David Gerth

IU '22.

[NAIA Ball @NAIABall]

🏆 BELLEVUE OPENING ROUND

🚨🚨🚨 WALK-OFF WINNER

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!! KASEN PARKS OFF OF THE FOUL POLE TO SEND IU-SOUTHEAST TO LEWISTON

#2 IU-Southeast defeats #1 Bellevue (NE) 3-1

Parks 2-4 HR 3 RBI
Weston Harvey 7 IP 1 ER 4 K

Grenadiers sweep through the Opening Round and are headed back to the World Series for the first time since 2024!

🎥: @BUBruins @UrbanEdgeTv

#NAIABall

[CFP @CFBPlayoff]

FERNANDO NO. 1 OVERALL PICK‼️

With the first overall pick in the 2026 #NFLDraft, the Las Vegas Raiders select Fernando Mendoza.

[alex sammon @alex_sammon]

Orange production in Florida has collapsed over 95% in less than 25 years. 100% of trees are now infected with a disease officially deemed “incurable.”

Who killed the Florida orange? My investigation, in @slate, into the lost empire of the old citrus state.

[Missouri Valley Conference @MVCsports]

Put it on the board, @ValpoBasketball. #ArchMadness

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Former longtime Green Bay Packers President Bob Harlan passed away this afternoon at age 89, per his family. As one of the most important figures in Packers’ history, Harlan retired in 2008 as the winningest president in NFL history. He still is the only person in league history to hire two different GM’s that won Super Bowls with different rosters, in 1996 with Ron Wolf and in 2010 with Ted Thompson.

[Mike Beuoy @inpredict]

I finally got around to formalizing my Kelly betting-based method of evaluating time-updating probabilistic forecasts (e.g. in-game win probability, election models, etc.) in a paper.

It is now up on arXiv.

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[Andrew Parker @ByAndrewParker]

Red Sox area scout Lee Bryant was named 2025 George Digby Scout of the Year this past week.

Bryant brought in Anthony Eyanson, Myles Patton, and Jacob Mayers in the draft. He also ran the Red Sox scouting team in 2025.

Scouting Director Jake Bruml on Bryant:

“Lee goes above and beyond with his efforts and continuously puts us in good spots with players. He’s not only a quality evaluator, but also does incredible work with his background reports and getting makeup information”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language

Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT

Model collapse, except for humans https://t.co/nlfbEozhCJ

[ESPN @espn]

FERNANDO. MENDOZA.

THE PLAY OF A LIFETIME ‼️

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The Midwest will be the undisputed champion if Indiana wins tonight

[Colin Cowherd @colincowherd]

This entire playoff is experimental. Things will change. Potential reseeding after round one. It may expand to 14 games. Change is inevitable. But let’s make one non negotiable rule — Indiana can never be invited again.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

New hardware. 🏆

[ESPN @espn]

Hoosier College Football National Champion?

For the first time ever, IT'S INDIANA! 🏆

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

We can now say it. Curt Cignetti is the best hire for any job in the history of anyone hired for any job ever

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

LIFE: you can’t

YOU:

[Justin Williams @Williams_Justin]

I wrote about The Good Brand.

@HomefieldApparl has always worn its Indiana football fandom with pride. But it never expected this.

On the improbable rise of two Hoosier-state Cinderella stories.

Via @TheAthletic.
https://t.co/JzCPTsplVi

[Valpo Athletics @valpoathletics]

Proud to have inducted Cal Luther, the 2003, 2004 & 2005 @VU_VB teams, Shayne Snider, Kyle Zobeck and Ryan Broekhoff into the Valpo Athletics Hall of Fame this morning!

#GoValpo @valpoufootball @ValpoBasketball @VUMSO

[Mr. Ohio @MrOH1O]

I have a lot of respect for athletes like Roman Hemby when they remove themselves from the game briefly to make sure a photographer is ok.

Obviously a great athlete, but this shows the type of guy he is when he takes the helmet off.

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

An update on the Colorado billionaire trying to privatize a public river that’s also a gold medal fishing area and one of the most beautiful rivers in the West, the lower Blue.

>billionaire owner of 2000-acre ranch Blue Valley Acres, Paul Tudor Jones II, pushes hard for a land swap with the Bureau of Land Management. The public loses some nice fishing areas, billionaire owner benefits. He says he’ll build better access points to make the deal worthwhile, but begins retracting that part of the offer December 2025 saying there’s too many people on “his” river already.
>Jones runs a rainbow trout stocking and artificial feeding program with 20 lb rainbows that displace native trout. The stretch of the river is known to locals as “Jurassic Park.” These fed fish attract parasites and diseases due to artificial densities from the feeding program.
>Jones reports that what he sees as his private stretch of river has ecological problems related to too many members of the public having access to it.
>He begins a major campaign with decision makers in federal, state, and local government to implement a permit system to keep people off “his” river
>state agency fisheries biologists come to investigate his claims only to find that his private stocking and feeding program is what’s causing parasites, disease, mortality not public access to the river.

Even if you don’t live in that part of Colorado, there’s someone trying to privatize public land and water by you. The initial land swap was successful because people weren’t paying attention. Keep your eyes open for this type of unabashed greed.

[Jerry Weinstein @JWonCATCHING]

If you haven’t listened to Fernando Mendoza’s Heisman acceptance speech it’s a must do. IMO this is the “gold standard” for what we want out of our athletes as players & people.