Dylan Timmer

lawyer and knower of ball.

[Jason Beck @beckjason]

Tigers manager A.J. Hinch on Jake Rogers: "He's going to be an incredible answer on Immaculate Grid."

[Calico Joe @CalicoJoeMLB]

Never thought I’d see the day that Jake Rogers became Connor Stalions

[Alejandro Zúñiga @ByAZuniga]

Michigan men’s basketball is hiring Dylan Murphy, most recently the head coach of the Osceola Magic NBA G League Team, as an assistant coach, I’ve learned.

Murphy is a promising offensive mind who has led the Orlando Magic affiliate to two first-place conference finishes in his three seasons. His accolades there include NBA G League Coach of the Month honors in March 2025.

https://t.co/kCtC5vOfzI

[Dylan Timmer @RealDylanTimmer]

@UMichFootball @BarstoolBigCat did you buy the old turf?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Taylor Farms supplies parasite-laced lettuce, diners get weeks of explosive diarrhea, and somehow Taco Bell’s good name gets dragged through the mud?!!

Taylor Farms supplies lettuce to McD's, Chipotle, Subway, Wendy’s, Walmart, Costco, Trader Joe’s etc.

Justice for Taco Bell!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Joey Chestnut @joeyjaws]

Bad day to be a hot dog!! Happy 4th of July!!!

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Source: Moustapha Thiam is staying at Michigan and will play for the Wolverines next season.

The 7-2 big man averaged 12.8 PPG and 7.1 RPG last season at Cincinnati and was one of the top big men in the transfer portal.

Another positive development for Mike Boynton.

[raj @internetraj]

As a fan, the optimal level of your chosen sports team’s success is: decades-long stretches of futility punctuated by rapturous but very abbreviated winning. The true value of being a fan lies not in winning so frequently that championships become a joyless routine, but rather in the sense of community fostered by shared misery. Happiness should be fleeting and limited to cathartic rays of sunshine that periodically light an otherwise impenetrable void of darkness. Go blue.

[Dylan Burkhardt @umhoops]

Also this... not really much of a secret who the player ion question here is.

[Emily Waldon @EmilyCWaldon]

In case you wondered how the news of Tarik Skubal pitching for West Michigan on Sunday is being received, tickets to the game are currently ranging from $255 to $637 on Stub Hub.

[Chris Castellani @Castellani2014]

It’s the single dumbest move that AJ has made as a manager here. You have a starter averaging under 11 pitches per inning saving you from having to use any pieces from your dumpster fire pen.

Pulled after 6. It doesn’t pass the eye test, and it doesn’t really make sense analytically.

[Jed 🇬🇧 @TigersJUK]

This might be the game that breaks the camels (my) back…

Wait a month to get Kerry back & he gets two at bats & is removed for a guy who’s 2 for his last 29…

Keider absolutely cruising & he goes to the worst bullpen in baseball after 65 pitches.

Not sure how much more of this stupid tinkering I can watch.

[Kevin Garnett @KevinGarnett5KG]

#GoBlue 😤

[ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT @itsAntWright]

All the Pistons had to do was not be cheeks on offense in the final five minutes and they win

Zero FGs since 5:24 left in a must win

[Dylan Timmer @RealDylanTimmer]

@DrSmith_18 Unfortunately for the try-hard-at-defense pistons, everyone does so in the playoffs (and throwing in the bonus of Orlando actually being healthy now)

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Cincinnati's 7-foot-2 center Moustapha Thiam has committed to play for the reigning NCAA champion Michigan Wolverines, he tells ESPN. Thiam averaged 12.8 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks last season and serves as a major transfer portal pickup for coach Dusty May.

[John Beilein @JohnBeilein]

This is so well done ! Really captures some of the exciting moments of @umichbball over the last two decades. It’s been quite a ride and I am honored that our players, staff, fans, family and university allowed me to be a part of it. #goblue # 2026 MBB National Champions

[Alex Drain @Alex_Drain]

Only one school in America has a team in the Men’s Basketball Elite 8, the Women’s Basketball Elite 8, and the men’s hockey regional finals: the University of Michigan