Ian Manlove

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

They were selling rifles in there

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: Tennessee big-man J.P. Estrella has committed to Michigan, he tells ESPN, delivering the Wolverines one of the most coveted big-men in the portal.He continues the lineage of high-end transfer big men at Michigan, as they played an outsized line-up to win the national title.

[Michigan Men's Basketball @umichbball]

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

[Derrico Henrio (Noah Kahan Superhater) @derrico_henrio]

@On3 @PeteNakos TJ Finley is gonna get the death penalty

[CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 @CBSSportsCBB]

An incredible reaction to an incredible shot… @UConnMBB

[Freddy Doubles @freddydoubles]

It’s not like they just randomly decided to test him lol. His fuckin car was on its side, and the police have a pretty strict “no wheels on the ground we have to ask some questions” rule

[lo messiah @timchals]

my whole tl after timothée dropped the dune part three picture

[Ryan Whitney @ryanwhitney6]

Me all night

[The Garden Faithful @GardenFaithful]

“I’m getting fucked up tonight.” That’s our boy!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

THE UNITED STATES IS THE GREATEST HOCKEY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

USA WINS GOLD

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Team USA brings Johnny Gaudreau’s kids onto the ice for the team picture

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

A goal for the ages!

[Bill Connelly @ESPN_BillC]

Honestly might be the most incredible story in college football history.

[BDD @BlueDemonDegen]

It pains me to say this, but it needs to be done:

The NCAA needs to wipe the 2023-2024 3-28 DePaul season off the record books.

We have to have some integrity.

[Caleb Williams @CALEBcsw]

❄️🦸🏽‍♂️.
#DABEARS

[FanDuel @FanDuel]

Dan Lanning's plan for college football:

🗓️ Season starts one week earlier
🏈 Games every Saturday in December
🏆 National championship on Jan. 1
🔄 Transfer portal opens after Jan. 1

Did he just fix the sport?

#CFBPlayoff | #GoDucks

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

The committee has to stop gifting the SEC almost half the playoff field.

Bowl season and the playoffs have really revealed how the conference just isn’t that much better than anyone else.

Period. End of story.