NEW: USC football is promoting Conor McQuiston to Director of AI, @PeteNakos and @whalexander_ confirm👨💻
McQuiston will build AI models using program data to identify competitive advantages in everything from game planning to scouting.
https://t.co/A3lrmhuoqo
Big news for Sluggo.
Austin Taylor is joining as Co-Founder.
Austin and I go back to our days coaching together at the University of Central Oklahoma. Today, he’s a software engineer for the Houston Rockets.
Our combination of real coaching experience and high-level software engineering is exactly the kind of foundation we believe the next wave of sports tech will be built on.
At Sluggo, we’re building modern learning and retention software that helps staffs teach faster, helps players know their material better, and ultimately helps teams win.
We’re building with a clear belief: the future of competitive advantage in sports will belong to programs that learn faster.
Excited for what’s ahead.
OFFICIAL: Houston Rockets owner @TilmanJFertitta's company, Fertitta Entertainment, has entered into an agreement to purchase the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, with plans to relocate the franchise to Houston and bring back the historic Houston Comets (@HouComets) name. Pending league approval, the franchise is expected to begin play at @ToyotaCenter for the start of the 2027 @WNBA season.
Learn More: https://t.co/gV8jadCf8R
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
.@BiasedHouston and I are hosting Rockets Twitter night again! This time on March 13th vs. the Pelicans 🚀
We’ll be watching the game together in section 112!
Pregame meetup @ 5 PM
Game start @ 7 PM
Link to buy discounted tickets:
https://t.co/gr5UjlkZkc
Use code: BRADWILL
Love this- Current 12 team format leaves more room for ambiguity than a 24 team format. Switching to 24 w/ all conference champs getting an auto bid - The remaining 14 are infinitely easier to distinguish who deserves to be invited than fighting over top teams with nearly identical resumes.
End meaningless bowls, end opt outs, add more meaningful football games. Bonus points for moving the season up a week and putting the first 3 rounds on campus.
NEW: An internal Big Ten document explores a 24-team College Football Playoff. It offers a peek at what that model could look like, as another off-season of CFP discussion is set to unfold. Details here: https://t.co/on2sqej1H8