Justin Hubbard

Media Relations Specialist | @universityofga & @UGAGrady grad (May 2016) | Formerly at @TheOENews, @LakeOconeeNews, @redandblack and @abhsports

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

Sports. Music. TV. Movies.

I love it all. That's why I'm launching my own variety podcast, Culture Hubb (get it? 😉), which will start Monday with an #NFLDraft2020 recap.

Check out my intro episode for more on what to expect from Culture Hubb:

https://t.co/apzr5pSi6v

[Jonathan Smith @DegenerateTBone]

Texas Tech's PR strategy to defend playing Brenden Sorsby seems to be:

1. We're just trying to help a child who is also an addict
2. Hey, at least he didn't murder anyone, amirite?
3. We'll sue your ass if you don't want to play us

Did I miss anything?

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

Monday's court decision clearing Brendan Sorsby to play was awful enough.

But somehow, Texas Tech's response and "PR tactics," if we can even call them that, have been even worse.

TTU's work this week has been an astonishingly poor attempt to smooth things over. Unbelievable.

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[Adam Silverstein @SilversteinAdam]

What was it like inside Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night? Let me show you.

#Knicks win Game 4: Unedited 17-minute NBA Finals celebration in 4K

https://t.co/IvZBF1FMAz

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that the audio of Speaker Johnson ADMITTING that he's planning on cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security SHOULD BE A HUGE STORY.

Don't let him slide on this.

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

Gotta love the crowd going bonkers for the Earnhardt battle here. What a shame we were robbed of seeing those two compete against each other for many years. It would've been an awesome spectacle.

[nascarman @nascarman_rr]

June 11, 1999: In the IROC race at Michigan, Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. battled for the win in a memorable photo finish

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Jalen Brunson post Game 4: "Before we start…

My thoughts & prayers are with a friend of mine I got to meet last week. Jonathan from North Carolina. From Make a Wish Foundation

They asked me to make a video. But something told me to Facetime…

I got the pleasure to do so…Quick call but well worth it.

My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family…

May God rest his soul"

(Reporter asks question)

Jalen (can't answer): "Sorry…"

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Paul Heyman @HeymanHustle]

I think it's time we all recognize the NBA has a great creative team and writers. Wow. What a story! Texas heels rout hometown heroes in the 1st half at the World's Most Famous Arena (@TheGarden ), only for the babyfaces to perform the greatest comeback EVER! My compliments!

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

"I really don't know if anything sums up America better. It's simultaneously preposterous, incredibly laughable, impressive, charming, ridiculous, expensive, overpopulated, wonderful, American."

This beautiful. 🇺🇸

[Will MacIntosh @WwillMmac]

@SickosCommittee Reminds me of when stephen fry called the iron bowl a "local derby" https://t.co/hF4Yyr07Re

[Matt 🚍🚲🚇🏘️ @mattfromcobb]

I love how someone from a different country is visiting places like Helen and Brasstown Bald and is seemingly in awe.

Georgia is pretty freakin’ rad.

[AdequateEmily (PRIDE MONTH EDITION) @AdequateEmily]

Not to harp on it but its really funny to hear some people argue “hey it was a mixed reaction, it wasn’t all boos” and then you click on this and it’s just the deepest, from the gut, loudest boos you’ve ever heard. Like just objectively the most negative response from the crowd.

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

This type of commentary is precisely the reason Georgia's outstanding sports comms department rejected an interview with Barstool.

I'm extra proud to be a Georgia alumnus today knowing my school turned down Portnoy. Go Dawgs!

[Wake Up Barstool @wakeupbarstool]

The Georgia Bulldogs are dead to Dave Portnoy

"You're too good for Wake Up Barstool? Who does Georgia think they are? The Georgia Bulldogs are dead to me... I will root against Georgia as hard as I can in every sport for the rest of my life..." - @stoolpresidente

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Reaction from lawyer Tom Mars, a veteran of NCAA cases: "In 40 years as a lawyer, I've never been as shocked and surprised by a court ruling." That sums the reaction on the college sports landscape today.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Kenny Chesney @kennychesney]

So grateful to join my friend Bruce @Springsteen in celebrating the history of American music at the opening of his archives. I was honored to sing This Land Is Your Land last night to fans of all kinds of music. Thanks again Bruce. KC

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

[Justin Hubbard @JHubb93]

Oh, this is gonna be spectacular.

[The Rewatchables @TheRewatchables]

'2001: A Space Odyssey' with the one, the only...

STEVEN SPIELBERG!!!

FULL EPISODE OUT NOW!

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

George Lucas in his new museum

Opening this September

(via @voguemagazine)

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

On this date in 1959, Harvey Haddix retired the first 36 Braves he faced in Milwaukee, carrying a perfect game into the 13th inning ...

An error ended the perfect game, a Joe Adcock double ended the no-hitter, and Harvey Haddix somehow ended the day with a loss.

Final line for Haddix:
12.2 IP | 1 H | 0 ER | 8 K

And somehow ... a loss 🤯