Mike Bogad

loving the Jersey Shore!!

Cal grad..#gobears
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[Mike Bogad @MichaelBogad]

To my friends and colleagues: I have moved on from TV to join the BetMGM Racing and Sports Book at Borgata Casino and Spa in Atlantic City as a ticket writer. It's exciting to be a part of @MGMResortsIntl and working at @BorgataAC , the elite casino in @AtlanticCityGov !

[Mike Bogad @MichaelBogad]

@ThatEricAlper

[Mike Bogad @MichaelBogad]

@lukemetzger as a @CalFootball fan who has had to watch plenty of games starting at 1030p et here on the East Coast, I have some sympathy!

[Adam McCalvy @AdamMcCalvy]

Thank goodness for the brilliant @SlangsOnSports to help us keep track of everything Jacob Misiorowski did Friday night that we’d never seen before.

Here are her 13 stats and facts on Miz’s mastery: https://t.co/v1Hvg6JAF5

[Mike Swanson @Swanee54]

The part that remains lost in all of this is that Sorsby gambled on a team in which he attended meetings, knew game plans, injuries, had insider info to every aspect of Indiana football? How many gamblers would like that kind of intel? It’s as egregious as egregious gets.

[Mike Bogad @MichaelBogad]

@neiltyson @nyknicks Wait, did @UCBerkeley add a few more when no one was looking? Oh, not them this time??

[Stephanie Rivera @CoachRiv2]

Looking for help from the CAL community & #CALgorithm @RonRivera80 @MoneyLynch @TonyGonzalez88 are all nominated to the @NFFNetwork #CollegeFootballHOF Check out this link to vote for your favorite @CalFootball alums https://t.co/yZoWKOAZ3v #CALgorithm

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

Your nightly reminder that Brandon Marsh should be an All-Star

🗳️ https://t.co/cdVTjmaV7d

[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

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

When was Texas dunking on New York? By what metric?

Murder Rate (homicides per 100,000, 2024)
🔵 New York: 3.5
🔴 Texas: 5.9

Poverty Rate (2024)
🔵 New York: 12%
🔴 Texas: ~13.4%

Life Expectancy (at birth, recent years)
🔵 New York: ~81.0 years
🔴 Texas: ~78.3 years

Educational Ranking (K-12 public schools, recent 2025/2026 rankings)
🔵 New York: #2
🔴 Texas: #34

Healthcare Ranking (overall state rankings, recent)
🔵 New York: Top 10 (#8 in some major rankings)
🔴 Texas: Lower half (~#47)

GDP Per Capita (2025)
🔵 New York: ~$123,369
🔴 Texas: ~$91,594

Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 live births, recent)
🔵 New York: 3.95
🔴 Texas: ~5.3–5.7

Obesity Rate (adult, recent 2024)
🔵 New York: 29.5%
🔴 Texas: ~35–36% (higher than NY)

Air Quality Ranking (varies by metric; generally)
🔵 New York: Better overall (fewer unhealthy days in major rankings)
🔴 Texas: Lower (industrial cities like Houston rank poorly)

Incarceration Rate (per 100,000, recent)
🔵 New York: ~300–317
🔴 Texas: ~750+ (significantly higher)

Teen Pregnancy/Birth Rate (per 1,000 females 15–19, 2024)
🔵 New York: 8
🔴 Texas: 18.5

High School Graduation Rate (recent)
🔵 New York: ~88%
🔴 Texas: ~86–90% (often comparable, Texas slightly variable by source)

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.

Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.

Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.

Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.

Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.

Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.

Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.

Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.

Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)

Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.

Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.

Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.

Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.

Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.

Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*

Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.

More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN

[Reed Knapper - Love For The Game @LFTGCFB]

Here are Ten Programs Built to Run College Football in the next 10 Years!

Who is missing? Who has that potential?

#CFB #CollegeFootball #TopTen

[Antonio Morales @AntonioCMorales]

“I think it’s going to be the best (recruiting) class Cal has had in a very, very long time.”

On Cal’s recruiting, Tosh Lupoi and why we’ll likely hear more from the Golden Bears on the talent acquisition front than casual CFB followers might realize
https://t.co/1jaGMK3ztk

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

The Spurs went to 6 Finals
Won 5 of them
Lost Tim Duncan
Entered a rebuild
Went 22-60
Drafted Wemby
Changed head coaches
Went from 34 to 62 wins
Made the Finals again

All before the Cowboys made it back to the NFC Championship

[Cal Bears History @CalBearsHistory]

Joe Roth, the only @CalFootball player ever to have his jersey retired, was born May 29, 1955. A brilliant quarterback & top NFL prospect, Joe was diagnosed with terminal melanoma during his senior year at Cal. He played out the season with almost unimaginable courage and grace.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

UCLA at Cal in Week 1 will kick off at 10:30pm ET on ESPN.

The Bruins and Golden Bears will meet for the first time since conference realignment.

[FIFA World Cup 26 Philadelphia™ @FWC26Philly]

The local soccer scene is at the heart of the @USMNT World Cup roster

[Mike Bogad @MichaelBogad]

So proud of @PaulineBogad for producing this video!!

[W Golazo @WGolazo]

WE ARE SO READY 🍿

Watch the UWCL Final on @paramountplus right now 📺

[CFB Home @CFBHome]

QBU out west....

[Coastal Coalition @Coastcoalition]

Hurricane forecasts have improved dramatically, saving lives, but federal cuts threaten to stretch NOAA resources to breaking point: https://t.co/zqtnqkJ0qY?