Scott 〽️cAfee

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Incredible rage bait from Saban.

[On3 @On3]

NEW: Nick Saban issues a warning to college sports about the current NIL landscape during his testimony for "The Protect College Sports Act":

“It’s become an arms race, who spends the most has got the best chance to win. But I think it’s a race to the bottom because if you don’t spend to win, you lose your fan base and you don’t have any revenue.”

https://t.co/NWmetrSAnz

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@gfienberg17 The only way to play. No issues on par gimmi putts if after a reasonable missed birdie putt. No scramble for par gimmi putts though.

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@spencerpratt @_shaff_

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Hope he wins. Content is electric.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

LA has over 40K drug addicts holding Angelenos hostage. All it takes is one to make moms feel too nervous to let their kids just go be kids and explore the quiet streets of their beautiful neighborhood. ENOUGH. We are done being held hostage in our own homes. Vote PRATT today!

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@AdamSchefter JJ McCarthy gonna cook now!

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@DetroitTigersPR @tigers Tough on Skubal, tough on the Tigers. Blame Scott Boras

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New data shows that under Democrats Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul, New York now has the highest taxes in the nation

When you add together the total tax burden for each state. That's income tax, property tax, sales, and excise tax as a share of total income:

- New York topped that list with a tax burden of 12.5%
- Hawaii ranked second at 12.3%
- Maine is 3rd
- Vermont is 4th
- Connecticut is 5th
- New Jersey is 6th

Every one of these states is run by Democrat control. (Vermont is the exception with a Republican governor but the state is run by a Democrat majority legislator)

Alaska had the lowest tax burden at just 5%. Also near the bottom was Tennessee at number 47, Florida at number 46, both with burdens around 6%

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Def doing push ups.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

$10 per push-up or $1 million?

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@MrBradThomas Have you labeled as a Draft Sharp.

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@HowTheProsDo Its pottstown, and all for content. Dorky dads all over the internet giving it a good run.

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Real cheating vacates wins

[D3TRO1TJOK3R @D3TRO1TJOK3R]

It’s embarrassing Michigan has to share a conference with these cheaters

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@itismarkharris Get lost dork

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@NelsonAdcock Nelson! Congrats!

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Relatable tbh

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

This is a golfers nightmare

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@HowTheProsDo CC or 9SB?

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Culture. Haters will say this is fake

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Michigan's athletic department budget is one of the highest in the country.

It's men's basketball program spent just $14.4M, ranking 26th in the country, a fraction of UConn's $21.6M budget. But it was the Wolverines who cut the net down last night.

By @achristovichh ⬇️

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Legend

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

Trey McKenney. Ice in his veins 😤 @umichbball

#MarchMadness

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

@wakeupbarstool @barstoolsports @BarstoolBigCat Its also lazy to say all 5 starters cus Burnett has been there 3 years

[Scott 〽️cAfee @Scottimac11]

Trey Mckenney deserves a ton of credit for his effort on defense and on the glass tonight. Dagger 3 was huge as well