Sam Sedlecky

Drinking and debating over film, books, music, podcasts, life, and travels. College bball junkie striving to be persistently curious. @umich alum

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

I am late to the college bball season preview party, but fellow junkies, I have arrived! Just in time for the lackluster looking #B1GBasketball season to turn around as the competition heats up comes my 2023-24 Big Ten basketball season preview! https://t.co/dr8JEbblVq

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I know it's a bit downmarket these days to point out Trump's crookedness and hypocrisy but MAGA simply cannot stop speedrunning the plot of Animal Farm, becoming everything they claimed to despise about the previous regime, except more so.

Like, for four years, a central attack on Joe Biden was that Hunter was trading on the family name. They even launched a congressional investigation, iirc.

Now they either say nothing or enthusiastically cheer on the president's kids as they run a cryptocurrency exchange, a bitcoin mining operation, a luxury real estate brand, and a social media company, all of which are getting money from foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds.

Here Eric Trump is appearing on TV as an adviser to a company that just won a $24 million Pentagon contract! And Fox Business is like: "way to go, Eric, we're proud of you, you really knocked this one out of the park."

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@AndrewJav13r @ChelsElaina …game, but it’s the reality today. MSU and Michigan took the exact same number (4) of transfers into the 2025-26, it just so happens that Michigan’s have happened to be much more productive and probably better team/system/program fits too.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@AndrewJav13r @ChelsElaina Obviously we have different rooting interests and perspectives, but I think there’s a lot of straw grabbing going on here. May is playing the game as it’s currently played. I think many people from the fan base - myself included - wished this weren’t the current state of the…

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@AndrewJav13r @ChelsElaina You must also acknowledge that players who started at the school they are still at are still, you know, getting paid, right?? So by your logic quite literally every roster has been “bought, not built.”

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@EV_Ohio Michigan

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Aday Mara’s size and patience combination is lethal.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

KOWABIDUNGA!

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Bill Self’s ear bandage looks nearly identical to the president’s two summers ago. Will Self’s also heal as miraculously fast?

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

The rotation on Aday Mara’s new-found three-point stroke makes me think he’s been practicing with a Beilein Ball. Absolutely gorgeous backspin

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Kentucky just replicated Christian Laettner’s famous “The Shot,” but this time maybe to save Mark Pope’s job.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

1984 has unequivocally, unabashedly, undeniably arrived: the current federal government wants its citizens to believe it is the only source of truth.

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.

https://t.co/CXGLh4qO59

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Quite quite sure Josh Shapiro did not, in fact, speak on opening night of this, @Newsweek.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

Several Republican and MAGA leaders are expected to speak Sunday, the final day of the conference. https://t.co/kxUQeWTkg1

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

This is one of the most illogical, indefensible plans ever construed. Not a single person could successfully argue this would be a net benefit to the country.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

The Trump administration plans to require all foreign tourists to provide their social media histories from the last five years to enter the country, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. https://t.co/56K7XNoRm9

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

And for as well as Michigan is playing, the refs have absolutely blown two calls going against the Wolverines.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Michigan currently playing like a kid who just opened a basketball video game for Christmas going through a season on easy mode and winning every game by 100.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@2ndChancePoints …B. Pearl’s “retirement” (or, his orchestrated succession plan leaving Auburn’s hands completely tied) was beyond cringe, and I genuinely don’t think I heard him say anything qualitative about Michigan until it was a 20-point game. Bad, bad, bad all around.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

@2ndChancePoints Kindly disagree with the last part here. Frankly I don’t think anyone who is openly and strongly biased should be calling an entire game or long stretches beyond a quick pop-in. B. Pearl seemed like he hadn’t watched a second of UM before tonight and the video reenactment of….

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

The Bruce Pearl in the booth experiment needs to be over.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

My quick, hard-hitting analysis: Michigan might be good.

[Dylan Burkhardt @umhoops]

And that one counts. Michigan cruises past Oakland in a 121-78 win. Wolverines had no problem with the Oakland zone.

Next up, another week of practice before Wake Forest next Tuesday.

[Sam Sedlecky @SamSedlecky]

Noticed this as well. Have to wonder about injury preventing rising sophomore LJ Cason from seeing the floor in the first half of Michigan’s opener vs. Oakland.

[Maize n Brew @MaizenBrew]

Notably, LJ Cason has not checked in yet. He wasn’t on the availablity report, but he’s on the bench holding his right shoulder.