Jonathon Viceroy Leach

NCCU Region IV VP, Past-President of the NCCU Durham Alumni Chapter. Athletics & Public Administrator. #NCCUAlum #HBCU

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Gambling addictions are real.

So are NCAA rules that protect the integrity of competition.

A Texas Judge should uphold the permanent ineligibility of Brendan Sorsby.

Column for @espn

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[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

MAC commish Jon Steinbrecher unloads on Power 4.
"If you look up the term ungovernable, I am convinced a handful of conference logos pop up & they're all autonomy logos. ... I am tired of listening to the complaints of the autonomy conferences who believe they know the best way to run the organization."
https://t.co/J7zgZ0dmwr

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Jason Batacao @J_batacao]

NEWS: Utah's athletic department has begun the process of laying off select employees as part of its PE deal.

"The discontinuation of the individual positions in those units through a reduction in force (RIF), to be followed by CBP’s hiring process."

https://t.co/DP5cH5T5vg

[ESPN @espn]

CATEGORY 5 CUP RUN IN CAROLINA 🔥

The Hurricanes defeat the Canadiens in Game 5 of the eastern conference final to advance to the Stanley Cup Final 👏

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Reporter: Ken Paxton is calling you 'Talafreako.'
Talarico: He just released child rapist Adam Hoffman from jail after his wealthy atty friends got involved. Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life. He served less than a month. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

A WIN TO REMEMBER

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

SEE Y’ALL IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL

[Calvin Applebottom II @_MaroonKoolAid]

Texas Tech is willing pay millions of dollars in buy outs in order to play Texas week 1 but isn’t willing to pay Mike Leach’s family millions of dollars that they owed him https://t.co/yvNYNFBliu

[Luke Fletcher @ramblinroundup]

The ACC long-term bet on @espn and the @accnetwork is starting to show major returns. 📈Projected revenue is expected to grow from $826.5M in FY25 to nearly $1.45B by FY36. While conference realignment created uncertainty, @theACC focused on media stability, national exposure, and sustainable growth and the numbers now reflect it. #ACC #CFB #CollegeFootball #ConferenceRealignment #NIL

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

Americans who lack health insurance today mostly live in the South, and overwhelmingly in states that either have not expanded Medicaid, or resisted doing so until very recently.

See that bright divide between Virginia and North Carolina? Virginia expanded Medicaid back in 2019, so many more of their people now have reliable health insurance. North Carolina's leaders fought it tooth and nail until the very end of 2023, so there's been much less time for people to sign up.

Take just one example: up in the northwest corner of our state, Alleghany County is not radically different from Grayson County, Virginia (right across the state line). Yet 4x as many North Carolinians in Sparta lack health insurance than do Virginians up in Independence.

That's a political choice that North Carolina's state lawmakers thought was worth making.

And the worst part? Many of them still think they went too far.

Credit: @toddrjones

[Nick Lord @nickatnocap]

Wake Forest’s athletic department just welcomed a new university president and is in the middle of a $250 million mixed-use development called “The Grounds” that is reshaping the entire sports and entertainment district around campus. 🧱

Private capital is now following the athletic department’s lead. A hotel property was just acquired for redevelopment, a neighboring commercial plaza was purchased for major renovation, a $33 million freestanding emergency department is under construction nearby.

The district now draws over one million fans annually across Joel Coliseum, Allegacy Stadium, Couch Ball Park, and the Wake Forest Tennis Center.

Truist is a named partner for women’s athletics, the school just opened a new campus in Charlotte’s innovation district, and the AD is running a disciplined commercial operation for a school Wake Forest’s size.

People talk about the big brands in college athletics…Wake Forest is a quiet case study in what it looks like when an athletic department operates like an anchor for its entire surrounding community.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Brutal statement from Iran’s state-aligned Fars News: “It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements.”

[Mit Winter @WinterSportsLaw]

More details on Virginia Tech’s plan to create a new LLC to manage athletics revenue generation.

An AD, who works for the school, will manage traditional athletics duties like hiring and overseeing coaches and teams.

The CEO of the new LLC will focus on revenue generation.

[Nick Lord @nickatnocap]

Virginia Tech is voting June 1 to create Hokie Ventures LLC 👀 Here’s the full breakdown from my POV:

The structure splits the job in two. The AD manages coaches, athletes, and general operations. The CEO of Hokie Ventures runs the commercial side: sponsorships, multimedia rights, naming rights, and donor engagement.

It will be governed by an independent board, not the university, giving it flexibility to operate like a business.

Virginia Tech is capitalizing it with $15.2 million from the $229.2 million “Invest to Win” plan approved last fall.

The person presenting the plan to the Board is Brandon Hall, Virginia Tech’s athletics CFO. He was Clemson’s CFO when Clemson Ventures launched in 2024. He’s bringing the blueprint with him.

They also built in the option to convert to a for-profit structure down the road to manage NIL and attract private capital.

This is also happening as Virginia Tech simultaneously searches for a new AD, a new university president, and a new Hokie Club director. The LLC is part of a complete reset of how the institution approaches athletics commercially.

Clemson, Kentucky, Michigan State, and Texas Tech have all moved in this direction. The separation of commercial operations from traditional athletic department functions is becoming the standard.

[Rivals High School @RivalsHS]

NEW: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed Senate Bill 178 (Teddy Bridgewater Act) into law.

Allowing middle and high school coaches to use up to $15k of their own funds to support student-athletes with food, transportation and recovery services.

Read: https://t.co/fI81dY4v11

[Aaron Gogley @AaronGogley]

“And perhaps the most complicated problem, Kansas Athletics projects a $15 million deficit this year and KU is using its general fund to cover athlete payments.”

Trouble brewing.

https://t.co/iDmskZ34vE

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Jan. 6 rioter Daniel Tocci who was pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing 'enormous child pornography collection'
He possessed more than 100,000 child sexual abuse images.