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[Dittie @DittiePE]

Florida International University graduates more Hispanic students than any school in the country. Its president just signed what's called a 287(g) agreement, which lets ICE deputize local police so they can act as immigration agents. At FIU, that means campus police. Deputized officers can stop and question anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally, and detain them.

The president, Jeanette Nuñez, sponsored the 2014 bill giving undocumented students in-state tuition. On the House floor she said, "Let's not hold these children responsible for actions that their parents took." When DeSantis, whose lieutenant governor she was, moved to repeal it, she reversed herself. Within a month she was appointed FIU's president at his request.

Campus police were technically exempt from the state law pushing these deals. The chief still emailed colleagues that "we are trying to expedite this."

FIU says no student has been detained and only two officers have been trained. But a $1 million donor pulled out, a nonprofit that paid tuition for 180+ undocumented students cut ties, and most of those students transferred. One of them said she was walking around afraid they'd ask for her ID.

The university won't say which officers were deputized.

One FIU student has now introduced an anti-ICE resolution in the Student Government Association calling on campus police to end the agreement. He says a similar resolution passed the Senate 19 to 2 in March, but Senate leadership never signed it, so it couldn't be enforced. He's asking students to pressure their senators to pass this one and get it signed.

[HBCU Premier Sports More @HBCUSports1]

The University of South Florida is paying Delaware State University a $450,000 financial guarantee for their game this Saturday

[State Rep. Angie Nixon @AngieNixon]

Okay, y’all should know there are 67 counties in Florida 😂 And when I win, I’m representing every single one of them.

Had to sneak in a little civics lesson while I was at it. 🩷

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Myron Rolle says The NFL questioned his commitment because he was a Rhodes Scholar

“I knew that I was trying to shake a stigma that I was too smart for the NFL or that I wasn’t committed to football... I came back from Oxford. I was a year and a half off. Went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, came back, had not played, was fourth on the depth chart at the Senior Bowl. By the time Saturday came and the game came, I was starting.”

“Taylor Mays, all the best players in the country, I’m out here balling with them. Then Tampa Bay brings me into their room. They’re like, ‘Rolle, do you feel like you quit on your team?’”

“‘You’re the best player on your Florida State football team. You feel like you let your guys down by going to Oxford and not sticking around for your senior year? Do you love football?”

“‘Are you going to leave if we draft you?’ They’re peppering me with these questions. And I’m like,you tell me to be a student-athlete. Now I do it at one of the highest levels and now it’s coming back as a black mark against me.’ The NFL was going to say, this kid has too many other things he can do. We’re not sure if we want to invest in him.’”

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Jeremiah Smith got cut from a youth football team when he was seven years old.

Today he broke Ohio State's all-time receiving record.

He is 20.

The record belonged to Michael Jenkins, who caught passes in Columbus from 2000 to 2003. Four full seasons. Jenkins went on to be a first round pick and play a decade in the NFL.

Smith passed him in his third year.

He has not played a fourth one yet. He may not need to.

Now here is where he comes from.

Miami Gardens, Florida.

His father is Chris Smith. Chris grew up without his own father in the house. And when he had sons, he decided that was the one thing that was never going to happen to them.

He married Lativia Newberry in 2001. She works at the post office and ran track in school. They had two boys, Jeremiah and his younger brother Angelo.

Chris owns a moving company and a cleaning business. The man works. But he was there.

Jeremiah was tagging along to his older brother's practices at three years old. He was in little league at four.

And every single year, his dad asked him the same question.

Do you still love this?

Not do you want to be great. Not do you know how good you could be. Just, do you still want to do it.

One rule came attached. If you say yes, you finish the season. Quitting in the middle was not a thing in that house.

At seven, he got cut.

Seven years old, and a team told him no.

He did not quit. He went and worked.

The program he came up in was the Miami Gardens Ravens, and if you do not know South Florida youth football, understand what that means. The Ravens won five national championships in three years. They practiced five nights a week.

Five nights. For little kids.

And that was deliberate, because practice was also somewhere safe to be. Rod Mack, who coached there, said it plainly.

"Most kids our age don't grow up with both parents or their dads. So just to have that father-figure in the house that tells us right from wrong is something big."

Jeremiah described his own father almost the same way, without being asked to.

"He just wanted the best for me and my little brother and just kept us busy doing something so our minds don't get out of line."

That is a 20 year old telling you exactly what his parents were doing, and why they were doing it.

Mack also remembers what Jeremiah looked like back then.

