Billy Wood

1/3 of @2ndTakeShow | Former Head Sports Editor @IthacanOnline | Tech Producer of Hold That Thought | Podcaster, Occasional music critic, Pizza Movie star

[Billy Wood @SportsRepBilly]

Jerod Mayo was fired just an hour after the Patriots' last game of the season. Despite the suddenness of the move, the signs of the fall of Mayo were there well before. My piece on the situation. https://t.co/g55KkTGlna

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Brutal for Leclerc

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@XzSuperbuu @AniruddhC1108 Statistically he is

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What a final lap from George!

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What a Grand Prix so far. Miami has pulled through

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Wonder if this means Cincinnati will drop the lawsuit. The University has to be happy they are not the ones dealing with this.

[SleeperCFB @SleeperCFB]

After an investigation the NCAA is likely to recommend that since Sorsby bet on his own team, he will be ineligible, per @RossDellenger

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Total Daily Mail nonsense.

1. Vrabel won't resign

2. Tomlin would not jump off his new NBC contract to go back to coaching just a few months after leaving Pitt.

3. If Vrabel were to resign, McDaniels is the logical replacement that would not tear down a Super Bowl staff.

[Savage @Savageboston]

The Patriots are eyeing Mike Tomlin as a replacement for Mike Vrabel if Vrabel chooses to resign.

Per: @Daily_MailUS

[Randy Scott @RandyScottESPN]

Restaurant owner: “the food is awful”

Chef: “you won’t pay for good ingredients”

Restaurant owner: “why do the customers hate the food?”

Chef: “because you used to pay for good ingredients”

Restaurant owner: “you’re fired”

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Ladies and gentlemen…
The 2026 Boston Red Sox

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Love Allar for Pittsburgh. High upside, can sit him for a year, and have him and Howard battle it out.

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This Noah Kahan album is one of the best things I’ve ever listened too

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Let’s go Ruben. Well deserved and will be great at the next level!

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

"VONTAE MACK NO MATTER WHAT." - Kevin Costner as Sonny Weaver Jr. in DRAFT DAY, circa 2014

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HAPPY DRAFT DAY

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My new story for Ithaca Week looks into Ithaca College club baseball and the team's lack of a home field. Despite never playing a game in Ithaca, the team has amassed an 18-1 record and will play in Cooperstown, NY on April 26.

Read more here: https://t.co/ro5aPpRj8p

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Honestly shocked. Flat out cannot leave any doubt that you have a conflict of interest. Even if it was not a relationship like the pictures suggest, still unprofessional. Can't be interacting with sources like that as a trusted insider.

[Rob Maaddi @RobMaaddi]

My full story here: NFL reporter Dianna Russini resigns from The Athletic | AP News https://t.co/MyMWdT21nH

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Ithaca College football is rebuilding their football staff and while young, it looks to bring the same energy to the championship culture Ithaca has built.

Read more here: https://t.co/A3gRedqsoU

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I still don’t have a lot of confidence in Pavia at the next level, but he certainly has the right mentality to prove me wrong. Good stuff out of him here. https://t.co/Iq0zrIJC5t

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My most recent story for Ithaca Week covers the promotion of Will Margraff to the Ithaca College defensive coordinator position. Along with Margraff, the team has moved fat to fill assistant positions before spring.

Take a look at the story here: https://t.co/m6ErcPelg0

[Dan Kelley @DanKelley66]

I thought the Boston Bruins gave Bruce Cassidy a raw deal, but it's nothing compared to what the Vegas Golden Knights just did. Getting ready for the playoffs, 8 games left in the season, and they fire the 2023 Stanley Cup winner in favor of John Tortorella? Bizarre behavior.

[Keith Smith @KeithSmithNBA]

So, instead of selling the team to a group in Boston, where Sun fans could have still seen the team play, they move the team to halfway across the country.

Sure, that makes sense. To be clear, Houston should have a team if they want to expand. But now there is no team in all of New England. That’s dumb.

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This is great for sports if it gets through

[Dan Moore @DmoWriter]

Holy shit. @BernieSanders and @RepCasar just introduced The Home Team Act, a bill that would “Require team owners who want to relocate to first offer local owners the chance to buy it."

This would have saved the A’s. Full stop.

It would help prevent owners from "uprooting teams that people have rooted for for generations. No more extorting taxpayers for billions." (Casar.)

It would prevent owners from "blackmailing one community against another for multi-billion-dollar subsidies." (Sanders.)

It goes without saying this is needed. “Nearly every major city in the nation [has been] asked to mortgage its future to the sports industry," @fieldofschemes has written.

If I may. The relationship between sports fans and the sports business has been broken ever since the Supreme Court gave MLB an antitrust exemption in 1922.

Multiple Supreme Court justices have criticized the ruling as “unrealistic, inconsistent, and illogical.”

The ruling stemmed from a whimsical interpretation of professional sports as a fundamentally communal, rather than capitalistic, enterprise. In practice the exemption merely grants team owners license to run their teams in the most ruthlessly capitalistic ways possible. “The major leagues” Kevin Baker has written, “remain to this day the most complete and enduring cartel in American history.”

But it hasn't ever been addressed. In America, owners get to have it both ways. They're permitted to run their businesses like robber barons. The sports industry is insulated from both government regulation and free-market competition.

Fans and cities possess no power or protection. This bill would give them some.

Hell ya.

It's also not that ridiculous at all.

A version of this law already exists in Ohio. Lawmakers passed it after Art Modell moved the Browns, to protect fans in the state from ever having to go through that kind of thing again.

Stronger versions of this sort of thing exist in Europe.

In 2025, England passed the Football Governance Act, a regulatory framework designed, in the language of the law, “to protect and promote the sustainability of English football.”

The law mandates team owners and league executives regularly consult with fan representatives on all matters relevant to fan interests. And it empowers an Independent Football Regulator (IFR) to evaluate the potential impact of all proposed changes by an owner to his or her club on fans and community members and to strike down those changes found not to be in fans’ interests. These include changes to a club’s name, crest, and, most fundamentally, its home.

Versions of this sort of thing have been batted about by US lawmakers before. Most have not been given much attention. I hope this time it's different.

It's too late to save the A’s. But I hope it passes so that no other fans have to suffer the indignities fans suffered here. So that sports work better for future fans like my sons.