John Clay

Retired sports columnist. [email protected]

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@JacobPolacheck @247Sports @247Louisville Congratulations, Jacob!

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

One of the best things about Rick’s eulogy is how much he talked about Donna.

[John Fanta @John_Fanta]

Take the time to listen to Rick Pitino’s eulogy of Kenny Klein today.

Rick put it best: “KK elevated all of us. We won’t say goodbye to him - we’ll keep him in our hearts forever.”

A beautiful reflection on a legend:

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

There's not much more I could say about Kenny Klein that hasn't already been said by his thousands of friends and colleagues, except something I should have said more often. Thank you Kenny for your countless acts of kindness and friendship. May you rest in peace.

[Rick Pitino @RealPitino]

Would like to thank so many people for their hopes and prayers regarding Kenny Klein. We all love him so much and our hearts are totally broken. We will know a final outcome in the coming days. It's really a difficult time but we will get through this together. His wife and children thank you so much for your concern.

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

Wow

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

Michigan coach Dusty May is expected to take the Dallas Mavericks job, source confirmed to @TheFieldOf68.

May is coming off a national title in his second season at Michigan, and also took FAU to the Final Four.

Duke's Jon Scheyer also had major interest, but had opted to stay in Durham, source told @TheFieldOf68. .

[Jon Hale @JonHale_HL]

NEW: A closer look at the nine coaching hire J Batt made at Georgia Tech and Michigan State reveals a clear trend.

What it could mean for basketball, football, softball and more. https://t.co/NCNxPCSQhF

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@brianjstultz So sorry for your loss, Brian.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

I first met Will Stein when he was a Texas High School Football Coach at Lake Travis.

He’s an SEC Head Coach now, but he’s still the same guy he was back then. He loves his players, loves is family, and loves football. It was a blast spending the week in Lexington.

Alright, let’s go to work with Kentucky Head Football Coach, Will Stein!

FULL EPISODE on your timeline 🫡

00:05 - Introduction
01:44 - Coming Home to Kentucky
03:03 - Team Meeting
04:10 - QB Meetings with Joe Sloan
05:40 - Will Stein's History
07:30 - Evaluating QB’s
9:58 - Watching Film as a Staff
12:21 - Friday Walk-Thru + Building a Coaching Staff
16:16 - QB Mindset
18:15 - It's all about the players.

If you love football… this is for you 🤝

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

At 25 years and 134 days, Cam Schlittler is the youngest pitcher in Yankees history with 13+ strikeouts and no walks in a game

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@Greg_Byrne Great picture and a testament to Mitch's legacy.

[Greg Byrne @Greg_Byrne]

Special night in Lexington celebrating, Mitch and Connie Barnhart.

Much of Mitch’s AD tree came together to tell stories and say thank you to two people who we will forever be indebted to.
#ThanksMitchAndConnie

[Ty Spalding @TySpalding]

Congrats to DuPont Manual grad and Louisville native Darren Erman — longtime Knicks assistant coach. Quit his corporate lawyer gig to take an assistant high school job in 2003. And he just helped deliver a championship to New York. Cool story.

[Mark Story @markcstory]

My column: Why Greg Stotelmyer, longtime radio voice of EKU sports, is hanging up his microphone https://t.co/U8j6k6rKT9

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@EKUSports @Gstotelmyer Congratulations, Greg!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

New Titans WR Wan'Dale Robinson told Kay Adams’ “Up & Adams” show that he will be wearing No. 4 this season to honor his late friend Rondale Moore.

[Steve Bittenbender @Stepbitt]

According to Google's AI, Louisville is in the Central Time Zone.

[Jake Mintz @Jake_Mintz]

Sarah Langs is Working.

For Lou Gehrig Day I talked to and wrote about baseball’s indomitable stat queen, who is producing just as much as ever.

“A great note isn’t great because it came from someone with ALS — it just is. There’s no park adjustments.”
https://t.co/aMF9uSMHDG

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@Rosenberg_Mike Good luck in whatever comes next, Michael.

[John Clay @johnclayiv]

@FDHSATHLETICS @Jordan_Adams4 Congratulations, Shawn!