"You would see him like Tiger Woods walking to the green. All the kids would come and want his autograph."

He was eight.

The rest of it you either know or you are about to.

He became the highest ranked wide receiver recruit of the modern era, rated ahead of Julio Jones. As a true freshman at Ohio State in 2024 he caught 76 passes for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns, which are FBS true freshman records, and the Buckeyes won the national championship.

As a sophomore he went for 1,243 yards and 12 more scores, was a unanimous All-American, and won Big Ten Receiver of the Year for the second straight year.

And today, in year three, the record.

Ryan Day on what actually drives him:

"He does not like to lose, I can tell you that right now."

"He has a national championship already. He wants to win another one in a bad way."

And Smith himself, when they asked him about individual goals:

"I'm really just about the team first. That's winning the national championship, Big Ten championship, bringing more hardware back to Ohio State."

Thirteen years ago a seven year old got told he was not good enough.

His dad asked him if he still loved it.

He said yes.

[Ev Hand @Evan_Hand]

NC State just LOST THE GAME by fumbling in their own end zone… WHEN THEY ALREADY HAD THE GAME WON Omg. The HORROR

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

🚨 VANDERBILT WALK-OFF FUMBLE RECOVERY IN THE END ZONE

NC STATE FUMBLED WHILE RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK 😳

[Boston 25 News @boston25]

BREAKING A UMass Dartmouth football player was killed and another teammate was injured in a stabbing early Saturday following an altercation at a Providence nightclub.

[TMZ @TMZ]

UMass Dartmouth Running Back Killed in Stabbing https://t.co/qkIuJqTrQN

[Reuben Muhammad @ReubenMuhammad]

The Believers of #MuhammadMosque92, extend our Sincerest, Most Heartfelt Condolences and Prayers to the Hon. Minister @LouisFarrakhan and the Farrakhan Family on the passing of His Beloved Daughter, our Sister, Betsy Jean Farrakhan!

May Allah be Pleased with His Servant!🕊️🤲🏽❤️

[Mike Garafolo @MikeGarafolo]

On top of a season-ending injury, #49ers TE Jake Tonges was fined $9,266 for a leg whip on this play on which he was hurt.

[OurSF49ers @OurSf49ers]

#49ers TE Jake Tonges was fined $9,266 for an attempted “a leg-whip block” on Rams DE Myles Garrett, per @MaioccoNBCS

This was the play Jake Tonges sustained his season-ending knee injury on

[Coach Yac 🗣 @Coach_Yac]

The league fined 49ers TE Jake Tonges $17,911 for a leg-whip block. The fine was for an attempted block on Myles Garrett. It was on the play which Tonges sustained a season ending knee injury, per @MaioccoNBCS

[Glenn E. Martin 🐐 @glennEmartin]

Family of man beaten to death by NY prison guards to receive $24 million https://t.co/q45sa1cW2D via @gothamist

[Glenn E. Martin 🐐 @glennEmartin]

I’m opening my home in Sugar Hill for an evening in support of @DriveChangeNYC, an organization that gives young people the opportunity to build culinary skills, gain meaningful work experience, earn income, and access the support they need to build careers in the hospitality industry.

I’m especially excited to host a conversation with @smallsalexander — award-winning chef, restaurateur, author, and activist — and @MsKalilahMoon, Executive Director of Drive Change, about the role the hospitality industry can play in creating meaningful economic opportunity for justice-involved young adults.

Can’t make it? You can still support the work. Donations in lieu of attendance are welcome, and every dollar helps Drive Change provide training and support to young New Yorkers. Buy tickets here: https://t.co/BHDZH4bxSR

I’ll match the first $5,000 in donations.

[Glenn E. Martin 🐐 @glennEmartin]

@AmericanAir delayed my flight home from Argentina by 26 hours, I booked an entirely new flight on @LATAMAirlines, with a four hour layover in Chile.

Wish me luck.

[Heat Nation @HeatNationCom]

REPORT: The Heat plan to keep their 15th roster spot open for a while in case a "needle-moving player" becomes available in FA, per @MiamiHerald

[WE HAVE NO FRIENDS/BY ANY MEME NECESSARY @CLG98264897]

🥊🥊 boxing fans: good news the "blade" Iran Barkley off the ventilator. take some of his first step to recovery. after cancer surgery let's go champ. 🏆

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

From driving Lyft and writing chapters in between passengers to meeting readers on book tour.

I’m am so blessed to be living my wildest dreams.

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

Alyson Williams.

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