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Dean of Kinesiology and Athletics. Father of Simone and Josephine. Husband to LuRece Springer. Love the CUBS!

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@JesseRogersESPN His attitude sucks

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My gut tells me this could be bad for #IowaBasketball

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BREAKING: University of Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed to become the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell me, @AdamSchefter, @PeteThamel. Major college-to-pro jump for the 2026 NCAA championship coach and swing for the Mavericks and Masai Ujiri.

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The 🐐 is back!

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This is not a drill.

@serenawilliams will compete in the 2026 ladies' singles at #Wimbledon as a wild card.

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There have been over 5 million total 18-game spans by players in MLB's modern era.

In none of them did a player have as many hits, doubles, triples, homers & steals as the @Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong over his last 18 games:

34 hits
5 doubles
2 triples
9 home runs
6 stolen bases

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Ian Happ leads all of MLB with 167 runners left on base. The next closest player is Alex Bregman with 155.

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@WaddleandSilvy By playing Swanson, they are telling us they are not a serious organization

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By playing Swanson everyday, the cubs are telling us they are not a serious organization! #Cubs

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@JesseRogersESPN I know ur trolling, but the fact they’re not playing to win equals an organization that isn’t serious.

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@MattLeinartQB On the Mt Rushmore

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@JaredB_BSBL Yeah, I’ll decide that for me and mine

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@nyknicks have given up 72 points in the last 4 quarters if I’m #mathin right! #NBAfinals

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@CoachJayWright @knicks Coach, your DNA is all over this team. Thank you!

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@maxkellerman Scary to think you actually cover competitive sports

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@SharpFootball I help you out, Fox was playing but wasn’t competing

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@SDJfiveK @krisk_0628 @shane_riordan So an increase in tourism wouldn’t benefit the state and its citizens, go u bud

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@SDJfiveK @krisk_0628 @shane_riordan 🐻 build in ah, they host a final 4; how does the money from tourism go to the #nfl?

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Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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@refhekler @WndyCtyBsktball Spot on!

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@MyrtleThet98965 @Houseofyogi It’s impossible to get in and out of Soldiers!

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@CelinaBarajas1 @GovPritzker Bears are paying for the stadium, in question is tax certainty