Russ Johnson

Christ Follower, Girl Dad, Marine Vet, Purdue fanatic, @boiler_express knucklehead,

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

Here’s your reminder that as much credit as Coach Painter gets for his ability to develop talent, it’s still not enough. Here’s your B1G Ten ranking by average 247 rating of each team’s starting 5. Purdue is 12th/14. @Boiler_Express

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@NoEscalators Not to mention it was done in a World Cup on US Soil.

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

Best World Cup related tweet I’ve seen yet…🇺🇸🌭⚽️

[QBgami @QBgami]

Just realized the Europeans will be present to watch Joey Chestnut inhale 84 pork pistols on live television in honor of our nation’s independence.

That one will break them completely.

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@CollegeFBonX NC State, Florida, Illinois, Arizona State

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@BarstoolUofM @MattNorlander @UofABarstool …and it’s being played in Mackey?

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@Pacers @Pacers socials really putting in overtime trying to make people forget about losing that 5th pick….

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@PGuy77 Tell me you’re an SEC shill without telling me you’re an SEC shill…

12 team playoff or not, it’s a top 4 matchup, in a rivalry game, to end the regular season. Have you watched CBB? You don’t think a Duke-UNC top 4 matchup to end the season would draw national ratings?

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

How do you mess this up?

[Jacob @Jacobtheclipper]

The NBA released this statement about Booker’s comments.

1. They fined him $35k

2. They said they found no misconduct by officials

3. Then they took away the tech because it was a wrong tech

You cant make this up man, this league is a CLOWN show 😂😂😂

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

Why “some NFL team?”

Just say the @Browns

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Some NFL team's war room tonight after picking a total bust that will set their franchise back a decade and bring future depression to millions of fans

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

An even better fact when you learn America started drinking coffee as a way to tell off the British and their tea! 🇺🇸 ☕️

[Angela Morabito @AngelaLMorabito]

Tonight is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.

If he were to make the same journey from Boston to Lexington today, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations. (via Reddit)

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

They’ve always had highly rated recruits/players in basketball, they just usually never do anything with it. Maybe football will soon follow suit.

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

Via @On3…

Indiana currently has the No. 1 transfer portal class nationally in 2026 in BOTH football (left) and men’s basketball (right).

Sign of the times.

[Jesús Enrique Rosas @Knesix]

So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.

And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.

All organically, I'm sure.

I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.

This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.

But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.

Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.

The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.

OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.

But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.

The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@jrs_rankings The Purdue line is misleading, 50 years is just long enough to dip into the pre-Keady era. Purdue has had 2 HCs since 1980.

[Novig @Novig]

Yaxel recruiting class

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

The refs working Sunday’s game between Dan Hurley and Mick Cronin.

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

Being across the court, and facing Santa Clara bench, this ref might have had the best angle to see the SC coach calling for the timeout, too…..

[College Hoops Database @CollegeHoopsTIk]

Matt Painter with a scathing message to Miami (OH) head coach Travis Steele

Summed: Painter highlights that they’ve been scheduling MAC teams that have been better than Miami and it’s not on P5 to guess when inconsistent programs will outperform their NET

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

March Madness
World Cup
The Masters

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

KEEP 3… CUT 9… SPORTS EVENTS:
• March Madness
• NBA Playoffs
• WNBA Playoffs
• Stanley Cup Playoffs
• College Football Playoff
• NFL Playoffs
• MLB Postseason
• College World Series
• Wimbledon
• World Cup
• The Olympics
• The Masters

Which 3 are you KEEPING ???

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

🚨🚨POWERFUL🚨🚨

#NFL STAR AJ BROWN POSTED A 9-MINUTE VIDEO SPEAKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AFTER RONDALE MOORE COMMITTED SUICIDE.

“Don’t take the easy way out. I once thought that was the way.”

Brown once nearly took his own life.

A must-watch video 🙏🙏https://t.co/g9Ou4KgnDk

[Russ Johnson @BXP_Russ]

@BoiledSports So many coaches (Izzo, Oats, Drew etc) have now thrown out any semblance of a backbone and it’s “win at all costs” more than ever before. As the star players realize this, it will become even more like professional sports with the stars having pretty much no accountability.