Sam

[Sam @SBLingo]

@nfldraftscout Yep, NCAA rules are now “suggestions”. Student/athletes have unlimited free agency, contracts are written in pencil, 7 years of eligibility, and now they can gamble for a slap on the wrist. Welcome to the new world of Unorganized Semi-Pro League

[Geoff Schwartz @geoffschwartz]

This is wild. Open season to gamble on college football while playing college football.

[FOX Weather @foxweather]

SNOW DAY ❄️: Greenville, North Carolina was blanketed under heavy snow Saturday, turning the town into a winter playground as locals made the most of a rare Southern snow day.

[Greensboro Police Department @GSO_Police]

Night crew here.

Please remember that whoever you hang out with on Saturday, you're stuck with until at least Tuesday when the ice melts.

You’re either going to be besties or not.

Choice is yours.

[Sam @SBLingo]

@Romancane Facts!

[Roman #OBB @Romancane]

If the Miami hurricanes played as disciplined as the Indiana Hoosiers do under Curt they would never lose

They’d be a more talented version

Need to make it an all cost mission next year to cut down penalties

Like life depends on it

87th isn’t good enough
They were 2nd

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Inexcusable to get a punt blocked when the defense is in PUNT SAFE!!!!!

[Todd pierce @Todd_Pierce04]

Early candidate for tweet of the year

[Sam @SBLingo]

@GabyUrrutia247 Typical Cristobal team ... beat themselves with penalties & mental mistakes. I'm always amazed how Cristobal preaches accountability & preparation, yet his teams are regularly in top 10 for most penalties. The lack of discipline shows on the big stages.

[Gaby Urrutia @GabyUrrutia247]

If I told you:

- Mark Fletcher was going to run for 112 yards and two touchdowns

- Malachi Toney was going to have 110 yards and a touchdown

- Miami would be the more explosive offense (6.5 vs. 4.4 yards per play over IU)

- Miami had 3 sacks and 6 TFL (IU with 1 of each)

- Fernando Mendoza would throw for under 200 yards with 0 passing touchdowns.

What would you have predicted the result of the game?

Frustrating that Miami handled business in every phase but one.

[Sam @SBLingo]

It’s All About The U

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The Venezuela story everyone missed.

The U.S. just sold $500 million of Venezuelan oil.

But they deposited the money in Qatar.

Not the U.S. Not Venezuela. Qatar.

Here is why that satisfies detail changes everything you think you know about what just happened.

Venezuela owes $170 billion to international creditors. Bondholders. Oil companies. China. Everyone is owed money.

Any account in the U.S. or Venezuela would be immediately seized through litigation.

So the Trump administration parked the money in Qatar. A “neutral venue” where funds flow freely with U.S. approval and without risk of seizure.

This is not liberation. This is not regime change. This is not intervention.

This is the first operational deployment of a new architecture for sovereign resource capture.

The sequence:

- January 3: Capture the president
- January 6: Announce U.S. will “run” oil sector indefinitely
- January 9: Sign Executive Order shielding revenues from all creditors
- January 14: Complete first $500 million sale

Twelve days from military operation to revenue capture.

Iraq took six years to sign its first major oil contracts after 2003. Foreign companies operated under Iraqi law. Revenues went to Iraqi accounts.

Venezuela 2026: The U.S. government directly markets the oil, completes the sales, and deposits proceeds in accounts it controls in third countries.

This has never happened before. Never! Yup!

Not in Iraq. Not in Libya. Not in Kuwait. Not anywhere since 1945.

The Executive Order is the key document. It declares that Venezuelan oil revenues are exempt from all creditor claims, all legal judgments, all international arbitration.

With one signature, $170 billion in legal obligations became unenforceable.

The international legal architecture built over 80 years was bypassed through a domestic Executive Order and an account in Doha.

ExxonMobil’s CEO called Venezuela “uninvestible” at the White House meeting last week.

He is correct. And it does not matter.

When the U.S. government controls the revenue stream, shields it from courts, and promises to “make it real easy,” the old investment calculus is obsolete.

The template is now operational:

- Designate government as narcoterrorist.
- Deploy military to capture leadership.
- Install cooperative interim authority.
- Issue Executive Order voiding all prior obligations.
- Sell resources through U.S.-controlled channels.
- Deposit proceeds in jurisdictions beyond legal reach.

Any nation with vast natural resources, a government whose legitimacy can be contested, and insufficient military deterrence just watched this template execute in real time.

Venezuela has 303+ billion barrels of proven reserves.

The largest on Earth.

The U.S. now controls the revenue stream.

This is not a story about Trump or Maduro or intervention ethics.

This is the birth of a new imperial architecture that renders the post-Westphalian legal order irrelevant through financial engineering and offshore banking.

The 21st century will not be shaped by international law.

It will be shaped by whoever controls the accounts.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Read the full article - https://t.co/TS1Nz2BiSp

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

It’s 1:32 am in Tehran and another night of the brave Iranian people fighting for freedom. They have a real shot at ending this brutal terror regime once and for all! America stands with them 🇺🇸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Half a million dollars a month stolen by a single fake store with fraudulent food stamps (SNAP)!

[BroBro🇦🇺🏇🏻 @realRick_AUS]

Best edit yet 😂🤣👌

[Sam @SBLingo]

Transfer portal opens tomorrow :)

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player regret where they went to college more in real time in my life. Wishes he was a Cane.

[Hurricanes Updates @CanesFamNews]

Miami is playing their best football right now. Not even close.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Best TD celebration ever? 😂

(via @CBSSportsCFB)

[Gaby Urrutia @GabyUrrutia247]

The 🐐

[Sam @SBLingo]

Congrats @Coach_MannyDiaz on your ACC Championship! As a lifelong U fan, I was embarrassed w/ how U handled your departure. This championship is karma at its finest. Wishing you continued success as you lead with class & professionalism.