where franchise value goes to die.

HBO made the right call killing SNOW. But the reason they had to kill it is the actual story. Season 8 didn't just end Game of Thrones. It locked the entire franchise in reverse gear. The only safe direction for Westeros is backward, because two showrunners turned the forward timeline radioactive on their way out the door.

[milo𓆉🇵🇸🇸🇩 @TT11986]

son are the four pics... at the freethrow line?💀😭

[Mark Hubbard @HomelessHubbs]

@Skulledwedge Well said. Go talk to our board please

[Jay Don Takes @Skulledwedge]

Alright, I’m not a fan of Rai’s aesthetic either. But what is up with golf being the sport where performance doesn’t matter, only names do.

No other fanbase in sports hates underdogs more than this current crop of golf “fans.” No other fanbase is as quick to wrongly jump on the “This does nothing for x sport” train either.

If that back 9 didn’t get you interested, I highly recommend you stop wasting your time trying to be a golf fan, because you’re not a golf fan.

Rai played an amazing tournament, and closed it off with a flawless back 9. No one else came close to doing that. If you were a golf fan you’d realize watching an underdog close it out without breaking a sweat on the back 9 is awesome, aesthetics be damned.

[Nathan Hubbard @NathanCHubbard]

To go further: Sneds sought out Mark’s number and texted a long, wise, lovely note of encouragement later that night that started “I wanted to say so much to you but the parking lot was not the right time”. It’s helped Mark process, reflect and learn. Team 🇺🇸 is in great hands.

[Lisa Cornwell @LisaMCornwell]

Craziest *course* stat in golf:

Since 2003, the Green Mile at Quail Hollow is the toughest 3-hole finish on the PGA TOUR.

Here’s how it’s played vs. the rest of the course…

Holes 1-15: -473
Holes 16-18: +8,690

That’s not a typo. 😳

(📸: Getty Images/Ross Kinnaird)

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

This picture now retroactively goes in the hall of fame

[Brock 💣 @Golfingbrock]

Like Kevin Kisner, I too would like to apologize for criticizing the Masters broadcast. As just a fan, I clearly failed to appreciate the extraordinary complexity of producing a live golf telecast and the tireless work of the incredibly talented professionals behind the scenes.

It was unreasonable of me to expect that a golf broadcast might consistently show live golf shots, or that we might occasionally see players near the top of the leaderboard before the round was over.

I also regret checking the Masters app and learning what happened several minutes before the broadcast got around to showing it.

Most importantly, the advertisers received the exposure they paid for, which is what truly matters.

Moving forward, I will do my best to simply enjoy whatever golf footage eventually appears between commercials.