Phil Mitten

Father, husband, cereal connoisseur. Wisconsin Badgers basketball editor emeritus at Bucky's 5th Quarter @B5Q

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

So I tried this for the Ryan/Gard era at UW. Can't break players into any city-specific teams for this shorter time period (2001-'20). Who wins?

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Bookmark this for next time you need to re-appreciate the sustained success Bo Ryan brought to Madison despite his "home" recruiting territory. Bonkers.

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

@brewcitypaul Nah, burn all those bridges

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

@atrupar 👀

[Jeremy Greenfield @jdgreenfield]

Introducing the NFL Draft Seeding Competition:

1. Once a team is eliminated from the playoffs, it is automatically entered into a contest for draft pick order.

2. Teams in the contest with the most wins during the contest period (remainder of season) get the top picks.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

In the NBA, the tanking phenomenon and the Bravo sports fan phenomenon—the fact that so many fans skip regular season games and listen to pods for player-movement gossip—are two sides of the same coin.

They’re both a reflection of the fact that Who Lands the Next Top 10(ish) Player is just way way way way more important for most teams than Who Won Last Night’s Game. The low value of the games and high value of potentially acquiring a star makes it hard to take the regular season seriously. It drives up both interest in trade rumors (for fans) and the expected value of tanking for top draft picks (for non-elite teams).

These problems can’t be fixed with small tweaks. They’re sort of systemic. No rule is going to reduce the value of a Jokic/SGA/prime LeBron player. The relatively low value of each game is also kinda baked in. The NBA season is so long, and two-thirds of the league makes the playoffs/play-in anyway, and the playoffs are ALSO months long, and home court advantage is diminished which reduces the value of seeding…

The NFL is the opposite: individual players are less valuable (Sam Darnold won the SB!) and individual games are more valuable, so attention is pulled toward the outcome of the games rather than some meta-game focused on player acquisition.

But basically, I think any sport with a small number of players, a smaller number of elite players, and a large number of games is going to evolve toward a system where lots of people realize that, for most teams, personnel management is more important than the regular season—and what you get is both general managers and fans spending all their time thinking about how their teams can snag a star.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

> found a company called OpenAI
> a non profit to benefit all of humanity without the need to make shareholders happy
> steals all data on the Internet, violating millions of IP rights
> uses data to train models
> offers models in the API
> users pay for responses to create new stuff based on their own ideas and input
> OpenAI: not making enough money, we want mooore! but trust us, we will be responsible with AGI and do everything for the mission
> stealing literally infinite money from the non-profit by removing 100x return profit caps for investors and ask for government bailouts for datacenter build out in case it goes bad
> still not enough ...
> demand share of everything users built and already paid for

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Anecdotal evidence that college sports are in trouble: Badgers just escaped Minnesota with a buzzer beater W but I'm distraught by Bucks down 30 to a Wolves team w/o Ant.

[Marcus Mosher @Marcus_Mosher]

Matt LaFleur is the oldest coach in the NFC playoffs (46).

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Top 3 all Bucks is awesome

[Milwaukee Bucks @Bucks]

Giannis now has the most 30/10/5 games in NBA history!

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

YUS

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

A little lady luck after the missed JB free throw?? Let's go!

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Maybe we hold off on passes to big ol #32 for awhile? #badgers

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

@DerekBlakeslee 😡

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

@SirParthington @Topps I mean, not a single player who switched teams in the off-season got placed with their correct team in "series 1" other than KD

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

I love @Melvingordon25 man. Kept it real on @ESPNMadison tonight. His silence and bewilderment when told Badger weren't likely to have a 400-yard rushed this season was epic radio. Funny and painful.

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

@DerekBlakeslee That was the thought I had last week. This is deliberate.

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

This same story came out last offseason too, that he grew an inch to 7-4. 🫤

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

7-foot-5 Wemby is now the ultimate cheat code 🎮 😳 @jasonfitz @carolinefenton1

(via Yahoo Sports Daily)

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Memphis above Wisconsin is hilarious https://t.co/b2mol0RgJi

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Fox > SEC > NBC
ABC/ESPN is my least favorite.

[CFB Tracker @MatchupTracker]

Rank these 2025 CFB scorebugs 📺

Which one’s your favorite?

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

Is Elijah Gray the first #6 in Wisconsin men's basketball history? I think so

[Wisconsin Basketball @BadgerMBB]

Presenting our 2025-26 #Badgers.

Check them out at the Kohl Center this season!

🎟 https://t.co/Hflvp6URl2

[Phil Mitten @hoopsmarinara]

High comedy. Ish.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Very importantly for Iowa, this bill rescues over 2 billion family farms from the so-called estate tax or the death tax."

(over 2 billion??????)