Jason Krech

Rocktown, born and raised | Proud Duke | Devoted TV snob | Former soft-throwing lefty | I now talk about sports while maintaining my amateur status.

[Jason Krech @JasonKrech]

New mission statement. https://t.co/B1gNGbiPQM

[Seth Davis @SethDavisHoops]

This is one story I never wanted to write. My tribute to former ⁦@LouisvilleMBB⁩ and @StJohnsbball SID Kenny Klein. Free at Hoops HQ @hhqsports

https://t.co/mqFKYPkoiF

[Jason Krech @JasonKrech]

Like he did for so many, Kenny once insisted on buying me a beverage(s) one late night at a convention party.

He asked how I liked being a MBB SID, gave me advice, cracked me up and made me feel like an old buddy, just like he did to everybody.

He will be very terribly missed.

[Jason Krech @JasonKrech]

I’ll listen to every wonderful story about Kenny Klein.

To be in the world of SIDs, hoops coaches and media - all groups of…big…personalities - and to be so beloved speaks to who he was.

The person we all looked to in the industry was also the nicest guy in the industry.

[Eric Crawford @ericcrawford]

UPDATING | Among the many reactions to Kenny Klein's passing.

New York Post columnist Mike Vaccarro called him "one of the great gentlemen of sports." Mike DeCourcy called him, "the MJ, the TB12, the Messi." Vinny Tatum called him, "A first-ballot Hall of Famer in the game of life." To Doug Davenport, Klein was "the soul of U of L athletics." To U of L's Lottie Stockwell, he was "the encyclopedia of everything." https://t.co/nFlvMpyVmy

[Tipping Pitches @tipping_pitches]

The fascinating and unfortunate subtext of MLB’s bargaining posture for decades now is this:

They are comfortable shrinking baseball, the sport, in exchange for further solidifying the institutional power of Major League Baseball, the corporation

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Gayest Tone @gayest_tone]

There’s basically two stories about the World Cup right now, it’s either

“US Customs hooks Tajik team up to the BallGrabber 7000 as they exit bus”

or

“59 year old man in Bentonville excitedly invites entire Congolese team to have breakfast with him at Waffle House”

[Dan Wolken @DanWolken]

Do people at Texas Tech think the rest of America is stupid? I’m honestly at a loss to find an explanation for a PR strategy this bad. Holy moly.

[Alex Kirshner @alex_kirshner]

This is so cynical lol. The system that said "you can't bet on your own team" was not broken

[Zito @_Zeets]

Again, he gets graded on a curve. Dude is losing his shit because a reporter pushes back a bit on his lies, and he loses his temper, insults her, and walks out of the interview. And yet, he keeps being presented as a sane and normal person.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

This kind of bigoted othering, terming certain people as invaders who threaten your way of life, is exactly the sort of thing those men fought against. This is a disgrace.

[Bryan Gibberman @BryanGibberman]

Everyone involved with producing this stuff should be fired

[Steven Godfrey @38Godfrey]

The next time @tedcruz lies about college football in a way that magically aligns with the agenda pushed by @CodyC64, here’s why:

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI.
https://t.co/X7qmNMFjYm

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

This is the shit they’ve been saying ai can or will do since 2024