Tyler Dube

Family over everything. Sacred Heart University Football alum. The least suspecting All-American you'll ever meet.

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

Reached a decision. I will be coming back for my 5th year at SHU. #seeyallnextyear

[Jon Finkel📚💪 @Jon_Finkel]

Dads and 90s kids, here's a fact:

We had it so good with SportsCenter and we didn't know it.... How could we?

We didn't know what was on the horizon that would try to take it down: first, league passes and TiVo and DirecTV... then the Internet and social media and YouTube...

During that brief, bright spot in sports media in the 1990s, SportsCenter was the only way to get the day's highlights...

We had black and white photos and box scores and features in the newspaper...

We had brilliant writing and reporting and pictures in Sports Illustrated and Sporting News and ESPN: The Magazine...

But for the day's highlights...

To watch Ken Griffey Jr. make a diving catch or Jordan hit a game winner or Barry Sanders twirl through a defensive line...

If you didn't catch it live, the only way to see it was on SportsCenter (maybe your local news sports show - maybe)...

And into this void stepped Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann and Stuart Scott and Rich Eisen and Craig Kilborn and Linda Cohn and Robin Roberts and crew...

And all the catch phrases every kid in high school and college would repeat: "cool as the other side of the pillow"... Jumanji... En Fuego....

We'd watch SportsCenter at night then again in the morning.

It was a monolith. You'd show up at school and you'd have the same frame of reference for the highlights you saw. It was a shared experience.

It was awesome. And even though the show still exists and works, it's not a cultural touchstone anymore... it can't be... not with every highlight available from 1,000 sources across social media instantly...

And there are bright spots to be sure... My man and Top 10 Randy (@RandyScottESPN) is terrific. So are plenty of others.

But classic SC, man. It was a shared experience. By everyone.

These kids don't know... Sitting there, retweeting highlights, sharing reels, scrolling their feeds... Doing the work to find what they like with no commentary or context.

Times change. I get it. And we always glorify what we grew up on. Maybe that's all this is.

Still, I miss Stu Scott. He ruled.

If you agree, share this and follow me @Jon_Finkel.

Boo-Yah!

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@CJPardini78 Take back all your jimmy G tweets😂

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@RandyJohn70 Something tells me he doesn’t care about the 10k 😂

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

Here’s the thing though - if the Bills won the toss and Josh Allen marched and scored, nobody (except Chiefs fans of course) would be complaining about the OT rules. We’re all just sad the likable team fell short

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@RandyJohn70 Can’t blame the refs on this one

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@AndrewOneill25 Btw tell pops I said what’s up. Miss that man. #goat

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@AndrewOneill25 The media does it for clicks and comments and don’t really understand the difference between zone and man. But don’t be a salty eagle fan and admit the man ran a nice route😂😂

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@RandyJohn70 And I’ll watch it every time 🔥

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Prior to tonight’s game, the Yankees made the following roster moves:
• Signed RHP Sal Romano (#68) to a Major League contract and selected him to the 26-man roster from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
• Designated RHP Asher Wojciechowski for assignment.

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@ZackEtter16 @NCAA The NCAA doing something wrong? I’m shocked

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

Shit ain’t right 🙏🙏

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

305 to my city came on the shuffle givin me the @G_Hill_ vibes. #werenotinkansasanymore

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@CJPardini78 @jAckSheehan02 @mitchboisel @PFF That’s a tech

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

#RuthkandaForeverAwards, four year old wage gap edition!

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@Coach_Cooke52 @CoachGardner_ @mark_nofri should check this out. Mental performance is just as important as physical performance.

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

@RandyJohn70 @dannykanell I get it and I think more talent spread out through more schools would be good for college football. But I just don’t see how expanding the playoffs will spread out the talent.

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

Amazing

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Introducing the #RuthkandaForeverAwards

@kfcradio @kfcbarstool

[Tyler Dube @dube0728]

Some of the worst people on Twitter are the ones that use “checks notes” when trying to make an argument. We get it, you’re trying to be funny.