What a college career for Bennett Stirtz 👏
• 19.5 PPG | 3.5 RPG | 5.1 APG | 1.7 SPG
• 4-2 in the NCAA Tournament
• MVC POY
• All-B1G First Team
From Division II, to mid major, to the high major level… a college basketball legend.
Playing two games all day and then cramming six in from 5:15 to 9:45pm (???) remains one of the dumbest things we do every single year
Just start a game once per hour!
Iowa's Ben McCollum brought up the enemy of great is good in his postgame news conference. Interesting comments.
"People sit in mediocrity for a long time because they start to fall in love with really good. I probably had that happen to me when I was in, like, my seventh or eighth year. We went to three straight Sweet 16s and lost by one, two points. ... I always thought we were really good and close. Then I realized that was the biggest issue that we had, was the fact that we were settling for really good."
"Trying to go from really good to being great is something that is really hard to do, and our kids need to understand really good is not acceptable. It's
actually worse than being bad."
You occasionally get a moment that symbolizes everything wrong with this country. In this case it's a U.S. Marine veteran screaming out that no one wants to fight for Israel and a U.S. Senator breaking his arm. A perfect encapsulation of US foreign policy.
I’m launching https://t.co/P7shywqfw6
It’s a daily sports trivia grid where you pick five players (and years) that meet each row’s criteria to maximize your score.
Today’s score is Home Runs!
I’m grateful for everyone who’s been following along. All feedback is welcomed!
THE WOMAN ALEX PRETTI TRIED TO SAVE FINALLY BREAKS HER SILENCE AND WHAT SHE REVEALED COULD CHANGE EVERYTHING:
In the chaotic seconds before Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, another American was right there, the woman he was trying to help when everything spiraled out of control.
According to sworn statements now filed in court, she says she had just been shoved to the ground by immigration officers when Pretti moved toward her, not in anger, not with a weapon, but to help her up and shield her as the situation exploded around them.
What makes her account so explosive is one detail she says she has carried in silence until now: she recalls locking eyes with Pretti just moments before the gunfire, realizing too late that his focus was on her safety, not the agents closing in.
That single moment she described in her affidavit and backed by other witness testimony directly contradicts the official narrative that portrayed him as a threat, and it has now become a central piece of legal filings demanding an independent investigation.
Let’s get justice for Alex and the many others killed by ICE.
#ICEGESTAPO #saytheirnames
I don’t want to hear another thing regarding ICE from @TheDemocrats until the official party stance is to dismantle this rogue institution. Until then, it’s all performative.
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.