Fred Nutter

NESN 💻 screenwriter/Nicholl semifinalist 🎞️ UConn Huskies • New England sports 🏈Certified USA Boxing coach🥊

[Jake Iggy @JakeIggy]

Funny story from Mookie Betts about advice he got from Dustin Pedroia 😂

“You try at the YMCA. In the big leagues you get it done.”

(via @AM570LASports)

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence read aloud to the Continental Army as they prepared for battle on this day in 1776.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The Chicago Blackhawks set an NHL record in 1968 when their entire roster looked like a bunch of 50-year-old dads who fucking well expected their daughters home by 10:00 pm and you didn’t want to find out what was gonna happen to you at 10:02.

[Fred Nutter @_frednutter]

IT'S "I COULD NOT CARE LESS", NOT "I COULD CARE LESS"

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

IT'S 'HEAR, HEAR,' NOT 'HERE, HERE.'

IT'S 'SNEAK PEEK,' NOT 'SNEAK PEAK.'

IT'S 'EXACT REVENGE,' NOT 'EXTRACT REVENGE.'

IT'S 'BY AND LARGE,' NOT 'BY IN LARGE.'

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA.

[USMNT_STAN @StanUsmnt]

I’ve heard people say “well we don’t have an open system in basketball and we’re still best in the world.”

Guys, in a little over 30 years foreign players went from almost no nba players and getting ran off court with our best to:

-8 straight foreign MVPs
-since 2021 first team all nba has been 21/30 foreign spots
-college bball recruiting has shifted to be a race for the best 20 year old euro players

If you don’t think their approach to development on all fronts including club structure and professional league structure impacts this you’re crazy.

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

Soccer twitter is great, I am sad I wasn't plugged into it previously. Fav a few tweets, share a few dumb opinions, and now my timeline is like:

Russell Westbrook and DK Metcalf could defeat Brazil's current squad with 6 months of training, particularly since Brazil is no longer a team of creative Catholic heathens; also the Americans have 11 Erling Haalands in every mid-size Ohio town but many of them will never make it because they have to pay club fees so they're instead forced to play power forward in the MAC, and America's loudest soccer voice is like "Shareholders see this as a good return on an investment, if you disagree you are woke."

[Yonan @yonann]

Matt Damon says he wrote Good Will Hunting instead of his Harvard assignment, and his professor gave him an A

"I was an English major, and in fact I started writing Good Will Hunting for a class. I just had wonderful professors, and that professor really encouraged me to keep going with it"

"We were supposed to write a one-act play, and I wrote the first act of a three-act movie. I went to the guy and said, ‘I think I failed your class, but this is the first act of a movie’"

"He read it, gave me a straight A and just said, ‘Don’t stop. Keep going.’ That was when I took it out and showed it to Ben"

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Ben Houselog @benlikessport]

Usually it’s called soccer

But tomorrow night in Seattle, for one day only against Belgium

It’s called Monday Night Football.

[Fred Nutter @_frednutter]

First screenplay I ever wrote was loosely-based on this story

[David Ubben @davidubben]

The Sugar Bowl was in two days.

Then Texas learned it had a player who was 30 years old.

He had already played professional football and had been competing all season under a fake name.

Free story: https://t.co/yBWfOdOKkl

[Kyle Neubeck @KyleNeubeck]

Bill Simmons just opened his show by saying he didn’t have an immediate reaction pod to Jaylen Brown because he got a colonoscopy yesterday and thought he died when he heard the news, best to ever do it

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Me and the boys pulling up to FIFA HQ to file the Balogun appeal

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

🇺🇸 July 2nd — The U.S.’s Almost Independence Day🇺🇸

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain in 1776 actually occurred on July 2, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.

The resolution declared the United States independent from Great Britain's rule. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision.

One day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

“The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

[Fred Nutter @_frednutter]

@globejimmcbride A+ tweet!

[Rob Wright Images @RobWrightImages]

A very Pine Tree State full Strawberry moonrise, filtered through some Canadian wildfire smoke. #fullmoon #strawberrymoon
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June 29, 2026
Pine Point Beach
Scarborough, Maine

[Fred Nutter @_frednutter]

@JasonHellerman I've been trying to break-in the business as a screenwriter for 20 years. This article reaffirms my decision to keep trying. Thanks, man.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Washington when it’s Christmas and there’s Hessians across an icy river.

[Gillette Stadium @GilletteStadium]

A view worthy of the world

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Edward Norton talking to himself at the USA-Türkiye game 😅

[Tom Caron @TomCaron]

Might be the most beautiful video we have ever produced. Masa’s perfect running form to Chariots of Fire.
#redsox #yoshida