Cory Collins

Human behind the bylines. Author. Journalist. Editor. Nerd. he/him/his. College friends called me 'the next Judy Blume.' So far, more of a 'Judy, Whom?!'

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I hate writing about myself. I hated writing about this part of my past. And that's exactly why I had to write it. https://t.co/ntEwyyKefU

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@based_germany71 …? Did I say that?

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@stephenfishbach @Sam_Phalen I think Joe is getting a Mike Turner edit. Great guy but jurors will want him to own his contradictions.

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@malcolm_moran @IUIJournalismPR @SportsCapJour Brought me out of X/Twitter retirement to say I appreciate you each day, Malcolm!

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@CarsonGarrett_ Why is this gif so upsetting

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Still on a Twitter break/hiatus until I figure out what this site is giviiiing me these days, but here’s a proof of life check in.

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@karlacruzgodoy Going in like

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@survivorcbstats I’m hoping this season will help correct the overemphasis on “correct voting.” As Tika 3 illustrated, there are times when your best move is not a correct vote. The desire for player-fans to keep a clean record limits such strategy.

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@aidanchin @breatheinwithD Genuinely the easiest place for a mic pack might be the back waist of his shorts in this situation, so 😅

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@BriceIzyah #BriceIsTheShorts

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

10 years ago, 8-year-old Martin Richard was among the three killed in the Boston Marathon bombing.

His friends from their Boston neighborhood will honor his memory by running together in the race on Monday.

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@andycshwang 😞

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As Sam writes later in the thread below, “Josh was never formally charged with a crime, never arraigned + never saw a judge, as he deteriorated for 20 days in a solitary cell.”

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The hours after a mass shooting are perhaps the most pessimistic I ever feel about ever curbing the online disinformation crisis. The speed with which people will exploit the worst day in so many’s lives… I grieve.

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The season of Cherry Blossom is very awesome.

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You love to see it.

[Transylvania University @Transy]

The Transylvania women's basketball team celebrated our first-ever national championship today in Dallas — capping off a 33-0 season! Join us Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. for a welcome home rally in Beck. #FlyPios 🏆 @TransySports @TUWBX @NCAADIII

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But I also worry that is says something about the dehumanization of the now. That increased isolation, disconnection, and feeling like cogs in machines made people crave “competition” that didn’t lose sight of the human stakes.

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There’s a good article to be written on the way competition reality TV shifted from early 2000s to now: namely from a belief that audiences wanted to see people torn down vs. today’s more prevalent trend of people being built up/humanized. From feel-superior TV to feel-good TV.

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I wonder what it says about the two moments in our culture. Why did pop culture catharsis go from humiliation to humanization? I want to believe audiences and creators got kinder, more diverse, more open-minded.

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A beautiful thing I saw today, just because.