Karl France

Human, Brother, Friend, Sports Fan
BGSU '91

[JenFryTalks, PhD | Tech/Travel/Changemaker @jenfrytalks]

Something happened on the court. The kid was fine. The parent on the sideline was not. Not even close.

That's the moment I knew I had to write this book.

Because your kid is watching. Even when they look like they're not.

Pre-order: https://t.co/ewKQL5bL6k

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

@CrooklynMMA @FightOpinion We saw this when the FBI director was opening that UFC fighters help train ...

[Matthew Auchincloss @matthew_auch]

Fantastic from Nicole.

[David Payne Purdum @DavidPurdum]

Incredible quote from Big 12 coach in @DanWetzel's column on the Sorsby ruling:

[Link to column below]

[mati H. @mati586386]

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[Mark Ennis @MarkEnnis]

Rick Neuheisel got fired from Washington for participating in an NCAA Tournament bracket pool for a sport he doesn't coach.

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

@BoniFied92 @lucy_rohden Worse, kids thinking that they can all bet on sports and get away with it. A tennis player or golfer will never ever be treated like a QB of a P4 team.

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

Great information.

[Christopher Kratovil @chris_kratovil]

As a veteran Texas litigator who has fought my fair share of TRO/TI battles, several things to be aware of regarding the temporary injunction order issued to allow Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech this season:

(1) The temporary injunction obtained by Sorsby is valid through the date of trial. So by setting the trial date for after the college football season ends the Lubbock County state district court effectively awards Sorsby ultimate relief; he can play the full season under the TI, excluding only the first two games carved out in the text of the TI order.

(2) In Texas a TI is subject to immediate (“interlocutory”) appeal. The appeal will go to the 7th Court of Appeals in Amarillo, Texas.

(3) The problem with the appeal is that even an accelerated appeal of the TI order is likely to take at least 9 to 12 months, meaning the college football season will be long over before the Amarillo Court of Appeals affirms or vacates the TI.

(4) The only way the interlocutory appeal of the TI order gets resolved before the college football season ends is if the Amarillo Court of Appeals orders expedited briefings and decides the appeal “on the papers” without oral argument. But even such an expedited appeal is likely to run well into the college football season.

(5) At bottom, as Diego Pavia and now Brendan Sorsby illustrate, these sort of emergency injunctive proceedings are a huge problem for the NCAA: hometown judges (in Texas elected at the county level) err on the side of granting the TI to allow the key player to play for Hometown U, and the college football season is much shorter than the appellate process. So the preliminary ruling on the emergency injunction effectively decides the entire case and, if granted, allows the player to play a full season.

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

The slippery slope < precedent
The Texas Tech QB is soaring

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

This is Noah Shannon, model citizen, slated to be Hawkeye senior defensive captain 2023. He had guilt pangs for having bet $10 on the Iowa Women's Basketball team in the 2023 NCAA tournament. The only bet he ever made. He turned himself in to coaches for the transgression who forwarded it to the NCAA.

They ruled him inelligible for the entire season, effectively ending his career. If the NCAA allows someone else to play after making thousands of bets, including many on his own team, I am going to fucking riot

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Happy 80th birthday New York Knicks 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

On this day in 1946 Madison Square Garden was granted a pro basketball franchise

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Brian Cox's fondness for the current Arsenal team may be mistaken for allegiance, but that belongs to Manchester United, a Premier League club steeped in Scottish heritage.

Cox was 11 when eight United players from Sir Matt Busby's team died in 1958 in the Munich air disaster. Two more suffered such terrible injuries that they could not play football again and 15 other passengers were killed.

"I will always be a United fan because United is what affected me as a child," Cox says, his voice softening.

"I remember it so vividly, waiting to hear about Duncan Edwards. I'll never forget those few days. That's what really locked me onto Man United, because all these young men and Edwards, who was the extraordinary player of all time… his range was amazing, he was fit as anything.

"It was his kidneys that finally killed him. Sir Matt Busby nearly died as well, he ended up in hospital. It was a very traumatic thing. As a kid… I remember feeling very empathetic towards Man United.

"It just became my team really from that point on because of what Busby then recreated. They were called the Busby Babes, they were an absolutely amazing team."

@AdamCrafton's interview with Cox is free to read — the full video interview is available to watch in the piece or on The Athletic's YouTube channel.

🔗 https://t.co/pMh5ymTY8R

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.

From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.

To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.

Happy Pride, New York City.

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

@VinnysCorner1 Ron Guidry

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

@terryflewers Will Arsenal complete more than 200 passes?

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

Saddest and funniest thing I have seen today

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

Carmen Sandiego escaped again.

[Karl France @KarlFrance]

@PolymarketSport @FabrizioRomano This seems silly

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

FSG, owners of Liverpool and the Boston Red Sox, have now fired a championship-winning manager from both teams in the space of just 35 days 😲

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Rod Brind’Amour setting the tone for the Canes a few years ago. No shock they’re now in the Stanley Cup finals.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

Larry Sanders Show is one of the greatest shows in TV. Stands the test of time. Still incredibly funny.